The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-11-07
acknowledgement:
Tho Great Canvass Closed.

n. ranyRys tuAL 10 w" S'SoS
-, ,o.. to tho American people to-day
-. ,b.u verdict has been one oil 'ne
-,., memorable in our nationaI history
r,i,vs.,y without reference to the pos
.silay .Aa. consequence. still more
.snorable ,hsn the canvass l''e'' may
,,.sailv follow. These possible eon'''
,,.,,.. Ar. Of character 10 seriously
and seriously impre., all intelligent
people. In ,ons rs.p'e'' they 0niH0u',
/, recall the close OF the great canvass OIL
,;so when Abraham Lincoln was elected
p,.,iltn. o! the United States. AA that
,ov,.. closed. the scountry could plainly
y. ii, solid South" menseing the
.,,,,spes Of the Union. The same men
,.,l in the sane menHcing attitude to-
!y They are league with their allies
u. No,ib, jas. as they we're then.
r.r ,hreaIened not TO respect the YER
Ne. d the mljoriy then, and they make
,nc,ly the .ame threat nov. They tell
j, .o.diy that il certain States dare to
,s. for HAYES their votes shalt not be
eus,.i. No, because the people thereof
A.. 10. honestly for Hayes, but because
,..g,ysrnment,hA inlerposed to protect
n, lives Of the people, aud allow
,y,i, man to vote his tue sentiments.
Those who utter the4e threats have
:, pre.eEt to advance save that the
.ysrnmeu. hu no right to send troops
.ogp their soil under the circum'
stances. The cry about the invasion
II their soil il the same cry that
'. heard in 1861. Mr.. Lincoln had
40 right to send troops into the Southern
safes then, and General Gsant has no
iiVht now. Southern Democrats set up
their sovereignty then as they 10 now, "a
their shield behind which to nulliiy the
uill Of the country. Mr.. Faulkner, OF
,hi. State, d rebel in 1881. and i rebel in
aeltt to-day, proclRims that he does
as. intend as 4 member Of Congress that
,.s vote oi South Carolina shall be count.
81 except in ease she votes for Tilden.
.al set this man knows IA we'll as he
saJE, hi1 name that South Caro-.
il /. Republican State. Fe
SnoN that il she votes for Til
Ken the result would be nero
'ifl. .oiely due to brute iOrce sah ter
o,,a He knows that not man, Dem.
,srsI " Republican, will be coerced or
,a:ltneti in the slightest degree by
ual,ti st''e troops. He knows that
i.sl; ?, are not political emisSariea-
lall rei;heE officers or men talk politics
al' .c. polisic,-;hat they are passive
Fee;Ger Of tho peace between parties,
sUsr interfering except 10 case Of out
,nlt and then only To preserve life and
PVP.ay and to rse4tAblish peace aud
u: supremacy Of local law as soon as
siitls. Mr.. Faulkner has been long in
ps6lis lie and he knows these facts like
.''''n oiIhe alphabet.
But with him, as with the Demo.
;i'ic party in general. negroes have no
'.sah which they respect, Negro
'asfigc WA established by an amend.
asni to the Constitution Of the United
s;i'r, which they, in National Conyen.
i.5a s"emblei, declared null and void"
Easrs isuo part Of the Constitution OF the
Iai'el States which they are not willing
u override in order, Il possible, to pre-.
'snt that vote from counting for the
Republican party. They are willing to
threaten revolution, ~ in 1861, in order
70 carry their point. =
The Republican party appeals solely
. The peaceabIe expression OF the people
1.-The United States. ItempIoys no ter.
'''!'a 10 coerco public sentiment. It
AislIens no revolution il beaten. 1t is
'Pa'iy 0i Law and order. But it does
"i, aud the Democracy may we'll heed
lie llc', that whichever way South Caro-
1al votes today her vote shall be count
+" No "Solid South" in the halls Of
''HgFs" shall, by brute force and ter.
''"'u, override, as itsought to do in 1861,
'a's expressed will Of the country. Mr..
'AaIknss will lind that he has aroused
a'oIl lion in his lair when he undertakes
"p0'hl' ClarkIburg threat into eIecu.
Ten.
But What spectacle it is, in this elev.
'''a year only since the close OF the war
"'' S' must go TO the ballo. box to-day
~'''oD'ins this same menacing "sOlid
S''Ar and isS Northern allies, and with
''' minds again filed with doubt and
'P''h'n'ion rs to whether there ia not
gan TO be an appeal from the ballot to
aO blyOnet Wh,, -.
''' government it is to play a, where
'"p'''y goes to the poll,in good faith.