The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-07

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Here Is an indication more positive than
bald declaration of what he would or
would not do, that the people Of the south
ern states will hereafter be left to govern
themselves in the same manner and to the
came extent as are the people of the north
ern states; and that no more will bastard
governments be forced upon an unwilling
people at the point of the bayonet; but,
on the contrary, the people of each state
will be allowed to govern themselves by
officers of their own choosing and sustained
by the popular will, rather than by officers
fraudulently imposed Of them and drawing
their only support from the military power
of the federal government. To secure this,
as he says, party lines and assumed party
interests will not be considered, but the
whole effort of the administration, 30 far
as it legitimately can, will be directed " in
" behalf of a civil policy which will for
" ever wipe out in our political affairs the
i" color line, and the distinction between
" north and south, to the end that we may
have not merely a united north or a
"united south, but united country
And in this effort he will have the moral
support of the whole country without dis
tinction of party, save perhaps of that in
significant few who seek for political cap
ital in so called southern outrages, and of
that other class whose whole stock in trade
has been and is the alleged wrongs which
the southern states, as states, have suffered
at the hands of the general government.
Next in importance to the question of
southern pacifcaton is that of civil service
reform-and here, too, the president utters
no uncertain sound. He reiterates the sent
iments contained in his letter of accept
snce, and declares the necessity for ere
" form that shall be thorough, radical and
complete" He emphasizes the statement
that Bipartisan services" must not be ex-
pected, as it is not desired, from public Of
ficers, and that they must be made to un-
derstand that they "owe their whole SER
"vce to the government and the people. u
This, indeed, is the very alphabet of civil
service reform. When public officers
learn that they are the servants of the
whole people, not of party, that she
"serves his party best who serves the coun-
"try best" and that having accepted an
office from the government of the whole
people, he has sold his time to the country
and, therefore, has no time of his own al
his disposal either to be used in carrying or
a distinct business of his own or in endeav.
oring to control party cQucuses, run the
party machine, or control elections in the
interest of party, then, and not till then,
will the country have civil service reform
pure and simple, and then Office holders
will not HE themselves to Washington in
the hopes of gaining or retaining public
station. When that time comes, as we
hope and believe it will under President
Hayes, the tenure of office will not be un.
certain, for the officer, whether postmaster
or clerk in the departments or custom
house, will be "secure in his tenure as long
Z" as his personal character remains un.
furnished, and the performance of his
duties satisfactory indeed, the
law, as it has in many cases, fixes limi,
to the tenure Of office. In these cases
there must be "rotation in Office" fol
neither the constitution, the laws, repub.
lican institutions, common sense, common
justice or civil service reform contemplatei
giving to all Office holders a life tenure IL
| office. 1t may be unfortunate for certain
office holders that this is 80, but they mus
"grin anu Dear" II as best they may.
He urges the necessity of q return tC
specie payments, and of immediate legisa
ton in that direction; endorses the policy,
inaugurated by General Grant, of settling
by arbitration international complications
and after abiding to the cloeeness of the
election, the uncertainty as TO the result
the means adopted for ascertaining the re.
suit, the natural disappointment expert
enced by the defeated party, and the duty
Of all to yield to the adjustment" made
according to the forms of law" he closes
by calling upon his fellow countrymen tc
unite with him "in an earnest effort to Sc
"cure to our country the blessings, moi
only of material prosperity, but OF jus
tice, peace and union, union depending
"not upon the CONSTANTS of force, but
upon the loving devotion of free peo
"ple, and that all things may be so orderet
land settled upon the best and suIest
foundations, that peace and happiness
truth and justice, religion and piety
may be established among us for all gen
erations"-an aspiration in which all Of
The people will cordially unite and to which