The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-04-25


turning Boards would undo the VIII ot
the people and declare them elected ts
Office. They would b forced to hide and
skulk about, like the vile creatures they
are, whenever . long suffering people
would rise In their might and make 3
show Of force against them; yet immedi-
atsly United States soldiers would be or
dered down to their support, and they
would be restored to place, and
reinvested with the power OF
despoiling, stealing and robbing at will.
Thus it can be family imagined how q
brave, high.spirited people, chatting un.
der . sense of wrong and oppression,
must have suffered, and how they must,
at times, have felt all the horrors OF de-
SPAR. But now all this thing is over.
Henceforth there will be no moro U. s..
soldiers used to tyrsnnize over the people
Of any State, and the whole country will
enjoy the blessings of good government
and true Republic.
This is a matter which all people, Of
every section of this land, have cause to
rejoice over. 1t shows clearly the sta
bility of our system of government, inas-
much as it proves that, though corrup-
ton may threaten and disgrace it;
though fraud may, for time, triumph,
still the inherent principle of justice
which pervades the American breast, will
assert itself, and in the end, honesty and
right will prevail.
1t is solely to this spirit OF freedom
and justice, which makes US great
people, that we are indebted, to-day. for
the gratifying sight of q country re-
deemed and dlsenthralled. Mr.. HAYES
has adopted bis line of policy towards
the South, simply because he cannot help
himself. 1t would be folly to suppose,
for one moment, that he would ever have
been so liberal and patriotic If he had
been left to himself, to carry out
the ideas which have ruled his party ever
since it first came into power. That
party's life has been hate of the South.
II has ever, persistently, followed that
bent o: its incllnstions. And, during the
period of its greatest strength, those dark
days when it revelled in military des-
potisms, and force bills; when it gloried
in having a whole section over-run
with government bayonets, and the
scum of the earth, under the
titles of marshals, Mr.. HAYES never
then, at any time, raised his voice
in opposition to such policy, nor is il
on record that he even, indirectly. de-
nounced it. Left to himself he would
still pursue the policy of hate and op-
preston that he has always endorsed,
and his administrator would still be but
a continuance OF that of ULYSSES 5.
GRANT. He is dong what he is dong,
simply and solely, because he cannot help
himself. A majority OF a million Of voters
in the land has spoken, most decidedly
sgsinst him and his party, and though
the will of that majority was overruled
by political chicsnery and fraud ia
the matter of the Inauguration OF an
| illegally elected President, still the new
President, though thus illegally occupying
his seat, must respect the voice of that
majority, and, perforce, accommodate him
self to their wishes, and in deed, if not IN
words, make his administration Demo-
cratic.
What will be the result of this, finally,
it is impossible now to foresee. 1t most
probably will be that, for long time
to come, ultrsism IN politics will pass
away. The BLAINEs, the BUTLERs, the
CAMRRoNs, the CHANDLERs aud all other
Republicans ofthe bloody shirt order must
take back seats, while those who advocate
harmony, conciliation ond conservatism
must bear sway. Mr.. HAYES will always,
as CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS says, bear
on his brow the stamp of fraud; still a
people, longing for peace and prosperity
will not think of HAYES at all, but will
only think of, and hail with delight, the
era of good feeling which in spite OF
HAYES and Radicalism, the people have
demanded and enforced.
We, therefore, congratulate our readers
on the turn in the political tide. Taking
heart sfresh, all can look forward eagerly
and cheerfully to a glorious future, and
with reason, hope that the trials of the
past are gone forever, aud all things
have become new. Then, with freedom
once more established; with patriotism
once more triumphant over corruption,
d;shonor and dishonesty, the country
will come back to the sterling principles
of our forefstbers, and, enjoying the
blessings of prosperity and happiness
increase in strength and greatness until
to he abe to say, II am an American
citizen" will be once again an honor
which will command the respect of the