Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-09-28

As being matter of general and inlmodi-
ate interest we give, this week, somewhat full
and careful notes Of President 1Iayess south
em tour through Kentucky and Tennessee,
touching Georgia at Atlanta, and bOck through
Virginia, coming 10 an end ON Tuesday ut
Charlottesville in the last named state. The
purpose of this tour is evident, and it is such
rs commcnds itself to every person who de-
sires to sec the contamination of n real re-
union between the North aud the South.
Divesting himself Of all partisan feeling and
spirit Mr.. Hayes embraced favorable oppor-
tunity to go among the Southern people, and,
as the occasion presented itself, to assure the
men of all classes who gathered about him of
his sincere desire, rs the Chief Executive of
the nation. for the restoration of peace and
harmony, and the return of an era of good
will among the people of all sections. Avoid
ing all appearance of patronizing spirit he
has met the people of the South on basis of
perfect equality, and in series of free and
frank conferences and friendly greetings, he
has talked to them of the advantages and alb
solute importance of union and harmony up
on o basis of the equal rights of all classes and
races of people. In thus urging that the old
issues which have produced discord and i'll
will should be dropped, it is to be especially
noted that Mr.. Hayes has yielded nothing of
the foundation principles of the Republican
party, but that, in every instance, he has kept
constantly in view the fact that all real recon
citation and pacifcation must he on the basis
of the constitution as it is, with all its amend
ments. and of the freedom and equality of
every citizen in every part of the country.
While induging in no tone of rebuke for the
past he has not failed to remind his Southern
auditors of the conditions necessary to give
them prosperity and happiness, and TO urge
upon them their own share in the work of
curing equal rights for all. Nothing could be
palmer or more definite than those sentences
in his speech ut Knoxville, Tenn, in which he
said Il want the men of Tennessee to be rs
much at home on the soil of Vermont rs in
any state of the South. l want the people of
Ohio to feel as much at home in the South as
in any state north of the Ohio river. We need
to be united in duty and united as citizens of
different sections. Then shall we be a happi-
er people to the end of our career"
Fortunately for the success of Mr.. lIaycss
efforts the ''pacifcator of States, he carries
with him that personal magnetism, and that
undefinable assurance of good faith, which at
once wins the hearts of his hearers and of
those who are brought in contact with him,
and assures them of his absolute honesty, in
tegrity and unselfshness 1t is impossible to
doubt or question the Presidents motive in
the course which he has undertaken, because,
having pledged himself not to be n candidate
for reelection to the presidency, he can have
no personal ends to gain. Although the pco-
pie whom he has thus visited were at first dis
posed to stand somewhat aloof and question
as to what measure of warmth and cordiality
it was becoming to their dignity and tradi-
tions that they should accord to him, it is
noteworthy that in every instance all this re-
serve has melted away and blacks and whites
have We'd with each other in the hoartiness of
their applause and congratulations. What the
political effect will be of Mr.. Hayes's efforts
to establish better understanding between
the people of the two sections We need not
now question Enough for the present. if
they shall prove to be til, entering wedge in
breaking down those arriers which have
stood between the Southern people and a
cheerful acceptance of the results of the war
coupled with sincere belief in the spirit of
pract., n good will which is cherished toward
them by ,hc people of the North.