The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-12-05

electoral vote of New York will bs
counted for him. But is he legally
entitled TO the vote? He carried New
York city and its surroundings through
the terrible frauds of it's vicious class
es. The State was heavily against
him. Thus the city, by its frauds and
crimes, DISTINGUISHES the legal majori.
| ty in the State, and Tilden will count
its electoral vote as the representative,
not Of its legal popular majority, but
Of it's Five Points and its criminal
| classes.
In like manner, and for like reasons,
Tilden will count the electoral vote OF
Indiana, only carried for him by the
fraudulent Kentucky vote, principally
in three counties, against the legal
popular majority of the State; and OF
New Jersey and Connecticut, only car
ried for him by colonization, false nat
nralization and registration, and whole
sale repeating. violently disfranchis-
ing, as IN New York, the legal popular
majorities OF those States.
In the South the violence and fraud
was even more notorious and fragrant,
and the pretended popular maiorities
even greater cheats. The election, in
deed, was simply an infamous and
bloody farce; il was no election. In
the States of Georgia. Kentucky, Ar
kansas. Tennessee, Texas, &C., with
the State Governments and all the ma
chinery Of election nndar the control
OF the Confederates, no Republican or
ganization or canvass was permitted.
and the pretended popular majorities
returned are simply the handiwork of
their returning boards or State officers.
In North Carolina the Republicans
carried the State by handsome ma
jority on the legal vote. The returns
show that their candidates polled a
heavier vote than was ever before poll
ed by any party in the State, but the
ballot-box stuffing in the Vance coun-
ties DISTINGUISHES the legal popular ma
jority in the State. In Alabama and
Mississippi crime rioted in all manner
of deviltry. In the two States, both
confessedly Republican by at least six
ty or seventy thousand votes, the pre-
tended Democratic majorities reach
$4,000; and as in Mississippi and Ala
-bama, so by systematic intimidation,
through organized violence and blood,
they desperately attempted to wrest
South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida
from their legal Republican majorities.
Hence, il we strike from Tilden's
poll the majorities thus obtained
through gigantic fraud, he has not car
ried six of the seventeen States claim
ed for him, and he stands in an i'm
mense minority of the legal popular
vote, as he does in the representation
of the wealth and intelligence Of the
nation.
The infamous and violent fraud, in
the form of an election Just closed,
has no parallel in the history Of free
government. In 1861 the Democratic
rebellion was, by force of arms, to de-
stroy the Union. to blot out the Re-
public from the family of nations, and
to erect an oligarchy, based upon ne
gro slavery, upon the ruins Of Ameri-
can liberty. In 1876 the Confederate
Democratic conspiracy is but slightly
modified-a rebellion by all malignant
agencies, by systematic intimidation
aud fraud, through organized violence
and murder, TO disfranchise the legal,
popular majorities of the States, to
subvert the Constitution, to destroy
the democratic principle underlying il
and our laws, and substitute for it, in
the rule of the government aud nation,
the old oligarchical tyrannyl Have
they succeeded? God save the Re-
public!