The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-11-23
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

| WASHINGTON, y. u, NOV. 10, 1876.
The fatuity of the leaders of the ma
tional, or out of the regard to their pre-
JUDGES should say confederate, Demo-
cracy, crops out through the covert
threats of resistance to Mr.. Hayes inau-
guration, in case he is declared elected
by the authorities legally qualified to
decide in the case of the three disputed
States and the evil counsel of their
most extreme partizans appears to be
received with undisguised favor in many
sections, where the lessons of the past
sixteen years have left but slight i'm
preston, if, indeed, they are not alto
gether forgotten. If the present COM
plications are amicably adjusted it will
not come about through the wise teach
ings of the Democratic party press
Many of their leading papers are filled
with hints and insinuations. of armed re-
that he is liable to the same fatal acct
dents that, in other times, has left the
throne of tyrants without an occupant
and others of the less pretentions organs
of Democratic sentiment are running
over with incendiary appeals to the most
lawless and reckless elements of their
party. 1t is, on the other hand, a mat
ter of pride and congratulation with Re
publicans that not one word has been
spoken by any member of their organi-
cation whose character or standing would
insure him an audience, advising any
thing but the most prompt acquiescence
in the result, whether favorable or other
wise. From the tone of Southern Dem
ocratic papers of the infamable char
acter alluded to, the approved method
favors throwing the oDus for starting the
ball upon the Democracy of those States
North and West which give Tilden their
electoral vote. They reason that the
South has elected their (the Northern
Democrats) candidate and will look to
the Northern wing of the party to inau-
| gurate him. I am glad to say that I
have no evidence that three marplots
represent a majority of the Democratic
Herald and other moderate Democratic
papers are doing much to nutralize the
| poisonous efforts OF such reasonable
and wicked teachings but anyone hav-
ing access to Democratic papers from
some of oD' large towns in the North
and to those coming from the late rebel
lious States can readily verify all have
said. On the evening of the election
and the succeeding Wednesday morning
while in the first flush of the supposed
triumph, the insolent and seditious lam
guage of representative Bourbons here,
left no room to doubt their purposes at
least. The reply of the visiting Repub-
hcans in New Orleans to the invitation
to meet their members of Mr.. Hewitt's
committee to arrange for fair count of
the vote 'sactually cast has probably
enlightened the dark understanding of
those gentlemen. They do not appear
to entertain hope of either of the States
in doubt, if their efforts to confine the
Bond of State Canvassers and members
of the Returning Board to the simple
duty of counting the votes as returned
to them, and declaring the result, should
miscarry.
Although the excitement of last week
has died away there is no abatement of
the interest begotten by the election.
| When it was first nnised ahn11t town that
two Republican electors were Ineligible
each individual Democratic heart in the
city was made temporarily light and glad !;
but they were as quickly depressed
through the ingenuity of some satanic
radical who appears to have invented a
story to the effect that six of the Tilden
electors, who were participants in the
rebellion, could not legally act as their
disabilities had never been removed.
No decision has as yet been reached by
the committee appointed to frame per
manent form of government for the
District; but majority, upon an infor-
NAL exchange OF views, appeared to favor
a government by Commissioners. One
| member of the committee advocated re-
| storing the right Of suffrage, and anoth-
er thought that the General Government
| should pay 40 per cent of the expenses
Of the District President Grant ap-
pears to be quite as popular to day as he
was IN 1860, after compelling the evacu-
alton of Richmond and capturing Lees
entire army-the death blow to the con-
federacy /; and no man in the whole
country is regarded by Democrats as
safer man to let alone. His prompt and
determined action when almost every
one about him seemed to have lost their
head, had inspired renewed confidence
IN him and feeling that so long, at
least, as he is at the head Of the Gov
eminent, treason will remain SO odious
and its chances of success SO hopeless
that new enterprises in that line, if con-
| templated, will be abandoned. But lit
! tie doubt is now entertained here that
Russia means war, unless Turky fur
n1shes ample assurance of protection to
her citizen subjects in the future. But
it is not believed that the Sultan can
furnish the required guarantees as Turk
ish public sentiment will not permit; it
is suspected that Russia is only too glad
of an opportunity to carve up his sick
neighbor. John Bull has given a snort
of defiance and appears concentrating
all his tremendous energies for death
grapple with a traditional foe. No one
here appears willing to hazard their rep
dieting anything with regard to the ex-
tent Or duration of the impending strug-
gle. The last days of our s'Indian Sum
mer' have been followed by several days
Of cold, drizzly weather which, we are
| assure is neither good for man nor beast.
| Nevertheless the races at Brightwood are
still in progress, drawing fair atten-
dance. The city is fast filing up with
people come to stay The winter. The
coming session of congress is by every
one expected to prove one Of the most
exciting and eventful of any in our his
tory. The old, old struggle, coeval with
| man, and which has coavulsed this na-
ton many times during the past quarter
of century is 70 he renewed upou tbo