The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-12-15
VOL. s..
Chr Bulletin.
DOCS rrLDEN WANT 70 pranr.

DOES T1LDEN WANT To fTaHr ?
We have great confidence in the judg-
ment and patriotism of Gov. Tilden, and
we expect that, at the proper moment,
he will speak the proper word, and ward
off the danger Of civil war now so i'm
minent. That he has been cheated out
OF the presidency we haye no doubt; that
the country believes this we are fully
satisfcd; and that there is in the senate
enough honesty to give the high Office to
him we family hope. But if the senate
should persist in its apparent determine
ton to count Gov. Hayes into the presi-
dency, right or wrong, will Gov. Tiiden
give the country over INTO the hands of a
bloody civil war. or will he, by self-sac-
ritice that is scarcely to be expected in
these days OF corruption and unhaliowed
political ambition, restrain the turbulent
elements OF his party and permit the
country to run on in peace We know
it has been said, and ia daily being as
serted, that to submit to the Inauguration
OF Gov. Hayes is TO abandon all hope Of
ever again having fair election in this
country but this we do not believe.
We have no doubt that, If Gov. Hayes
accepts the presidency under the cir
eumstances. he will be the last Republi-
can president, and We also firmly believe
that il the Democrats should
resist his Inauguration. in the
event OF his being declared
elected by the president OF the SEN
ate in Joint session. that the republic
OF arms that will ensuc. Out OF it the
union will either not .emerge, or else
will come as n consolidated empire, pos
sibIy bearing the form OF a
republic, but being in fact a
despotism Of the most pronounced
kind. 1t is all very well to
talk about the duty OF freemen to re-
sist oppression but let us not forget
that the oppression Of winch We now
complain bears as heavily upon our OPP
ponents as upon us, and that they will in
good time also weary Of what we are now
tired Of and that oppression cannot stand
before pronounced public sentiment. At
this lime the Democrats stand with
right and justice on their side, but
in most embarrassing position. The
men who are sustaining the outrages
which we denOunce, are men who when
the secessionists struck at the union
beared their breast. in leaden hail in Its
defense, while the men who would be our
chief reliance in q fight over
this stolen presidential election,
would be the men Of the south who at
tempted 10 destroy the union who,
after the war, attempted by vagrant laws
to establish kind OF negro peonage on
the RUNS Of African slavery; who resis-
ted every movementto recognize accom-
plished facts" by incorporating the three
amendments into the constitution; who
practiced ku-kluxism; and who now
claim to have succeeded by the votes OF
the colored men of the South These
facts should never be permitted to get
out of our minds, and we should be care
full to remem Der that, however just may
be our cause, the weakness OF human
nature that makes too many men preju-
diced tools willing TO DO wrong to q fell
bowman because the fools hate him; viii
array the great majority OF the Repnbli
ate Democrats - will, in this way, unit
the North again against the South, anl
bring about a repetition of the war of Sc
cession, with this added horror: tina
the South will be weaker in battle thar
it was because CT the black enemy in il
rear, aud in the North wars OF neighbor
hoods will prevail, and the sour appl
tree will be used as scaffold upon which
will be executed thousands OF victims o
the justice of Judge Lynch and the mere,
of King Riot. The peace of Warsaw i
is preferable to this, whatever may b
said by the hot.heads OF the Dem
ocratic party. In the people w
have yet great measure, OF con
fidence. They sometimes wander int
error, but upon second sober though
they usually act with wisdom. Now the,
are excited, and the lamentable spectacl
of good and honest Republicans endors
| ing the iniquity OF the Louisiana return
ing board is forced upon our attention.
| the sad fact is apparent to all calm-minde'
men OF an administration using the arm,
| to make an election successful, and t
overthrow state legislatures and threa,el
one OF the houses of congress. To Sc
these things aud not raise the cry of
French enthusiast building barbados il
| the name of liberty, or OF Mexican rev
lutionists shouting: "Down with the pre-
tender" requires much moral courage
but patriotism demands that this shall b
done at this time. Il particularly DE-
mands this OF the Democrats, who ar
the agsrieyed party and it assures thel
that, in good time, if they now act wit
wisdom, AMI pass by the temptation I
strike at their political enemy, they wi
be gloriously indicated in the near II
ture and their praise be spoken by tn
history of this eventtul time. tpo
Gov. Tilden rests grave responsibility,
and he may now make himself nan
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