Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-12-21
NU MBER 26.

cratic Senators now as if he was always on
of them. Senators Booth and Christianc
keep on the Republican side with equa
persistency. The independent party o
three has gone where the woodbine twineth
-Cleueldnd Herald.
r.
We cannot Joy in our Kellogg, bought a
he Is at the price Of the admission of Butler
Wade Hampton's new Senator is hand
some man-"high toned and ebivalric" and
OF heroic lineage-but to many eyes the
hand he held up when he took the oath was
red with spot that would not ''out" under
the washing of profuse oratorical floods All
the tears and oaths of Patterson cannot
sweeten that patrician hand from the smell Of
the base, black blood of Hamburg. sup
pose it is possible that this man is innocent
| OF the brutal crime charged against him
that IS, II you make no account of black
"cloud of Witnesses and some people don't
but 1t Is certain that his innocence has
not been proved, that majority of. at least,
the Republican party believe him guilty,
fully deserving his CHASTITY sobriquet and
his being sent to the United States Senate
while thus uneXonerated, so far from being a
eoncillatory measure, was a defiance to the
moral sense of the North, an outrage on the
fundamental principles Of Rcpublicanism.-
Grace GreenlrOOd 10 n. Y. Times.
1t IL generally understood that the changes
In the Toledo Postoffee were made in order
to buy for Mr.. Stanley Matthews a seat in
the Senate. Mr.. Hayes was very grateful
to Mr.. Matthews, but perhaps he begins to
realize by this time that he carried gratitude
too far. Is Mr.. Stanley Matthews worth all
he has cost? In the Senate he has added
little to the strength of the Administration.
Mr.. Matthews is not content with support
ing the outrageous schemes of reputation
against which Mr.. Hayes has made such a
gallant stand, but he is now engaged in the
supererOgatory task of discrediting the coun-
try by concurrent resolution.
What does Mr.. Hayes think of his invest
ment in Stanley Matthews? Was it worth
while to sacrifice reform for this? 1t was
plain, even year ago, that the struggle of
this Administration must be to defend the
public faith. There was no danger so i'm
minent, even then, as the danger of bank
ruptcy and dishonor. The hungry South
and the clamorous West had already begun
the attack upon the public treasury and
private property, which now fills all honest
and sensible men with dismay, and the part
of prudent President was to consolidate
his party and lead it out to the protection
of the National honor. In comparison with
this duty, all else was of little account. The
search for Old Line Wings and the substi-
tuition of one gentleman for another in the
New York Custom House, were but trivial
occupations in such critical time, like
polishing the door-knobs while the house is
atire. Let all these minor matters wait. Ii
is not question now who shall distribute
the patronage of the party. but whether the
party itself shall hold together. 1t is not
question how the Republican party shall
treat the South, but whether the South and
the regulators together shall not strangle
the party and divide its effects. 1t will be
time enough to quarrel over methods of sd
ministration when we have saved the coun-
try-N Y Tribune