The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1879-12-26
The Maine MuddIe.

effect that President Hayes intend
ed 10 make use OF the powers of
! the national tsayerDment to inter.
fere iorcibly iu the Maine political
imbroglio have, happily, died out.
Mr.. Hayes, of all other presidents,
past OF present, has the least shad'
ow of n right to do so. 1t is
great crime when the people OF
State can be defrauded out OF the
result OF their .own ballOting in a
general election, but the wrong can
not be set right by the perpetratiou
of greater.
Let the people of Maine settle
their own affairs without Federal
interference. Mr.. Hayes, when he
listens to the evil counsels of reck
less partisans, who clamOr for the
forcible reconstruction of Maine,
should remember that he himself
is one of the first fruits of the most
fragrant case of election stealing
ever perretrated in this country.
Nevertheless, in the interests of
peace, and dunwilling to cOuntenance
the correction of one crime by the
commission of another, the people
of the United States quietly sub
mitted to the outrage which seated
Mr.. Hayes in high Office from
which majority of the people and
majority of the States had re-
jected him. Without doubt the
country was saved from violent
and bloody revolution by the for
bearance and moderation of the
people on that occasion, and Mr..
Hayes and his. friends more than
anybody else got the benefit of that
popular devotion to peace aud or
der. Let them not now presume to
brand and proclaim as Il crime an
act like the one by which they
have so much protited and upon
which they have so wonderfully
thriven, and but for which, to-day,
Mr.. Hayes would be plain coun.
try lawyer instead of president.
So much tor Mr.. Hayes and his
proposed forcible intervention in
the affairs of State. For this |
Maine imbroglio, we have nothing
but condemnation. 1t is a sort of
thing from which our State has
suffered severely, but it is "A matter
best settled by the people them
selves. They can right matters
far sooner if let alone, than if their
State were made the scene of torci-
Bile reconstruction measures. What.
ever may be the public solicitude
and interest in the internal affairs z
of our sister State, it is best for !
outsiders to keep hands off.
There is'ona consideration in the A
matter which deserves, among 9th IA
lis, some special notice. 1t is, tnat N
political disturbances are not pc
.uliar to the Southern States. The
Southern people are not the only
mes who are rebelious, turbulent
nd troublesome. Elections can be no
tolen, revolutions be organized cei
nd State governments overturned III
4 one section of the country as '''
'ell as in another, In Maine as well
l.
Y that will he worth great deal r.
} the South. 1t will educate the
ig0ted sectional politicians at the y
orth in the idea that people are
ery much the same everywhere,
ld the bloody chaSm will be closed
, in the fact that sections of the
,untry will hereafter have no part -
play in political issues and party1 O.
'licy. In fact, good sized revo-
ton in Maine, however 1t may be
will have more effect
eliminating from national poll
IS The bloody shirt and sectional
ties than all the fand shaking
d horied words that can pass be-
ecn the North and Soath in a
zen years. All things have their
es, and even civil war in Maine
Massachuset might prove to be N n
lational blessing. 1t is certainly ~
reshlng 10 see Mr.. Blaine and
sectional politicians of his kid
suddenly forgetting their
hteOus indignation against the IN
ltiiern rebels, and dropping their
orite standard of the bloody
rt, charge into the thlckest of
tray against Governor Garcelon
the " Pine Tree" flag. Truly :
'lll not break oar hearts to have
seat of worey war transferred =
u our borders to point some
nty degrees OF latitude north of
and the batteries of slanderous
sc, from which we have SO long
cred, turned loose npon our =
hers OF New England. We
weep, over their sad fate all the
g freely rs we rejoice over our On,
ple's escape. Our deliverance est c.
,ming at last. and "