The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-11-23
The Situation.

The Situation.
We are not disposed to be captious
or suspicious, but we must confess
we do not like the looks of the move
ments making by Grant'sadministra-
ton, under the advice and direction
of Zach. Chandler & Co., touching
the returns from the three Southern
States of South Carolina, Florida
and Louisiana. 1t looks as though
it was the predetermined purpose of
those Republican conspirators to de-
feat the popular will in the three
States named and by false count in
each, to declare the Hayes electors
chosen by the people, when it is al
most certain that Tilden has ma
jority in all of these States.
Look at Grants course and con-
duct in the premises, What does he
say and do? He says that he has
not had any doubt that the three
States in question have gone for
Hayes, and that Hayes is elected
President. But in order to satisfy
the American people of this fact he
has consented to send to Louisiana
Republicans ofhigh character, (such
as Kasson of Iowa, Hale of Maine,
Kelley of Pennsylvania, Logan of Ill
inois, and Garfield of Ohio,) to certi-
fy to n fact which he has already
predetermined in his own mind
Recollect, he don't send them to set,
tie a disputed fact, but to certify to a
fact of which he has no doubt, in or
der to satisfy the minds of the Amer
lean people it is as he is perfectly
convinced it is.
And when he gets his expected re-
ports from his commissioners, that
the States in question have given
Hayes their electoral votes, then he
is prepared to prevent rupture. of
the peace by acting with promptness
and decision, having on hand mill
tary force adequate to the purpose,
and employing it quickly, so as to
nip any medtiatcd outbreak in the
bud.
The general belief is that the dis
tinguished republican nabobs have
not been summoned to New Orleans
in order to witness the counting of
the votes of Louisiana, but for the
purpose of sounding them with a
view to ascertain whether they (and
the country in their opinion) will
sustain Chandler, Blaine, Grant& Co.,
in their conspiracy to defraud Til
den of his election, by either dcclar-
ing Hayes elected or by fOisting
Grant upon the country for another
four years, in the event of a disagree
ment of count between the Senate
and the House-undcr the plea of
inoxorablc necessity,
The last desperate scheme is the
product Of the fertile brain of Ben
Butler. He anticipates the result of
a disagreement in count between a
Republican Senate and Democratic
House, and then forcshadows the
holding over of Grant as the conse-
quencc, in order to prevent the Gov
eminent from going into dissolution,
as no other official is constitutionally
entitled to fill the office of President
in such contingency.
Let it be remembered that each of
the States referred to are under the
control and manipulation of Repub-
lican ofiicials-that it is impossible
for the Democrats of those States to
make fraudulent returns-but that
it is in the power of the Republican
returning officers to do so now, as
they have done in the past, and Gen.
Grant, if he wants to interfere in
State elections, has an opportunity
to compel Republican officials in the
three States named to make accurate
and honest returns.
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Radical organs are now full Of
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