The Portland daily press., 1876-12-07
The Situation.
A Chapter Of History.---A Glance at the
Struggle.
NEW YORK, Dec. 4th, 1876.

New YORK, Dec. 4th, 1876.
To the Editor of the Press
The Democratic press of this city manifest
great deal of righteous Indignation and horror
at the thought that Hayes and Wheeler will be
counted in through fraud. But the great out
RACES committed in the South, the bloodshed
and murders resulting in the disfranchsement
OF the Negroes in Alabama, Georgia. South
Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi by intimi-
dation and force gives them no trouble or
anxiety whatever. Their only anxiety is that
the prize for which they have sacrificed every
thing may not be lost.
Who can doubt for one moment the result of
the election in the Southern states if the ne
groes had not been driven from the polls! The
men who were the friends and allies of the
Union armies in the great struggle for the
malntep ance of the government, who are try
ing to raise themselves by education and indus
try from the degraded condition in which
slavery left them, whose labor this year has
produced cotton crop of 45000 900 bales,
TO- 600 tierces or rice 10000 to 100 900 hogsbeads
of sugar scrops of wheat, rye and corn in abun-
dance enriching the South,-these men, born
on the soil and attached to the country by all
it has done for them, by whose enfranchise-
ment % Representatives 10 Congress were
added to the representation from the South,
are to be deprived of their rights as American
citizens while foreigners who are uneducated,
who have no true appreciation of the blessings
and responsibilities of the elective franchise,
carry our elections, and intelligence, education
and American born citizens must quietly sub
NIT to their dictation.
History is only repeating itself in this coun-
try. The Roman Empire was destroyed by the
influx of strangers, not by outward foes but By
internal dissensions and discords The old
Romans were lost among foreigners who
flooded the Imperial City and who had no love
for Rome or its glorious past history, but strove
only to plunder the treasury and to foment
d'scords for the advance of their favorite
generals.
So it may be here, but for the growing intelli-
gence of the people of this country. In the
late election one ward in New Haven composed
mostly of foreign voters, gave larger Demo-
cratic majority than that given by the entire
state of Connecticut. Comments are unnec-
essary. Intelligence was there overbalan ced
by ignorance.
The letter of Clarkson n. Potter published in
the Herald, revolutionary as 1t is, creates great
surprise as it undoubtedly reflects the views of
Mr.. Tilden. The Republicans in this ci ty
firmly believe that Hayes has been fairly
elected to the Presidency, bnt all speak with
indignation against any attempt to count him
in through fraud They would not counte-
nance any wrong acts of the Republicans
Toutb, no matter what the result. If it finally
proves that Mr.. Tilden has been fairly and
murmur.
When it was presumed in one or two days
after the section that Mr.. Tilden was the sue
cessful candidate, confederate bonds were i'm
medately placed in the London market not
wthstanding Mr.. Tiidens letter.
All classes except the "Ultras'' approve
| heartily of what Gen. Grant has done to keep
| peace 1t will be remembered that the Treas
ury in Washington has over $500, ,000, 900 in
money and bonds on deposit. The roughs of
Baltimore have recently threatened to raise
| % 900 men in an emergency and prevent the
| Inauguration of Gov. Hayes if declared elected.
| and would they not plunder the Treasury?
| Gen. Grant is the right man in the right place,
| and will keep the peace of the country at all
| hazards. He is but repeating the history of the
country under Gen. Jackson's administration,
when John G. Calhoun and his followers
| threatened the dissolution of the Union for the
sake of state rights and the institution of slav
| cry, and were ready to peril everything to caDy
ont their purposes. Gen. jackson was equal
| to the great emergency. He could send troops
| to Charleston and order men of war there to
| enforce the Jaws and keep the peace, and say
| to the friends of John @. Calhoun that ''by the
| great Eternal he would hang him high as Ha-
man" for his reasonable purposes. Yet no
| Democratic paper complained that he had
| taken uDjustihable measures to preserve the
| country from civil war and that his acts weuld
| lead to his impeachment by the House of Rep
resentatives.
| Our government will come out of the present
| political complications stronger, with more ex-
/ perience and increasing in the love of the peo-
| pie, widening in its influences until all men
| will be free and this earth one grand Republic.
| The house of Messrs. Gomey, Rionda q Co.
| has gone into liquidation on account of the Sc
1 we're and continued illness Of the senior part
ner, d. Gomey, and will be succeeded by
| Messrs. Rionda, Benjamin & Co., all young
1 men possessing fine business qualifications and
| having capital, as L am informed by outside
| parties, of $500 to $175 900. speak of this
change as Messrs, Gomez, Rionda & Co. have
| had extensive business connections in Port
| land.
Gold is declining caused by the heavy i'm
| ports, and would go down several points more
| only for the political excitement Business is
reviving very slowly. There cannot be much
activity until after the settlement of the pres
| ent election.