The Russellville Democrat., 1876-11-30
GOV. TILDEN READY.
He will Contest the Point to the Last.---A Constitutions al Battle with the weap-
 Ons of Law.

A telegram to the Baltimore Gazette from New York says:
 Business is at standstill in consequence of the election con test, and the minds of our mer- chants are filled with grave ap- prehensions of danger to the re- public, owing to the attitude of the radicals in menacing the con stitution and the rights of the people. Advices received from New Orleans, together with the views of eminent conservative citi- zens of the United States, are fill ed with forebodings of the future. They declare most emphatically that conspiracy has been inau- gurated by leading republicans to place Gov. Hays in the Presi- dential chair by throwing aside the ascertained and decisive yer diets of the people of South Caro- lima, Florida and Louisiana and giving their electoral votes vie ct armis to the Republican candi- dates. It is now agreed that their is no fairness or justice to be hoped for at the hands of the Louisiana Returning Board, and the heavy democratic majority of that commonwealth is to be utter ly ignored. What exasperates all classes of true patriots most is the positive announcement here that the order of Gen. Grant was written by Don Cameron, and issued at his request purely for partisan political advantage, and that he has instructed Hayes to accept the office of Chief Magis- trate in it's present condition tainted all over with fraud. a Id it is known that Hayes has consent ed to take the place and run the risk of revolution. Under the circumstances, there is no wonder that the commercial community is excited, nervous and dispondent. It is absolutely impossible to move the wheels of trade while war is impending.
 Gov. Tilden remains calm and counsels the greatest forbearaDce on the part of his friends and supporters. He hus the most un- bounded confidence in the sense of justice of the American people, and his trust is, that they having dore their duty and expressed their wills at the polls, will brook no attempt to rob them of their rights. He has the most positive assurance from gentlemen of the highest legal standing in the country that he will be inaugura. ted president of the United States next March, although he is per fectly satisfied that he will be counted out in Louisiana. II s reliance primarily is on Florida, where the attorney general, a member of the returning board, is an able and accomplished dem ocratic lawyer of great influence, sufficient he believes, to demand and enforce justice at the hands of the other two state canvassers, who are republicans, and who, if not overawed by the minions of Grant, are really inclined to act fairly. His best hope is in Ore gon, where there is the prospect of securing the one electoral vote necessary to give him a majority in the electoral college in the event of his being cheated out of the votes of Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina. In the event of failure Tn all of these channels, Mir. Tilden will organize the most stupenduous constitutional con test Tn congress ever experienced in any country in the memory of man, and with the whole people at his back (for vast numbers of re- puhlieans now cordially support