Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-11-26
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New YORK Tribune Radical.
! WASHINGTON. November la-In receIi eiiar
discussed most Of the questions and sitlai 9ds Ike
ly 20 arise IRON Presidential election 50 close Hid
OF 30 doubtful an issue that one OF the Tell io.t
cal parties Of the country would not acQuiescc reaa
II ia the fairness OF the declared result dd not
I point ont the most dangerous TOcs w6ich IL com
plcate1 system Of the electoral college and the cJn
b. the two houses have placed IN Americans o1lrse
/ because wished to lelTa whether the peril were
I really Is-nnent Of their running upon IL. There
NAV prove to BE- abundant sea -roon Tor the shin g!
Stlfe on either side OF this rock bu; Just nOT. as
Americans anNiOusly peer Into the msts OF TIE uil-
certain future. the way looks nGrTOw and the rock
looms uP with terrible menace. This dangsr is not
OF a wraEgle In congress over the electoral vote oi
an effort 10 hindeT the announcement OF the result
o. OF an attempt to resist the inauguration OF Pres
idant Il Is a double Inauguration that AmerlclilS
have 10 fear. and two Presidents. each claiming 10
be properly Installed in Office. each blcscd hi shOS
OF Leg and constitutional authority-ohe supported
b. the senate and the other by the hoiat HGh t.il
such a phenomenon arise? Much lnore EASILY ilii1
many OF the contingencies tGt nave beeh u15t'''yi
I as iz.ly 10 grow out Of the situation.
/ LET uS SlBp1Se the doubtful result In Florida and
-i lama 10 be converted by the returning boards OF
| these states Into Republican victory. against me
protest Of the Democrats. The electoral colleges rs
! semble. and the result is one hundred and eighty
five votes for Hayes and one hundred ana elgtytOIr
/ for Tilden. The Republicans toItfy themselves
with evidence sustaining the legality OF the action OF
tbs boards and the Democrats gather testimony ID
shoT that such action partisan and fraudulent.
Matters drift along until the day fixed foJ opening
and counting the returns in joint convention OF the
two houses The Democrats then object 70 counting;
the votes of those States but the presided OF the
senate, using his powers rs chairman oi the JOINT
convention. refuses to consider the objection, orders
them to be counted. and announces the electton OF
| Hayes As soon as the convention dssOlyes the
house passes resolution declaring that owing 70 lis
objection to the counting OF the votes OF Louisiana
and Florida those votes were not legally counted thai
no election has taken place, and that II IS the cut
| Of the house 70 elect President The following
| clauses In the constitution IS cited: Ihe person
having the greatest number OF votes for President
| shall be President, If such number be q
majority of the whole number OF electors appointed;
and if no person has such majority, then from the
! persons having the highest numbers, not exceeding
three the list of those voted for as Prdent the
house of representatives shall choose immediately
Dy ballot the President" Acting under this clause
the house elects Samuel J. Tdan. On the fourth OF
| March the Republicans inaugurate Rutherford b.
| HAYES with the customary ceremonies, under The
protection OF the army. and at the same time the
! Democrats inaugurate Samuel ]. Tilden without
| ceremony. probably not In Washington, and by the
| mere administration OF the oath. No formal inau.
guration is essential 10 ClOthe President with all
| the powers Of his Office. The senate has already
| been summoned TO meet in executive session by
| President Grant before his term expired; Tilden
calls congress together In extra session. Tine Demo
cratic house responds and recognizes him AS PT2Sl
dent. The senate susttilns Hayes. Both issue or
derS to the army and navy; each call upon the gov
| chief magistrate.
Here are ali the conditions of a civil war far more
terrible than the one we have passed through. be-
cause il would not be q of sections but OF par
ties. This horrible specteT Is not creation OF a
heated imagination The position th9 tS9 political
ed in, TO the exact results / have described. The
only escape from disastrous consequences would be
for the people TO refuse to second the politicians
! and exclaiming, like MercutiO 'AIplagie on botl
! your housesr'S insist upon some aTrangemea
| that would Insure the preservation OF the public
! The right of the house to elect a President under
the circumstances detailed would, asserting 10 tht
| arguments OF the Democrats, be by no means con
cluSlve for If their objections TO the count oi the
votes of Florida and Louisiana were valid and theSa
States were thrown out Tor the reason that tht'i
electors were not lawfully appointed, then Tide,
would have constitutional majority OF all the elGf
or, apDolutad. and the contingency recurring tie
house TO elect would not exist still, as an e!etiGl
by the house would be the only means OF eleciil2
Mr. Tllden with any sembance of authority, an n
terpr7tatiOn could no doubt be squeezed out OF ne
constitution which would justify such an election IN
! the eyes of the Democrats.
II will thus be seen that two courses are Opsn 70
the Democrats If they intend to resiStthe colsumna
lion of the election of Hayes by the votes 0f the
doubtful States: First for the house 10 elect fiidel
| on the assumption that neither candidate mas re-
ceved majority OF the votes OF the electors laSfull5
appointed. If neither parry Yielded, civil var 9i the
most dreadful description would ne the nefitable re-
suit OF such proceeding. Second, for TIE house 70
absent Itself from the counting of the VOC 50 that Il
| could not take place. The eonsequ acs OF ms
course III persisted I'm successfully UNI the 0uft Ol
March. would be TO make the president of the senate
acting President OF the United States and to make
new election necessary in November; iSll.@
The only safe way out OF the whOh difficulty, and
| the one evidently intended 30 be followed by the
trainers of the constitution is for c)BgreSs 10 accept
IS final the returns certified by te proper state AZ
hores of the votes Of the elect5lS, and to limit its
powers TO the ministerial funct0a OF counting tnein
| The right to reject the vote OF state Is nc8htre
conferred or even implied by the language OF Tue
constitution. THE president u the senate shall IN
the presence of the house Of re- TIltltlFes, open
an the certificates a.sq ths vses slH thu, b. cyH
/ - IL n
! ence TO il is safety. T. '. =.
! I*This only Oil the theory that the presence Of
either the house senate Is actually necessary 10 the
discharge of the duty imposed upon the president ol
the senate by the constitution Ihere are some
strong arguments in favor o - ne view TINT the fiil-
need not necessarily interfer Eith the president Of
the senate In the discharge q fhis duty.-EdI
Hayes's Advantage i3 Case of Trouble.
New York Tribune (Radl7
! WASHINGTON Novelr0sr 22-I am requested to
carry forward still further the train of possibilities
suggested in recent lettefs as growing out Of re-
fusal on the part of the Democrats TO recognize the
authority of Governor dayeS I'm case he should have
majority in the else.oral college. do SC, not In
the belief that matters are likely to come TO SO pad
PISS. but TO show hOw impOteIt would prove the re-
vClutiOnary methods proposed TO reverse or hinder
the operations Of the complex machinery provided
by the constitution for making President My last
| letter stopped a. the point where the Democratic
house, claiming that ifs objections to counting the
votes OF Florida and Louisiana were valid and con
elusive and thai no President WAS chosen, had gone
| through the form OF eecting Governor Tilden. and
that gentlema had taken the oath of Office before
sOms judge or notary public in New York and had
called speeiil session of the new congress. What
next? Here We saw all the conditions Of Il ter
/ rible civil har ready made.
( RBut sudDese the people don't want to fight, and
won't be saaded by desperate politicians TO fly at
each 9th throats because they diifer as 10 who is
the righ - President? Suppose they say with one
| accord. Republicans and Democrats, in the north
and IN the south 'StOp this row and let MS attend to
our business. Settle your quarrel among yourselves,
| you politicians, but settle it peaceaby. We can
dfgf tlfTa tn
have another wal" But here are the two rival PTeSi-
| dents; how can their adherents avoid coming to
blows? Very easily If one has no weapons to strike
with while the other is armed cap PIE. President
| Hayes commands the army and navy, has posses
sion of the treasury and OF all the other executive
departments. He holds the sword and the purSe-ln
word the whole machinery of the government is in
| his hands. President Tilden commands nobody. un-
less be the Tammany politicians. He can neither
collect nor diSbGTse the revenues nor dispose OF
| troops and ships-ofwar. He IS merely a
private citizen residing In fine house in New YORK,
issuing manifeSOeS, perhaps, and imagining himself
! the chief magistrdte-just rs the Count de Cham
| bOrd thinks himself Henry OF France. Congress Is
warned that to assemble at his call would be reyO-
utOnary act, rendeIngt the members liable to arrest
for violation OF the constitution and laws As nobody
Is disposed to tlke up arms TO enforce Gr Iilden $
pretensiOnS after while he sees the ridicul0Tsness
OF his position and ceases TO add President to his
! signature SO the whole threatened c0nlag1atlon
| ends in smoke. The Democrats make all the p0tl-
cll capital they out of the difficulty, and get
ready for another campaign in which they are salts
fed that their victory will be overwhelming as TO
/ be beyond the reach OF returning boards Mean
while the people of all parties rejoice that the storm
has passed over. and, perceiying that II all arose
from an imperfect system of elecng the President,
Insist that the system shall be replaced by better
/ one.
! This. thep would be the probable ending of the
/ comedy of The Two Presidents. Those who insist
ona tragical conclusion ought to be baniShed to
! Alaska 20 cool their heated passions. When the
people Of the United States go to war with each
other about the Presidential succession 1t will be-
high time to give up the republic as failure and TO
q fare it, hara 3Ff.p
| Firing OF the Northern Heart-Mauu-
fuctured Newspaper Explosives.
/ New York Times Confidential Organ OF Grants
Administrations
Those of our readers who have been slow 10 real
lie the real aims OF the eN-Tebel Democrats OF the
south and their northern allies will probably awake
TO sense Of the impending danger after reading the
facts set forth below. Ii is eXaygeratiOn to sag
that the southern portion Of the Democratic party IS
to-day full Of the spirit of rebellion as Il was in
/ 1861, and II ii is not quite ready to break out
Into open war against the nation, ii Is due 10 whole
/ some remembrance OF its punishment in the past,
| and the apprehension that a like chaStening may
/ await Il in the future The sale OF arms and cdn-
non 10 the rebel Tie clubs, which Is described below
has been going on ever since the commencement of
| the canvass, and TO add TO the guOminv OF the
/ transaction, the governor OF this State and
present claimant" for the Office Of chief-mag-
! iStrdte appears as the puryeyor of field Ordi-
nance to the rebel artillery companies OF Mis-
sissippi. Since the close Of the Presidential can
yasS and when II became known that the election Of
Tilden depended upon the vote OF the southern
States, the Democratic organs have increasingly de
( clared that the disputed States had undOuJtedly
elected the Tilden electoral ticket Various Instance
have been cited ii the Ttes Illustrating the man
ner In which the election had been conducted In the
( south, but at the same time very few people are
! aware to-day Of the extent 20 which the southern
} Democracy had purchased arms and ammunition In
this city alone for the purpose OF maintaining the
solid SOUTH Ii has been aSceTtdlned from 10 less
responsible authority than the dealers In arms them
selves that during the past three months fully twen
Is thousand stand Of arms have been bought, Pald
States,