Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-12-03
Whether the Radical Thieves, Under
the Protection OF Federal BayOnets,
will be Allowed TO Steal the
Votes Of States.
One Chance In a Hundred for the Bay
Oaet-RIdden and PrOstrate States OF
South Carolina, Florida and
Louisiana.
The Louisiana Returning Board Prom
ises to Report the Electoral Vote BY
Tuesday-PlOrida will also be Re.
ported on the Same Day, and
South Carolina, Too.

Two days more and the agony viii be over,
the anxiety prolonged for so many weeks will
have ended. By Tuesday the supreme court
Of South Carolina, the board Of canvassers
Of Florida and the returning board Of Louis
lana viii have made their final reports, and
the people of the United States will be in
possession Of the result, for which, or against
which, the Radical thieves in those States
have been working for three weeks so in
dustriously. We shall then know
if law and night have triumphed over corrup-
ton and might, and whether Democratic
voters are to be swindled of their majorities by
ignorant and debased Republicans supported
by Federal bayonets. II, as we have reason
10 expect after all that has passed, Hayes
Is counted in and Tlden out, then the coun-
Try will be precipitated into a fresh excite
ment, doubt as to the future will be increased
and business will succumb to long siege Of
want of confidence" The house, as we
learn from Washington, will, through com
mittees, put itself in possession Of
all the facts attendant upon the
Radical rascaltes by which Louisiana,
Florida and South Carolina may have been
cheated of the results of the election, and a
contest between it and the senate viii be ini
tiated that may end in direst results to the
Union. The latter body, with the
President, will claim, as we have
already had more than limited,
that Hayes is the President elect, and the
house that 1Ilden, and perhaps the country
on the fourth of March may find Hayes,
backed by the senate of the forty-ffth con-
gress in executive session, in possession of
the government, with the house unorganized
and unable to meet until December, 1877,
the time appointed by law. The chances in
favor of this lit are as one hundred
for to one against il. 1t Is
barely possibly that the Democrats
in the house of representatives Of South
Carolina may succeed by Monday night in
their contest with their opponents, and so Sc
cure US that State. 1t may possibly occur,
too, that the Florida canvassing board, COM
PEELED by the evidence produced by
the Democrats, Will revise their re-
turns, certify to the truth and issue certif-
Gates TO the Democratic electors. And perhaps
the Louisiana board, finding the Democratic
majority too heavy for disposal by the bull
doing process, may make a virtue of ne
cessity and for once do the honest thing.
All this may happen. Warned by
the discoveries as to their methods Of bull
DOING" made by the visiting Democrats at
Tallahassee and New Orleans, the Radicals
may succumb to what may force itself upon
them as the inevitable, and confess the facts
now apparent to the whole country. that Tilden
has carried the three bayonet-ridden States.
If 30, we shall have complete revolution Il
public sentiment. Confidence will take the
place Of distrust, trade will revive and be re-
stored to its normal condition, and congress,
instead of wasting its energies and time
upon a hopeless controversy, viii be enabled
TO turn its attention to the promotion Of the
general welfare, and to legislation that, in
stead Of retarding, will increase the prosperity
of the whole country.