, 1877-03-05

threatening obstruction and resistance, wer
dangerous; now they are simply making
themselves ridiculous. The adoption by tht
Democratic majority of tho House of Rep
resontatiyes of a resolution declaring, as til,
sense of that House, that SAMUEL. j. T1DE,
and THOMAS A. HENDE1cKs had received 10,
Electoral votes, and were duly elected Presi
dent and Vlce-President, was, rs A1r WHIT
said, revolutionary, reasonable, ane
damnable," but it was also absurd. All the
Democrats who voted for this resolution
but eighteen had previously voted for the
law creating the Electoral Commission, and
had bound themselves to accept as lawful and
final the award Of the Presidency according tc
| the decisions Of that Commission, unless SET
| aside by Congress. Under these decisions,
HAYES and WHEELER were adiudgod
to have received 1855 Electoral votes, and
the House of Representatives the day pre-
Vious had assisted in joint convention III de-
claring this result, Nothing could be more
inconscquential than the passage of party
resolution, which has no more value than a
Democratic Caucus resolution, to the effect
that TuDEs and HENDRICKS were elected after
HAYES and WHEELER had been duly and law
fully declared elected BY Congress. The
only result Of such action at this time is the
qualification of the party responsible for it
and the Democrats who voted for the resolu-
ton.
Nothing is moro puerile and despicable
than an exhibition Of impotent rage, and it
1e tn $nrs-
have been reduced. Of q kind with the
House resolution to which We hnye referred
was the appearance on the same day of the
New York Sun IN mourning, the
refusal Of Senator MCDONALD, Of Indiana,
to serve on the Senate Inauguration
Committee, the flying Of hags by New York
and Brooklyn Democrats at half-mast, and
other childish dem onstrations of spleen and
ugliness which have been made by the ire
concllab1es. It is very much like the con-
duct Of vicious boy who has lost prize
for which he has been contending. It is,
and unpatriotic, with the additional |
chagrin that it cannot be and will not !
be followed by any other result than an
empty and disgusting display of tenn
per. IT there was any indication that
the :Desperadoes intended to follow out
The consequences of their resolution; if
they proposed to act upon DoNS P1Arr's
advice and assassinate President HAYES; If
hey were going to assemble WA7TERsoxs
LOO, 600 lambs at Washington tomorrow if
hey intended to make an effort to inaugu-
ate TnDEN in spite Of their defeat, their
'ctlon would be more appalling, but at least
would be less ridiculous. A small c1ia1uo
# traitors has been transformed by party
malice and petty spite into great lot Of
ools
The thorough investigation OF the dis
'uted States has shown that the only State
7hlch the Democrats can with any show of
eason claim should be awarded to them is
louisiana. If it had been given to them.
hen dir. TLDEH would have been President ,
ut ne would have gained the Office bymeans | s
the most revolving system of intimida- ,
on, violence, and murder that ever ro- {
slved the sanction Of party. 1t has been g
Foved that IN forty of the counties of j
where there was no bulldozing the t
epnohcan gains were SO large that HAYES q
ould have carried the State by 10000 if t
e election had been equally fair and free in a
70 other seventeen counties which the bull {
'zess seized. In one Of these latter coun- a
IS (East Fe1iciana) not q single Republican t,
IS permitted to cast his vote, though y
artY z'2oO Republican voters had regis .
ted- But not only were Republicans pre- b
nted from voting, but the Democrats stuff C
tho oallot-bo1esso as to return l. 736 rotes, f.