Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-23

III MT. Hayes comes in by the Bousianl
vote, he will have good legal title, bu
there is no power to restrain the peopl,
from going behind the certificates and decid
ing that the vote of Louisiana was stolen
This will place Mr.. Hayes and the repub
lican party in a very awkward situation
We believe il will destroy the party.-Bos
ion Herald.
1t is not necessary 10 suppose that III,
tribunal which has pronounced this decision
was either insincere or dishonest in reaching
it, but it is impossible to escape the con,
cusion that partisanship dominated in il.
deliberations and directed il conclusions
Instead Of seeking for legal reasons to secure
justice and render moral results, there seem,
to have been ingenious searching for legal
reasons to secure merely partisan victory
Springfield Republican.
The evident triumph won by the republi.
can party through the agency Of the electoral
commission is SOLDERING as we'll as gratifying
in its effects. II is precisely what was
counted upon-subject to the uncertainties
inherent in any plan of arbitration-when
tho commission was framed, because it was
not seen how the facts and principles on which
tho republican cause was grounded could be
interpreted 10 any other way by any fairly
selected body as competent umpires.-Bos.
on Journal.
AS for the democratic party, since it in
good faith accepted this tribunal. we do not
see how any bad faith or incompetency on
the part Of its accepted agents can release
it from its obligations. We have little
doubt that no calamity could befall free
country worse than the Inauguration of q
president under a vitiated title. We have
not the slightest doubt that there is one
thing much worse for any political party
than an honorable defeat-and that Is, a
dishonorable victOry.-Ne'0 York World.
Those women who have made their way
into the profession Of law have not gener.
ally acquitted themselves in manner to
give confidence in the ability of the sex to
maintain itself in this field. They will no
doubt come to it by and by; but we need
to have a good many mothers reading Black.
stone as they now do George Eliot to tighten
their domestic labors, that the mother-mind
may transfer to the daughter q decent res.
poet for law.--Jane Grey SUisshelm
"Will the democrats submit ?" Doubtless
the democrats will abide by the decision Of
the tribunal. They know that any party
which gets lease of power by means of
perjury and forgery will not be tolerated in
this country, and, if Mr.. Hayes is Inaugural
ted on the basis of Kelloggs and Stearn's
certificates, the brand of Cain will bo burned
upon him and his party in such an cffectual
way that the decent members of the organi-
zation will run out of it faster than Lot
and his family got out Of the fire and brim-
stone of old Sodom.-LOuiSuMe Courier
Journal.
1t will certainly be a national misfortune
and national disgrace if such a wealth of
wrong-doing as has been gathered under the
Kellogg state government in Louisiana and
eliminated in the proceedings OF the return.
ing board is to fasten itself upon the nation
and accredit us with president. But, if
it does, there are two strong consultations.
The adjudication that concludes the result
has been in the name of law and in the
spirit of patriotism, aud the president it
gives to us promises an elevated and reformed
in which the elements of in.
justice and corruption will find neither de-
tense nor tolerance,-SPinqfeld Repabii.
can.