The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-11-30
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PRESIDENTIAL.

The contest is still undecided. Another
week will be required to settle the question
rs to whether Hayes or Tilden shall have the
majority ofelectors. But we have no reason
able doubt that Hayes will prove to be the
victor.
South Carolina has been counted and
declared for Hayes This was done with
out throwing out any of the districts IN which
becolored voters were terrorized from voting
The reform democracy not to be out done by
so small thing as a majority, had recourse
70 treacherous and venal Court, which
ordered the canvassiug State Board to count
all the votes cast whether they were legal or
not. But when the count was completed
HAYES was found to have carried the State.
The court though it had ordered the state
canvassiug board to not go behind the returns
in regard to Governor, Legislature and
State officers, it nevertheless ordered the
Board to 90 behind the returns with regard
70 the electors. The Board did not regard
fullv this inconsistent and Illegal ruling of the
Court The Board issued certificates Of
election to the electors, to the members OF
the LEGISLATURE and State officers, after
throwing out the vote of two coutles where
frauds and terrorism had made mockery of
the ballot box. The Board then adjourned
without observing the partizan and Illegal
order of the Court The Court thereupoG
declared the Board in contempt of Court and
sent the Board to Jail. The federal Court
was appealed to and set them at liberty, on
the ground that the board was appointing
Presidential electors when interfered with by
the State Court.
The State Canvassing Board of Florida
has at last got to work 1t commenced last
Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. The work
will now be pushed on rapidly so as to have
the work completed in time for the electors
to vote at the required time for President,
which will be the first Wednesday in Deeem
Der, which will be next Wednesday.
In Louisiana the State Canvassing Board
is progressing in its work as fast as possible
under the complicated circumstances sur
rounding it. The Board has already count
ed nearly all the parishes or counties in which
the election is admitted to have been con-
ducted fairly and legally. They will next
take up the counties in which frauds and
ourlandish terrorism were resorted to to null
lfy the colored vote or prevent the colored
men from voting at all.
Terrorism was the principal source of
power relied upon by the Southern reform
Democracy to carry the three Southern
Republican States-South Carolina, Florida.
and Louisiana. But We trust that they will
find they have overdone the matter. The
terrorism made use of has been Of the foulest
character, ranging all the way from a threat
10 discharge from work, to the worst of murd
ers. Thus they in many districts and coun-
ties have almost entirely prevented the negro
from voting or compelled him to vote for the
democratic ticket In any district or county
IN which this terrorism can be proved to
have been practiced, the vote Of the same
will be nulliied.
We hope to be able to announce in our
next issue as to whether Hayes or Tilden has
received the majority of the electoral votes.
in mean time we feel morally sure that Gov.
Hayes will be the luckey man.