The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-11-16
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. D. G.. Nov. II, IS

The most fertile pen could hardly con-
vey an adequate idea of the almost uni
versal generalization that has made the
nations capital very pandemoniom since
the reception of the first dispatch rela-
tive to the election, last Tuesday even
ing. Disorder rules the hour and lunacy
has become epidemic. Non conapos
nae7atis exactly expresses the present
condition of our people. 1t seems to
be the general impression now that the
official count in Florida Will be neces
sary to determine who the successful
candidate is. The demonstrations of
the Ku Klux of that state yesterday,
taken in connection with the departures
of well-known Democratic politicians of
New York southward-me thoroughly
versed in all the Infamous methods of
Tammany, has q very serious look and
the opinion is freely expressed that there
is desperate purpose to force Tilden
into the Executive chair Of the nation,
regardless of the expressed will of the
majority of that State, whose vote, it is
now generally conceded, will decide the
all absorbing question as to who will be
President after the fourth of next March.
Groups of angry Democrats, infiamed
by generous ibations of temporary cour-
age from neighboring samplerooms, were
distributed all over town yesterday, CIV
ing vent to their forbodings of the de-
feat which they feared every dispatch
over the wires would confirm, and con-
soling their audiences ofcongenial spirits
by the most sanguinary threats of resis-
lance to Mr.. Hayes Inauguration should
it be decided that he was elected by one
majority of the electoral vote. On the
other hand, I am happy to record, Re-
publicans very generally expressed them
selves favorable to a cheerful acquiesence
in the result, when fairly ascertained.
If it appears, after an unconstrained
count of the vote, that MIR. Tilden has
majority of the electoral votes, he will
find that he can make the journey to
this city safely without disguise, and no
insinuation of 'ssecession' from his po-
itical opponents will distract him upon
his assumption of the functions of Chief
Executive. But he may as well clearly
understand that the eyes of the loyal
millions of the country who rescued it
from the anarderous clutches of his
party only a few years ago, are rivited
upon him, taking instant note of the
,a@o cd NV IL Io1
acts. Should he go energetically at
ed from him by the seeming exigencies
of the campaign, he will find himself the
recipient of q generous, cordial support
from those citizens without whose sacri-
fees and guiding wisdom of few short
years ago, we should now have no coun-
try to govern. He must remember that
the party to which he owes his election,
when its chosen leaders were challenged
to indicate one single evidence of patriot
ism or devotion to country furnished by
its history for the past quarter of CEN
tury, and only fails to produce it, but
turned away abashed from its terribly
damaging record, deprecating any refer
ence to the reasonable purpose it at
tempted to compass, and the only re-
joinder possible with their best intellects
was made that the opposing political
party has been detected in corrupt prac-
tees. It was a pitiful plea to the indict-
ment, covering a period of twenty-five
years. He should not forget that the
spirit which governed his party during
all that time has been condemned as the
enemy of mankind, by the enlightened
sentiment of the world and ne will be
commended and supported just in pro
portion as he successfully resists all at
tempts to re-establish the asate-6ezluna
regime and place his administration in
harmony with the spirit Of liberty
and progress, by which Abraham Lin
coin and his advisers were guided in the
rebuilding of the new structure with
slavery, superstition, intolerance and
bigotry eliminated and cast into I'M
quenchable fire to be burnd up, root and
branch. The failure of the distinguish.
ed Tweed (rendered doubly fascinating
and nobby by its Spanish change to
''Twid'') if persisted in much longer will
occasion serious alarm for his safety and
that of his good ship, the Franklin
Everything has been made to give way
before the all important subject of the
Presidential election but so soon as we
shall have returned to our normal men
tai status, Tweed, the indians and the
serious aspect of the European situation
will claim the attention that their i'm
portance demands. The trial of three
colored people (two men and one young
woman) for the brutal murder of another
colored man, on the Fourth of last July,
resulted yesterday in their conviction OF
manslaughter in the case of all three OF
the prisoners. The men had been drink
ing, and when in front of house in a
disreputable locality in this city, thei1
words came to blows. The colored girl
came out OF the house With g knife which
she gave to one of the men, who in turn
gave it to third and he instantly plung
ed il into the neck of his victim, severing
the carotid artery and driving it down
ward into the lung. The wounded man
Withdrew the knife " tn his own hand.
took one step towards his assailant and
dropped dead on the pavement from the
frightful hemorhage draining him of the
life blood by the cut artery and from in.
terna1 hemorrhage from the wounded
lung. The men We're sentenced to SIX
years and the girl three years in the
Albany penetentiary. MAXWELL.
The election cannot be t5rO1O71 into
the House of Representatives. Let us
relieve Democrats from that delusion.