Press enter after choosing selection

Republican Appeal To Gov. Hayes

Republican Appeal To Gov. Hayes image
Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
December
Year
1876
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The editor oí the JSation, who worked and voted for Hayes, " with the utmost respect" makes this appeal to him : "Youarean honest man, in whose life not even the fieroe light of a "resideutial cainpaign has revealed a speek of reproach. Frota a tribunal, therefore, like the Louisiana Returning ioard, composed exclusively of your 'rienda and partisans, whose judicial inegrity and capacity have been already uccessfully iinpeached ; whioh refuses o obey the direction of the law and give the opposite party even one place ou its bench ; which deliberates in aeret, and gives no ieasons for its decisons; which sees glariug frauda exposed n its presence without manifesting either surprise or displeasure, and which notoriouBly tnjoys not one iota of confideuce in any part of the Union - from uch a tribunal you would not acoept he award even of one hundred dollars against the claim of the humblest man n America, would you ? We know you would uot. Are you now prepared to accept at its hands au office which quals any crown in dignity and sur(asses most crowns in power and reiponsibility, which no man has hitherto leid with a etain or suspicion resting on lis title 'í Can you encounter the terri)le ordeal of holding suoh a position 'or four years in the face of the belief hat you have obtained it through fraud and chicane ? Would not your so holdng it be a new and great misfortune to he country, and a source of unending hauie and repentance to yourselt 't Should you allow eager and unscrupuous politicians to override your own nobler judginent and thrust it upon rou ? Pinally, do you suppose that in an office so won, and neediug so much opular respect, ïf not popular support, ;o give it either dignity or authority, you could exert any appreciable influnce in behalf of any of the causes which you and all good men have at ïeart '("

Article

Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus