Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-03-09
HAYES INAUG URAL.

cult things to accomplish Such Is the ,Grsi
reflection that forces itself upon US as we
commence the consideration Of the inaugural
address We have searched it through in
vain for some indication of policy which
will be pursued to remedy the evils expressing
the country. II is replete with illusions to
Them, but devoid Of suggestions for the cor
rection of them. Any fool can warn us that
weare on the brink Of the Cataract OF Niagara,
but of what benefit is his warning unless he
possesses sense enough to throw a rope TO us
and strength enough TO draw US to shore.
The first evil that presents itself TO the awe
struck gaze Of our fraudulent Chief Executive,
Is the incessant strife existing between the two
races, and with omnipoteat wisdom he de-
elares the only correction is to be found in
paei6cation. Blu, what line Of policy does he
propose 10 pursue to achieve this millennium
This is the question 10 which an anxious
people were awaiting an answer; but upon
this point he is as dumb as donkey. Does
he intend to declare the usurpers Packard and
Chamberlain the authors of the strife and
discord, and deliver them up to the avenging
hand of law and justice or does be intend to
follow the example Of his predecessor and, while
sustaining the unjust and fraudulent claims Of
carpet-baggers and scalawags, enforce peace
with the bayone2 II he does the former,
he implicitly confesses himself usurper for it
was through the very same usurpston with
which they marched into the State Houses that
he marched into the White House, and if they
should be delivered over to justice so should
ne, because be is equally guilty though only
an accessory after the fact If he pursues the
latter course, which under the circumstances is
more probable, then before his four years
have passed away we will he the slaves of
despotsm.
The next wise observation that falls from
him is that there is necessity of return TO
specie payment. This has oeen generally ad-
mitted fact for the last Ten years, and we are
glad tina. Mr. Hayes has found it out. 1t is
the solution TO the problem, chow shall specie
resumption be accomplished" that is dis
turbing the minds Of all, and we are sorry
that Mr.. Hayes has not found il out, and we
do not believe he ever will
After devoting some few remarks to civil
service and our relations with other countries
his comprehensive mind grasps the late political
contest. And now he becomes a master OF
his subject, and with rhetoric seeks 10 gid
the face of fraud. He dilates upon the diff
culties which were presented to settle and
then praises the American people for quietly
and tamely submitting to the fraudulent and
Infamous settlement which was contrived and
executed, overturnng their will and seating a
usurper to rule over them. He concludes this
wonderful address, so completely packed and
jammed with nothing, by "Looking for the
guidance Of that Divine hand which shapes
the destinies OF nations and individuals" The
Divine hand has been plunged into the deepest
depths of human crime dragging forth liars,
thieves, adulterers and murdorers and guild
ing them to regeneration and redemption, but
we do not believe it will ever sully and polute
lis immaculate purity by guiding Returning
Board Hayes This inaugural address con-
eudes the farce Of seating nonentity in the
presidential chair who will be the willing and
plant tool Of Zach Chandler, John Sherman
and their co-conspirators, who will use him
to secure this government TO themselves and
their heirs forever. lie who expects that the
administration will be conducted from a
liberal stand point for the welfare and interest
Of the people is fool. The men who have
perpeirated this gigantic fraud of stealing the
presidency to secure the spoils OF Office will
not now be afflicted by any quickening Of
conscience, which will arrest their purposes
OF plundering. Do not be deceived into the
belief that justice to the South is intended il
they shonld bestow cabinet position upon o
representative Southern man. 1t is plot as
deep laid and basely contrived as the electoral
hw and will be intended TO create disrup-
ton of the Democratic party of that section
OF the country. Their act will have but one
object, TO retain possession Of the govern
ment. And they will succeed unless just aud
righteous revolution interferes. The people
are slumhering while the hammer rings upon
the anvil forging chains for their enslavement.
Unless they awake TO a full sense of the
threatening danger and determine to avert the
catastrophe they are lost.