The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1877-01-17
ALETTEsg EEsDsg sIaG. 3OGE.
RPGccsiOnS i'm IEEc Senate Chamber
at the close of she Centennial
Near.

90 nuns Ai'--NT"l
As the wear is about expiring and am
detained in my room by bad weather.
and the streets of this city are impossible
have concluded TO write you few lines
rather OF a mcliative character. 1t is a
cause Of profound regret that the end of
the CcntcunIal year of our great republic
should lc surrounded not only with pres
eut pccuniary and political troubles, but
that the future should be SO gloomy. 1t
is nearly TWO months since the prcsiden-
tial election, AID nearly one months since
Congress has been in session, aad yet no
one can tell who has been elected to the
chic; magisiracy Of the country by the
sovereign people. While this statement
is made very often 10y everybody, yet is
not the fact notorious that Tilden was
truly and honestly elected? Is there any
doubt that fully
Two-THIRDs OF TIE PEOPLE
of this country are satisfied OF this fact?
/ Yet, while this is 50, a few men impelled
alone toy a spirit of party are able TO ke,p
The question in Gouht-and, therefore, i'll
hict great pccuuiary loss on the business
community. Where is the remedy to
come from, and who can administer
it? A. public man have tried 10 do
my duty II this emergency, aud ha' e
trained myself to look hopefully to the
source Of all power for the remedy; yet,
while INDUCING in this patriotic hope time
moves on, and the ilcs of March are not
/ far ahead. Great as The pecuniary sac
riticcs are which are forced on the pco-
pie of this country, yet, this could he
borne, however hard, il at the sane time
fatal wound was not inflicted on our
political system. Indeed both will 60
down together in one common and dishon-
orabie grave, and without the Christian :
hope OF resurrection, if the conspiracy
which has been Matched to force on this
country as its chef magistrate q man not
elected 10y the people, is permitted by their
apathy To be successful Men Of means
and the so-called capitalist ofthis country
need not tiatter themselves in the belle
that they will escape the catastrophe Ii
will be like mae!strom on the bleak coast
Of Norway-cverything will be engulied
1 =. hull 10 6, tl,a. tha al, q
the people can be defeated by the mean,
now being employed to accomplish thi:
end, the question naturally presents itself
WHERE Is THE END TO Be,
and in whose hands rill power be here
after? This ought not to be a difficult
question to answer. We have not alone
the unbroken voice Of history, but com
mon sense TO give this answer. II bat
men triumph, bad men will retain and re
main in power And another tact should
not be overlooked-that one party will bt
as great a sufferer a. the other
l have hoped since my arrival here
that these plain questions would natural
ly present themselves to the minds of til,
people of all parties and of all sections
and that long before this time they woul,
have given expression, in way not to b.
misunderstood, of their determination t,
maintain their constitutional rights.
have hoped that the press, that powerful
. engine named by Junius the palladium
of liberty" would long since have spoker
! in one voice, and that so loud as not t
be misunderstood, and with a ring s
r shrll as to reach the plotters in the dee
recess where they are now hiding them
selves. Hopeful as have been IN tn
good sense and devotion to constitutions
liberty of the great mass of the people {
this country, yet / must confess to som
disappointments. / have not heard tn
loud and general expression, either fror
the people or the press, which | had eS
q pectcd. 1t is much to be regretted that
Il large portion of the people, particular
the business portion, and more so in til
East than the West, look upon this que
ton in the light of Tilden sustained b
the right, but war or trouble on the OIL
side, and Hayes with the triumph ,
wrong and fraud, but peace on the othe
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