The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-26
ALMOST A FATAL BLUNDER

Our friend of the st. Adams Adcertiser
is not alone in his troubles. He was sick,
and left the sanctum in change of sub
ordinate and a double loaded editorial,
"Poland and his leadership" appeared
causing a slight ripple and compelling an
apology which Judge Poland was upkind
than it was before. The editor of the
Ohio State Journal, published at Columbus,
Ohio, has been sick too, and he unfortu-
nately left subordinate in charge of the
sanctum and while the Aduertiser subor-
dinste only created slight ripple, the
l0eum tenenS of the Ohio State Journal
almost caused revolution.
Thursday morning, the Journal appeared
with leading editorial on the Louisiana
question, healed, "Why don't the party in
power govern louisiana" declaring that
Louisiana had been in chronic state of
rebellion since September, 1874 saying
that the white people Of the state have not
done an honest days work in six months,
but pass their time in drill rooms and ar
mories, making warlike preparations and
urging President Grant to Immediately rec.
ognize Packard as the lawful governor of
the state, and sustain him with the United
States army. The editorial, on the whole,
was about on par with those which have
appeared in many northern, so called, re-
publican newspapers within the past three
months-in Vermont, as well as in Ohio,
Massachusetts,, New York and elsewhere
and have been passed by as not worthy OF
notice. But this one, coming from the
Ohio State Journal, from the paper pub
lished at Governor Hayes home, was alto
gether another thing, or was supposed to
be. 1t was handed around from democrat
TO democrat. 1t was read and pondered,
and was rapidly gaining converts to the
filibustering and revolutionary schemes of
David Dudley Field, Charles Thompson
and others.
The alarm was not unshared by republl-
cans. 1t was felt, by many, that such
policy avowed by Governor Hayes would
excuse, if it did not justify, a delay in the
count by all legal means, and so Stanley
Matthews, Charles Foster,jr., and William
Dennison telegraphed to James NJ. Comfy,
editor of the Journal to know "what in the
Cd it all meant ?" A reply came
that Comfy was sick and had been Tor q
week; that he was not permitted to see or
talk with any one, or even read the Jour
nal; that Governor Hayes neither saw, in
spired or even heard of the article until the
telegram of inquiry was received from
Washington and that the article "was
" originally communication lying in the
"office, and was used by the young men in
" charge of the Office in the absence of
Gen. Comfy, occasioned by severe sick
" ness"
The explanation was satisfactory, the
difficulty was bridged, the danger was
averted, the revolutionists were defeated,
and the count went on, Saturday. The
haste which was made to disavow all re-
sponslbility for the article either on the
part Of General Comfy or of Governor
Hayes is significant. 1t is a decided indi-
cation that the mistakes of the present ad-
ministJalion in its southern policy will not
be repeated by the next; that unlawful
governments will not be forced uponI an
people by the bayonet; but that,
at the south, as at the north, the people |
will be left to work out their own saliva
ton. With such policy peace will be re-
stored to Louisiana, and the same prosper
ity mark her future as has marked Arkan-
sas since the people were permitted to
govern themselves by officers of their own
choosing, instead of those fraudulenily
counted In and then upheld solely by the
force of the bsyonet. The Journals blum