The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-03-14
From West Tennessee.


Atyour onlyt fiattering solicitation
l again resume my pen to jot down a
few lines for your "bully" little paper.
Away over here in this remote end of the
long parallelogram called Tennessee. -"
we give most cordial greeting to the
weekly visits. of the gazette. am al
ways sure to find one or more articles
in it worth of themselves years sub
scription. There were two racy and
lively letters in your last (of the 2Sth
Feb.,) from "Meeker'' and "Sam Slick
which greatly enjoyed.
write this on Sunday night, the 4th
of March. At noon to-day was the ter
mination of the miserable, corrupt and
imbecile administration of the great ma
tional humbug and hummer, U. S. Grant.
AT this moment we know not what has
transpired at Washington; we arc ten
miles from telegraph office. The re-
port is that the count by the dEigh old
Tribunal of SO to ~ has not been com
pleted, but that the Democrats in Con
gress, Disguised and indignant at the
treachery and triekery of the tribunal,
have determined to prolong the count
until beyond the 4th, and do what they
should have resolved upon long ago
take the matter into their own hands
and elect Tilden. Heaven grant it may
be so!
was to-day shown a private letter
from distinguished Methodist minister
"a gentleman who never has been a
partisan, who thus speaks of the late
proceedings of the electoral commits
sion. He writes from Bowling Green,
Kentucky:
awe are all (the decent folks) pro
foundry disguised with the turn
things have taken at Washington.
The counting of Florida and Louisiana
for Hayes without investigating the evil
dence, involves the most barefaced per
jury, treachery and infamy that ever
disgraced nation. The eight who per
petrated the fraud, will smell in the nos
trils Of the moral world, worse than the
dead frogs of Egypt. The Democratic
party have been both sold and BETRAYED
by the majority of the electoral tribunal.
The Democrat who trusts Radical af
ter this, whether he be dog-petter,
street-sweeper, senator, or supreme
judge, deserves lunatic's cell. The
Presidential count is not yet completed,
but enough has been done to divine the
final result Hayes and Wheeler, beaten
by more than half million of the DoDu-
lar vote, aud clear majority against
them in the Electoral college, will
doubtless be declared elected. Shamel
shamel that such robbery and perjury
should be sanctioned by the highest court
in the world. If the people do not in
future elections, brand this infamy as it
deserves, | shall lose all hope for the
preservation of our free institutions.
Enough-the thing is too nauseating.n
Yes, it is enough to make a preacher
curse. In fact the hardest kind of ours
ing can't begin to do Justice to the sub
Ject. l believe that possess a rather
full stock of explosives, but must con-
fess that language fails me to express
the profound and burning Indignation
feel chung be the Heavens in black
turn day into night" He'll has broken
loose upon the American people, and
the Devil and his agents rule supreme.
IiH fact is about to be realized indeed
that the day Mcdowell, with an army,
marched to Manassa was the last day of
the once great American republic. A
liItle panucn powder in broken doses,
from the mnzzles of field pieces is need
ed just ROW to purify the political at
m"Sphere. More penitentiary room is
needed for the hordes of perjured scoun-
drels in high places, and few actively
working guillotines for the amputation
of the heads of the high and puissant
traitors and conspiratOrs against Ameri-
can freedom, 'The cankers of calm
world and a long peace, such are those
old government leeches, Cameron,
Chandler, Morton and rest. Well do |
know and feel how repugnant it is at
this late day TO speak of war. But there
is to-day tenfold greater cause for war
than when the Revolution, or the late
REBELLION occurred.
/ received business letter yesterday
from distinguished jurist, now on the
Supreme Court bench of Tenn. in which.
referring to recent events at Washington:
We can never again count on
Solid South to stand by the craven,
traders Of New York
never. Wealth never yet made a strug-
gle for constitutional liberty when its
lccumulatlons had been vested in gov
eminent securities" In conclusion.
have only to say that if the United
States House of Representatives suffers
his tricky and partisan tribunal to force
Hayes into the presidential chair, con-
Fibutional liberty in this country will
De past praying for. NJ. B.
Something for the Farmers.
moRRTsTowN, Tenn, March 8, II.
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