National Republican., 1876-11-21
EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT.

Oh, Reform! what multitude of sins are
committed In thy name
The st. Louis Times frauticaliy howis,
swell have Tiiden or fight" Don't be bash
full; take them both, for the country desires
neither.
Notwithstanding the festive gambler is
child-Iike and timid in his ways, yet he sskcth
for much tick while he waiteth, because his
wherewi!hal comcth not quickly from the
pool. -s..a -.r.
We do not hear the voices of Randall, Cox
or sayler in the din of our political confusion.
They have other business just now. They are
laying pipe for the Speakership, via the solid
South. r.. ..-
"Here's to who is who, from that which is
what, and how is now to where is when with
Hayesy days for fishing" and then you peep
through the bottom OF your glass and wait the
official count for an answer. ...r.
The Democratic ward politicians of New
York have notified the tramps they domiciled
in the city for election purposes that their
services are no longer needed. The tramps
claim the right of domicile until the election
is decided.
The crisis now pending is grave one, and
they vino would stir up strife that may plunge
our land into war and hopeless ruin are food
only fit for the gibbet. Let Us appeal to the
God of a steady and constantly developing
Providence, and not to the god of battles, for
judgment is His strange work and mercy His
darling attribute. .-...
Prominent Republicans in New Orleans, who
are thoroughly informed as to the latest events
transpiring there, deny most emphatically the
truth of the Associated Press dispatch last
night, which gave Louisiana to Tilden by 5000
majority. They maintain and reassert their
knowledge that the result of the count will be
good round majority for Hayes.
A positive national good must necessarily
arise from the remarkable closeness of the
pending political fight. The disgraceful and
criminal system Of terrorism which has char
acterized the Democracy's desperate struggle
for supremacy in the South win be exposed to
the consideration of the intelligent and law
abiding people of the country, who viii give
their verdict in terms that will be understood
and felt by the guilty Southern mobocracy.
"Ihe solid South has gone for Tilden and
Hendricks," cries tie Evansville Qndiana)
Courier; sand, by the God of battles, they
| shall be inaugurated." The beauty of this
Republic is the supremacy of the law. The
law says the person receiving the majority of
electoral votes shall be President. The man
who receives that majority will be inaugurated,
and no one else. Business is business.
Mr.. Louis Jennings, writing to the New
York World from London, says that the news
of the election Of Mr.. Tilden was received
with satisfaction. Natural enough. The
English people sympathized with the South
during the rebellion, and many Of them hold
Confederate bonds to-day. These bonds were
placed on the market the day after the elec-
ton, when it was supposed that Tilden was
elected Satisfaction |" Natural enough,
we say. 90
One great danger may arise from the aboli-
tion Of the Electoral College. 1t is positively
understood that the Democracy to achieve
| national triumph necessarily depend upon
popular majority in the old slave States, and
TO secure that majority in a direct vote for
President system of dlsfranchissment by in
timidation would be prosecuted such as has
not yet disgraced our civilization and nullifed
the constitutional liberties of the colored race.
In direct vote for President the North and
West would cast popular majority for the
Republican party candidate OF at least three
hundred thousand. In order to overcome this
vote Il would pecess;tate widespread Violence