The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-07-12

persons were named as sie Tors by d re-
| turning board. z fiejyf would mot tiAder-
staHdrthat the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Deo-
pie might be one fbing. and the acsio1:t'.
the returning board anolher,oy that the
latter, even as evidence of the former, was
| worthless If It was fraudulent.
FRAUD UNDER THE FORMS or Law
koInau the discussiens Of tho aabjse the
men diRnaazsnd 20 favor the conspiracy
! professed q. most profound yeHerqtipn for
the forms Of law This was the key
| l'tiote struck a.s. Nov OriaaiIs BY Che visit
ng,eommittas, addit is. hehr6sin every
subseqHent iafganent! Of connsei snd
comnsissioner on that side. lit saemsdfS
cheat was perfectly safe from exposure.
| IL the sepulchfe was wliIted on the out
! sida, il madas no difference lha.s The. .yass
filled with Corruption, dead men IS bones
and all uncleauness." 3 No refuge OF lies
could b. swept away, no hiding place of
| falsehood cohld ever be uncovered, IL it
was built in the prescribed form. Oily
! give it the legal shape, aud the overflow
| ing scourge would be surned ,aside.l But
legal form, however valuable as o covering
for fraud, was, in their pigment, no pro-
| lection for truth or Justice; OK public
right. 4 Thesyill of Louisiana IVES pro-
nounced at the election with all tho col
emnities required by tho law OF The State
and Of the United States. The appoint
D,ept of che Tilden electors 1n the fth of
November was q perfectly legal piece of
work there YVES not u fi6 n 4; siia al record
Of it as it came from the hands Of the ap-
pointing power. But it was looked on
with perfect Contempt. Neither the yis-
iting. committee nor the Hayes counsel.
nor. the eight tacommissioners, bestowed
on it any of their love, Their affections
were otherwise engaged, they gave the
the beautiful regularity, tho exquiaite
| precision, with which the raturning
bonrd compounded its false certificate.
Another paradox of theeight is curious
enough to be noted. They declared ro-
| peatedly TINT they had no power to try. a
contested election case, and for that rea-
son; they would not look at the evidence
| which showed what persons were duly
appointed electors by the people. Now
mark The case was this: Each OF
those votes came elaccompaniad' by what
.vna aase-tea &c &c 1oof That t IL Il VIM r,.sI
By eleotOTs duly appointed. The conflict
was to- be determined By ithe verifying
power which Congress unqucsticnably
has, and which the commissioners ex-
pressly assumed waen they. swore that
they would decide who were duly ap-
pointed. To decide it ono way or the
other required precisely che same j;iFis-
diction, and called into exercise exactly
the same faculties. Yetlthey held that
II they decided according TO the truth in
favor Of the electors actually appointed
they would be trying a conf nsssted election;
but :f they decided il. favor; Of the pre-.
I fandarn hrxh had hid
| lent certificate, they would not be trying
o contested election; in other words,
.l.e.- ;::.:.: = s.s .si,s 5iIa pio 10
decide it falsely but wholly unequal. 60
the duty of deciding il truly; .,t a.. 49,,
THE FULL EXTENT OF THE OUTRAGE.
| After all, there 1w.sss but enc question
before the commission. III aa the Asser.
loan people q right to elect their own
Chief Magi' ,Fate3 They had the right,
Their ancestors struggled for it long,
/. fought i0T il 0Iten, ana won il iaIriy.-
4 Being embedded in their constitution, 1t
cannot be des..Tfooyzztaa n 5i11sep by a force
n strong enough to overthrow the organic
atructpre OF the government ITSELF Leg
islativo enactnsntss nr judicial decisions
arc powesless either To strengthen or iiii.'
eair il The leee.eesrza sc iisszserale les
!, the catches ofspecial pleading the ehap-i
| per4does Of practice do not help tts to
! decide q matter like this. Agrcat nation
/ must not be irnpaled upona pins point.
Precedents which might bind aIcouTtto tofi
quarter sessions detefmining the settle
" ment of panper cannot tieup She hands
of Che supreme legislature defending il
fundamental fight Of the whols people.
: When Grenyille LIN: i "a sited the au-e
thoritys Of divers cases TO show that
America might be taxed without repre-
8 sentasion, Pitt Answered: sI come not
here s &c. Is. Is, :. III %
book dohbled down in dogs ears 10 de-
, fend che Gauss. pfliberl 4 i ioes; ackpowl-
Il edge no yeneration, for any procedure,
law or ordinance that ii Tep;ugnant to
reason andtt first principles sc our con-
! stitution. II rejoice that Americas has re-
4 sisted" So spoke the defiant 4ftiend of
ouryace in ,the presence Of a h4st;ie Par
J Lament ten years before the J. eclafationi
u of Independence. Aud nov, after this
II long interval Of time, no behold oar great
!. est right--the lrightlon which all other
rights depand7- ccessfplly afsailsd in
our own Congress with the same small
weapons thai Grenville ns6d. IL brt,se
force had Ecfiahdd &c out, we 6jiisfghf siiavo
.. borne the csiamity wit fbrtitude; !; bht to
I see is tircumyented by knayefg and pct
4 nfoggea 20 death, is too much 10 be ems
I.!ss.! With :s.s SCI. .su7T OF ffstisiiSe
tfsthe maj Of chat commission
/. cnnld. but haye real izedl Il t
Il bility4to God and man, If theyc,Ald only.
81 have Understood that ir free country
II liberty and lazy are iiisepafable. ahev
) i ygouldi have been enrolled among our
{ greatest benefa factors, for they E6nld have
= added strength and grandeuf 10 cnrI in
ii stitations, But they could not como vi,