St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-31
Public Opinion.

papers, and swearing that he will never
joke again N. Y. Tribune.
Gen. Hooker, who voted for S. J. Til
den, makes no secret of his satisfaction
that Mr.. Tilden was not elected.
Fighting Joe" says that Mr.. Hayes is
doing more for the people THAI Mr.. Til
den could, by any .possibility.-Boston
Transcript.
Mr.. Key is no longer rebel, South
ernor or Democrat, but a stalwart
Yankee and Republican. He has been
taken to the embrace of fraud, and lies
pillowed on the bosom of Hayes. The
last tie between the people and the
more Gasette (Dem.)
If there is any opposition to the Pres
ident in this state, it will not do the
party any good by attempting to hide
itself in neutral" course by the con-
vention. The Republicans of WiscO:-
sin want to speak out loud on every
subject, and we are confident they will.
And equally confident that the Presi-
dent will be sustained by an over
whelming majority MiIu0aukee Senti
mel
The animosities of the war must be
laid away, and buried out of sight, and
the great practical questions that have
too long been neglected must become
the staple of politics and party con-
troversy. We say must, because neces-
sity at length compels it. Longer delay
means starvation, anarchy and popular
fury and reSeutment.-NeU Orleans
Democrat.
What Postmaster-G General Key ought
to have done while he was up in New
England was to get the people of that
section to apologize for the part they
took in the late unpleasantness, and to
express sorrow that the fellows who
brought it on got so badly whipped in
the operation. That would have made
him ''solid" with the boys ut home
Washington Star.
President Hayes has treated the South
justly, generously and kindly, and his
good deeds to us have arrayed against
him in bitter hostility a faction who are
our sworn enemies, and who hope to
prosper by tanning into flame the expir
ing embers of sectional hatred ut the
North and fomenting discord and strife
and bloodshed at the South. 1t, there
fore, becomes the duty of honorable and
patriotic southern men to give Mr..
Hayes warm and unanimous support.
That they will do it. we have not the
slightest doubt.-AuguSta (Ga.) ChrOn
icle.
The two front planks of the Pennsyl-
vania Democratic platform are these ::
First, Rutherford B. Hayes is Il fraud ;
second, Rutherford Is. Hayes is IL Dem
ocrat. Undoubtedly these two prOpo-
sitions are logical compliments of each
ChicdgO Times.
The fraud by which Mr.. Hayes was
seated must Toe Il live issue as long as
justice and honesty are considered es-
sentials of true Republican government.
The moment we concede that there can
be any atonement for it in the way of
benefits, we surrender first principles
and diminish the chances of returning
to sound constitutional system.-Rich-
mOmd (Va.) Enquirer.
Senator Edmunds of Vermont thinks
the Presidents Civil Service order
founded on correct notions" but mot
advantageous to the public interests"
He thinks it will destroy, for the time
being, the practical work in the Repub-
licam party. We should like to hear
from Mr.. Edmunds his own plan for
reaching the eud aimed at by the Pres
ideut. The latter is good at taking
suggestions, aud the Edmunds policy
might be adopted. Philadelphia In
quirer (Rep.)
Mr.. Hayes is coming out West soon
to hear what the wild waves are saying
about John Sherman's speech. Mr..
Hayes will not hear Il gentle lullaby
that will soothe his soul and bring it
calm content. Not much. The people
of Ohio do not respond with fervent
amens to the sentiments of that speech.
The wicked curse 1t and the good in
their wrath trample it under their feet
Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.)
We hope if the President comes South
we shall not copy after these New Eng
landers in receiving him, but try to get
up something after our good old Vir-
ginia fashion /; and, above all, that we
shall parade no ''fIightful examples"
and bring forward no specimens of north
ern men whom we have turned into
better southerneIs than the southerners
themselves for, sin the name of the
prophet" it is time to have done with
all such tOmfoolery.-Ric Richmond Vd.)
State
Mr.. Postmaster-General Key may not
be very edifying figure in American
politics, but we see no reason why he
should he singled out for exceptional
criticism. The other day, in the course
of the tame speeches which have en-
liveued the Presidents excursion into
Il 70. IL, ..
soldier, took leave to say the South had
made mistake in the secession move
ment. That is IA truism that any idiot
ought to comprehend.-LOuisUilLe COur-
Ter journal.
The newspaper men who swung
around the New England circle with
the presidential party, seem to have
been good deal impressed with the
development and rapid growth of Hayes
ism. The Tribune sums up: 1t looked
as if there might he only one party in
New England, and that Il Hayes party,
if the president had staid IA week longer
1t is not easy to resist a man who only
claims the merit of trying to do right
and who presents principles for the con
duct of the government that no patriot
can oppose.
cannot forget, however, that this is
the same platform Horace Greeley of
fered to the country in 1872. The
thought which has run through all OF
President Hayes's utterances, during the
past week, is exactly the same that in
spired Mr.. Greeley in that unfortunate
campaign, which ended with his death,
and which, in its results, postponed fol
four years the work of pacifcation.
Perhaps the gospel of goodwill was
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