Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-11-14
This ans yer came back;
From the Ny. World OF Saturday.
TIE National Peril.

no candid Republican who reflects
ON the voting last Tuesday in the gre at
Northern Weaitus OF New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois: who OBJ
serves by what a small percentage
even those states saved to Hayes have
been saved, aud then looks at the ire
mendous majOrities for 'Iilden in Tex
as, Arkansas, Kentucky Mississippi
aud Alabama, can doubt that the Til
den electors received a great popular
majority in Louisiana. Independently
of these general considerations our own
private information from authentic
sources does not permit us to doubt
that Tildeu has fairly and honestly
carried that State. The practical Ques-
tiou for men who love peace and order
to-day, then, is this: Is there any
power. State or National, which can
prevent Governor Kellogg from sup
pressing or perverting this fact?
Let US bear in mind the three stages
Of an electoral vote for President
These are % the examination of the
supervisors returns and the ascertain
ment by Kellogg, in the presence of
two or three State officers, of the per-
SONS elected to be electors, which must
take place on or before the 9th Of this
month; (2) the meeting and voting of
those electors. which must take place
on the 9th of next month, and the
sending q certificate of their votes to
Washington, which must take place
before the first Wednesday in January
aud ~ the opening of those ceTtili-
Gates by the President of the Senate
and the counting of the votes therein
described, which must take place on
the second Wednesday i'm February -
The time is really short
The first stage, or the creation of the
electors, has been and is practically in
the hands of Kellogg. The commits
siouers who receive and count the
votes are his agents and creatures, APP
pointed by him, and so are the super
visOrs who, at the parish court-houses,
are to compile, proclaim, and return
the votes to the Secretary of State
These returns Kellogg examines, and
ascertains theTefrom the electors. "In
presence" OF other officers, to be SUI e,
but his is the official act, and his alone.
There is, in the State, no power of re-
vision.
The second stage IA the voting and
the certificate of voting by the cleo
tors, and if they pursue tho forms of
law and the certificate is theirs, and
truly declares their votes, it stands
without aparaut power of revision in
any one. II certificate be not a GER
tlficate of the electors OF any State, of
course the votes Of that state are not
to be counted. But if made by the
electors appointed by the State under
the forms of it, laws, and formally au-
theuticated, who shall exclude its votes
even though the President of the Sen
ale aud every member of both houses
should be convinced that the electors
were never legally elected or appoin-
ted
Here is the critical STAGE The Con-
siitution says; "The President Of the
Senate shall, in the presence of the
Senate and House of Representatives,
open all the certificates, and the UOtes
"shall then be cAuutedn What votes
shall be counted? Are they not those
in the lists certified 10y tho electors
Who shall count? The Constitution
does not say, nor has any law of Con-
gress said A Joint rule of the
two houses mot a law undertook