Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1877-02-23
Louisiana Once More.

house Of representatives on Tuesday in op-
position to the acceptance Of the returns
from Louisiana, because il is so completely
the position taken by the FARMER last week.
The commission have counted Louisiana for
Hayes and VIC accept this result as fact,
but it does hot change our opinion of the
gross frauds in that state one particle. On
reading the noble speeches of Messrs. Seelye
and Pierce on Tuesday, protesting against
counting in that state we mentally exclaim-
Cd, "Our sentiments exactly" But of the
disastrous results of the commissions decis.
ion on the republican party we have not the
least doubt, for we know the ancient law
holds good to-day as Of old, and is as appli-
cable to the republican as to the democratic
party, is inexorable, indeed, towards all men
aud parties, "they have sown the wind and
they shall reap the whirlwind," and was it
not Jefferson who said, IL trembe for my
country when l remember that God is just"
Morton and Blaine and Ben Butler and
Madison Wells are undoubtedly smart men,
but we have yet to learn that they can out
wit the Sovereign of the Universe, though
they have their chief counsellor and ally, the
prince Of darkness. We rejoice not only
that such men as Sselye and Pierce should
coincide with our views, but more that they
should have the manly, loyal courage to ut
ter them in that hall where so much rank
partisanship has been rife, and counsels Of
evil have prevailed. And we unite with the
Republican in saying Happily for Massa-
chusetts it was her voice that was raised in
protest by her two most honored representa-.
tves. The conservative influence Of her
commercial capital, and the rigid morality
inculcated by her higher seats of learning,
found proper expression in the manly speeches
of Henry l.. Pierce and Julius ii. Seelye
That they but represented the conscience and
judgment of the great majority of their con.
stituents there eau be no doubt, and the
bold independence of their stand will in.
spire fresh regret that they have declined
to continue in the public service"
We do not wonder that good republicans
should shrink from voting Tilden in president,
we should be reluctant to do that, but we
think we should do even that before we
should vote Hayes in on the Louisiana re-
/ nj %,
haps that state went for Hayes by q fair,
honest count, all just allowance being made
for intimidation but we want that fact
proved before we can accept it, aud the tes-
timony Of the consummate political shysters
who run" that state, and the vote of the
commission does not prove it any more than
the testimony of equally reliable democrats
proves that the state belongs to Tiden. II
it could not be proved to belong to one or the
other, let it be thrown out, has been our
position, and we expect the republicans to
see the wisdom Of such course before the
next presidential election. The simple fact
is, a republican government can't be run by
fraud, and the party or men who undertake
it will go to the wall sooner or later, and
that without remedy.
For President We want Hayes, as we arc
fully persuaded that he is cleaner man in
all respects, and his record in the recent can
vass is incomparably superior to that Of Til
den, but we happen to know that the younger
men Of this old conservative republican state
who have always voted the republican ticket
will not accept this Louisiana fraud, at least
they have assured us that everywhere in ouI
travels about the state this winter. While
here and there some partisan well along in
years has grumbled little at our outspOker
independence lest it "hurt the party" the
younger men. those, by the way, who viii
hold the balance of power in the next presi'
Dental election, have expressed their salts
faction in terms not to be misunderstood
We repeat it again, we accept, as loya
citizen the decision of the commission, bu
utter our solemn protest, even though thu
Boston Journal tells US Prof. SeeIye is gov
crncd by weak sophomore sentimOntality
of which he will rid himself when he hal
had more experience in the world That il
what was said by some Of Luther, of Johr
Knox, of White6eld, Sam Adams aud others
but then "sentimentality" some way had
wonderful potency in changing the course o
human histroy. Would it not be well for us a
republicans to bear IN mind that God wrot
in letters of blood all over our land, 10 the
rebellion, his utter adherence Of that spirit
which prostituted right to party ondsH TIT
fact is, while the hour of the nations peri
may be past, the hour of our republical
party's peril is not past
How demoralizcd they are in Burlington
The Free Press says, "The sausage.maker
are getting their machines sharpened up, i