The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-04-01
Delay.

The h Of March AZ pears 10 De c1tehsi'e-
| ly prolonged. That as TO be the cnimins-
! ting point when fate should rnat'y an
poonce her sentence Of hope or cortioued
despair On tha. day South Carolina and
Louisiana were to know definitely whether
the bondage OF carpet-bag dominaiion
was lifted forever from their PROSTATE
forms o. was vested with q renewed lease
of life for four long years more. But the
4sh Of N arch came and is still here, go far
as o settlement is concerned. The sphinx
il silent. Ii 10 true she smiles aud mods
mysteriously, but 60 inpartia!ly as to be
as puzrling as ever.
In the mean time business interests are
sufferipg every where. Northern money.
eager for Southern investment, is tied up.
Southern planters find themselves at the
outset Of their sr piping season without ga
t;sfactory financial assurances and copse-
qasntly without the ability to make posi-
tive engagements for labor. The great
shadow Of q political wrong yet unsettled
hangs over the whole country. Nothing is
positively SAFE while even an incoDsider-
able section of q country is agitated by
seuse ofgrievous oppression real or fancied,
for at any moment strife may break out
and from q small spark the fame Of q great
coDhagration may be kindled. At any
rate, whether the ability of two Southern
States to redress their grievances be con-
siderable or not, there is an unmistaka able
timidly among capitalists throughout the
b.. ;a laA nd
Mr.. Hayes does not settle it.
We are not of those impatient patriots
who jump at the conclusion, because of
this delay, that Mr.. Hayes ia traitor, that
he has broken pledged faith, that he is
seeking an opportunity of abanduning the
peace policy to which he has been 30 for
mally committed. We are by no means
con vinced that Mr.. Hayes is aknave.
But we want to know if he may not be
well, if he has real good sense.
Mr.. Hayes has given the dignitied cold
shoulder TO Blaine. Morton, Cameron, Lo-
gan aud all the chief bloody -shirtists. He
has, indeed, strange to cay, held on to
about the biggest knave of the lot, viz:
Sherman, but then he has taken into his
political household Evarts, Schurz and
Key. How can one doubt thai this last &C
ton means somethiugf Then, so far as
the forthcoming Louisiana commission can
be heard from, its personnel seems to be
very fair and friendly. Then, again, Mr..
Hayes has Gov. Hampton Co spend the day
with him (involving q Lenten lunch, and
begs Messrs. Levy and Gibson to hurry off
to Louisiana 30 as to fix up things there.
Very we'll indeed
Bot why all this delay
Why all this circumlocution about giving
a simple order to withdraw q lot of United
States troops into their proper barracks, if
it is intended to be done anyhow, and has
been intended all along2 Why let the bus
mess of the country rem ain unsettled while
going through with these ceremonies : Why
connection with agricultural enterprise
killed by the frost of delayf Why hurry
to their graves numbers Of disappointed
people bs fled in their hopes OF Il speedy
reaction in values, actually straDgled, with
red tapef Why perversely change the song
of popular praise and satisfaction that was
beginning to resonDd throughout the land, =,
into u chorus Of ezecra,ion aud contempt :
II Is all very well TO say that people
ought not to have judged bar:iIy, :has
they Ought 10 have Eaitsd ~ se.. 30
they ought, bu. who can ressore the
fragrance Of q cigar stump after II haa
once grown cold, or reanIrnats eDtb nsiasD
after It has died ont in dissn.t Mr.. Hayes
may yet do US juetIcs, and II 40 every body
will give him due cretit for IL. but the sense
of its tardiness can never DO eHaced.