Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-11-23

tors and to all the Republican State
ticket. The Board then adjourned sine
die.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. IS. 1876.
The avidity with which the Demo-
cratic press seize upon any reported
blunder by the Republicans in electing
ineligible electors, shakes apparently
their want of confidence in the persis-
tent assurances of the Democratic ma
nipulators of the telegraph South, that
South CarOlin, Louisiana and Florida
are sure for the State and National
nominees of Democracy. The New
York Sun now omits 'Tilden is elect
ed,' which garnished the top of the
first column of every issue for some
days after the election, aud the World
has grown a great deal less positive.
But both papers devote a great deal of
space in deneuncing the revolutionary
purposes manifested in certain Repub.
lican States, to be represented in the
Electoral College by gentlemen of Re-
publican sentiment. But fearing that
with all the solar and planetary light
thus brought to bear, the perverse and
stiff-necked Radicals may not be de-
TERED from this fresh outrage against
constitutional liberty, there is dispo-
sitiOn 10 fall back upon the equities of
the case, and that Congress recognize
Tilden's election because of his large
excess of the popular vote. This meth
cd of arguing the question has become
quite prevalent here within the past
two days, as they see every 9TH
er avenue to the White House, and
into the vaults of the U. s. Treasury
closed against them. Admitting them
an excess of the popular vote does not
entitle their candidate to the Presiden-
tial Chair. In all the history of theiI
party, it was never known to seriously
contemplate Snch ali act of magnanim-
ity, although the opportunity was pre-
sented both in the case of Pierce and
Buchanan. Then they insisted upon
rigid adherence to the requirements of
the Constitution. But in fact this al.
leged popular majority was obtained in
the lately rebelliOus States, where a
deliberately cOntrived plan of intimi-
dation and fraud through murder. "a
pine, arson, nOn-intercOurse and ostra-
clsm, has existed for years to such pur.
poe that in all save three of them,
large Republican majcrities have been
wiped out, and entire States and COM
munities are held in a condition ofl
bondage by the Ku-Klux minority as
intolerable and as repugnant to every
principle of republican form of gov
errment, as that under which the chill.
dren of Israel languished in the land of
their Egyptian task-masters; and when
Democrats, announce Southern States
and our large towns of the North and |
West with maiorities for Tilden of such
gigantic proportions, they but glory in |
their own shame and iniquities. For
proof among the volumes at hand, for
former Republican .najorities, see last
census returns, the testimony of Hon.
Reverdy Johnson, the Report of Senate
Com mittee on the last Mississippi elec-
ton, and Southern papers for the past
five years, rendered pointed and more
emphatic by the scores of political mas
sacres too notorious to deny, as Con-
shatta, Grant Parish and Hamburg.
There is no abatement of interest in
the contest now being waged in the
three States South, here; but the ex-
citement and wild cOmmotiOn of the
first few days of doubt and suspense,
are no longer apparent. People have
assumed their wOnted aVOcations,
which were almost entirely neglected
for three days; and the bullying ruff
tians, lOudest in their threats of resis.
tance to Hayes Inauguration, have
from public view, and re-
strict the theater of their warlike dem.
to Democratic headuuar-
ters, the various groggeries about town,
and other disreputable dens, where
Democrats do mostly congregate. Butt
it is undoubtedly true that there exists
in well-infOrmed and more intelligent
circles an i'll defined feeling of disuui-
st, as though drifting in the dark.
amid peril, it may be, too obscure to
be duly appreciated and provided for,
Or wholly concealed by the technical
1ifficulties aid other complications sur
the Presidential muddle.
The committee designated at the last
session to provide form of govern
nent for the District, are in session,
striving to perfect some method to cure
he rather chaotic situation. Members
,f other committees are gathering to {
prepare the winters work; and heads :
,f Bureaus and Departments are col
Getting data for annual reports. Our
chief Magistrate, unmoved by the tu-
nultOus waters of political strife by
which he is environed, is calmly pre- 9
'raring his last annual message to Con-
'ress, with, as he says, sense of hap
" relief from the weight of heavy re- g
possibilities, which will soon be trans.
erred to his successor; and from pres
mt appearances he will vscate the
White House, one of the most popular
residents that the Republic has had
uring its one hundred years OF nation
! existence. f.
Russia is the favorite in the general a,
threatening such widespread destruc. v,
ion sll over Europe, with the represen. "A
atives OF American progress, here at
ne National Capital.
Our Indian Summer has terminated
a long, gloomy Northeastern whose
epressing influences are 80 suggestfve
suicide to the hypochondriac, tingel