Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-04-11


to review tho act OF every officer, TO
open every ballot.box, and to pass
judgment upon every ballot east by
seven millions Of Americans"
II is for Senators and Judges TO
reconcile these opinions.
Sir, IN II court OF error or wherever
a judgment is up for review, an offer
OF proof of facts which has been re-
jected BY the court below, establishes
for the purpose Of reviewal all of those
facts as true and proved. This is a
well recognized doctrine of the law.
As this record is made up, gross and
palpable frauds upon the people OF
Louisiana, and through them upon the
whole Amsrieap people, a.e e. .pe.ir,Gyi!ed ..i l.g
rsasesak -aanSgsSe9(k kSssxrs<N
ialsehood, 10 nulliiy the truth, and 10
reverse the recorded will OF u majority
OF that people 1t is false lhnt the
people OF Louisiana have by q MAORI
ty OF their votes appointed tho Hayes
electors; and yet this decision pro-
chims il TO be true. 1t istruc that The
majority of the people of Louisiana
have by their votes appointed the Til
den electors and yet this decision null
lilies and crushes out this truth, aud
for the first time in the history of the
Republic tho recorded will of the ma.
jority OF the people is cxpungcd and
reversed by the votes of the Electoral
College.
The broad offer to prove false
hood and forgery in the destruction
of 10000 lawful votes, by every rule
of right and law, is assumed to be
proved true by its rejection, and we
are thus compelled to confront the MS
astounding legal declaration that the
equities which ought to accompany
the power and majesty of u clear ma.
jority of the people, the inherent vital
ity that belongs to every government
Tor its own preservation us well as
against fraud us force, and the morali-
ty that pertains of right to every just
system OF laws, are utterly and abso-
iutely wanting in ours
Sir, it the false and forged returns
made BY four men who, by tho testi
mony Of u committee of the House,
are proved, one of them 10 be too
weak TO be u knave; another unscrup-
ulous, without integrity, tricky, aud u
defau!ter in public office third, II
sharper who cheats at keno and dc.
frauds his State, and the other CON
iessedly guilt of and indicted for iorg
ing dead mems names upon the pay
roll of his city If such returns, ceni
fled by an executive whose only title
to bis office is the Federal bayonet, are
TO be the only and conclusive proof Of
title TO the Presidency OF the United
States, then indeed is u government oi
law supplanted by government OF
force and fraud.
Sir a majority of the people of the
United States whose rights are out
ragged and denied, II system Of jurispru.
dence that finds remedy Tor ever,
wrong, government that has repealed
force and has within il the Unborn
vigor to resist theleprous touch of cor
ruption, and code of morals that
shudders at and shrinks from the
poironOus contagion Of ialsehood and
forgery, are here to-day in silent but
majestic prolcstagainst this judgment
The laws OF the people whom rep.
resent upon this floor are based upou
common right, common honesty, and
common sense, and they have been
taught as have, that the end of lega
proceedings is the attainment OF justice
They will not respect u decision which
refuses to hear the truth, sustain false
hood, indorses forgery, and puts th'
Federal Government at the absolute
control of the base and the unscrupu
lous. They, sir, will agilute for its re
versal shall come. The result beior,
is fifty reached. 1t is the decree O
party, wrungby party iealty from wha
should have been judicial tribuna
meeting and deciding purely lega
question.