The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-11-18
"PEACE, BE STILL"

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1t is conceded that Governor TILDEs
, will secure 1874 electoral votes from tn,
most populous states in the Union
These States contain more than one hal
/ the population Of all the States of the
Republic: and they give majority o
100000 for Mr.. TILDEN. This over
whelming popular verdict requires but
one more electoral vote to be fully con.
flrmed by constitutional procedure.
Under such circumstances, it is clear
to every candid mind that Gov. TILDEN
is entitled to the benefit of all doubts. 1t
is evident that mere technicalties ought
not to be allowed to defeat the will'of the
majority. 1t is undeniabe that wrong
methods on the one side are fully Offset
by wrong methods on the other; and that
the Presidential succession must be de-
cided impartislly, if the decision is to be
entitled to moral respect.
1t is matter of official record that
the Returning Boards of Louisiana
have been guilty of grave usurpation in
the past. 1t is matter of present threat
that these usurpations are to be repeated
now, not only in Louisiana, but in
Florida and South Carolina. The Radi
cal plot thus contempiates the sitting
of the voice of the ballot box in those
states in order to subvert the popular
will of the entire country. 1t is then
proposedI that theI President of the
Senate of the United States shall
declare HAYES and WHEELER
elected, without giving Congress
any opportunity to correct the infamous
action of the Southern Returning Boards.
And this awiully tragic overthrow of
popular government is to be carried
through at the point Of the bsyoDet
Already, those who propose to resist this
atrocty with all the means the law
allows them, are denounced as revou
tionists; and systematic intimidation is
beng plotted on every hand.
Every state of this nefarioua plot will be
stubbornly contested within the law. 1t is
undeniable that the strain upon tree in
stitutions may be great. 1t is evident
that it will test to the utmost the patti
ence, the resources, the courage, the self
restraint, the calm, hopeful, unyielding
resolution of the American people-who
will not acknowledge themselves slaves
until the curtain closes on the last act OF
the radical plot.
There Is no uvo, ~-~J---- :,
country to this strain. 1t snot neces-
vvs..,r Cor the rn;---.ty ~ u'e Ipe "'0'
trary power they possess to crush out
liberty. Nor is 1t necessary for the ma
iority to resort to force to protect them
selves in their rights
On the face of the returns the Demo-
Gratis have undoubtedly carried Loulsi-
ana, Florida and South Carolina. II
will require extreme hardihood, and the
audacity of brigands, to alter these re-
turns, so as to place those States under
the oppressive rule from which their peo-
ple are struggling to free themselves. 1t
will require still greater desperation I
undertake to decide a Presidential con-
test averse to the majority of the ameri-
can people, solely on the allegation OF
heated partissns in those States.
There is proper tribunal for the de-
termination of all these questions. Ihht
tribunal is the Congress of the United
States. composed Of the Senate and the
House of Representatives. The constr
tution vests the power with these CO.
ordinate bodies. 1t will be entirely compe:
tent for Congress to pass law regulating
the count of the electoral vote. 1t can
nass this law before the holidays. 1t can
proyide for the adjustment of all contro-
verted questions. 1t can secure peace
ful solution of the present problem
1, is important that the Radical con-
snirators be defeated. Their defeat, how
ever. depends just as much on patient
reliance for justice upon the righteous
moss of our cause, as it does upon resolute
adherence to our position. The two to-
ec,her will render US invincible. II we
NOT ,esolute, we will be defeated by
our own weakness; if we are not patient,
we will be defeated by cur own rssnness'
alarming and repelling the Conservative
and business interests of the country.
The injurious consequences OF TINS Sg'
i,atioH upon commercial and business III
terests ouoh ht to be avoided But the
conspirators will alone be to blame Ii
the Democracy restrict themselves to
fearless prosecution of all the peaceful
remedies known to them. 1t is ior the
Radicals to weigh we'll the consequences
of their desperation; it is for the Demoe-
rscy only to avoid the consequences OF
violence initiated by themselves. All
will end well.
r.o,zure of the steamer Monte
yuma.
HAVANA. November l6.-AddltonaI
particulars eff the seizure OF the steamer
Nontezuma have been received. only