St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-07-13
The Attack on President Hayes.
SOME PRESS OPINIONS.

Mr.. Blaine's harangue about the
Mexican policy of the administration
might have deserved the title of a
statesmanlike manifesto had it been
delivered at the proper season, were the
existence of such policy something
more than hypothetical, and were the
author less obviously moved by a de-
sire to find any pretext to make an on
slaught upon the president. His Wood
stock speech is only less blunder than
the series of mistakes made by him at
the outset of his career as United States
senatOr.-Ne,u York Times.
1t is safe, then, to say that these two
speeches embody the whole cyclop8dia
of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. criticism. The
truth is, that Mr.. Chamberlain is talk
ing about dead issue. He ought not
to spoil a valuable head by running it
against stone wall. Mr.. Blaine mel
Their assented to nor dissented from Mr..
Cham berlain's criticisms. All that he
said of the folly of further Mexican an
nexation the people will second as sound
sense.-NeU York Tribune.
Many complimentary and encourag-
ing things were said about the presi-
dent i'll various parts of the country
yesterday; but probably all of them
together did not help him so much as
the republican attack upon him at
Woodstock, and the democratic attack
upon him in Tammany hall because
these attacks show how little there
really is to be said against his conduct
or his measures.-Ne,U York Evening
Post.
The trouble with Gov. Chamberlain's
assault upon the President-taking the
most generous view possible of 1t,
such view us he by no means extends
to the Presidents, that it is narrow,
and does not rise to the broad plane of
the national exigency under considera-
tiOn.-BOStOn Journal.
1t seems to us that Gov. Chamberlain
makes mistake in ignoring the pecu-
liar circumstances of the case. He treats
the Louisiana eXigency as if it had no
history, and assumes, what will not by
any means be granted, that the legality
of Packard's claim was indisputable.
That the republicans of Louisiana had
been guilty OF enormous frauds is just
as clear as that the democrats had been
guilty of brutal violence. The idea
that the president was bound in the
dispute to uphold the republican party
government because it was the repub-
lican party government, and it was
necessary to the supremacy of the party
in the nation to keep Louisiana repub-
lican, is, of course, untenable.-BoSton
Advertiser.
Mr.. Blaine's position and character
in politics have never been so plainly
apprehended by the whole American
people as in the light of his Mexican
war scare. With one consent yester-
terday from Boston to San Francisco,
1--WE do not include Maine) the ex-
speaker was pronounced, in the fOrci-
bile American vernacular, a Fraud. =
Boston Transcript.
The Chamberlain speech may be said
to have lanced the inf1amed carbuncle
of Republican opposition to the Ad-
ministration. The patient will now
improve. Philadelphia Inquirer.
The dead silence in which Gov.
Chamberlain's severest structures were
received, and the hearty cheers for the
President and DR.. Holmes illusions to
him, show that in the heart of the veo-
manry of Windham county there was
no sympathy with this assault. We
think the response of the country will
be just like that which the men of
Windham gave on the spOt.-Hartford
Post.
The issue between the presidents
friends and opponents in his own party
is now fairly made up. We believe
that his friends represent majority of
the party and that they will be largely
reinforced by those who never yet
voted republican ticket, but it is
useless to disguise the fact that the
minority is large one and numbers
among its leaders many able men,
NeaU London (Ct.) Telegram.
We doubt if the voters as a mass are
greatly stirred by Governor Chamber
lain's attack on President Hayes. Ger
tainly, its reception by Chamberlain's
immediate audience at Woodstock was
discOuraging to the orator. We have
it this morning from an impartial gen.
tleman who was present that the sense
of the meeting was strongly against
him, and that the applause which he
occasionally received was started by
little knot of gentlemen upon the plat
form and but family echoed by the
crowd. Mr.. Blaine is like the big boy
who gets his little brother to touch off
the overloaded cannon, while he
crOuches behind barrel and awaits
the result Worcester Gazette.
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