The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-08-20
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MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1877.
THE PRESIDENTS VISIT TO VERMONT

THE PRESIDENTS VISIT To VEhhOnI'
The visit of President Hayes to New
York city, few weeks ago, demonstrated
2hat, however much senseless people might
mry "fraud in reference to his election,
however silly the governor and other state
Ulcers of that state might be in refusing to
attend q reception given to William M.
Evarts, because the words secretary of
Estate" were appended to his name, yet the
treat mass of the people, democrats and re-
Dublicans alike, were ready to receive and
acknowledge him, not only as the de tdcto,
llutthe de jtt,e president of the United States
Charles Francis Adams to the contrary
notwithstanding. His recent visit to Yer
mont demonstrated the same thing. No
where was he received with anything but
the high character of the man filling it-and
this would have been impossible, among
The masses assembled at Bennington, if
there had been the least faint of fraud about
his title to the Office, or the least suspicion
If dishonor in connection with his accept
tnce and occupancy of 1t. Indeed, since
the early morn Of Thursday, March l, 1877,
there has been no possible doubt or ques-
zion about President Hayes title to the Of
Sen, and we only sllude to the matter to
STOW how speedily the most angry and bit
ter of partissns listen to the voice
of reason and submit to the inevitable.
But the visit of the president to Vermont
had another significance. A republican, as
he would call himself, belonging to one of
the several offce-holders' cliques In Yer
mont, remarked at Bennington, Thursday,
that it would be impossible TO obtain any
endorsement for Hayes in Vermont, that
his reception would he m nre than cold. be
cause his southern policy had 30 displeassd
the party in the state. How different was
the actual state of facts IL there had
ever been any doubt of the hearty approval
with which Vermonters received that pol
icy of pacifcation, it must have been dis
PEELED by the spontaneous, hearty and
long continued applause with which
every allusion thereto was received that
day. No one present can forget the scene
when President Bartlett said that the
country was now ''one harmonious repub-
tic, 9rtere no sovereign state is Joined to its
''telloloS By federal 6oyonets, and no fugi-
tive for liberty IS remanded by federal
courts to his chains but. American citi-
zens, free everywhere, free to govern
al IN otn nr hat nlA mr.
paragraph: "All honor to the brave and
" honest chief magistrate, who, after de-
cade of fruitless experiments and smoul-
dering strife, has the good manhood to
break away from all narrow and parti-
san restraints, cast himself upon the
sound sense and christian sentiment of
".the American people, and lead off the
new order of centuries, and let the east
"and the west and the north and the south
say, Amen and amen"
Actions speak louder than words, and 80
the spontaneous and hearty cheers with
which these passages, and every other
pointed allusion to his policy, were greeted
the great respect every where paid him moi
only at Bennington, but throughout the
state, show more forcibiy than mere words
the hold his policy has upon the men OF
Vermont, and gives the lie direct to the
whispered muttering of few office holders
and their retainers about a fancied dscon
tent Herewith, and opposition thereto, OF
the part of the republicans Of Vermont
And may we not cay, In the felicitous Ian
guage Of Mr.. Phelps, that the people of Yer
mont-the majority of democrats and re-
publicans alike - regard Rutherford B
Hayes, the president Of the United States
as ga man who has 80 addressed himself t,
:" TO the high and critical duties Of tina
great Office that he has not merely salts
+" fled the promises of his friends, but ha
disarmed the criticisms and hostility o
" his enemies9 ?" We believe such, to-day
is the verdict of the people of Vermont.
The visit of the president to Vernon
has not been without Its good fruits.
has brought the chief magistrate of tn
nation in direct contact with the people
it has shown that disappointed politician
can make nothing of the silly cry c
" fraud !" it has demonstrated that Ii
policy of pac6cation is popular with Ii
mass OF the people, republicans and demt
Gratis alike and 1t will give the presidsr
renewed courage in his work of reform
and the people may be assured that In h
southern and civil service policy he is, an
will continue to be, as firm as the everlas
ing hills.
Sec. Sherman on Resumption.