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POLITICAL.

against his opponents. lie shows that the
action of the returning board OF which they
make the most complaint-that OF throwing
out statements Of votes cast-wa' resOrted
to by the McEnery returning board, con
stituted solely by and Of Democrats
The Washington correspondent OF the
New York Evening Post, declares IN what
he says is .'semi-ofical authority" that
if no agreement is reached by the second
| Wednesday in February, Mr. Ferry will
proceed to open and coun: the votes OF all
the States excepting tsOse IRON oregon
Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida ,
that the question Of counting the SOte7 from
those States will be submitted to the two
| Houses IL they agree Us to what certiil-
Gates from one or all OF the States shall DC
counted or rejected. Mr.. Ferry will abide by
such decision. and iaet in accordance there
with. If by the 81 Of March concurrent
action of the Senate and House is not had
in regard to the four States, Mr.. Ferry will
then proceed to count the votes OF sad
States, and to declare the result in accord
ance with the Constitution, as he interprets 1t.
The Democratic Committee III Louisiana
cannot altogether conceal the truth. The
other day one OF its witnesses produced the
following extract from a Democratic news
paper printed in Morehouse parish
The Radicals are making desperate Efforts
to organize in the parish. Democrats, now
is the time to make your desperate struggle
TO to every meeting they may attempt to
hold break them up. Hunt every night
meeting. Do not let them have sing one
secretly, and you will soon strange the lie
out of Radicalism in Morehouse.
This was the counsel OF the Morehouse
Clarion, the chief newspaper of that section
of Louisiana, to the Democrats, gwen
short time beioIe the election. how iaith-
fully it was followed appears i'll the result
Morehouse was one of the FIVE principal bull
dozed parishes. The Republican majority
of 500 in 1872, was turned into Demo-
cratic Majority Of more than 1000 in 1876.
And yet we are still told that Louisiana mad
free and fair election
Senator Ferry has been renominated by
the Republican caucus OF the Michigan
Legislature by reclamation.
The Democratic committee OF Missouri
adopted a resolution at a recent meeting. de-
Ginning to call convention on the Sth OF
January, as q Tilden demonstration. They
further declare the willingness and purpose
of the Democrats of that State to support
what lust plan may be autbortatively adopt
ed for the solution of the Presidential dlth-
culties.
"Giye US a fair count on the face of the
returns" was the motto OF eight men IN
Cincinnati, who succeeded IN voting the
Democratic ticket from 81 to 81 times. BY
this unparalleled industry in exercising
freeman's right they secured the election OF
the Bounding" Banning to Congress, and
entitled that great Columbian orator to thrill
the country with beautiful defence OF the
purity of the ballot-box.
An equally divided court on an appealed
case aiirms the Judgment below. 80 when
Mr.. Ferry, as President pro tempore OF the
Senate, declares on the 14th Of February
that Rutherford B. Hayes has received ma
iority of the electoral votes and IS elected
President of the United States, the House
NAV undertake to assert that some votes have
not been lawfully cast, and the Senate may
declare that they have been lawfully cast.
Congress will thus be divided, and the de-
cision of Mr.. Ferry will stand.
Wade Hampton recently sent letter to
President-elect Hayes, declaring that his
(Hampton's) election as Governor Of South
Carolina meant peace, and that he would
countenance no violence. Hampton sent n
copy of the same letter to Mr.. Tilden, not by
messenger but by mail. Why he thus
treated Gov. Hayes as the coming man is
question which troubles Mr.. Tilden's
partisans, and they are decidedly out of
humor with Hampton. His emphatic
declaration that no violence will be counte-
nanced also disgusts them, for IT disturbs
their plan OF bull-dozing public opinion.
1t is a pretty good guage of the value Of
the Springfield Republicans professions OF
desire for reform that it fatty and bold
" iustifes Cronin for accepting the bride of
$4,000 with which the Tilden managers
hired him to become their tool, in the Oregon
trick. Cronin admits in his testimony
First, that be originally declined to act as
Elector by appointment of the Governor
second, that he was approached by one
Patrick, who asserted that he was Mr.. Til
den's agent, and who offered him in Mr.. Til
den's name 'any Office he wanted" If he
would agrea to play the part which no other
Democrat could third, that after exam
inin the laws and refusing the bride of d
fat office, ne changed his mind, consented to
accept the appointment, and received $1,000
to defray his expenses fourth, that alter
good deal Of travelling about to visit
friends, he has spent but $500 of the 50 900,
but proposes to keep the balance.
Washington dispatches say that there
has been decided cnange of sentiment
among the Democrats during the past few
DAYS, and their talk now tends to securing
new Presidential election, they having ap-
parcntly little hope of being able to deprive
Hayes of his ma jority of Electoral votes.
The prospect Of peaceful settlement OF
difficulties has frightened. Senator Morton
says that everything looks encouraging.
George William Curtis, in the last num-
Der Of Harper's Weekly, says he does not
doubt that there has been intimidation and
lawless violence in Louisiana, but .'all this
does not satisfy him, and thousands and
thousands of Republicans everywhere, that
therefore four Republicans, whose action
has been already censured, were justified IN
refusing in secret session Just enough votes
to reverse the face Of the returns and give
the election to their own party and ours.
ave are not now saying, says Mr.. Curtis
finally, "that their action is not in conform
ity with the law of Louisiana. nor that Con-
gress can 90 behind the lawful certificate Of
the State but we are asking whether they
suppose the party can survive the inaugura-
ton Of President upon whose title should
rest grave moral doubt"
The Chicago Tribune suggests that the
most satisfactory way to settle the Presiden-
tlal election is to have new election in
Louisiana, and it calls attention to the
United States law under which it can be
done, which reads as follows: Whenever
apy State has held an election Tor the pur-
pose of choosing electors, and has failed to
make choice on the day prescribed by law,
the electors may be appointed on subse-
quent day in such a manner as the Legisla-
Iure of such State may direct. :"
Gov. Growers testimony before the Sen
ate Committee on Privileges and Elections,
reluctantly given. shows that his views and
acts were inspired from New York.
Mr.. Lamar gracefully wheels into the
Tilden line, and declares his belief that the
duty of the President Of the Senate extends
only to the safe keeping of the votes and to
breaking the seals in the presence OF the
two Houses Of Congress.
John c. Calhoun advocated having two
Presidents, one for the North and one for
the South, to act together On foreign affairs.
This theory OF a double-headcd Govern
ment is now in operation in South Carolina
and Louisiana, and some Of the TIldenites
think that it may be well to haze two Prcsi-
dents.
The examination OF the Witnesses before the
Senate Committee establishes beyond doubt