The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-11-14
N K. HAYES.

II would be immature tor any ono
who through all the vicissi'udes ana
changes of parties and men had been
consistent and an unyielding Democrat
70 saw that he was 20 Hayes man. NO
suoh man could be anybodys man. de
might be mere party man acting
straight along with body Of men who
called themselves by a mere party name
He might be Democrat. as many are
Christians OF some particular denomlna-
ton. because he was born so, or circum-
stances so made him. he might be DEM
ocrat who generally voted with his party
reserving to himself TO vote for what he
deemed better men of the other party, or
for his personal friends. But for man
who with general or constant uniformity
voted with and sustained the Democratic
party because, in view OF the geheral
principles by which both or all parties
professed to be governed, his convictions
were that 1t would be best for the people
and the action of the government that
this party should always succeed, ano
that the people would be best suoserVed
and the government best maintained by
its constant success-it would be imms-
ture and improper for such man to
commit himself to the indiscriminate
support of Mr.. Hayes and his admins
tration.
Mr.. Hayes error, so far, or rather the
error of some members of his Cabinet,
has been to try to make new Party-oi
some kind. MI. Hayes wants no party,
He is in no situation to REQUIRE any party
Jus. now. He will not be candidate tor
the succession. No member of his Caoi-
net can succeed TO the succession. None
of them need try for the succession. II
thew do not know this the whole country
knows it, and they are simply stupid II
they cannot see it. They, then, want no
party. But they want country. They
want the satisfaction of knowing that
they have saved their country, or can
save it by q peace policy OF con-
ciliation. They want the fame
which the ages shall record, that
the great republic of the future Is the
child and the growth OF their honest IN
tentIons and their worthy deeds. Let
them pursue this policy. and they Will
have the good will and the firm support
of all good and true men who do love
their country. So far Democrats must
support them. So far all these good
and true men will support them.
Names are nothing, but our
country is everything. Without a
country as the first object of every mans
affection ard incentive to action, parties
are nothing but factions. The country
has been cursed with enough Of this.
Damn "the Cspulets and the Montagues"
il they keep the country 10 brswi and
are but desturbers o! the public peace.
AS long as Mr.. Hayes will, with su
eye single to the peace and prosperity OF
TUG COuuIIN hIN W MS O"A SNSA 'eNiA4N
through sll coming time, maintain those
grand purposes of his life, and leave all
party affiliations to their own doom, or
to the success of their moral position and
conduct, he should be sustained. He
cannot afford 10 throw himself away
now. Now he has character TO main
tain. He has said q word and must
stand BY it. BE has done deed and he
cannot take it back without lnfsmy. he
may not command the support of the
Democratic party rs party. lie can
not be the head and leader of the Repub-
lican party He never was such.
1t was intended that he should be
the tool only of the leaders and place
men OF that accidental combination. \
combination that never had the personal
merit of success, and who all they are
and have been they owe to circum-
stances He has broken with them, or
rather they have broken with him, and
he must now be the man to save his coun-
try, or be the base and AFFECT slave OF
those men of the Republican party. Why
did they break with him? Because he
avowed the purpose to place his country
above party, and so far he has done It.
Good men will honor HIM for so doing
Bad men will denounce him for it, and
in like proportion as the tiger growls and
fights for the bleeding carcass of the vic
tim that is snatched from his teeth and
claws.
Mr.. Hayes has shown honesty, worth,
and patriotism. How can he sacrifice
theseP Simply by reversing his policy.
Simply by weakness or by crime. And if
so. and if he will still be honest and firm,
it would be weakness and crime not to
AID him in all measures which will take
the country out OF the slough into which
it has heretofore been so deeply and
wretchedly plunged, and aid hun to re-
store the Constitution and the laws on
the broad platform of justice to sll and
favor to none. As to the negro, the civil
war accomplished only what was beng
accomplished by the slow but sure work
of time. The one involved an i'm
mense loss of life, and q stupendous
amount OF debt, and the extreme risk
of the submission of the Republican
form OF government. 1t piled up the
capital in mountain masses in the hands
OF the few; it has, in this, oppressed la
Dor, corrupted public morals snd made
strikes the order of the day. Peace
hath her victories, but war has its penal
t,s, and IN the wrongs of both parties
the penalties have been terrible to
both; and some OF the worst have prob
,ly vet to come. Let US then grid up
the moral strength of the country to
meet the future.
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.