President Hayes Was Not A Weak Man

Partl.v the mode of his accession to office, and pártlv the rage of selfish placemen who could no longer have tlieir way, made it fashionable for a time to speak of President Hayes as a "weakman." This was an .entire error. His administi-atiou was way one of the most creditable in all our history. He had a resolute will, irreproachable integrity, and a counprehensive and remarkably healtby view of public affaiis. Moreover, lie was free from tliat "last infirmity," tlie consuming ainbition whicli has snared so maiiy ible statesmeu. He voluntarily banisbed the alluring prospect of a second term, and rose above all jealously of his djstmguisbed associates. Never have our foreign alfairs been more ably handled tlian by bis state secretary. His Secretary of the Treasury triuinphantly steered our bark into the safe harbor of resumption, breakers roariug this side and that, near at hand. Tliat Hayes was such men's real and not their mere nominal chief, in naugbt dims their faine, though beightening his. President Hayes's veto, in 1878, of the original Bland Bill, for the free coinage of silver by the United States alone, though vain, reflects on bim the