Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-03-09
The Situation.

An0 1lbuntluus
Hayes is the legal president, and though
We are no more satisfied with the justness Of
the Louisiana count than we have been, We
accept the situation and shall give President
Hayes our hearty support just as far as in
our judgment he deserves il, and no further.
We shall not support him because he was
tour partys candidate" but on his own and
his administrations merits. What we have
demanded all the time, and shall continue to
insist upon, lisa clean departure from the old
ring which run and ruined Grants admins
tratiOn, for those men have long been stencil
in the nOstrils Of tho nation. They, through
Grant, have run the government first for
their own personal aggrandiSement, as witness
the fortunes which Belknap, Robson, Bah
cock and hosts Of other officials have made
out Of the public treasury. Second, for their
party's success, as the use Of federal troops,
federal judges and marshals in all the South,
the appointing and removing pOstmasters
and other officials solely on party grounds
fully proves. Third, they have run the gov.
eminent for thu. sake Of irritating and harass-
ing the South, and one Of the most pertinent
illustrations Of this purpose was the party
approval Of Blaine's unwise, unpatriOtric and
disastrous attack on Ben Hill last spring, to
say nothing Of the exasperating treatment Of
the South by government officials, SO that
South Carolina says in her desperation she
will have local self government or military
rule.
President Hayes starts the ship of state
on its second century, and the problem for
him is not an easy one; it may be wrecked
at once, for he takes it all but stranded on
the shoals and reefs of shOrt-sightsd parti-
sanship. The country has lost confidence in
the Chandler Morton Blaine-C Cameron group,
and Hayes with tho instinct Of patriot rec.
oguizes the fact and with the wisdom Of a
statesman asks for men as HE counselors and
helpers who, if partially unknown, will be
trusted and he adopts policy which COM
mends itself to the moral sense, the enlight.
ened judgment and cordial approval of the
country. The most remarkable thing is his
recognition Of the fact that he is president
of these United States and not Of tho republ.
can party, and especially the "bummers"
thereof The fact that no is president is
enough for him in that position he is the
servant Of the people, of all the people, Of
the entire nation. Consequently "pleasing
Blaine" or any others Of the old managers is
nothing to Hayes aud in his cabinet selec.
tions they are as thoroughly disrcgarded as
the great leaders of the democratic party.
In his construction Of Q cabinet President
Hayes evidently sought to have each section
and interest Of the country represented by
men whose appointment signi6ed something
for good to the country atlarge. Blaine and
Cameron and Chandler are wrathy because
Carl Schurz was selected, forgetting iu their
narrow partisauship, that the party which is
committed to and the country imperatively
demands administrative reform, o service
which they cannot appreciate and therefore
cannot render. Perhaps no man in this
country better reprcs ents the true spirit Of
reform guided and inspired by proper CON-
servatism than Carl Schurz. Gen. Devens
in like manner represents the New England
scholarship, legal acumen and moral integ-
rity, while McCrary meets the west, and
Key the southern element Of the country.
If Hayes stands to his purpose, as We conf
IDENTIFY expect he will by the men he has
put into his cabinet, and put others equally
significant into other positions, and if he
abides by his pronounced wise aud states
maNlike policy toward the South, the greater
difficulties Of his administration will be
overcome. If he yields to the old leaders,
or forms compromise with them his admin
istration is already doomed. Let the senate
reject his nomination if it dare, the country
can deal with the senate as we'll as with the
president. The situation is fraught with
momentous results, but the outlook is hope.
ful and inspiring.