The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-03-14


, neuvre to at once recover the public
; confidence and disarm opposition.
He has succeeded, to some extent
: at least. by the acknowledged con-
sentative tone of his inaugural adj
dress, in the first instance. and now
: lastly, in the selection of a cOnserv-
) ative set of Cabinet officers--but
] more particularly. by the appoint
ment as one of their number, of our
: honest ex-senator, Hon. D. NJ. Key,
Postmaster General, an appointment
, rendered ostensibly as q peace-offer-
ing to the Democracy or, rather, to
the section so long groanirg under
the i7On-heel Of the Radical majority
in Congress. backed by President
ulysses s. Grant, who had not the
: moral courage, or patriotic impulse
to rise superior TO their dictatiOn,
and meet out simple justice, upon
the reconstruction programme, even,
to his impoverished, beggared, OPP
pressed white fellow-citizens Of the
South. We say, Mr.. Hayes has been
reading deeperathan party-print-
than the surface Of things: he right
" interpreted, too, the handwriting
upon the wall Of the feasting cham
Der in the palace Of radicahsm,
"mene, meme, tekeL uphMSin' weigh
| ed in the balance and found wanting.
When, by the returns Of the Presi-
| Dental election in South Carolina,
| Florida and Louisiana, the last lodg-
ments of the corrupt carpet-bagger
rule in the South, it was found that,
/ in spite of race-intimidation under
the management Of the Radical lead
ers, enough honest and brave colored
men were in cooperation with the
Democracy TO turn the scale in our
favor; and when the great States OF
New York and Indiana took their
unalterable stand, as in the late eiec-
ton, upon the side of the whole
country, as opposed 10 = longer con-
tinuance Of the Radical war upon the
States of the South, and demanded !
that the government should be adj
ministered upon principles of equal
and impartial justice to all sections
of the country, it was evident to ev-
cry man not blinded by an extreme
partisan spirit, that there was no
longer the ghost Of political capital
to be made out Of the issues entail
ed upon the country by the late do
nestle trouble. The North has
evidently become as sick Of the sight
or mention of The bloody shirt as
the South herself has. This was q
self-evident fact to Mr.. Hayes clear
head, as it ought to have been to
Mr.. Grant q good while ago. in
which case he might, by acting in ac-
corGance with what he saw, have gone
out Of Office with all the glory which
his successor reaps at the threshold
of his administration.
Mr.. Hayes will be charged by the
leaders of his own party, with deser-
ton os them-with inGdelity to his
party, and disregard of its best in
terests-perhaps. because in this Vi
tai matter he has listened to the
voice OF the whole country, and has
consequently turned deaf ear to
them. But policy, TO say nothing OF
patriotism. demanded no less-of him.
Mind you. we do not deny to Mr.
HAYES the better quality--but We
only show that, acdhota it, as an act
Mating principle, the former view has '
enough TO determine his administra-
ton in the direction it has taken
lie may he very patriotic--and his
Iein Of office may entail blessings
upon his country which we and our :
children shall be thankful for-we
nope it may. in tho coed Providence
IF God; but, as the homely adage 7
las it, IT'S long lane that has no i
urn in it, and the turning point y
las been reached, Enthusiastically SO, 7
n the hard road the South has had .
o travel since the war, so that in L
the credit due, we do no s.
wrong to the new administration and II
is policy. !.
With a majority Of nearly three 3
undred thousand against it, in the p
popular vote. the Radical party has +
apply gone--dead in the eye of Al P
Intelligent world, however galvaniz- :,
d with the appearance of life by S
he Returning Boards and Joint p
Mr.. Hayes cannot be is
ls.ly charged with killing it. On y :,
lie other hand, with so large ma =,
,rity of the whole country in active in
with the Democratic par p
with its proGd history in the u
asst to point to, and its bright u