New-York tribune., 1876-12-07

II ia aiTnDIv DeauJIu1 10 near tlc
- about those coored members OF the soutn
c.rona House who have deserted the Republicans ana
,t.d the Democrats An ignorant observer would In
- that each one Of them had carried with him all the
hnssty and about all of the virtue there In the world
Vet only day two the same men were described
a, members Of hand Of ignorant, coarse ana alIty
snggers" IL TO be sort OF second oifth 1or
negro to turn Democrat.
Casar,s ghost was raised and reburied again
n this section all day. but the news of the second
mart Of the performance has not reached the South yet
hera an impression in Richmond :hat the specer is
m above ground and that it is the duty Of every loyal
Dsmocrac editor TO be dreadfuly scared thereby Act
inc upou this suppostOn The Dispatch assas the Re
u1hoan Committee at New-Oreans because 1t proposes
IA submit evidence 10 the President, adding; 1--WE ap
inland the Democratic Committee for declining 10 report
70 Grant The Caesar not yet installed ana te siases
are not yet provinces to report to him ana ave
Good account OF themselves or incur his wrath But we
seDeat the people are being educated into submission
Yea and they pretty well educated now 10 usoehe
In fapdoodle -. :.
There is lively sense in the public mind
Of the Democratic capacity for putting fo't In H. ie
Phadelphta Press states the IN this way I'VE are
patieut people and can afford to walt; and we snail
not have 10 wait long before the Democratic cadrop al
washington bos over Even now in its first year. u Is
already horror which, than civil war, comes ony
once in the life Of nations TO wound and Kill clergy
man in Washington, old resident, Wrltes' Ii you
oould hear these their private talks, as some OF
my
no that is too mild wcrd-but their munger Ior u
geance on the Republicans But they would not be IN
power month before their own dogs, the Dehoc"S VI
the North, would turn on and rend Them.
President Seelye of Amherst is OF the re-
markable opinion that Presidential eleetor is at hoey
10 vote as he chooses instead Of merely oDeylhg Tue
of the party which elects him. He is reported py te
washington correspondent of The Herald as saying
will say this If electOr should not be at all
elear that IL was my duty to vote mere machine;
conceive that may arise and nave IN lac
arisen in which may become the duty OF an eecor 10
vote without regard to party. An eector may say 10
himself that there is great eMgency IN our AFFAIRS II 'he
present contest is continued. wish were an eletor
The eorrespondent adds BIr Seeye hopes that some
eector in Massachusetts, Will be bold enough anu
enough to for Mr. Tilden and settle the DISPUTE @
1t is pleasure to add that br Seelye has Oeen oSaP
pointed.
There have been two sides to most OF the
dsgraceul phases Of the counting of the VOTE thouRh
the Democrats have by sheer wind power managed to
koen their side most prominently before the public.
clear presentation Of the Republican side Is made as 1o
lows by Hdrpers Weekly: "Republicans can certainly
not stand an mputaton OF fraud upon the election OF
their candidate Can the Democrats II the kepuDhcan
returning Board Of Louisiana is suspicious body is the
Democratic White League any less 80 II active RepuD-
ucan politicians in the disputed States are scaawags do
not active Democratic politicians refuse to put stop 10
assassination and which nure to their party az
vautagef Will any decent Democrat say upon his honor
that lac believes there designed atd general IN
fmidatlOn
States for the purpose OF securing Democratic success
and 60 will he deny that Mr.. Tdens election, so OBJ
aned would be tainted with the worst form OF fraud
So in South Carolina. The Returning Board Is person
Returning BOard meant to secure one result any
the court equally meant to secure another IA tne SAM S
sv The aeetaton of superior virtue on either sde Is
useless II trustworthy evidence shows that the eIec
any state or district was not iFee eieGslon' tne
an honest count is merely register OF roguery'
Miss Martha SchOfeld has written letter to
ctizens Of Troy response to inquiry Of his as TO
the truth Of her remarkable letters in TIE TRIBUNE
She saws her letters written under the most con-
scenous motives and after special efforts to get the
exact truth every particular Subsequent inquiries
abe adds have revealed only this mistake that instead
of one mother having three killed it was two sons
and one grandson She then cites this case: Last
Wednesday important papers had to be taken to Cou-
ba as evidence Of intimidation at the pons colOred
man started on the morning train 20 miles below; ne
was told by some white who went into ms car that
they knew his Grand and If he did net leave the car
he would get killed; he left and walked to another STA
ton took the night train before morn and not far
from Columbia the same set surrounded him. pcKeo MIN
III bodily carried him cut and started with him TO the
woods Il happened of his friends were on jumped
off gathered a small force and started in pur-
suit The whites heard them coming and went
back TO meet them. leaving two men tc guard MN Ihey
said Let kill the d-n mr. The@ Dad taken ms his
large pistol told HIM TO step ten PAGES ana say hls
prayers quick He folded his arms, then put one hana
small revolver in his breast pGcke ana a d s M ta
weapOu they had taken from him snapped the c0lored
an fire. sfrck one in the thigh He dropped his pistol
10 put his nands over the wound and the man escaped
HI wss well acquainted with the country ana starteu
crss walking 80 Tniles to reach station 70 bring him
ghieh was the best thing To do, the friends who
left 10 pursue heard firing aud not beng aDe 10 nnu
him. teiegraphed sad news. He went 70 Columbia next
day with some soldiers The conductor was not m Ihs
car and could have done nOlhS' MISS Schohciu ioV
ter is published in The Troy I1nleS
Mr. Horace White has written long letter
to The Ohieaoo Tribune opposing the adoption Of nmi-
datjon "a an element In politics. He argues that the
substitution OF the views Of returning boards on the
ground of intimidation popular elections, is threat
enod subverson the processes by which our instu
tons are maintained; that intimidation will become the
only element Of value in politics, multiplying like the
grasshOppers till it rayages the whole land; that nmi-
daOn is word such broad scope that 1t opens the
door to every system of degradation that can be con-
oeiyed OF in politics. from individual cOwardoe to COM
bned PERJURY and all it places an arbitrary and
irresponsible tribunal TO weigh the cowardieo and 10
gauge the perjury, from whose Judgment there is no
appeal He proceeds: "Now let take the worst case
Of budozne' that anybody can bring forward-that OF
West Fecisna 1t Is claimed that the negroes were an
actual majority the parish 1t is admitted that inc
Republicans had the State and the local gov
ernment that Republican supervisors OF election were
everywhere and that plenty Of United States uoops
thereor they not there it was the fault OF
those who claim that their voters were INUNDATED
Nevertheless II is alleged that tine negroes we're afraid to
vote And because with all these aids
hcal ntrepdity, they still afraid TO vote, there
fore the Of those who did vote are 10 De thrown
Outl venture to predict that the political party that
takes its stand on this platform VIII buldozed worse
ct the next election than any parish in Louisiana or
elsewhere. do not believe that Gov Hayes VIII aGeep
.Se ptesdeney% % on 91y such dT him IF Fl be Would
do not see how he could carry on the GOVcrhineht
dition 20 which the present Administration has brought
It, snOt able to give Its antagonist any advantages OF