The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-11-14


Blaiuc said il; Logan said it; they all
said IT.. They all said, This is a
nation. not league" Then. with
car-disturbing cries. they all asserted
that the democrats believed and
maintained that This is league and not
| a nation" lmpressing this assertion up
on the public mind, they all declared that
the Democrats had an affection Tof the
doctrine of state rights and believed that
the states were bound together by 'rope
| OF sand" only, and that each state had a
| right to nullify the will of the whole
people by its own act. "we." on the
other land, they all shouted, "have con-
fidence in the people. We maintain that
this is a government of the people by
he'people and for the people. We hold
fast to the old Jeffersonian doctrine of
absolute acquiescence in the will of the
majority" All Of which was very well
in its way. But let us see how the Radi-
calls like to be dosed with their own
\ doctrine.
Mr.. Tilden has obtained Of the popular
vote more than quarter of a million
majority. Wipe out state lines. take a
vote of the people, give TO the Republi-
cans all the votes in Louisiana and
Florida. and Mr.. Tilden will come out OF
the battle OF ballots with majority of
at least two hundred and fifty thousand
votes. That is the way the people voted
on the 9TH inst, and. in the face Of this
fact, the Republicans, with their nation,
not league" doctrine, with their mouth
ings about the will Of the majority, are
hoping to get their minority man into
the presidential chair by throwing out a
few votes polled in a small precinct OF a
small state, Now, then, the Demo-
cratic OK is being goreI by the Demo-
cratic doctrine OF state rights do you
say? Very well; but now. then, the Re-
publlcans. for the sake of success in an
election. are using the state rights
OK TO do the goring. and are making the
strong beast beautiful by decorating it
with snowy ribbons OF Radical applause.
But" You add, 1.-THE quarter of a mil
lion majority was obtained By allowing
the eX-rebels to vote, and they have no
right 10 dictate to the country they en-
fleavored to destroy" Let us look az
this charge. The war ended clever years
ago. Thousands Of the old soldiers OF
the rebellion have died since then. The
rebel army was not much over quarter
of million strong a, the end OF tho war.
aud not few OF them followed Lon.sLrect
and Mostly into the Republican party.
Not more than two hundred thousand OF
the soldiers OF the rebellion voted OH the
eth, and they voted because the laws en-
acted by the Republican party permitted
them TO vote. Do you wish TO complain
OF your Own action in putting the ballot
into the hands Of these men: Arc
you mean enough TO whimpcr
because, being compelled by popular
demand, you enfranchised the late reb-
els: Ii so, you are children in politics
children who impulsively give away
something and then weep over its loss.
Stand by your own policy like meu. and
accept with philosophy the results that
are following from it.
But, Just for moment. let US talk
about who voted with the Republicans.
In the first place. you had the national
| administration with all its officers-oue
hundred thousand strong. Each OF these
officers drew with him on an average.
! five friends or relatives to the polls. You
| had with you somewhere in the neigh
borhood OF half million colored voters.
| the majority Of whom voted for YOU
without thought, simply because they
were told to do so. Then you had cor
rupting influences that drew after You
thousands OF voters. In short, you voted
about two millions Of voters as you
would vote the cattle You own, if your
cattle had the right to cast the ballot.
And yet, in the face OF all these voters
of beastly kind, Mr.. Tilden received
more than quarter of a million major
ity OF the popular vote. Whatever
therefore may be the result of the strug-
gle over the ballots in Louisiana, Mr..
TiIden will have the right to point with
pride to the fact that he received a
large majority OF all the votes cast on the
9TH of November, 1875 and If Mr.. Hayes
shall obtain the presidential chair by the
rascality OF the Radicals of Louisiana, the
Democrats will have good reason to say.
while they point at the minority presi-
dent of the Republican party, '"This is no
longer a government Of the people by
the people and for the people it ia a
government Of a minority OF the people
| controlled by federal bayonets and dis
honesty in the carpet-bag states OF the
South. The Republicans have made it a
league with rascality instead of a nation
Of honest freemen.
PREsiDENT GRANTS ACTION.
We give to President Grant credit for