Year: 1877

THE following extract from Frank
LeSlies Illustrated Newspaper, lead
ing Democratic journal, should be
generally circulated through the
press of the country:


AS for President Hayes himself, it
IS fortunate that he is not a great
man with an imperious will, but an
unquestionably good man, who has
seen enough of public, and learned
enough in the various offices he has
filled, to save him from falling into
any serious mistakes, or from becom-
ing the dupe of designing knaves.
With his Inauguration q change for
the better has taken place in COM
mercial affairs, and the hopes of the
country have begun to revive. He
might have said in his inaugural
spoo'll what Sam Houston said to
his soldiers after the decisive battle
Of San Jacinto, "Now go home and
plant corn" Now everybody may
attend to his private affairs the far
mer may plant corn or SOW what;
the manufacturer may make cloth,
and the merchant may prepare for
large accession of customers. There
will be no more President making
for three years, and in the interim,
the people may give all their time
and energy to the prosecution of
their private business.


"He best serves his party who
serves his country best" So said
President Hayes in his inaugural
address. What striking iIlustra-
ton OF this truth was the late demo-
cratic House of Representatives In
their mad devotion to party, the
democrats f rgot country and tram
pied upon its constitution and it's
laws. To promote partisan purposes
they neglected duty, forgot patriot
ism and carried the country to the
borders of revolution and anarchy.
They left legislation un finished and
the business of the country to suffer
in consequence. The result will be
the great detriment of their own po-
litical aspirations, if not the death
of the party. They had the oppor-
tunity to save the democratic organ
ization from utter infamy, but in
their blind fury they forgot that of
which President Hayes now reminds
them, that "He best serves his party
who serves his country best"


The Philadelphia Times (Indepen-
dent Democratj remarks: "To read
the current issues of many of the
Democratic organs one would hardly
believe that the Tilden whom they
now denounce is the Tilden under
whose banner they marched to vic
tory few months ago, and whom
they lauded to the skies as the great
reformer and ideal statesman of the
age. Yet he is the same. Had Mr..
Tilden been inaugurated as we'll as
elected, Cox and Knott, and Black
burn and Springer, and all the 9TH
ers, ours with Democratic collars on
their necks, who now bark at his
heels, would have been found sup
plant and whining at his feet, thank
full for any bone of patronage that
might be bestowed upon them"


IfMr.Tilden had been chosen Pres
ident his Southern policy, in the
opinion of the Louisville Courier
Journal, would have been checked or
impeded by the cry which the Re-
publicans would have raised that he
was favoring the X-Confederates;
but the same policy ON the part of
Hayes will command the confidence
and support of both parties "In
word" says that whilom fiery but
now philosophical newspaper, "the
recognition of the real governments
of South Carolina and Louisiana by
Mr.. Hayes will do more to take the
Southern question out of politics than
the same result accomplished by any
other means"


The Memphis appeal berates Mr..
Key for accepting Cabinet Office, but
it does not represent the sentiment Of
a majority of the Tennessee Demo-
Gratis. He received a rain of letters
and kilograms from leading men of
his own party in the State urging
him to 60 into the Administration
Mr.. Childress, Chairman of the
Democratic State Central Committee,
gave him that advice in the name of
the whole committee.


Providence never permits events
to occur by chance or accident. If it