Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-03-16
FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 1e. 1877

There is no particular cause to go into
Mysteries over President HAYES admins
t~ration, at least until We can see what he
is going to do. 1t is a novel picture in a
Republican governments people so as
tonished at apromise of simple justice from
the general government that they are
dazed, and cannot comprehend it. With
what an iron hand they must have been
governed for eight years past!
And the Democratic party need not lose
its head, unless it is craZed about office.
Three judiciously distributed stomach
aches among the republican Senators, de-
tanning those gentlemen from their seats,
would throw tho whole of Congress into
the hands of fhe Democracy. Three late
attendants on the convivial bowl oyer
night, would make the Republican Senate
powerless to help or hinder Mr.. HAYES at
the morning session. Indeed, all day last
Tuesday the Senate was Democratic by
two majority. The Democrats have a ma
jority iii the House CT Representatives, and
the Republicans have only three majority
in the Senate. Mr.. HAYES does we'll TO
consider so powerful a foe.
But the representatives who hold this
unbeatable power must use it with wis
dom, and the WiSest use they Can Lake of
it is to benefit the whole country, and not
let party trammel them. If any man who
has been elected by a Democratic con-
stituency uses his position to hamper an
executive who means well to his Whole
country, and needs outside aid in carrying
out his meaning, that man does it at the
peril of his place ana fame. No milldew-
ed excuse of party can save a Democrat
who has missed the chance of aiding in
restoring local self-government to the
trampled out States of the extreme South.
Virginia, for her part, will hold non of
her children g~ulltless who so refuse. This
cause is her cause. She has made it so,
and inasmuch as ye do it not for the least
of these ye do it not for her. Timorous
placemen would better hold counsel with
their courage now thar with their policy,
lest, peradventure, they shall find on "a
turning to their fathers house that courage
Was the policy, that would have saved
them.
The ap~prehended s'breaking up' of the
South INDUCED in by some and APPLY for
INFLATED by that amateur politician, Col.
MosBY, who thinks he hears the ice crack
ing is not in the programme. If MI. TIL
DEN had been seated, and set on foot, as
he would have done, some national meas
ures of great beneficence, we wouldn't
have seen the Radical party of the Moth
break up and run into his arms-nor
Of the South either. Still less is it
to be expected that the Democrats Of the
South should desert the party to which
they owe their rescue from bad local self
government. Nobody at the South is try
ing to deceive Mr.. HAYES who knows
as well as anybody that two parties
are always necessary to pure government,
but we all wish him to believe that the
Democratic party in Virginia is as truly
a national party as that to which he be-
longs and, we claim, more SO; that it is
willing to support him in every measure
he shall %inaugurate for the peace and good
Of the country-not asking its pay in off
ces; that it don't propose to stand by and
see hin run over by a particular section of
his party who are disciples Of the doctrine
of hate, and that the President who an
nounces that in his eyes Virginia, Massa-
chusetts, Louisiana and Ohio occupy pre-
cisely the same position will never fbd
their hands lifted in f~actious opposition
against his administration.
The office question constitutes atough ar
ticle for die estion by some who are i'll hopes
Of getting them. They dontt know ex-
actly how far an honest Democrat may go
in that direction without FORGETTING the
confidence of his neigh bors. We don't
think these gentlemen will be troubled
with the decision of the question. M =.
HAYES is q Republican. and will doubtless
look in his own party for material to fill
offices-just as the democratic President
will in 1880, but there is one suggestion
that he will find it to his interest to adopt
in his paciication policy, aid that is to
give us office-holderS who believe their De
mocratlc neighborS are neither traitors nor
rebels and who don't think they are earning
the salaries of their positions by holding up
the Democrats as having s~moulderitg trea-
son in their hearts. These officials hate
the people and are hated by them, and
their removal would go far towards bring
ing about pacifcation. Give us Republi-
can ofice-holders who do not hate US, and
thus give us peace at home to begin with.