The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-03-23
HAYES.

common with everybody else, he
knows he was not the peoples
choice by more than quarter mil
lion votes that be was not the
choice of white men by over mills
lion votes; nor the choice of the
Electoral College, upon fair count,
by twenty-five votes. His honors
are "blushing honors," and we'll may
such houors blush!
The great Poet of Nature has said,
ooh how wretched is that poor
man that hangs on Princes favors !"
Mr.. Hayes may paraphrase the ut
terance somewhat and say, sob !!
wretchod is any man who hangs on
Returning Board favors !" The
path before him is a difficult one to
tread. 1t is worse than a Cretan
labarynth TO thread. It'll a "hard
road to travep-harder by large
odds than the road Of Jordan is said
to be. The great body of the peo>
pie everywhere believe in honesty
and fair dealing. Most people prac>
tice that faith and even rogues ad-
mire it in Others. And whom these
bad fellows do something that they
know is bad, and knOw that other
folk know they haze done that bad
thing, they usually try to make some
sort of restitution by doing, or pre-.
tending to do, something that is
good.
SO, with Mr.. Hayes He propos
es to amend his past fraud by prom
ising to do future Justice. His aOordS
are good enough we, however, shall
Judge him by his deeds. We make
no point on his inaugural address.
1t was broad and catholic in spirit
and in sentiment. But do his acts
keep tally with his speech At does
not seem to US that they are in full
accord. 1t rather occurs to us, that
he is attempting that difficult feat
wherein circus>riders only, are pro-
Misunderstanding two horses at
the same time. No novice or nom
professional can perform that feat.
Hayes must ride one horse or the
other and let him make bis choice
at once. He can't join the extreme
Radicals and the real Democrats to
gether. The scriptures teach US,
that "the OK and the ass shall not be
unequally yoked together" 1t is
impossible to intermix water and
oil. How can two be agreed except
they walk together ! Mr.. Hayes can
not essay to the office of a common
mediator between the Radical and
Democratic parties the very great
est of ability and the very greatest
of tact and address, combined only
are equal to success in such an OF
flee as that. Those parties are as
widely separated, the one from the
other, as the poles of the globe. A
gulf, broader than that which inter-
venes between Dives and Lazarus,
which no man yet has bridged-
parts them. Mr.. Hayes can not
serve God and Mammon, both at the
same time. He must stand up for
liberty or against it. If he would
make his administration glorious, he
can not give his cords to one section
and his deeds to the other. General
Grant tried that gam. and lost at it.
At first, he promised we'll, az sCordS,
when he said "Let as haze peace"
but when the day of performance
came, he forgot his promise. True,
about the last days of his adminis>
tration, he saw his error, and evinced
less vindictiveness toward the South.
But his "change of heart" came too
late. We never had much faith in
death bed repentances, The only
bad man, we are assured, that ever
fouad pardon, at the eleventh hour,
was the "rhief on the Cross )" and
he made personal appeal to the ONE
who was mighty to save. Let not Mr..
Hayes trust too much to that exam
pie. Surely, it was an exception to
the general rule.
Our people are tired of mere
promises. They demand surer evi>
dences of fidelity than pledges which
are made, it seems, "like pie.crus
only to be broken" We hailed the
nomination of Mr.. Key to the Post
master G eneralship with satisfaction.
We were simple enough to think that
we read in it an omen of good au>