The daily gazette., 1876-12-28
Dcce mabel' .1ss, 1870.
StealinD an office.

RehtthD Hh OUtcc.
Chamberlain is still endeavoring to
f)rce himself upon the people of South
Carolina as Governor. Those who own
property declare they will not pay taxes
laid under Chamberlains legislature and
20 be collected by officers Of his appoint
mcnt. They make resistance because
The returns Of the election prove that he
was not elected. And yet he has the as
sistance and countenance of Grant and
his Administration and many Of the Re-
publican Senators in this effort to steal
an Office, and rob the people. No man
of honor would be guilty of such an ef-
fort and no party that was not without
honor would attempt to sustain him in
it for single day. Chamberlain is the
tool Of Grant, or Grant the tool of Cham
berlain, and the conduct of both is a
disgrace to the American people. Grant
for more than two years mas been guilty
of acts that would become the head cen
ire Of band of robbers. Under his
protection Kellogg has held the people
ofLouisiana in bondage, and now Cham
berlain is favored with the aid of the army
in South Carolina for the same purpose.
a Republican contemporary represents the
opinion Of large class OF that party as
well as the entire Democratic people, in
the following denunciatory language in
an article referring othe course of Stearns
in Florida:
I'VE do not pretend to judge with re-
gard to the motives by which Governor
Stearns may be actuated in taking the
course he las, but We are certain that in
taking it he has behaved as a patriotic
citizen ought to behave in great politi-
cal emergency. For Governor to call
upon the President for more troops when
ever his personal or partisan supremacy
in the present or in the future appears to
be in peril, is simply to acknowledge
either that he is incompetent to perform
the functions of his office, or that he is
bent on usurping power that does not
belong to him, or that a state of anarchy
reigns which makes the pretense ofmain-
tanning the forms of civil government al
mere farce. SO far as we are able to
Judge from any information at hand,
Governor Stearns, Of Florida, has lust as
much reason, and no more, for calling
upon the Federal authorities.to keep him
in power as Governor Chamberlain, of
South Carolina, has. So far as we are
able to judge from any information at
hand, Governor Stearns, of Florida, has
Just as much reason and excuse for call
ing in a United States Judge to upset the
decisions of the Supreme Court of his
State as Governor Chamberlain, OF South
Carolina, has for going through like
performance III his State. If it was right
and proper in South Carolina for the
managers of a party which finds itself
liable to suffer defeat if the orders of
the Supreme Court are obeycd, to make
an appeal to IA United States Judge for
the purpose OF circumyenting the Su-
premc Court and obtaining a partisan adj
vantage, it is right and proper that the
party managers in FlorGa should do the
same thing, and they fail IN their duty as
partisalls and rs citizens ifthey fail to do
iJ. Tie simple fact, however, is that
such Juggling is was gone through with
IN South Carolina by the agency of Uni
ted States Judge Bond is as revolutionary
as is the bull-dozing Of negroes to induce
them against their wills tovotc the Dem
ocratic ticket; and it is very much to be-
hoped that before another Presidential
election, or an election for United States
officers, comes oil, Judge Bonds decision
will be appealed from to the Supreme
Court, and an authoritative decision one
way or the other obtained from that tr-
Dunal. So far as the situation in Florida
IS concerned, it is a matter for congratu
latiOn that recount is to be made. The
first count was at least open to suspicion
OF unfairneSS, and the chances are that Il
recount made under the watchful eye o
the Supreme Court will command NOR,
confidence"
How different do our Delaware Radica
papers talk. Here is an extract from tn
Hcpublicdn:
We say again that General Haye
will oe inaugural d because he has just
ly received majority OF the electors
votes. The Returning Boards OF Flol
ida Louisiana had the right to throw ou
the votes OF any preslnct where it wa
shown that fraud, violence, or intimida
tion mad been restored to in order to ei
feet the ballot, and all these were :
clearly proven Eat there can be II
question as to the legality of their action
The evidence elected by the Congress
lonal Investigating Committee, prove
that wholesale mu rder was practised
influence voters, and that the terroris
exerted was such that no political part
should profit by underany circumstanc
whatever.
GOVERNOR KELLOGG is determined