The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-24
HIR, HAYES UNCHANGED IN
HIS PURPOSES.


HIS PURPOSES.
The Vicksburg Herald, referring to
the press dispatch published few days
ago. in which it was stated that the
President would appoint his own origi-
nal adherents alone to Office In the
South, says that by this policy the
President will greatly strengthen the
Democratic party in these States.
Nothing would please more the Blaine
faction Of Radicalism and the Bourbon
democracy than this abandonment of
craftsmanship and recurrence to parti-
sanship. he was the candidate Of
party and elected by party, but pro-
posed TO be the President of the whole
people, and while we have no right to
say that Mr. Hayes is q greater man
than his party supposed him, yet
his inaugural address and subsequent
conduct made US absolutely believe
that a good God had actually given US
a ruler wiser and better than the
zealots and enthusiasts and fanatics
wuO vlOUVOa t.s---- W. NAY he mis-
taken in this deduction from what the
country has seen Of Mr.. Hayes as he is
and not as he was represented by Nor
ton, Blaine and roaring Bob Ingersoll.
He may be, as bad men of both parties
would have him, only a politician and
partisan and neither a patriot nor
statesman. When the delusion under
which we have labored is dissipated
by the Presidents acts, then the
STATEnIAN, like the Herald, will re-
joice in the growing strength of con-
solidated Democracy. Just now we
arc ready to confess with the Herald
that the President has done much to
obliterate partisan and sectional asperi'
ties. He has made the people confess
il was most fortunate that he, rather
than Tilden, so far as the South wal
affected by the event, was made Presi
dent. The grand electoral commission
never intending it, was wiser than tn
majority OF the people that voted 10
Tilden. Hayes could, and Tilden coul'
not, have served US. Usurpers, in al
ages, chimes and countries, are mos
generous and just. They dread othe
usupers, and would win popular favor
Diaz declares that he will not serve
second term; so does President Haye:
Diaz is most liberal in concessions t
the people, and to revoltsd districts
Even so was 1t with Cromwell, and 8
IL is to-day with President Hayes.
the President be actuated by sells
motives of personal lawless ambition
defying law and order and prescriptio
and Selling power, we could ascribe
him no loftier purposes than thoG
which induce Diaz to lessen populs
burdens, to pardon public offender
and declare against his own sue
cession to the presidency. Blu
the President of the United State
is subjected to no such necessities q
crime and outraged law impose upol
the Mexican chieftain and upon tn
two Napoleons, the Great and the Lit
slsi TasE sg9lsaEsfan that they %i Fs1
pie by destroying the organic law Q
free government, even as Diaz ha
done in Mexico and as Mr.. HayG
has not done In the United States
Our President is the very imper
sonation of republican legitimacy
He is President by law and III
der all the forms of law. There coul
be no motive impelling Presiden
Hayes to enact false part. No sue
necessities influence him as hav
ever affected the conduct of usurI
ers. He has been generous an
wise and conservative and Statesman
like, because, as he declared when b
assumed Office, he deemed himself tn
President of the United States, an
not of the Republican party.
The Vicksburg Herald has been mil
led. The agent Of the Associate
Press at Washington is devout
earnest, one-sided Democrat. He
not, for this reason, the worse man G
patriot in his place, but he would b
in that of Mr.. Hayes's, whom this news
gatherer has surely misconceived. TIL
wish, no doubt, was father to tn
thought. Mr.. Hayes is hardly
weathercock or fool, and very certainl
the President has discovered in result
of his Southern policy nothing tbs
would induce HIM to change it. TIL
bloody, disgraceful incident in bul
dozed district Of Mississippi came c
no act or word or purpose of the Pres
dent. It is, on the contrary, th
stroke of the last refuent wave ca,
up by the tempest of violence an
wrong that for years past has sweI
over the South. Its force is exhauste
and delightful calm supervenes. I'll
President stands upon the sea shor,
and, did it not SAVIOR Of blasphemy, "
would say that he, too, said to II
troubled deep, ''peace be STILL" an
in obedience to his DEGREES the Sout
may be perfectly blest.
DOMAIN AND DULUTH.
Mr.. p. DOMAIN, who used TO edit I'll
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