The daily gazette., 1877-03-09
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Mi. Benjamin +. Butler may confidently
be relied upon to furnish it, and We may
With great confidence expect to find that
it has about it fine Mephistophelean
flavor. His cpl grammatic summing4up Of
the present perplexed situation at wash
ington is quite in his! happy way, and
have,o said Mr.. Butler, speaking Of
trouble to win our defeat" Il would be
amistake, however, to suppose that Mr..
Butler was speaking for the Republican
party; by s'we" he referred only to those
patriots and statesman who ran the Cow
ernment machine under President Grants
rule, and who fondlly expected TO run 1t
in the same fashion under President.
Hayes rule. They did take vast deal
of trouble to elevate him to the ,Presi-
dency, and they employed some question
able means to do it, and having done Ii
they find they have won only q gigantic
and overwhelming defeat. or all that
august company no, man was more active
or potential than MI. benjamin +. Butler.
He was permitted by President Grant to
chusetts precisely as IL it were his own
personal property. 1t was MT. Butler's
young man, Simmons, who in reality
represented the power of the United
States in the old Commonwealth, and
nothing that he asked was denied. 1t
was not the people of Massachusetts but
President Grant who returned Mr. Butler
to Congress from one district after he was
Kicked out Of another.
1t was Mr.. Butler who ran the old Bay
State; it was Mr.. Conkling who ran the
old Knickerbocker State; it was Mr..
Cameron who ran the old Keystone State;
it was Mr.. Morton who ran Indiana; 1t
was Mr.. Logan who ran Illinois; it was
Mr.. Blaine that ran the State Of Maine;
and between them they ran the rest of
the country, especially the South. They
made President Grants southern policy
what it was, they filed the South with
carpet -baggers, they supplied the troops
to sustain the carpet-bag governments,
and they were in fact the Federal Gov
ernment. They accepted Mr.. Hayes at
Cincinnati because they believed him to
be man of no will of his own, and whom
they could mould to their designs as
easily as if he were putty in their hands.
Mr.. Hayes, they fan0ied, would be con-
trolled and used by them, and they never
discovered how serious a mistake they
had made until, to their great astonish-
ment and CONSERVATION, the new Presi-
dent actually declared in his inaugural
address that he meant what he said in
his letter of acceptance about civil ser
vice reform and justice being done to the
South. The letter of acceptance promi.
sing so much they simply regarded as a
cunning bait for the catching of votes,
something with which to lure the popu-
lace to Mr.. Hayes support. They did
not suppose that any politician would,
after his election was secured, stick to
the letter and spirit of the promises he
made to secure it /; and when President
Hayes did there was a howling, tearing
of hair aLd gnashing Of teeth among the
Butler r-Cameron-Blaine sort Of patriots.
They found Mr.. Hayes not man of
| straw or Of putty. but o real fesh-and-
| blood man, with an honest will of his
own, with an honest purpose not to
serve them but to serve his country. 1t
was this discovery of theirs which gives
such point to and makes Mr.. Buffers
last epigram so fine. I'VE have taken a
| great deal of trouble to win our defeat" /"
says MI Butler; and really it appears
AZ If Mr.. Butler were right for once
But the Butler sort Of statesman n do
not accept defeat readily, and they do
not mean to accept it now Led by Mr..
Blaine, they have begun a war upon
President Hayes, determined that, SO
far as his Southern policy is concerned,
he shall abandon it and surrender to
them; they also mean that they, not he,
shall make his Cabinet for him and fill
the other 50, 600 offices of the Govern ment
and, in short, that they, not he, shall be
the Government. Considering how strong
these men are individually, and how
great and powerful following they have,
the situation Of the President seems per-
opposition and the stronger the fight
made against him the grander will be
the victory If Ae stands firm in his fdel.
ity to his principles and the people. Nc
Presldens ever had a nobler opportunity
than ia now presented to President Hay "a
and none had ever more determined op
ponents, but-after all, who are they
Whom do they represent? They have
their followers in the Senate and in the
House; there they have certain strength
certain power to embarrass and annoy
but behind the Presidant is the honesty
common sense, and sympathy of th.
whole people, who. if he have the cour
age to stand by his convictions of right
will sustain him, and make his policy OF
!. honesty and justice successful.
Let these conspirators against good
/ government recollect that by their owl
, showing Mr. Tilden had a quart.r of 8
million majority on the popular vote
: that the House of Representative has ,
Democratic majority of nearly a dozeI
votes; that the Senate has not majority
oi ndI uSzen hepuDllcan votes. They
! ! cannot expect to carry with them singl,
l Democrat in the House; they cannot ex
5 pect to carry with them two-thirds o.
: one-half Of the Repu blican votes in tn,
= Senate. Let them consider, then, wha
2 may be the result if the President should
q meet their opposition as strongly as the,
. make it. 1t is as certain to be their ruiz
i and the destruction Of the Republica,
party as it is certain they are living men
The Democrats cannot afford to let Mr.
Hayes Southern policy be tramplet
down by those Bloody Shirt conspirators
4 and if they are forced to support it in or
: der to save it they will do so. In tina
: case where will this unpatriotic, selfisl
|, faction be?. If they want to drive Presi
n dent Hayes into the arms OF the Demo
: cracy, they are going the right way abou
it; if they want to destroy the Republic
:, an party by so doing, the are going tn
q right way about it. There is not an enc
d my of theirs or of the party who coulc
!; wish them to do otherwise than they ar
IL now doing. Just so long as the Demo
s Gratis have majority of the House. an
l. Just 30 long as the Democrats when uni
Of ted with the better class of Republican
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