Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-05-09
TOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1877.
Political Jottings.

is TO leave the country, at the end OF four
years, peaceful, prosperous and united.
SAYS the Boston Pilot: Mr. Hayes has
not been two months in Office. TIehas done
a great deal in that time, and he has not
made a mistake worth mentioning"
IT is announced from Washington that
the Southern Republicans are feeling better
about the administration policy, and are
almost ready to admit that it may be good
thing after all.
IT is rumored in Chicago that General
John A. Logan is going over to help the Czai
fight the Turks, That will be more encour.
aging business than organizing an anti
Hayes party in the Northwest.
FROM the New York Times " Doubtless
it is possible to have peace and order in
Mississippi ultimately from the reign of de-
lnocracy, but it appears probable that it will
only be when all obnoxious Republicans are
killed off,"
THE Springfield Republican says ." Sen.
ator Edmunds couldn't quite accept the new
Southern policy at first, but he called at the
ident Hayes the other day, and now says it
is all right.
A CLERGYMAN in Livingston county, New
York, wh' in preaching upon the importance
of little things, mentioned the one vote BY
which President Hayes was elected, was Wig
orously Kissed by a pious democrat in the
congregation.
GENERAL HAwLEY takes very hopeful
view of the future in Louisiana, and all &c.
counts agree that an era of peace and good
feeling has set in even the Republicans con-
TESS that the negroes are treated better than
they have ever been before.
FROM the New York Tribune; l." General
Banks has waited long enough, and says
now, with unusual promptness, that he sup
ports the administration. BY the time Con-
gress meets it will be hard work to find
statesman who doesn't do the same thing"
The Boston Traveller says There is no
use in concealing the fact that the solid
South means the supremacy of the men who
have made the Mississippi plan the terror
of all liberty-loving people. 1t is the foe OF
equal rights, and free schools, of law and OF
intelligence. President Hayes will discover
this and appreciate it before it is too late to
rescue the nation from the danger which
threatens it at the hands of the solid South
The President has sharp, clear sense of
the limits of his authority and responsible
ity. Somebody asked him, the other day
what he would do, if there was movement
in the Senate to seat Kellogg as Senator
from Louisiana. That" said Mr.. Hayes,
is the Senate's affair." not mine. The Sem
ate is the judge of the qualifications of its
own members" 1t is going to be difficult to
make a successful attack upon man like
this, who does his own duty in his own way
and comedies to other people the privilege
OF doing theirs with equal independence.
THE Northern democrat of the copperhead
persuasion is in much worse temper now-a-
days than the ex-confederate, even the unre.
pentant rebel. The Albany, New York, fell
lows who would not accept Mr.. Cowdin's in
vitation to reception to 1.-THE Hon. Will
liam NJ. Evarts, Secretary of State" lest
they should thereby acknowledge the egiti.
macy of his secretaryship either forgot tina,
the Senate unanimously confirmed the nom.
ination of Mr.. Evarts, or they wish to convey
IN indignant rebuke to the confederate gen.
rails for their weak abandonment of duty
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM is next in order.
Ind the administration is preparing to graz
pie the subject with energy and firrnness
Here is where the President touches thu
true inwardness of the politicians. i
hey grumbe at his Southern policy, it is
not that they care much for it one way OF
he other, but rather that they hope to make
little capital to be used against him in re-
'isting his efforts to abolish the "spoils sys-
tenn" So far as regards the Southern ques-
ion, the ground is already gone from under
,hem but on the question of civil service
there will tie a hard and desperate fight.
We believe the President will be equal to
the occasion.
We take the following from the Boston
Transcript: " 1t is remarkable how President
Hayes has steered round the shoals in Louis
lana which were to wreck his policy in that
state. The commission, it was said at the out
set, could not do anything, and should not be
sent But they accomplished SO much that
only one state government now exists over
the people of Louisiana. But then, it was
said the returning board fellows must all
have profitable federal offices, or most dam
aging disclosures would occur to the injury
of President Hayes. General Anderson must
be accorded the collectorship of New Or
leans, or terrible political consequences
would ensue. He has not got it, however,
and Mr.. John +. King-a man satisfactory
to the conservatives and radicals alike-has,
and signalling larks are not yet plenty
What is to be done with this Hayes He
not only has political honesty, but sagacity
and wisdom to degree completely non
plussing the old veterans in politics."