The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-12-07
WHAT TIE RADICALS WILL AC-
COMPLISH AND HOW.


A correspondent would know 'exactly"
what the Radicals propose to do and how
they expect to accomplish it. Their scheme
is very simple. When the two houses of
Congress meet to count the votes of the
States, the President of the Senate will
open the sealed packages. lie will count,
of course, 1876 votes for Hayes and 1874 for
Tilden. II any member of the House OBJ
jects in the case Of Louisiana, Florida or
South Carolina, the President OF the Sen
ate will decline to entertain this or any mo-
tion. The sergeant. will be required
TO maintain order, and, failing, the army
will be invoked. The majority of tho
House refusing to act, the minority of that
body and tho Senate will count Hayes in,
and on tho fourth OF March he will be In
nugurated. II he decline to accept the
Office, Grant will retain it, and even now
the Governor OF Pennsylvania and chief
magistrates of other Republican States are
organizing their militia forces to prevent
any action in New York, New Jersey, Con-
nectIcut and Indiana. These four Northern
Democratic States will be shackled by their
neighbors while Grant and the regular
army will take charge of Washington and
the politicians. The masses of Northern
people will submit, hoping that the very
outrages perpetrated even now everywhere
by the party in power will make 1t infa-
nous. Then we are told the final extirpa-
ton of the Republican organization will be
effected. Grant has provided against every
contingency, and there is no possible mode
OF peaceful and successful resistance.
Hayes will be made President lawlessly, of
course, and by force, if he must; but he
will be made President. Whether he will
accept the position, when he must know
that he is fairly beaten before the
people, is disputed question. 1t
is to be hoped that Hayes will
accept, at least if there be danger of
the seizure of Office by Grant. The masses
OF the people are 30 averse to war that there
will be no fighting. Grant eau crown
Hayes or even himself with perfect i'm
pun:ty. The people think four years
brief period; but within it the disposition
TO tolerate past outrages will DO strength
~eGcu by peace and prosperity at home and
by brilliant triumphs in u foreign war.
The republic will be forgotten in the
splendors and power Of the empire. Such
are the fixed plans of the leaders of the
Radical party, and the chances are that
these will be consummated. A moderate
Republican newspaper, the New York Tri
6une, referring to this aspect of facts as we
present them, says of Grant that
He holds the sword and the purse-in a
word, the whole machinery of the govern
ment is in his hands. President Tilden COM
mAnds nobody, unless L be the Tammany
politicians. He can neither collect nor dis
burse the revenue nor dispose of troops or
ships-of-w1r. He is merely private citizen
residing in q fine house in New York, issu-
ing manifestocs, perhaps, aud imagining
himself the Chief Magistrate just as the
Count dc Chambord thinks himself Henry
V. of France. Congress is warned that to
assemble at his call would be a revolution
airy act, rendering the members liable to
arrest for violation of the Constitution and
laws. As nobody is disposed to take up
arms to enforce Dir, Tilden's pretensions,
after while he sees the ridIculnusness OF
his position aud ceases TO add president
10 his signature. So the whole threatened
connagration ends In smoke.
This Republican scheme oftriumph looks
we'll on paper, especially to a placeholder;
but there is another side to the picture. Its
splendors at least are dssipated by the sim
n. hat . h., in
which Democracy is dominant, holds the
purse. Without 1t Hayes and the Senate
must cut sorry figure before the world.
The sword and epaulettes would rust but for
the gliding drawn through the House from
the treasury. Moreover President Hayes
would learn. II he sought TO use the bayo.
net to oyerawe the House or New York or
New Jersey, that soldiers in a case of this
sort sometimes think and that more than
half the army is Democratic. 1t might also
occur to some people to remember that
while the South accepts Hayes as a less evil
than another war, that if tho greater
calamity must bcfal, there will be no war
between whites and blacks and that TIldep
could evoke a million more even than
Hayes from fields of inius,ry to
those that must be blood-s,ained.
A majority Of the lower house OF Congress
will assemble when convoked by Me- Til
den, as It will be II be be sworn in before
1t. We are told that ''for this body to as
scmble at his president Tilden'sl cali
would be revolutionary act, rendering
the msIa5ers liable 20 arrest for violation oil
the Constitution aud laws" This threat
from the Presidents organ hardly frightens
Sam Tildsn. lie was not reared, it is true,
at West Point, and never sent men T.
slaughter or usurped authority with which
the law did not iRvest him Bat his fixed
mesa aud tenacisy OF purpose aud indomi,
table coursge are not less admirable than
those qualities Of Grant, and beyond this,
in intellectual greatness, he is intiaitely the
Presidents superior. II would be unwise,
therefore, TO deem the proposed action oi
the House aud OF Mr. Tliden ''nevolution
ary." Tilden, in fact, might declare
Grants outrsges In South Carolina and
Louisiana ana in Washington revolution
ary.n They do have this aspect TO dis
passionate observers. Aud il Grant ami
his CO -conspirasors intend to make no pro
vision for the meeting OF the new Con-
gress, after the fourth OF March, when It is
designed that the senate alone shall be in
session, that the revolution may be per
fecied, and Hafes. as Grants .ssab, gath
q in al the rsins OF EcwsE-lf Grant would