The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1876-12-14
PUBLIC OPINION.

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Louisiana matter, outdoes anything
before presented in the way Of bra
zen assurance.-I Indianapolis Sen
tinel.
This Returning board business
viii yet return to plague the Repub-
licans. Mark that. Sooner or la
ter the Den ocrats viii get posses
sion of them, and they always i'm
prove on precedents.- Indianapo-
lis News, Rep.
Before the election leading Radi-
Gals declared that, if Mr.. Tilden
was elected president he would new.
er be inaugurated. They are doing
their. best to bring about the revolu-
ton they threatened Albany Ar
gus.
If the people had known, on the
7th Of November, that the Republi-
can managers were unwilling to &C
cept the verdict Of the ballot box,
but would make mad effort to per
petuate their power by classifying
the returns, Hayes would not have
carried four States in the Union
Utica Observer.
It is a significant fact that there
is not a single religious journal pub
lished north Of Mason and Dixon S
line, of any protestant denomina-
tion which is not Republican IN pol
itics.-I Pittsburgh Commercial
We may remark that if BULLDOG
ing could have been foreseen, there
would not have been as many
Southern States as there are at
present, and there would have been
an army OF seventy-fve thousand
mem Cincinnati Commercial, Rep.
The time has passed when it is
possible for President Grant to play
the role of an unsophiscated limo
cent, who is being perpetually led
into scrapes by bad advisers, and
who is being perpe5ually imposed
upon by false friends; and the ma
ton is in no such mood of tolera-
ton of him and his vagaries as it
was six or seven years ago. = Phil
adelphia Telegraph, Rep.
1t is a curious fact that two or
three Republican papers opposed to
electing presidents by returning
boards and bayOnets hinge their OPP
position upon "the interests of the
party" and seem to think they
have exhausted the subject in de
clarirg over and over again 'the
party can not afford to do thus and
so. Would it not be well to inquire
whether the country can afford to
have such things done?- St. Lou
is Republican.
There is a possibility that Grant 5
gathering of soldiers at Washing
ton may produce results far beyond
his calculations. The habit of the
soldiers is to obey orders from the
regularly constituted civil authorizes.
When Mr.. Tilden is sworn in as
president, Grants authority over
the army will terminate, and if he
attempts the reasonable war he is
preparing for, the very soldiers he
now calls to Washington will be the
first to arrest him in his mad career.
II Chicago Times.
We are of those Republicans who
believe that the present Democratic
majority in the House of Represen
tatives has done the country vast
and substantial service. Without
the wholesome investigation and
criticism thus opened, it requires no
great amount of political wisdom to
see that the usefulness of the Gov
eminent would before long have
been ended, for we could not have
much longer withstoOd the corrup-
ton which was pouring through ev
cry channel of the public service
Philadelphia Telegraph, Rep.
If Grants game to cheat the peo-
pie and count in Hayes succeeds,
the office holders will nave a Re
turning Board in every State that
has a Republican Legislature and
governor, and after that it will be
impossible to dislodge them. A
more atrocious instrument for vir-
tually Overthrowing a republican
form of government was never in
vented. The shallow Republicans
who now chuckle over it blindly be
cause it helps their candidate, will
probably live to regret their
thOughtle sGness. This Is the last
chance for the people to elect a
president if Hayes be counted in
New Haven Register.
The message is that of a man
who is tired of public life, and wea
ry of political strife. 1t is a con
fession that his civil career has not
been a success, and a plea for chart
table judgement, or at least for di-
vision of the blame.-[N. Y. Trib.
POstmasters are pestiferous, but
they are, nevertheless, sometimes
special dispensations of Providence.
Look at that fellow in Oregon, de
feating all the rascality of his parti
san brethren in South Carolina,
Louisiana and Florida Dayton
Democrat.
Murat Halstead publishes an edi
torial containing the emphatic dec
laration that, Gin any event, the
country has had enough of Grant"
We do not think it is respectful to
SJCNth VI our JISSlueuG as IL he were
a dose of assafetida, which the
country including Mr.. Halstead,
had taken by mistake Brook. Ar.
Carl Scurz's paper on the mes
sage: at is of no signihcation
whatever, so far as concerns the great
pending questions of the day. 1t
does not contribute in the least to
the solution of the present besettine
difficulties. But such personal ex-
plantations of a president at the
close of his official career, may be of
value as a warning to his successor"
Let the will of the people be car
ried out in the official declaration
that Samuel J. Tilden is elected
president, and we shall at once en-
ter upon a period of great and gen
eral prosperity. But declare Hayes
elected with the faint of fraud stain
ing the declaration all over, and
universal depression, distress and
bankruptcy will follow-New York