The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-11-04
National RNldozinq.

press 10 gnawing it's own vitals with rage
at the Southern policy Of President Hayes.
! From numberless sodrces come indignant
protests and advice couched in threateniu 6
language. The New York Times seems to
be chief among these malcontents, and ex
presses its mind to the President in tones va
ryipg between the bullying and the patroni-
zipg. In fact the Times steps forward as a
first. class bnlldozer. Its plan of assault does
not exempt the Senate any more than the
President, for it comes equarely to the front
with the asseit tion that if Republican Sen
ators "cOnfirm the appointments that have
| been made they share the responsibility of
the policy which the President has insu-
| gurated." And after going through a col
| umn of jmpudent criticism and invective,
| the Times terminates the article from which
we have taken the few words above quoted
by holding out e very Indifferent hand of
reconciliation. 1t reminds the President
! of "the propriety and sxpediency of going,
it necessary, q little out of the beaten
path to remove causes of misapprehension
and to re.establish a cordial understanding
with the great body of his party"
This line Of action on the part of the
Times and its coadjutors in the work of
intimidation is in our opinion very badly
chosen. Mr.. Hayes is the wrong man to
select as a subject for such influences. The
public was unacquainted with HE charac
teristics previously to his occupancy of the
| White House, but since that event enough
has transpired to give any impartial obser-
yer clear impression of his more salient
points. Mr.. Hayes is comparatively un-
! ambitious; he is self reliant lie is guided
by reason rather thar feeling; he is in no
haste TO make his moves but is intlexibie 10
his resolution to have them made. To
ia presented in a threat7 None whatever,
while the inevitable effect of heated oppo-
sition is simply to confirm him in his do
| termination,
! The Times has chosen not only bad
| subject, but an unfortunate occasion, for
its bulldozing experiment.. Sectionalism is
at a discount now. The day of the bloody
/ shirt is over, and sensible paper, keenly
alive to the revelations of the pocket nerve,
ought to have OWNED as much long ago.
That era cannot possibly be revived for
two reasons: first, that it would produce a
financial decline; second, that it would
produce an armed revolution. The Times
might as well convince itself first as last
that renewal of bayonet interference in
Southern politics would not be submitted to.
A big paper in which several hundred
| thousands of dollars of interests are involv-
ed ought to be under the control of pru-
dent business administration, and We char
itably regret that the Times appears to be
unfortunate in this respect. The Times as
now conducted is "maliguant" and lives
after the gospel of hate. In the long run
that is not the way to make money. 1t
will do for a catchpenpy concern intended
to rise and fall with come passing excite.
ment, but not for an establishment thai
aspires to permanent reepectability. The
day is not far distant when the great body
of honest men at the North will be ashamed
that they ever favored a policy of oppres
sion and ill-will towards the South. Th
New York Times hates this section mos
cordially, but its financial wisdom ehoul'
teach it to conceal a feeling so utterly a
. war with peace, prosperity, commercis
: security and the general welfare. As it wi
soon be obliged in common decency t
. disguise such sentiments or lose its circt
l. lation, it ought to make a virtue of nece,
city by appearing to take the position vo
). UNFAIRLY instead of waiting to be kicke
into it.
AS to its hectorings towsrds the Pres
n dent, he knows how to coptemu etupidit
70 which can only be regarded as the offsprir
of evil passions. There is no danger th
= the President will not be sustained in Il
Senate. The Democrats must of cour
"a second him in a policy of conciliatie
D. which they claim to be Democratic prope
If ty. Only two or three Repu ublic0ns will
necessary and they will not be wantin
" The presidential policy has friends amor
Of them, and even if it have not, the Preside
90 has. The Executive has two powers whi
X, keep him from being a nonenity whic