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country”. Later in commenting on the withdrawal of 
troops this same paper remarked in an editorial : 
The sun shines upon a new South Carolina. The whites again 
assume control but they are actuated by a new spirit. The evacuation 
is a good thing for all. It has been evident for a good while that the 
intelligence of the South must again come into power. Until that restora- 
tion comes there can be no real peace. The country is sick of the war 
issues. There are no rebels any more; it is time for us to be one people.®® 
A few days later the same paper added concerning Presi- 
dent Hayes: 
He has put a final end to the war. We shall now after just sixteen 
years of strife, be one people.®^ 
Senator Morton was one of those who had grave misgiv- 
ings. He did not break with the President, but he gave his 
southern policy only reluctant approval.^^ 
The Indianapolis Sentinel was so embittered against Hayes, 
who is invariably referred to in its columns as the “Thief” 
and “Usurper”, that it could see nothing good in what he 
said or did.®® He was given no credit for the withdrawal of 
troops from South Carolina and Louisiana. He acted, it was 
declared, because he was forced to do so. There was no alter- 
native. He did it reluctantly. He delayed action too long. 
“No act of Hayes”, this paper asserted, “can wipe the damning 
stain of fraud from his name.”®^ Such was the attitude of 
the Sentinel until the very close of the Hayes administration.®® 
The Terre Haute Evening Gazette, tho also a Democratic 
journal, praised very highly the words and the acts of Presi- 
dent Hayes. It rejoiced over the fact that the new president 
had adopted the southern policy advocated by the Democratic 
party for the past ten years. “Reconciliation between the 
victims”, declared the Gazette, “and local self-government for 
the states of the South as well as the North have been Demo- 
cratic watchwords and constituted the Democratic creed. Re- 
pentance, it is said, is better late than never.”®® This same 
paper generously remarked at the close of the Hayes admin- 
istration : Mr. Hayes has made an admirable president. 
59 Terre Haute Express, March 6, 1877. 
60 Ihid., April 11, 1877. 
^^Ibid., April 20, 1877. 
6- Foulke, Life of Oliver P. Morton, II, 488. 
63 Indianapolis Daily Sentinel, March 5, 1877. 
^nUd., April 23, 1877. 
^^^Ibid., March 5, 1881. 
66 Terre Haute Evening Gazette, March 6, 1877. 
