The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1876-11-08
Bloody Threats.

Now that the election of Mr.. Tildcp
is assured beyond any reasonable
doubt, the Republican managers, who
cannot bear to loosen their grip on the
Treasury, or to have exposed their
still concealed rascalitics and robbie
ries. begin to threaten resistance to
his Inauguration. They employ the
language and breathe the fanatical and
foolish spirit of the most violent class
OF the secesSionists OF 1861 in regard To
Mr.. Lincoln.
Blaine, in his speech at Buffalo, told
the people that if New York voted fol
Tildeu he would be certainly elected,
and then asked: Twill you allow him
to be inauyuratcd in that event?' \
prominent speaker, who had thor-
,oughly vassed his State, recently
went to Washington and admitted
that Tilden would carry it largely
But, said he. before he shall be inau.
gu.uted the streets of this capotal will
ran with blood"
The st. Louis Globe does not minct
Matters, in giving utterance to the
purpuse of those for whom it speaks,
when IL says:
NO man elected by the process re-
sorted "a by the Democrats of South
Curnlln;, utU cvcr Ge aNoWed to talk
His sc,t as President of tho Lhitet
states. This is our deliberate judg
mcIIt."
We advise these personsto keep COO
and not to let their angry passions
rise. 1t will be hard to resist the i'll
evilahie result which is nOw foreshad
owed Samuel j. Tilden will be cleo
ted President, and the four millions o
voters. North and South, East allC
West, to whose suffrages he will be i'll
debled for the office, will see to it thai
he is iuaup uratcd OIL the 9th OF March,
1877.
The oficcholders, the Rings, :he
jobbcrs, the thieves, the carpet-bag.
gers, and the rogues, who have had
full swing for more than fifteen years,
aud have run this Government like u
close corporation for their own profit,
leaving to the people the privilege OF
paying whatever taxes they imposed,
will die hard, Of course. But they had
better not try u rebellion to retain pos
session, or threaten 10 break things
because they are to be turned out.
Some of the usages Of Mexico cannot
safely be tried in The United States.
We are a l~aw-abiding people, and
our habits il to submit to the decision
of the ballot box, even when it is no
toriously stuffed, as has been the Re
publican practice for many years in
Philadelphia and all over the South
under carpet-bag rule. Nobody fears
that Blaine would lead any resistance
that he might incite. He ia NJ nor
dangerous now to the reformers than
he was to the rebels during the war,
when he hired q substitute who was f.
nally brought up in Jail, while Blaine
himself expended his patriotism in
the lobby, and jobbery illustrated his
sense of public duty.
When Calhoun threatened nullifica-
ton and violent opposition to the exc
cution of the laws, Gen. Jackson did
not hesitate to say he would hang him
as high as Hannah il an attempt was
made to put these menaces into eSecu-
ton. Blaine will take good care new
er 10 get his neck in the halter if he
can avoid it. But some of his delu-
ded followers may get into an ugly
scrape by this sort of vaporing, which
is intended to intinlidate the weak
and ignorant. If they are wise at all
they will accept the adm0nition to
keep cool. and be prepared to sec our
Uncle Samuel inaugurated like all his
predecessors in the Presidential Office.
-NeW York Sun.