The Portland daily press., 1877-01-02
THE PRESIDENCY.
What Gov. Vance of North Carolina has
toISay ON the Subject.

What Gov. Vance of North Carolina has
toISay ON the Subject.
RALEIGH, Jan. 1.-The Inauguration of Gov.
Vance passed off quietly. A large crowd was
the echo. Abiding to national affairs, he said:
conceive our situation to be critical in the
extreme. Our only reliance now is upon the
moderation and patriotism of Congress. If the
representatives OF the people and states shall
tional solution of the difficulty in which the
country now finds itself, and there should be
an attempt. as threatened, to inaugurate can
didates not fairly elected, one of two things
will happen-either the majority of the Ameri-
can people will quietly submit to great wrong
involving the destruction of the Constitution,
or there will be resort to violence. Let us
look things in the face. Tie circumstances of
North Carolina, as we'll as the Southern states
generally. imperatively demand that she should
not be forward in this matter. More than all
things else excepting good government, we
need peace. In common with the constitution
al party in the North, we think we have fairly
elected our candidate for President. Upon that
party and not upon ourselves devolves the pro-
prety and the duty of taking the neeeful steps
towards securing the rights of the majority.
But let it not be supposed that we are indif-
ferent to their action, or decline to come to the
front because less entitled to do so than 9TH
erS.
Blasted as we bave been by the desolation of
war, purged of rashnesS by the fires of reyou-
tior, and sobered both by public calamity and
by private sorrow as we have been, we yet cher
ish the love of liberty in our hearts, AS the
mouth-p of more than million people, 1
believe can with propriety say for them that
North Carolina may confidently be relied upon
to sustain that portion of the people of the
United States, which shall convince them that
it is struggling for the Constitution, the laws
and public justice, which are the life and the
soul of the American Union. On the one hand
we do not wish it to be understood we are ready
or willing to embark in a revolution; nor on the
other hand, that we are willing to quietly sub
NIT to any outrage that physical force, directed
by party zeal, may see fit to impossible one
course tending to provoke violence, and the 9TH
er to invite oppression. We do wish it under
stood we will follow the lead of thelconstitutou-
al men of the North. Show US the law and 1T
suficeth US.
He reserves an expression of his views on the
state policy for his message to the General As
semb1y.
Gen. Grants Opinion of the Result in the
Disputed States.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The President SAYS
that for ten days he has received no letters or
kilograms from the contested states. This fact
he considers as showing satisfactory condi-
ton of affairs. He is, however, fully advised
of matters in those states, by persons who have
just returned from them.
In regard to South Carolina he says the re-
turns of the Republican electors seem to be
conceded on all hands, With regard to Edge
field county, the facts elected justified the re-
turning board in throwing it out, particularly as
the face of the returns showed twice as many
votes as there was in the county.
The original face of the returns in Florida
shows majority of AZ for Hayes and Wheeler.
A mistake which gave Tilden IS majority was
promptly corrected. The throwing out of
county where there had been no legal meas.
ures taken for an election, left a majority of
100 for Hayes and Wheeler.
In Louisiana there never had been a fair
election since 1860 The action of the return
ing board is final and there is no appeal from
its decision.
Speaking generally, the President says that,
with the exception of Delaware, there was not
a fair election held in the South, in the sense
in which the people understand fairness in
New England. If there had been fair cleo
ton Maryland would have returned three Re
publican Congressman, and Mississippi. Ala
bama and Arkansas would have gone Repub-
lican. He thought the Democratic contestants
in South Carolina and Louisiana would hold
out until the Presidential question is disposed
Of. Ii the result is favorable to Tiden, they
will summarily dispose of their Republican
competitors; if favorable to Hayes they will
quietly settle down.
The President gave as his opinion that his
successor would not be appointed before the
4Ih of March. In his opinion the President of
the Senate has power to open and count the
electoral vote.