Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-03-06
HAYES Inaugurated.

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The oath of office was administered to
Rutherford B. Hayes on the 4th. The GER
emonies Of Inauguration were performed
on the 9th. A new President is installed,
q new administration begun. Peace reigns,
confidence in the republic is mistaken,
the dawn of better times appears.
The first important step OF the new
President will be the selection of his Cab
met. The character of the administration
will depend very largely upon the men
whom the President calls to places at his
side. When these are known the pub
lie will be able TO form pretty intelli-
gent opinion as to the strength and policy
of the administration of President Hayes.
Rnmors have been flying thick and fast in
regard to these appointments, all of which
have been mere conjectures. The new
President has evidently kept his
own counsels and looked the field over
thoughtfuly and carefully with view to
the selection of able and wise officers and
q proper regard for all interests involved
in the matter. We anticipate judicious
appointments. There is no lack of good
men for them, and from what we know of
President Hayes we have no doubt that
the Cabinet will be one Of high character,
combining first class ability with integrity,
and that ii will command the confidence of
the public. Such men as Evarts, Sherman,
Morrill,, Hale, Fry, Hartranft, and others
prominently mentioned are good timber
to select from.
We are gratified to see that the misrepre-
sensations concerning the position of Pres
ident Grant in regard to Louisiana are
corrected. 1t was highly proper that
President Hayes should be left to deal
with the situation there in his own way.
This we understand now to be the case
The troops are left there to keep the peace.
and affairs remain as they have been since
the November election. The Nichols
government is not recognized, and we
trust will not be. The partizans of Mich
oils construed the manifest kindly feeling
toward the South which they found in
President Grant and generally among re-
publicans at the North as favorable to the
cause of their chief, and so deceived them
selves and the public who credited their
representations. That northern re-
republicans are kindly disposed towards
the people of the Southern States, white
IS well as black. and would be glad to live
with them as friends and brethren of one
common country. is entirely true but that
they are willing 10 desert the cause of the
freedmen of the South. and endorse the
murderous, brutal acts and frauds of the
White League and the ku-Klux, as they
would II they consented to the recognition
Of Nichols. is both false and preposterous.
Let the new administration be as kindly
aud concliatory towards the South as it
can be, but when 1t is asked to abandon
the principles of justice and equal rights
before the law for the blacks. il should be
rs firm and unyielding as granite in its re-
fusal.
We look for conciliatory. friendly, just,
and honorablel treatment towards the
South by President Hayes. but no aban-
donment of the righteous principles ON
which the republican party stands. We
hope under this administration the rights
of the blacks under the constitution will
be fully secured to them this done fair
elections will follow, and dual State gov
ernments and military interposiiion by
the general government will be known no
more in the South.