The daily gazette., 1876-11-20
Our Washington Letter.
From our regular Correspon on lent.

From our regular Correspo on lent.
WASHINGTON Nov. IS. 1876.
There is profound anxiety felt here in
reference, not to the election, for both
parties consider that settled, but to the Of
fetal count as it is called in Louisiana.
which few believe will be fair. The large
number of small but Jealous oflice-hold-
ing Republican politicians who have work
ed, contributed, and voted desperately
and often, and, in number of close states
like Ohio and Wisconsin, decided the ma
jority, were when they learned of their
defeat, resigned to submit to rOr poy,li
ct ror Del, but since the New York Times
has. according to programme, claimed the
so-called doubtful states, and they have
learned that Chandler, kellogg and Pack
ard ct dlteTi dTcddes are to be the inter-
prefers of the roc Del in this hundredth
anniversary of American Independence,
they are persuaded that the will of a large
electoral and an immense popular major
it may be successfully thwarted. They
find much satisfaction and comfort in the
reflection that the Returning Boards in
Louisiana and South Carolina are COM
posed of Republican candidates who are
the Judges of their own election! There is
much talk about "intimidation" in South
ern States, and it must be confessed,
there is intimidation, Your correspond
ent has been there and has seen 1t.
/ have heard negroes threaten to cut the
heart out of those of their own color for
refusing to vote as the post master or
thermal Revenue Agent directed. Their
will doubtless be cords of affidavit and
clouds of witnesses, but the conviction is
| deep here with fair men of all parties
| that Tilden's majority is morally and
mathematically clear.
1t is significant that Chandler, kellogg,
Packard and Republicans of that ilk are
the only ones that have the effrontery to
claim the election of Hayes. We all re-
member the indignation of the better Re-
publican papers, among them the New
York Tribune, when Zachariah Chandler
was made cabinet minister. His repu-
tation as politician of the worst charac-
| ter was National, and he had just been
repudiated and remanded to civil life by
a Republican Legislature in his own
State. He is well known in Washington.
Your correspondent has seen him reel on
Pennsylvania Avenue at midday, and loll
| in the street cars with stupid intoxication
When sober he is bold, unscrupulous,
Overbearing and ambitious. He will not
sicken at blood spilling so long as his
own skin is not abraised. He does not
pretend to be a statesman, and he is too
selfish to be demagogue. He is simply
and purely partizan of the most soulless
dangerous type. No one who has seen
him, heard him, or studied his character
can avoid shudder when he realizes
that the destinies of great people are to
degree in the power of this t,tsus q had
almost said lupus) h,undni.
| Chandler controls Grant. Grant controls
the Cabinet, and Army. Hayes has re
tired into the natural obscurity from
which his candidacy called him, and it is
believed by many that Grant and Chand-
Ter would not hesitate moment to snuff
out the Republic in this year OF 1876, and
that they would be seconded by an i'm
mense army of subsidized office-holders,
and such statesmen as still distinguish
the Republican party-Spencer,P Patterson
Clayton, kellogg, Packard, Boutwell, and
Morton.
There was a significant editorial para
graph in the administration paper. the
iaNational Republican" this morning,
Ihave space only for the last sentence
And no President being declared, does
Grant hold Ouer until a successor is elected
and qualified There are suface indica
tions here of plots and dconspiracies. Gen.
Grant isgthe willing pampered tool of the
iparty as it is, or rather the tool and the
party are in perfect accord, both would
rejoice at contingency that would en-
able the administration to seize absolute
power. The man who thinks these ART
''wild and whirling words is simply not
abrest with the times. The country ha
become so habituated to the insidiou;
usurpations of the president, that now
when he. makes the most unconstitution
al uses of the army, sending it unaske
land for political purposes TO states tina
are as peaceful as solitude, there is scar
cely voice lifted in protest. This apath
is portentious. We remember well tn
burning indignation with which the Mil
itary interference in Louisiana only tw,
wears ago was received; it was so emphati
that even Grant desitatei, trembled, an
apologized, and each member Of the
Cabinet hastened to disentangle himsel
lfrom Belknaps "all of us" approving di:
patch to Gen. Sheridan. But where
lSheridan now, and the Cabinet. (excep
Belknap), and where are the New Yor
Times and Tribdne with their eloqueI
linvectives What pity that Rip Va
. Wrinkle did not sleep until this hundredt
Anniversary that he might be able to az
: preciate political, as we'll as physica
: changes.
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