The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-11-16
SCRAPS.

There seems to be a determined
purpose on the part Of conservative
people everywhere to resist the
usurpations of the radical returning
board.
The Pennsylvania Republican vic
tory is of this character: Outside
Of Philadelphia the Democrats have
a majority of 1000 at least. In
Philadelphia, the center Of fraudu-
lent registration and voting, the
ring masters worked up a Repubh-
can majority of $4,000 for Hayes.
A significant announcement is that
of the Philadelphia North Ameri-
can, which says: "The thread upon
which we hang our hope that Hayes
is elected is too slender to bear the
weight of much rejoicing; but it
has not broken yet" Don't be too
hard on that 'sthread" and hang any
more hopes upon it.
Both Louisiana and Florida have
what are termed Returning Boards,
which make a final canvass of the
votes polled in all elections in those
States. Beyond this there does not
seem to be any appeal. The coun-
try is familiar with the workings of
the average Louisiana Returning
Board Little is determined by the
vote. Everything depends on the
count.
The board of canvassers ofSouth
Carolina, by illegally appointing
themselves revisors of the election
returns from the counties, appear to
be attempting the game of the
Louisiana returning board in 1872
and 1874. Even the Republican
attorney general of the State pro
tested against the action of the can
vassers The Hayes organs can
not certainly, under these circum-
stances, sustain them. This is
Chamberlain last desperate GRASP
at power.
The Picayune, a Conservative
Journal, writes as follows: "The
bare fact that the Returning Board
has been tolerated here at all, anC
that its members are still in the en-
ioyment of their health, is in itself ;
most striking proof Of the forbear
ance and long suffering temper o.
our people. The people Of the
State can no longer be persuaded
to submit calmly to the loss of theil
dearest civil rights in order to carry
a Presidential election, and thus IL
the end the more surely to escape
the yoke Of Tycany and usurpation
/ The importance of that election /:
now a consideration which induce
them to take just the opposite
course, and they are prepared fol
anything rather than submit them
selves for another gubernatOria
term to the tender mercies of the
carpet baggers and the scalawags
No threatened penalty can of-se
the horror excited by the prospec
of such a contamination. 1t were
far preferable that the State SHOULD
be remanded to a territorial condi
ton.
The Democrat has the following
editorial: "If it be true that the is
sue of this contest depends upor
Louisiana, the people of Louisiana
will do their whole duty. Let bu
that portion of the American PEG
pie who are willing and ready to de
fend the constitutional interests o
the country, if need be, with thei
blood, tell US they viii stand by us
and the hour that the cowardly anC
infamous minions of the Washing
ton despoilers dare to lay their pol
luting hand upon the sacred reposi
tories of the people will, Louis
ana will raise the banner of the Con
stitution and the Union of her ia
theirs, and her single arm Wills
the traitors in their tracks