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Show The Soulhern I'ri'ss tlic luut:guritl. Augiuta, Ga., ft The Augusta Ct.r-uicit and Sentinel savs of tho in-' augural : If President Hayes sticks J lo the spirit ol hm speech Da wilt do. n.ucii town's b veiling the disappointment disap-pointment which tho sou lii Wt when; the judgment ul the electoral coru- mi.-aion was pronouncid. Altogether, it is a ma;:!y, moderate aud states . nianuke address. Charleston, G. The Journal of Commerce Bays : Wo will say tho ui- , augural ad'.iress is a well written, fair spoken, and on the whole a judici.'Ua paper. Tho general tenor of the , scntiniL-uls aud policy, so far as the south is concerned, are liberal and . conservative. j Tho News and Courier says tho inaugural address of President Hayes-is Hayes-is somewhat disappointing. Itj iabouuds in sentiments which will receive re-ceive the hearty approval of the country, and its tone is unexceptionable, unexception-able, yet it is not as regards the south tho message that was looked for. , Colored people are secure in their rights; bo aro whites, except in South Carolina ana Louisiana. What is needed now is not any exercise of power by the executive department of, the general government, but the ar-1 resting of any further interference by j that government with domestic affairs of states. We recognize the kindliness kindli-ness of the president's words, and we do not question his motives, hut ono sharp and clear, cut scntonco announcing an-nouncing that states within the laws, must manage thoir own affairs in j their own way, uud tho general government would attempt no other supervision in South Carolina and Louisiana, than is tho rule in Ohio and Connecticut would have been more to the south aud belter for the country than oracular generalities, which according to the glft3se3 through which we see, mean everything every-thing or nothing. We know that it is the settled purpose of ft majority of while and colored citizens of South Carolina lo have the Hampton government gov-ernment or military rule. The whole army of the United StateB caunot make effectual the pretended authority author-ity of the loathsomo crew whom the people have formally and publicly cast off forever. The address, as a whole, is not positive or decisive de-cisive Its utterances are contemptible contempt-ible in general with what the south needs, but are reconcilable with the atrocious pilicy which has brought two southern states at lease to tho verge of revolution. We shall only be able to know what President Hayes really means when we see what he ' actually does. In the meantime it is safe and conifortablo to hope for the 1 best. ; Columbia, G. The Register Bays the inaugural address will command the attention of tho country, and in its utterances, purpose "and spirit meet a general concurrence and a '. sympathetic response. |