The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-23

Der of the Presidential party that has blum
dered. President Hayes has taken pains to
introduce him at every place and put him
forward to make brief speech; but on two
occasions he has acted like an unskilful
player at whist who trumps his partner
tricks. 1t was the evident purpose of the
President to exhibit Mr.. Key as a proof
of his magnanimity in appointing an ex-
rebel and democrat who voted against him
to place in his Cabinet. But the obtuse
Mr.. Key did not understand so fine q game
1t did not occur to him that Mr.. Hayes
while addressing the North, was really ap-
pealing to the South. His mental horizon
did not extend beyond the New England
mountains, and he acted on the foolish
assum ption that the President was trying
to justify himself to the extreme Northern
republicans. Mr.. Key accordingly OK
hibited himself on the stool Of re-
pentance. At Bennington he described
himself as one of the ''errihg breth-
ren"--a want of manliness which has
provoked the derision of the Southern press.
Secretary McCrary, who has more political
sense has explained away this expression
of Mr.. Key by saying that he was present at
Bennington and that the Postmaster Gen.
eral used the expression in evident jest, and
that it was greeted with good-humored
laugh. This explanation might be accepted
if Mr.. Key had not put his foot in little
deeper at Lake Winnipiseogee yesterday,
when he applied to himself the lines in DR..
Watts hymn
And while the lamp holds out to burn
The vilcst sinner may return.
The impression which such abject utter
ances tend to make at the South is that the
President overlooks participation in the re-
bellion only on condition that Southern
citizens will humilate themselves 1t is
quite certain that neither Mr.. Hayes nor
wise members of his Cabinet wish to diffuse
such an idea. Mr.. Evarts, who never loses
his head, put the position Of the South in
it's true light in the terse little speech he
made day before yesterday:-"Th strong
men of both sections met; no cowaraice was
shown on either side; they fought for prin-
ciples they had long learned to revere. The
your State, and Calhoun, Of the South,
worked into the feelings of the people
until there was no way out of
the difficulty but war;" This just line
Of remark implies no humiliation Of the
South. Both sections fought ''for princi-
pies they had long learned to revere" The
fortune of arms was against the South, and
all that is expected of it is manly sub
mission to the resistless logic Of events.
The Southern people can accept this view
as consistent with their self-respect and
them pride of character, and we trust they
will receive it from the mouth Of Mr.. Evarts
as o sufficient antidote to the abject and
craven expressions of the Postmaster Gen
eral. Neither Mr.. Hayes nor the Northern
members of his Cabinet ask the South to re-
nounce it's manhood and exhibit itselfon the
stool of repentance. A frank md sincere
acceptance of the political results Of the war
is all that is expected. There is no reason
why men should humilate themselves for
having fought bravely in cause which
they believed to be right. In spite of the
blunders of Mr.. Key this mountain tour Of
he is it's generous friend, and that he exacts
no conditions incompatible with its self
respect. We believe that Southern members
of Congress will give chivalric support to
the President in all measures conceived in
the spirit of his recent utterances.