The Presidential Crisis

The New York Nation, a paper whioh supported Hayes in the late contest, saya : The President and Cabinet ought to be, at a junoture lite this, a body in whose fairness and iinpartinlity the whole people would have implicit conridence, and wboso use of the public force would be generally ascribed to a hearty desire for peace and fair play. But what are the f'ucts ? The President has made himself for years past the autive supporter or coadjutor of ons of the Southern factions which has possession yf the ruachinery of State goverunient, and has the oounting of the votes in the States which now have the decisión of the Presidential contest in their hands. The Attorney-Qeneral who advises him on the legality of his interference by troops or otherwise in the South, and who directs the marshals who represent the United States at the polls, isfresh from tho stump, on whirh he has been denouncing the opposition North and South as public enemies and capable of any villiany. The Socretaiy of the Interior is actually the director of the canvass of onu of the two purties, besides being a man notorious for the violence of his language and temper and the thorough unscrupulousness of his politics, and has been absent from his post for three inouths superntending a series of most inflainmatory addresses to the public, calculated to destroy all spirit of conciliation or compromise between the parties who are now contending in hot blood for the mastery. The result is that when the President and his assistants aro called by the decent, law-abidiug and peace loving portion of the community to preserve order and keep down the angry passions of the political partisaus, their appearance on the scène with the uational pólice only intensifies bitterness and increases suspicion. Nor is this bitterness or suspiuion abated, in the quartors in whioh it is important it should be abated, by the issue of little rhetorical disapprpvals of fraud and chicane, such as carne from tho President's pen last week, and which, con8idering his official history, have had such a curiouely impreesive effect on soine Republicans. It does not speak well for the conditioti of political thought among us wheu any portion of the people are rolieved and rejoiced at flnding that the President does not think his successor should be "counted in " by fraud, and have forgottiin that the ph ruges, " Let Us have peaoe " and " Let no guilty man escape," boro such strange fruits in practice. But, in any evont, these bits of gnomic wisdom coming from a hot politiïal purtisan are not what the crisis calis for ; and how little the President has gainod in discretion, or in regard for public opinión, is shown by his sending down Gen Shoridan as a pacificator to a State in which this officer distinguished himself a year agO by asking to have whole classes of people outlawed by proolftmation, tliat he might afterwarrls hunt theui down with cavalry. In short, this Executive tinkering and nieddlinfi with elections and election returns, and sending troops hither and thither to watch canvassing boards, though it might be toleratod from a President and Cabinet distinguished for their imuartiality and abstinence from party strife, is objectionable on so many (rounds of principie and precedent that t has had much to do with giving Tilden his popular majority, and its concinuance is helping to drown the Rejublican party, already seriously disabled, beyond all hope of recovery.