The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-24

Monarchy.
The House having under consideration
the decision of the electoral comnis-
ion
Mr.. Wilson OF West Virgins said:
Mr.. Spesker-Will the American
people accept that ini9uitous decision
rendered by the electoral commission,
founded, as 1t Is claimed TO be, upon the
technical ground of want of power to
inquire INTO the existence OF frauds con-
coded by the record, which are the most
infamous, glazing, and offensive
ever perpetrsted upon tree people?
The returning board of LOUISIANA Is
under the law of that State close cor.
poration, authorized TO perpetuste itself
IN power by filing any vacancies that
may occur among its members. The
four members of that board who oticia,ed
IL counting the vote a. the late presiden
lisl election are men who have been
shown in repeated Investigations 10 be of
tie most deprsved, desplcsble, and
abandoned characters and have received
the merited condemnation OF both
u
country. Their proceed Ings IN canvass
ing the returns 81 The late election are
shown by incontrovertIble evidence to
have been conducted without any re-
gard TO truth or justice or law; and the
result which they reached, sustained IS
i. has been by partisan msJorIty Of the
electoral commission, will select the
President of the United States; it i con-
coded by every fair man TO be = willlnl
Justification of the sctusi vote OF
the State and wicked and deliberate
lie
The counsel before the commission
representing the democratic party, IN 3
formal offer OF evidence, proposed 10
prove this and more that this. They
proposed 20 prove that certsin Of the
papers upon which the board protested to
scI were torgeries, conceived and de-
signed BY the bosrd itself, and perpe-
trsted By men they had employed for
that purpose. They also proposed 70
prove that the sffidsvILs upon which
the board professed to act were deliber-
ste perfumes. committed BY men engaged
by thai board and their CO consprstors
70 commi. them. They also proposed TO
prove the board trsusCended even the
broad limit Of the LOUISIANA statute by
which il was created, and acted without
ary jurisdiction whatever. They also
proposed TO prove that the members OF
this board went into the open political
market, aud offered TO mske up the re-
forms in the interest uf either party that
would pay or them.
All this evidence the commission re.
fused 10 hear, alleging that 1t WAS with
out power TO examine INTO sny OF the
questions TO which il related, admitting
;nat although true, II would not affect
their conclusions, and thus proclslmIEg
70 the world that the great Republic of
the CnlteC States was compelled 10 hug
the fraud Of these villains 10 its boz on,
and accept IS It's chief magistrate man
whose claim 70 the presidential position
wss founded upon this fostering iniquIiy.
Such q conclusion will be disgrace Ia
the country. the Consciousness oil when
IN the hearts of the people Will make the
administration connected with il hat etul
to every honest man, and present Us to the
civilized world as disgraced and dis
honered Gov ernment.
Our country can stand against the
world in arms, and neither foreign at
tack nor rec kless internecine strife can
give US any just cause OF alarm Tor the
permsnency Of our institutions; but
when the vile outcssts Of society IN an
unfortunate State of the Union sre up
hold in their possession OF political pow
az and their frauds in presidential
election are accepted by the Federal
Government as justly controlling the
aIsc,ion. We have abandoned sll adhesion
10 those gres. moral principles the OBJ
serysucs Of which can alone preserve the
form or substance of American freedom
The decision of this commission Is
libel apon the Government
and a deliberate falsidcation Of Its laws
and Of its powers; and the high and DIS
t;ngpisbed men Who made il will ind II
has mower enough TO drag them and their
ch.r.c,srs down TO the level of the mis-
.-sbla xretcbes whose action they APP
nroye and commend. In the better days
q; The Republic Judge Story .sid, in
solemn opinion in the Supreme Court OF
the U United States:
P.aud will .vitiate any, even the most
solemn, transac,ien; and IN asserted title
TO property founded upon 1t Is utterly
void"
Blu, thai Vas in . day when returning
boards we're unknown, when military
dsposisms h.d not suspended legitimate
state suthority. and political passioni