New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-12-12
"LET Us HAVE PEACE.'

We commend to impatient ald impulslys
Democrats who think that, because there seems
to be a popular majority for their candidates.
they are justified in demanding the surrender
of the Government, and that they arc safe in
their buster and threats as to what will be
done in case their demands are not complied
with, a little more calmDess and something
ike a practical view of the situation. 1t L.
all very well to talk largely and loudly, AID
buster and threaten, and all that, II 1t
be a relief to their miRds. to do SO; but
it is well enough to consider that, 80 far
Us any further effect Of it IN the way OF men-
ace is concerned. tho quiet law-abiding people
looking on and listening have heard the like
before. They are not-snd we beg our noisy
friends for their own peace to believe 1t
in the least alarmed. Whatever may be said
of the politician class, the persons on either
aide who hold or hope TO hold government
Offices, it is certain that the great mass OF the
people see nothing in this disputed election
that u worth breaking heads about. Theirs is
a universal feeling that the dispute ought
to be settled one way or tho other as quickly
as possible, that the country may go about
its business and let the better times
come in that stand waiting at the door. But
a. to how it is settled. while there Isl naturally
enough, the most profound interest in the pop
ular mind, there is very far from being any
such feeling ~ in any event would he Il
menace to the public peace. We have already
seen that the election Of Mr.. Tilden would
have been peaceably acquiesced In by the Re
uublicans: indeed, when that was supposed for
a few hours 10 be the fact, no one dreamed OF
any resistance or of making any tactious OPP
positioa to his Inauguration or administration.
And right here it ia proper to say that If
either party had any justification for bitter
ness of feeling, any provocation to Tepudiate
an unfayorable result and to resort to revOlu-
ton IN support of their position, it was the
Republicans to whom the success OF the Demo-
cratic party seemed the return to power OF the
enemies of the Union who, after having been
defeated in tho field at so great cost OF blood
and treasure, had availed themselves OF the
misplaced kindness and magnanimity of the
yictors to secure positions where they might
safely nut in execution the reasonable and
destructive projects in which they had before
been foiIed. Considering at what cost the Re-
publican party had saved tho Union, and by what
| ingratitude and treachery its magnan,mity had
been repaid, and the tremendous importance
in their minds of the issues at stake, il would
| not have been strange if Republicans had for
the moment lost their heads and INDUCED in
something like the revolutionary nonsense with
which some of Our Democratic friends have
been trying to kindle themselves up. But they
didn't. They behaved like philosophers as
well as law-abiding citizens, aud accepted the
result calmly.
Our Democratic friends have been present
ing something of contrast with this ever
since the probability of defeat dawned on
them. Not SO much at the South, but here at
tho North they have been putting on the airs
of outraged patriotism, and talking about i'm
parchment, and inauguratiag Tilden with or
without the recognition Of the Senate, and