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

party could not carry the country with them
in declaring their favorite candidate elected.
Undoubtedly the republicans could have in-
augurated Hayes by force if necessary, as
we expected they would, since Grant was
was ready to do as Morton and Blaine and
Chandler and their rabid followers wished
But other and wiser and more patriotic men
saw that II would not do; that the country
might accept tho decision rather than resort
10 bloodshed, but that in its righteous wrath
Il would have destroyed the republican par.
ty. These men saw in the grave issues q
national crisis, and like wise patriotic men,
felt compelled to resort TO some measure
within the limits Of the constitution, which
would satisfy both parties and be accepted
by the country, and they did IL. And, as
the Boston Journal suggested, il the meas.
use was not the best possible, let those who
opposed IL bring forward better one. 1t
was not enough for an inscriptions poll
tician like Morton, violent partisan like
Blaine, or q smutcbed leader like Garfield
to say this bill was not the thing needed. If
il was not, please produce one; this was the
best that CODkling and Edmunds and Bayard
and Hoar aud Willard could devise.
Supporting Hayes as we did, it has given
us not only pain but sense Of profound hu-
initiation to see the bitter and almost frantic
hostility Of the accepted party leaders to this
measure Senator Blaino's special friends
and spokesman undertook the other eveniug
in the republican caucus to have Messrs.
Hoar, Edmunds, Willard aud Conkling ''read
out of the party" These things give the
democratic leaders occasion for saying, with
some show Of reason, that Hayes case is so
bad one that we dare not trust il before an
honest tribunal All such conduct as that
Of these rabid, extreme men does the party
great harm; 10 read these men out Of the
party is to read the party out of existence,
for the law Of old is as good now as in the
days of Isaiah, the Hebrew prophet, "The
holy seed shall be the substance thereof" The
strength and influence Of the party does not
consist iu its members, nor in their loud talk
nay, its vitality and force belongs rather to
the character of the wise and good men who
give to it their tone and character.
Another very impolitic thing was done by
many republican members of congress, SO
the Tribune informs US: that Of voting
against the bill though they wanted it to
pass, and for this reason if Tilden was de.
clared elected they would expect no rewards
anyway, but if Hayes was victorious, then
brave souls, they could go to him and say
ave voted against the electoral BILL" 1t
is to be hoped our Vermont members had
more manlinoss than that. An honest oppo.
nent is to be respected, however unreason.
able his opposition, but cowardy sneak i:
only to be despised
We think the strained effort of some par
tisans in this state to create the impressionby
kilograms and letters that Verm onter are not
satisfied by an honest count has been little
overdone. Vermont believes that Ha yes
was elected, but if this commission, examin.
ing with care the returns, decide with judi
cial honesty that he was not 80 elected, this
state will acquiesce in the decision. Senator
Edmunds' entire congressional career has moi
met our approval, but we never charged him
with being fool, or partisan, or traitor
a proposition which some with a zeal worthy
Of better cause have undertaken to prove