The daily gazette., 1877-03-06
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For the Delaware Gazette


Mr.. EDITORIALS l sat and thought
over matters, this long to be remembered
day, the 4th of March, 1877. A day on
which we get clear Of military despot,
who was brought to the surface by the
late civil war, and afterwards thrust into
the Presidency. And on this same memoir
able day a man who is in a minority of
near half million votes will be sworn in
as President, which is fraud on the
country. After an exciting Presidential
election last year, and vast frauds sprac-r
tised in Pennsylvania, California and
Oregon, old free states, and South Care
lima, Florida and Louisiana was tyraniz-
ed over by thsmilitary, and notwithstand-
ing the democrats came within one elec.
toral vote OF having majority indepen-
dent Of those six states. and had three or
four hundred thousand popular majority,
this result was ascertained within three
or four days after the November election.
From that time until the meeting Of Con-
gres, leading and learned men of both
parties went to South Carolina, Florida,
and Louisiana, and every honest man of
either, party returned with the insured
belief that the democrats had carried these
three States for Tilden. Congress met and
they sent fresh Congressional committees
to these three states, and republican
frauds were unearthed, such as never had
been heard of in this country. All demo-
Gratis and all non-partisan men and neu-
tral papers hooted at the idea of the Re-
|publicans being able to get Hayes into
the Presidency, whilst such Republican
unblushing villiany in those three state
stared them in the face. The country
became excited and instead of Congress
in that emergency appealingto the highest
the ballot box by new election and vote
of the people where every voter would
have had the right to have helped to settle
the Difficult ty. $50 A-.as..s .
No this boon wa, denied to the people,
the learned and grave statesmen, judges,
lawyers, senators and Representatives in
| Congress assumed to themselves the
right to settle the matter independent of
the masses, just as the learned men in
Europe, settle matters in empires and
Kingdoms, and our, or this American
presidential case has been pending now
near four months, and finally on this day
the 4th of March, let the democratic
party be cheated out of their presidential
candidate, which they had fairly and
honestly elected. The democrats had the
House of Representatives, and could have
elected Tilden and the Senate might
probably have elected Wheeler. But no, AN
extremely smart set of democrats intheir
own estimation assisted or acted with
republicans to get upa tribunal composed
of 5 republicans and democrats from
the Senate and House, and United
States judges, when every man with the
least intelligence ought to have known
that the republicans would have at least
3 out of the 5 judges, and then for demo-
Gratis to have no written stipulations to
go behind the already rascally returning
boards of South Carolina, Florida and
Louisiana. 1t was political suicide.
Speaker Ferry of the Senate could have
done no worse, and for men calling
themselves intelligent U. S. Senators, and
saying that Edmunds agreed verbally to
go behind Returning Boards, and demo-
Gratis taking his word and having an
agreement part written and part verbal.
An illiterate forester could not have done
worse. Have not democrats learned what
republican promises were before, that we
now should pay so dear for it, the loss of
a President? This hope will be lasting
lesson to the people Of this country, to
trust the great stake of a President Of
forty millions of people to one Judge and
be Jerseyman.
Will people never learn any sense; who
are Judges and Congress-; human beings
with the same loves and hates as other
a Nf fru
are not worth one curse If they depended
wholly on the same set of learned self
assumed great men who have had this
disputed Presidential question in charge
since the 10th of fNovember;and the masses
of the people should take this matter in
hand and demand of their servants in
Congress to pass law that the next
President should be elected by ballot of
the whole masses of the country, just as
the masses of State elect Governors.
We have had enough of Electors and Re-
turning Boards. The ballot hereafter
should be demanded by the people. That
would clear the Presidential question
from any danger of civil war, or the Office
from being filed by any imposter through
fraud. These gentlemen who suffered
themselves to be cheated and their party
to lose their candidate for President after
being elected, have gained a very unenvi-
able reputation to go down to posterity.
The country is great, and the people pa
triotic. and can stand it for four years,
then by ballot wipe out all Returning
Board. Electoral frauds and tribunal
farces. The rights of the masses, nomi-
nations by ballot and the will of the ma
jority; then at farthest 8 or days after an
election it will be known who is elected.
Not as at present, months agony and
pow-wow by senators, representatives,
judges, lawyers, doctors, returning board
farces, and finally by the decision of one
Jerseyman. There ought to be a day set
apart for humiliation and prayer, thank
ing God for not sending an earthquake
and finishing us physically as well as
mentally. The mountain labored, how
ever, and brought forth mouse.
SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
Townsend, March 4th, 1877.
A naturalist walks boldly to the