The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-11-16
The Right will Triumph,

he precautions and safeguards which have
ecn instituted and thrown around them.
VIC charge of intended fraud preferred by
he Democrats against the Republicans only
,oes to show that in this Instance, as during
he entire progress of the campaign which
losed on the 7tl, the only argument adj
Iuced by the friends of Tilden has been bl,s-
or and clamor. without any facts TO sustain
hem, and a degree of reckless disregard of
ruth that should cause the allegation, with
eason, 70 rccoi upon those who make if.
Those States are Republican, and have been
ever since reconstruction, and the fair pre-
is that they are Republican now,
and that the Republican Electors were
chosen on the 18th of this month.
1t is not, however, to discuss the probable
tiles OF the result that vii. be declared in the
disputed States, but to bring prominently
out the temper displayed by the respective
parties during the exciting period OF the past
week, that We propose to offer few reflcc-
tions.
We will premise by saying that the ques-
ti0nS involved are FOO delicate. and the inter.
ests to be determined too momentous and
far-reaching, to be considered iii any other
spirit than that of judicial fairness an d calm
ness. When the peace of the nation hangs
suspended upon the moral flavor that will
be thrown over the determination reached,
it becomes totally Inconsistent with Il high
sense OF patriotism to indulge in vapId
threats and exciting buster about resist
ence, should the election be declared in favor
OF the Republican candidates. AT first this
revolutionary spirit was merely intimatel in
the quiet declaration that we would have
two Presiderts-as much as to say that there
would be division Of the country, with two
governments, one presided over by Uaves
and the other by 1ilden. Encouraged BY the
excitement that was created, and the loss OF
reason that followed, i. was openly pro-
claimed that the ''solid South" with the aid
Of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and
Indiana, would not consent that GOV. HAYES
should be inaugurated, il his election was
declared by the votes OF South Carolina.
Louisiana and Florida. Such unrcasonins
sheets as the Baltimore Gasette and Rich
mond Dispatch. contributed to this feeling
by their incendiary articles. and stimulated
a sentiment similar to that which maddened
the people in 1860, and plunged them into
desolation from which they have not vet re-
covered.
The thoughtful citizens of the country.
however, have not been thrown from their
balance. The wise conclusion to which the
President arrived, and the severe rebukc ad-
ministered to the conspiring politicians in
his orders to Gen. Sherman, have met a re-
spouse from the conservative elements Of
the nation, and brought forth an expression
of popular cons ciousness that it will not do
to triae with. The marplots of the South,
who think they see it, the advancement of
the Democracy to power, a consummation
of their wild and harmful purposes, will be
foiled, even if Hayes is rot declared elected,
for there seems to be an awakening sense of
danger permeating the country since the
exhibitions made within ;he past week,
During the canvass and since the election
there was conservative tone pervading the
Republican press that is in the highest de-
gree commcndablc. There were no false.
sensational statements sent from it during
the campaign, and there has been no DISPOSE
tioH to state any thing but the truth since.
While the democrats have spread all over the
country the most exaggerated pcrversinn of
facts. and assertions which had no facts to
sustain them. the Republicans have confined
themselves rs close to the truth, as it was
results telegfaphed throughout every State
and Territory Of the Union on Wednesday of
last week. which caused Republicans to ac
knowledge defeat, have taught the people s
lesson and placed them on their guard as to
the fancied returns that are doctored up to
contribute to an unhealthy enthusiasm, hav-
ing neither reason nor fact to Justify it.
Whatever may be the declared result in
the disputed States, and whether Gov. Hayes
is elected Or not, Republicans will have moth
ing to regret either in the manner of con-
Quoting the canvass, o. the character Of the
vote received. Take the educated and re-
fined and substantial districts of New York,
and it will be found that they have given
Republican majorifies, aud where ignorance.
vice and immortality rule, there large demo-
cratic maiorities have been recorded. The
school houses, the churches and Republican
voters seem to be one and the same The
haunts OF the depraved, the grog-shops and
fsh-markets, appear to have spewed ont a
mass OF democratic voters, and it was by
such elements that Mr.. Tilden was enabled
to carry New York. Go to Indiana. and it
will be found that the imitation element, Il
class of men who care nothing for national
integrity and national faith, constitute Mr..
Tilden's majority there, and that the intelli-
gence, conservatism, and wealth of the
State are reserved for the Republican candi-
date. Those elements in New York and IN
diana, and the desperate schemers in the
South, who were determined to carry their
States, in defiance of law and right, compose
the agencies by which the vote of Mr.. ridden
has been secured. 1t is well known how the
immense maiorities for Mr.. Tden have been
procured in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia.
Arkansas, Texas, and even North Carolina.
No candid nan will for an instant believe
that the Republicans have not decisive ma
jorities in all those States, il fair aud i'm
partial vote had beeu cast. The elections
there have been conducted in utter disregard
OF the amendments to the National Consti-
tuition and the rights secured by them. The
plighted faith of the people to the conditions
Of the Constitution has been brushed aside
as an incumbranee and impeachment to the
political designs Of the democratic leaders,
and the freedom OF the elective franchise
only recognized where the exercise of it in
ured to democratic success. These things
are too patent to be denied by any fair man,
and constitute the severest criticism that
could be offered upon the conduct of the
leaders in the South,
A ''solid South was regarded as essential
to the success Of Mr.. Tilden. To this end
LII the cndeavors OF the managers of bis in