The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-12-07
Florida Captu-
In Eiorid
!. ssis.IAasscsion, Reality

~ n Floria .sd~=l esisteeaon, Reality.
!, CO.. -4aas besn completed the work
y .seson by the casting Of her vote for.
..sArEs. The plot has been openly and
-shameless,y carried out. It was begun By
The usurpiag President with the deterrirsa-
zion to capture the three needed southern
states foS HAYES. The day that he sent.
troops to back up the ;yillainous returning
boards, developed the plan for elseting the;
Radical candidate for the presidency. 1t
was determined upon regardless Of law and
Constitution. Both have been boldly out
ragged, and our repnblicanssm has been
brought into contempt.
rs We have not been mistaken about the
purposes OF President GRANT. AS long ago,
as september sth the Dispatch, after. con-
sideriug TnT'S order, said
!. 80. ~ ithout the vote Of New York Hayes
cannot be elected, unless he can get the
votes OF the three southern States named
above. Grant has determined that Hayes
shall be elected. and that the votes Of those
three States shall be counted fer hInl. Does
/ anybody DOUBT this statement? CGn any
body doubtits And II it be.true, is it not
time r,every southern paper TO, sound the
!, alarm in such a manner as that the North
!. Will be compelled to hear It? Would i be
wise to cry peace! Peace! when there
!, is no peace? To say to our northern friends
and party associates that Tilden will GER
(. .tainly receive the votes OF Florida, Missis:
sippi, and Louisiana, when We cannot but
!, Eno,o that Grant has the intention Of carry
ing them by force for Hayes, whether he
shall prove to have the power to do SO or
1 not p, Tt.
This prediction erred in naming Elissis-
sippi instead Of Louisiana as necessary to
elect HAYES, and with that correction pre-
J. diction is now reality. Later, still, on the
18th November, after the presidential orders
about the count, and the placing of troops
to carry them out, the Dispatch made the
following declaration 4, -.
y &c Now the plan beyond oil question is to
force these three States Louisiana, South
Carolina. and Florida) to vote for Hayes,
and thus elect him by one uote. 1t will: be
{ accomplished. 1t is determined upon. The
fraud will be sustained by the army and
navy OF the United States. It Is great
,nsurpation., 1t is an outrage upon the ma.
iori:y OF the people Of the United States--it
lis peryersion Of our irepublicanism. But
what will be done about it That's the
question. Now is the time Il, crush the
tyranny Of this personal governments OF ours.
II, 1t triumphs, public liberty is gone"
Florida completes the yerifcation Of ou1
predictions Our, more impulsive friends
thought we were too respondent. Oh, no
1t was not that. 1t was only that our eyes
were open and that our memory OF GRANTS
brutal pertiracity was fully recollected
When did he set out to accomplish party
object through the employment OF force
that he failed !; or that he discontinued his
effort until the work begun was finished
What amazed us was THAT anybody expected
anything less. The three States were
wanted, and GRANT determined to haye
them. He has them.
and now the contest is adjourned to Con.
gress in joint session. There has been our
hope--nowhere else. Authority, Republican
as well as Democratic, is too powerful to
permit doubt Of the right OF Congress to
examine the electoral votes and to reject
such rs may be illegal or fraudulent. The
outrageous frauds by which "the votes OF
States have been reversed cannot be passed
by silently. They.wil be challenged, and
the voice OF the nation will be vindicated
from the attempt to defeat it by barbarian
snborned testimony about intimidation
and by armed Intervention Of the Federal
Executive. This will be done Justly and
under the forms OF law. And unless the
usurper interferes again with his bayonets,
the voice OF the country will prevail and the
nation will be rescued from the vile misgoy-
eminent which has brought indescribable
evils upon the land.
Oar hope aoaS and is an CONGRESS.