New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-03-13
The President and the senate.


idea-he believes that he has said nothing,
done nothing which can stand in the way OF |
his yielding a most hearty support 10 the |
new President and his policy. Nor do we |
find anything in the full text OF his speech |
to diseOuntenanee this statement. 1t mey
be well to reprint, here, the gist of 1t, In |
order to see clearly that of which we are |
talking:
"Mr. Blsine-I know that there has been
a great deal said here in the corridors
of the Capitol, around and about In
by.plaees and in high placee. OF late,
that some arrangement had been made
by which Packard was not to be reeog-
nlzed and upheld; that he was to be
allowed to slide by, and Nichols was TO be
accepted as the Governor of Louisiana.
want to know who had the authority to make
any such arrangement. / wish to know ii
any Senator on this floor will state, in his
place, that any person speaking for the ad-
miuistratiOn that was coming IN, or the
one going out, had any right to make such
an arrangement. l deny it without being
authorized by the administration that
now exists, but L deny it on the
simple broad ground that it is an i'm.
possibility that the administration OF Presi-
dent Hayes could do it. deny it
on the broad ground that President Hayes
possesses character, common sense, self
respect, patriotism-all OF which he has in a
high measure and in an eminent degree. l
deny it on all grounds that can influence
| human action; on all grounds on which
men can be held to personal and political
| and official responsibility. l deny 1t for
him, and shall find myself grievOusly dis
| appointed and wounded, and humiliated, il
| my denial is not vindicated in the policy of
| the administration. But whetherlt be vindi-
| Gated, or whether it be not, care not. 1t
is not the duty of a Senator to inquire what
the policy of the administration may be,
but v hat it ought to be, and hope Re-
publican Senate will say that on this point
| there shall be no authority in this land
large enough, OF adventurous enough, to
compromise the honor of the national ad-
ministration, or the good name Of the great
Republican party that called the adminis
tration into existence" [Applause in the
galleries, which was promptly checked by
the presiding officer.
Ii Mr.. Blaine had been lukewarm sup
porter of President Hayes during the cam.
Daign-if he had held sloOf, as others did,
| apparently willing, if not anxious, to witness
his defeat there might be some color for
this hasty charge of open hostility. Bat TIE
country has not yet forgotten how promptly
he responded to the new order of events
how from the first moment of recovered
health to the last closing hour of the oaR.
paign, he and his most devoted friends we're
J foremost in the Republican ranks, battling
: like "plumed knightsn for the Republican
cause. 1t would certainly seem as if Re
publican Senator, wifh record such at
this, were entitled to indicate, in open Sen
/ | ate on the question of admitting or reject
ing another Republican Senator, his views
!. of the proper policy to be pursued, and thai
f | without incurTing the charge hostility to thI
: administration.
+ Not a little of the i'll formed opinion
t which has beon hastily put forward OF
this subject, owes its fsultness to mis-
r AZ 81 nf
a ernment A President Is not an autocrat
J, to form and pursue a policy without re
{ gard to the opinions of others. 1t Is cen
Y tuIies since even the kings of Englant
r attempted work of that kind, and the al
tempt was almost fatal to their ex
istence. We are p repreReutstiv
q government, aud the executive o
5 a representative government can carr
J out oblY that wherein he is followed AM
2 supported by the people and the people
representatives. Past experiences, all to
recent, have taught US how unhappy cres
y ture must President, without represents
> tive alliances, become; and that alllane
which he may secure outside of his P2rtNy
:, though antagOnizing his party. is titful
n unreliable, and continued only to the en-
j. Of destroying his original strength. TIL
= sacred duty of the press, therefore, at thi
n hour, is not to magnify the differences O
opinion between the leading Senators O
the Republican party and the Republoal
President, but rather to lend all its effort
d, to harmon zing their views, and bringin
. about that mutual support without whic
: the administration must prove a failure
= Attempts, therefore, to read such leaders 0
!, popular sentiment as Senators Morton
, Conkling and Blaine out of the party, an,
q to arrange a line of action which shall con
); template their exclusion from its cOunsels
is ill-considered and dangerously indisereet
! They are entitled to the expression of thei
! views, and the course to be pursued mus
!, be materially affected by their views if i
is to prove that success for which the RI
!, publican party and the country most al
: IDENTIFY hope.
= But there has been this good from thes
= opening expressions of Senatorial OpiniO
9 on the admission of Southern Senator's
a has led to unanimous, enthusiastic an
determined demand upon the part of tn
people, that the new policy of the new ad
, ministratiOn shall be given fair and in
u partial trial-that the new President shal
y be permitted to gather about him Just such
: advisers as he deems may best assist him il
: his eourse-that there shall be n
: captiOus objections to the inauguratiO
i and full trial of his policy. That th
I Senate hears and heeds this resoundinj
voice of the people is clear to the oarefu
Z observation. Senator Conkling, agains
whom charges of disloyalty were fOolishl
: brought, gives open intimatiOn that hi
ardent support will be yielded to the aC
: ministrstion until it shall prove (which b
= believes it never will, that such support
y = inconsistent with the fixed principles whic
: he represents. Senators Morton an
= Blaine preeent themselves in the sam
g position. and behind them Is the great mas
: of the Republican party, with promise Q
= material accretiOns from the eonservativ
2 2 element of the Democracy. But, in on
: earnest support of the administration, W
: must avoid the error of q foolish attac
: upon Senators for the expression of ind
. vidual and dissonRnt viewE-we must ayOi
! the grosser mistake of imputing to then
= improper motives. We elect men to sue
! lofty position as the United States Senat
= because of their individual strength an
: Judgment. They are not to be the slave
{ of the people and the press-they are in
measure their advisers, the men to who's
. Judgment we have relegated our interest
We expeet-We have the right to demand
I from them honest and determined views o
pending questions; and upon those view
= must, in measure, depend the shaping {
I our policy. From full and tree EXPIRE
! sion of differing opinions, planed down an
!, joined as carpenter dOvetails the edges {
1 his cabinet comes strong and harmOniOu
: scheme of aetion-such q one as we coni
: IDENTIFY look for in the future of this az
: ministration. Cincinnati Times.
The Standards correspondent at Par
{ telegraphs as follows: General Tchernaye
Z has suddenly arrived here to confer wit
!, General Ignatietf. Is is aBseI ted that Ru
u ! sia has asked, or Is about to ask the powei
q to propose to the Porte the establishment
1 an international consulting commission Il
y one year, at Constantinople, 10 advise ii
Q Porte and watch and report on the applie