The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1876-11-11
HOWL OF DISAPPOINTMENT.

! HOWL OF Di3ApPOlNTMENT.
"sam Tilden probably elected emandcd
to rebel rule. "-Ottdra RCpujlicdH
/ Such are the dolcful words in which no
only the Ottawa Republican, but the radical,
generally hailed the decision Of the free an(
| independent voters of this county on Tuesday
! bya clear majority of over quarter of mil
! lion IN favor OF Samuel j. Tlluen AS the nex
| President of the United States. If so vast
maj ority of the people of tins country are
rebels, and according to the foundation prn
ciple Of our republican institutions the ma
| jorly have right to rule, we desire respect
fully to be informed by Messeurs the radi
calls why the "rcbels' ought not TO rule? The
"loyal" people had had possession of the gov
eminent for sixteen years, and brought it to
the verge of ruin. They so rioted in public
plumber and debauchery that a vast majority
of the people became disguised with them
and desired a change. Loyalty" instead OF
meaning adherence to the principles of the
government and care for the interests Of the
mass of the people, because mere cloak for
misrule and peculation, and upon the whole,
if that was loyalty" the people decided that
they would prefer to try little Of the other
article. Thus "loyalty,' got into the minority
and as the majority only are the rlghtful rul-
ers and the real loyalists, the truly loyal re-
publican party finds itself transformed into
the disloyal party, and their howl against the
rule of the majorty is IN reality but the howl
of discounted "rebels" So that the RepuJ.
Hcan's howl about being "remanded to rebel
rule" can only prove true in case it turns out
that Hayes is elected instead of Tllden.
The Republican emits another grunt:
Were we satisfied that the election was a
fair one in all the States, anC expressed the
will OF the majority Of the whole people, we
would have no complaints to utter. But it is
morally certain that number of States have
been carried uy the Democratic party through
the terror and frauds inaugurated duri ny the
past few years and still existing. When the
general government is thus seized, rs the
consequence of frauds and intimidation,
though the forms of law be observed, 1t is
pretty difficult to tell what the permanent eff.
feet may be,
There is not the slightest pretense that
there was any unfairness, terror" or"fraud'
attempted in any of all the thirty-elght states
of the Union except in Louisiana and South
Carolina, both of which have been carried
tor Hayes if carried for him at all, at the
point Of the bayOnet, and could have
been carried for him only IN that way.
That Hampton and Tllden, but for
sending the army to South Carolina to terrify
the negros into voting for Grantism, would,
by fair and honest vote, have carried that
state by $4,000 majority, no honest man, be
he republican or democrat, pretends to doubt;
and that the democrats, in spite of military
and the grOssest registration
frauds. actually did carry Louisiana by q
square majority of ten or twelve thousand, is
equally indispuable; and yet the people,
who by popular majority of over quarter
Of million have decided in favor of Tilden
and Hendricks are probably to be cheated
out Of the electoral vote of both these states
by the grossest frauds and the allegal, indie.
cent and rascally interference of the federal
government. That's the honest truth, and if
by such means it turns out that Hayes is
elected against the will ofthe people, it is
possible "the end Is not yet"