The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-03-15
PEACE AND UNION.

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uncertain and embiiering struggles,
through painful period of p.otracted nm
certainty, and assuming Office a, a time
when the public mind was in state of die
satisfaction and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
which all combined to por,end an official
term of purturbation and difquietude-the
new President has been obliged 70 enter up
on the duties OF his Office in the face Of
difficulties greater than we're ever confront
ed BY any of his predecessors except only
Mr.. Lincoln. But euch has been the wis
dom marking the first steps of his official
career, that he has not had time to famil-
iarize himself with the rooms Of the Execu-
tive Mansion, before the public mind
throughout the whole length and breadth
of the country has settled down into the
conviction that his administration is to be
an administration of wisdom and modera-
tion, that the promises Of his letter of &C
ception and inaugural address are to be
crystslizsd into official actions, that the
equal rights Of all men and all sections are
to be fully recognized, and that policy of
justice and Cancellation is to be pursued
through which the blessings oil peace, law,
order and civil government, are to be re-
stored and secured to all portions of our
common country.
The expressions of satisfaction with the
new administration, which are now to be
heard from all sections, and from men Of
all parties, are without precedent in the
history of the nation, and it requires no
great degree Of prophetic vision 10 discern,
for the administration of President Hayes,
in the near future, a unanimity of appro-
baton in the minds of the American peo-
pie which any chief magistrate might just
ly be proud Of, while the peculiarly en-
barring circumstances under which he as
sumed his Office, serve only to furnish an
effective back ground to his policy of pru-
dence and conciliation, and bring out in
bold relief the popular commendations of
his official conduct.
The work Of reform-of reconciliation
and frs.errity-upon which the new ad-
ministration has now fairly entered, is one
that il worthy of the best efforts of the bsst
minds of the country, but it is work
that the President and his cabinet cannot
accomplish alone. 1t is a broad field in
which there is work for all of US, and every
man must do his part. No citizen has RICH,
to complain of 'the depIorable condition of
the country" aud then shove the responsi
bility of improving that condition on to the
shoulders of the President, or any other
man; every effort OF the individual toward
economy and retrenchment in the affairs Of
his own household, has the effect Of lessen
ing by just 80 much the weight of fnan-
cial pressure; every frank and honest word
in favor of the broad and liberal policy
which the new administration has marked
out, ligh,ens the load which our honest
leaders are attempting to lift from the
shoulders of the country, while every
friendly meeting, and every friendly
word exchanged, between individual
citizens Of the North and South, help
to pave the way for national reconciliation,
and hasten the day when our Union OF
states shall be completed and cemented by
a union Of hearts and sympathies Let
every good citizen, then, determine to aid
the administration in the accomplishment
OF the grand work it has laid out for itself
Of leading the country forward TO new era
of peace and prosperity, and simultaneous
with this determination. shall appear the
dawn of the better day a-coming.