The daily gazette., 1876-12-19
From the Phila. Times.
Shall There be Peace

The country does not fail to note that in
the unfortunate Presidential contest into
which it has been plunged there is an
earnest effort on one side to maintain the
supremacy of peace and law, and studied
and wanton provocation from mjday to day
on the other side to precipitate disorder
and violence. And, unwilling as all can
did men are to accept such conviction,
It is to-day the settled belief of the dis.
passionate of all parties that President
Grant, Secretaries Cameron and Chand.
ler, and others in near political and of.
ticial relations to them, have deliberately
premediated the precipitation of lawless-
ness in the South to plunge the country
into such a tiood-tide of sectional passion
as will excuse what cannot be justified
the palpably fraudulent return of the vote
of Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina
1t is a grave accusation to be made
against those solemnly charged with the
peace and safety of the Republic and
sworn to execute its laws; but we make
it because the facts, plain as the light of
MONDAY, forbid any other judgement.
Profoundly rs the country deplores the
revolutionary frauds which have the ap.
proval aud protection of the governme Mt
itself, the people having abiding faith in
the people-in the majesty of their laws
and in the imperial sovereignty of Their
Judgement. If there shall not be peace
war must be the creation of official con.
spirators against the safety and the laws
of the nation, precipitated against the
uuited protests and efforts of nineteen
twentieths of the whole people of the land
And if war shall come-what then /!
Who are to go to the front and offer their
lives to crown fraud as the jewel of the
Republicl' 1t is glibly spoken of us a
conflict between the North and the South:
as the history of the late rebellion about
to repeat itself. 1t is not so, for both sec
tons ask for peace, and both sections
want honesty and law. The blatant
champions of the Kellogg and Stearns
return boards, which have written their
intamy indelibly in the history of the
country and stamped it inetiaceably on
the brows Of Grant, Chandler and .Cam-
eron, speak of the great North rs over
borne by the South in the choice of n
President and they point to the millions
of strong men in the heart of the Repub-
lie as the soldiers whs are to rush 10 the
field to give victory to usurpation.
They are mad in their trust to the peo-
pie of the North, as they are mad in
their unspeaksble wrongs against the
very Integrity of free government, and
they should reckon more wisely before
they plunge themselves into a hopeless
strife, and one from which they would be
the first to escape when life for life shall
be demanded. Turn to the great heart
of the North and study its lesson to the
country and to the world. Take the
Ststes of Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois, stretching jfrom the Eastern sea
to the Father of Waters, and casting
nearly one-half the votes given at the
late election, and look at their admo.
milton to the speculative Yankee of ,the
East, to the wayward dreamer of Empire
on the Pacific, and TO the blotted and
broken South. Here is their vote-the
great heart-throb of the nation