National Republican., 1878-01-12

unuer tnc PEis Ol tne SOnstltution ahu ooh'-
plain of this as unreasonable punishment.
One set of advisers recommends that he
run q muck against the Senate, and send in
a fresh batch Of names for the New York
custom house, just to show that he IS "a
little man." and to prove that tho version
of the Constitution that body seems to en-
terrain, that appointments are to be made
by and with the advice and consent OF the
Senate" is an ambitious version Of that
somewhat antiquated instrument. Another
set Of advisers recommend him to stick to
civil-seryice reform, even though it compel
him to swallow every crotchet Of the Illus
trious doctrinaire who thinks he is Secreta-
~ of the Interior and er o6icio brain and
idea-manufacturer for this wonderful Gov
ernment. Still another lot wish him to 60
to war with Mexico, and had Secretary Nc
CRARY not been one of the most urbane
and conscientious of men, and had General
ORD only been General JACKSON, we would
probably have been as far forward in our
second war with the Greasers as Buena
Vista long before this time. His Southern
advisers, who seem, on the whole, to have
had the best Of him, express hope that he
may go on as he has been doing until the
ghost Of the long g-looked-for Old Whig party
shall be ushered in on this HAYEsY millen-
ium, to dam up the food Of disreputable
Radicalism which has swept over that un-
happy country since 1862 Another lot
think ifhe only snubs the Radical Republi-
cans and give an occasional kick at the
shins of dyed-in-thc-wool incorrigible
Democrats, he may be able to gather, under
the shadow of his wings the respectable
elements of both parties,' the aforesaid re-
spectacle elements being the camp hangers
on who rush off at tangent on the advent
of any new party, and are never long with
or much attached to any.
1t is from the New York papers, however,
that our worthy President gets his greatest
flood of light Every morning they point out
to this hesitating man the road to great
ness with the genius of a CREIGHTON and the
rigidity of sign-post. If he will only fol-
low it, when the monument is built to the
greatest man in this country it will be to
RUTHERFORD b. HAYES, in that violent
declamatory posture in which he delivered
his policy" on the east portico OF the Capt.
tol in March last. If that monument can
only escape the unhappy infiction of a
board of regents, it will 20 up to the clouds,
our hero perched OH the summit, the versa
tile SCHURZ on one side of him, and our
facetious and ponlerous EvARTs on the
In. IL. t.x-
WASHINGTON, LINCOLN, and GRANT, will
be the small ornaments stuck around on
the corners somewhere near the base.
So vast has been this food of New York
advice, so versatile in it's inspirations, and
so contradictory in its conclusions, that we
have charitsbly hoped that the escape ol
such volume of eflcrvescent nonsense
would relieve the editorial sufferers of that
literary collie from which they seem to
have been suffering. Of late, however We
observe that this editorial idiosyncrasy be.
gins to assume Conference. 1t is however
as the sworn foe of "rcpudiatOrs." tramp.
ling that hydra headed monster under hi,
aristocratic heel, that the President
is to rise to the dignity of the occasion
and escape the ditch Of demnition bOw-wows
into which the enemies of civil service re
form and my policy have thrown him
This is his opportunity, and it comes to hin
on salvcr rs deep rs a brothplate. Fo
this he is to turn his back uunapp,
t SCHURZ, and put cotton in his ears agains
all the long stories Of EvARTs for this h,
is to peddle pOst-offices and collectorships
for this he is knock down the dollar of tn,
daddies" with the Goyernorship Of Terri
tory and annihiate the bill for the repea
of the resumption by seats on the bench
for this, incorrigibles like KELLEY an'
OLIVER are to be seduced from greenback
and incontrovertblcs by flood of commits
sions and collectors who shall reign on earth
and ruthlcssly guillOtining such eminen
dplomatists az MOVES and WELSH; imprac
ticables like EWING, BLAND, and BUCKNE
are to be sent abroad.
But little week ago the columns of tn
metropolitan press were eloquent with civil
service reform, now they are as ruthless a
a HEROp, and turning u deaf to RACHE
SCIURZ, who will not be. comiorted becaus
they are not. Civil-seryice reform may b
very good thing in the abstract and tn
= concrete in the sweet bye-and-by, but tn
present reception of hard money makes il
sacrifice in Wall street rs acceptable rs tina
of the priests of BOAL by ELIJAH.
Seriously speaking, we do not know VIII
: such a food of advice should wash in o
the President lie is no doubt, a very grei
man but taking advice has not been one
his strong points. We would not suggei
!, for the world that the bump Of stubborn
ness was erect on his pericranium, or that h
beautiful auburn hair took root in the rc
soil of mellow self-OpiniOnatiyeness. "
think under happier circumstances he woul
vindicate the choice of Cincinnati by car
fully utilizing the opinions of the wise
men of the party that elected him to powe
Only think of the cruel pTcdicament
which we find him. Under our idiotc Tor
of govern ment he was compelled TO chO0
seven constitutional advisers. The seve
churches in Asia might differ but their di
IL. ference were mere circumstance compare
: with that Cabinet. 1t contains every shai
| of opinion, or want of opinion, that has ev
h dawned on or darkcned the human intelleo
a I, h.Inn1S In ayory ma ri or UhOst of nny M ri