The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-03-02

In accepting the office of President through
fraud, Hayes will assume burden which he
may be only 90 glad to lay down before his
term expires. If he listens to the advice of
Morton, Sherman and men of their stamp,
he will follow in the track of Grant, and
render himself more obnoxious TO the coun-
try than Grant las done. If he casts them
aside, and pursues conciiatory policy to-
wards the South, and cndeavors to restore
purity to the governmcnt-whiah can only
be done by ignoring the corrupt men who
have been managing the pOrly-they will
heap Ieproaches on his head for protiting
himself by the fraud which they engineered,
and then turning down the instrument which
alone made his success possible
IL he recognizes Nichol s in Louisiana he
will by that very act declare the falseness of
his own claim TO the votes of Louisiana, for
Packard's right TO be Governor rests upon
the action of the same returning board
which gave him the State If lie recognizes
Packard in Louisiana and Chamberlain in
South Carolina, he will offend the conserva-
tive element of the country, the support of
which, he will need to accomplish any good.
The dilemma in which Mr.. Hayes will find
himself at the very outset Of his career as
fraudulent President, is APPLY shown in the
following article firm the Philadelphia
Times.
The Tribune has Just made the discovery
that, while mine men out of ten thought
r
the White House with clouded title" the
"clouded title" is the greatest of national
blessings and is to restore the government
to its pristine purity and all sections to pros
perity and peace. Rendered into rather
palmer vernacular, the theory of the Tribune
is that Mr.. Hayes having become the recili
cnt of stolen goods he must conciliate the
better elements of both parties and sections
because they are they who will accuse him
of the theft and deprive his administration
of the moral support that is essential to II
successful President Well since the robbie
ny has been committed and Mr. Hayes is to
bear its fruits to the highest sanctuary OF
power, tho best thing he can do is to atone
as far as possible by the perpetual apology
that u decent administration will offer for
the crime of its creation; and if it will make
honest men respect the government, so much
good will be forged out OF the nest Of evil.
But while conservative citizens of all parties
and sections may give passive support to
the administration that is to signaliZe its adj
vent into power by discarding the agents of
fraud who bore the crown 10 Mr.. Hayes,
what will the other fellows say about ii p
What will Mr.. Secretary Cameron say, who
sent Mackey to Florida and Quay to Louisi-
ana, and pledged the whole army and navy
to sustain any fraud, however revolutionary,
that put Hayes through? What will Sher-
man say, who tenderly trained Eliza Pink
ston, certified for Wells and saw forged re.
turns opened in his presence without either
blush or protest? What will Morton say,
who gave the key note for revolution by the
lightning-hash from the Pacific coast, and
who abandoned all hope of respect from
either his State or country by his unblushing
defiance of his own teaching and Of law and
Justice to win a blOtted partisan victCry p
What will Wells say, who accepted the hiss
ing scon of the civilized world and preferred
Imprisonment to exhibiting the detailed COM
putalion of the vote by which the return of
Louisiana had been transferred from Tilden
to Hayes? And what will Packard say, who
united with the Federal otfice-holders and
expeclants to steal the Gubernatorial chair
as his price for like barter of the Presidcn-
cy to Hayes? These men won't hunger for
the IFtOuHe Nasty grown Vi reform out OF
their evil sowing, from which they expect to
reap as they have strewn, nor will their tens
of thousands OF sympathetic of1ice-holders
ycarn for it, nor will their children murmur
for it. When the dram cf the Tribune shall
approach fultillment, there will be one loud
and ccaseless chorus from the men who made
Mr. Hayes President, and it will bear to his
cars the terrible accusation that he wasn't
elected that he invited his advancement by
fraud, and that he holds his place solely by
the success Of their wrongs for which he I'M
gratefully condemns them There are two
ways for Mr.. Hayes to choose from-onc the
way of right that discards the men who
made him; the other, the way of wrong, that
discards the Tribune and those who honestly
tried to make him but couldn't; and it mat
tiers little which way he takes, he won't go
far until he will wish that he had taken
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