Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-12-28
THE DEFEATED DEMOCRACY.
extraordinary Democratic Procee dings Ia New
Hampshire - Ttlden and Hendricks shall bo
nstai'ed,-seasonabie Suggestions by Hon.


WASHINGTON, Dec. II, '76.
Hon. WIN. BUrrERFIgLD,
Sscy Democratic State Committee Concord, Ner
Hampshire.
MY DEAR SIR Yours of the 18th
inst. is just received, and in it you
say that at meeting of the State
Committee and others, representa-
tive men of the Democratic party,
held on the 18th inst. the enclosed
resolutions were unanimously adop-
ted, and that you were directed to
send copy of them to me. The fol-
lowing are the resolutions which |
find enclosed f:
"WHEREAs, Samuel j. Tilden and Thomas
! A. Hendricks have been duly elected Presi~
dent and Vice President of the United States
for the term of four years commencing on the
4th of March next; and WHEREAS the evidence
of such election is so plain and conclusive
that no intelligent person of any political
party doubts it; and WHEREAS, bad men have
conspired against their inauguration, and are
seeking to prevent it by fraud, usurpation and
violence, and are thereby threatening to over
throw the Republic and subvert the liberties
of the people: Nov; therefore
'REsoLyED, That all good citizens, without
distinction of party, should unite in the deter
mination that Messrs Tilden and Hendricks
shall be installed into the offices to which they
have been chosen.
"REsoLvED, That in the present crisis the
Democracy of New Hampshire have entire
| confidence that their national Representatives
and popular leaders win exhibit calm courage,
firm purpose and resolute action, and we now
pledge them our firm support in all efforts to
maintain the rights of the people, to yindicate
the supremacy of the ballot box, and to sus-
tain the vital principles of free government
against all attacks, whenever, wherever, hows
ever, or by whomsoeyer made"
| AS this is an authoritative utter
anco of a great political organization
comprising nearly One-half the people
of the State which | have the honor
in part to represent 10 the National
Legislature at the present time, upon
matter of the utmost gravity, which
these resolutions are likely and prob
ably were designed to increase and
DOT to diminish, feel under the ne
cessity of briefly stating few rea-
sons why this action of your COM
mittee is to me source of profound
regret. The assumption in the pre-
amble, which is the logical basis OF
the resolutions, that Samuel j. Til
den and Thomas A. Hendricks have
been duly elected President and Vice
President of the United States for
the term Of four years next ensuing
and that the evidence is 60 plain and
conclusive that no intelligent person
of any party doubts it; and that
"whereas, bad men have conspired
: against their Inauguration, and are
"seeking TO prevent it by fraud, usur
"pation and violence, and they are
Thereby threatening to overthrow
"the Republic and suovert the ll3er,
"ties of the people," is 80 entirely
untrue, and known to be so by the
American people, that | am not able
60 think that the very intelligent
gentlemen composing your commit
tee believe 1t themselves, and L an
iriven to the conclusion that thu
| false abatement is sent abroad at this
time for the pnrpose of preparing
the public mind for more active
measures, the design of which is,
IN no other way, to subvert the gov
, eminent by force, and establish I
successful usurpation upon the rnin
Of our free institutions. Indication
are not wanting that similar design
exist elsewhere. 1t can hardly b.
claimed that consideration for thu
morbid sincerity of minds diseased
! oy many years of active sympathy
with Instruction, turbulence, anC
!, | armed hostility to the government o
!. heir country, requires that | shoult
brow the mantle IF charity over tn
false assumptions which it is attemp
ed thus to palm off upon ignoran
| brGte foroe-a most dangerous ele
: | nent 10 this country, which it is thu
sought to arouse to readiness for any
emergency which may be created by
such ili.sdvised action as that o
your committee; for notwithatand
!. ing the facts which | state below, al
of which are we'll known to every on,
who voted for these resolutions, o.
at least ought to be, they charge tina
no intelligent man doubts even thu
due election of rilden and Hendricks
!, and that they who are seeking tt
prevent their inauguration are en-
ieavoring to accomplish that objec
"by fraud, usurpation and violence
sand thereby threatening to over
throw the Republic and subvert tht
: CELEBRITIES of the people. "
: Gentlemen who can make an as
, sertion of this kind ought not to ex
! pect credence of any statement what
, aver which they may see fit to make
! relating to political affairs and least
IF all, that in issuing a revolutionary
> manifesto of the sort they have here
! promulgated, any moderate and sen
sible person who knows how 10 read
and who does read, or who has the
slightest kno Wedge OF fairs, should
| give them credit for political veraci
, ~. No such person could "doubt
|, that they are either ready to destroy
their country for the sake of political
, power, or that, adopting their resolu-
tons in the security Of some social
retreat, they have worded them q
little moro strongly than they really
! meant to. 1t certainly seems to me
, shat ordinary respect for the opin-
. ions and feelings of people quite as
numerous, possibly as Intelligent,
and, in the light of the history of the
last twenty years, perhaps as patri-
otto and upright as themselves.
should have led them to couch their
Declaration before they gave their
hands and their hear,s' to it, in differ
ent language, even if they believed
their own assertions.
Driven as | am to elect between
respect for the intelligence orthe ve-
raclty of the authors of these resolu-
tions, or no doubt both, or to excuse
an indiaorafian oen only say n at