The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-01-26

to accept share Of the responsibility
and to accord 70 the plan proposed his
earnest and cordial support.
II the plan were rejected, none would
be agree d on, and when the two housel
came together TO count the vote there
would be disagreement. In that event
the House Of Representatives would have
TO elect a President, and then there would
have to be IN ignominious t.
SURRENDER Oh A FIGHT.
He asked whether the gentlemen on
the other side were prepared for the
latter alternatiyeH An indiStinct muir.
muir Of "Yes."l We're they or the peo.
pie whom they represented ready for a
conflict Of arms2 We're they prepared
for the cry Of "Havoc and let slip the
dogs Of warp II tthey were not, then he
appealed to them by all the memories OF
the past and all the hopes Of the future
to pause before they entered on a strug.
gle the end Of which none could ioresee.
Mr.. Hoar advocated the bill. He said
the dangerous period which statesmen
had ioreseen in America had arrived. In
estimating danger he was not affected by
any fear Of civil war. Any menace Of
violence, II made in spirit Of empty
bluster deserved nothing but contempt; Il
serious, they deserved the scorn and con-
demnation Of the whole American people.
DuT THE EVIL OF CIVIL WAR
Was not A Vreaier evil thnn the evil NJ
yielding one jot Of lawful authority.
Nothing could be more dangerous to the
whole Republic than that a man should
be put in the Presidential office whom at
least one.half Of the American people
would regard as an usurper.
He thought that Justice and right were
compromised, when they were submitted
for their decision to force, they were COM
promised when they could only be main.
tained by the exercise OF doubtful power;
they never could be compromised by
being permitted 10 stand before a tribu.
nal clothed with judicial powers, sur
rounded with judicial safeguards and
invested with legal authority by the law
making power Of the country. In con-
clusion he said: The act which we are
about to do will, in my judgment, be one
OF H
THE VERY BRAvEsrIS HISTORY.
Our annals have been crowded with
great achievements in war, in peace, in
arts, in literature and in commerce, but
other countries and other republics have
equalled us in this particular; but in
this great act we shall stand without Il
rival and without an example. For
thousands Of years our children, with
tears Of Joy and pride, will read that
while in fierce strife for executive pow
er, other republics, after short. but
brilliant day, have gone down in
darkness and in blood, in their
own country, loo, the same great strife
has arisen, 80 that their sky has been
darkened by the same cloud, that their
ship with its freight Of love and hope
encountered the same storm and was
driven near the same rocks, but that in
the midst Of the storm, and darkness, and
conflict,
THE AUGUST AND AWFUL FIGURE
Of law rose over the face OF the waters,
uttering its divine controlling mandate,
"peRce, be STILL" Enthusiastic applause
on the floor and in the galleries.
Mr.. hale said that he was sensible that
in opposing the bill he laid himself open
to the charge Of being an intense partisan,
but he was glad that no gentleman who
had spoken in favor OF the bill had
discredited the homes. objections which
remained in the minds OF some of the
people; he was also aware that he would
lay himself open to the charge Of obstruct.
ing peaceful settlement Of the Presi-
dental question. s.
THE VOICE OF GREAT CITIES
has been heard and from day 10 day ne.
titions have been presented from them
in favor OF the bill. The cities were en-.
titled to respect, but "God made the
country and man made the town" and he
was willing 10 rest on the sentiment OF
the country. He had from the first been
inclined to oppose the bill, and his
doubts and fears had ripened into posi-
tive conviction against the bill. The
proposition was based on profound
FUNDAMENTAL ERRORS.
This bill, he said, startled him by the
bold assumption Of the powers Of Con-
gress to regulate and control the election
Of President, which power in his iudg.
ment had never been left in the two
houses by the trainers Of the Constitu.
tion. WhateSer the popular impulse
might be now, this bill would not he sus-
tanned by the people when they should
have time 10 measure and contemplate
its consequences. Il struck blow at the
Electoral College, which stood in the
Constitution as the Presidency itself,
AND SHATTERED 1T
from turret 10 foundation stone, It sub.
stituted for it the power Of Congress
which might at any time thwart the will
Of the people and render mugatory It's
deliberate and expressed judgment. He
had listened to illustrations ingeniously
framed in the other end OF the Capitol,
as 10 what might be the evils Of 4 single
man deciding the Presidential question,
but it was fact that this commission
virtually gave the power OF deciding the
election 10 the Justice Of the Supreme
Court who would he selected by the other
four. .t.....
At the end OF Mr.. Hales speech Mr..
Hoar presented dispatch which he had
Just received from Boston, saying that a
resolution had been passed by the Massa.
chusetts House Of Representatives en-
dorsing and approving the Electoral bill.
Mr.. Hewitt thought the bill transcend.
ed in importance any measure which was
likely to come before Congress during
tho present generation. After the elec.
tion he had believed Tilden elected, and
nothing had occurred since that time
which could otherwise than strengthen
thatconviction; he had been asked why,
holding that opinion, he should agree to
depart from the ancient way in which
the % Presidents had been declared
elected, which, il it had been adhered
TO, would have resulted in the inaugura-
tion Of the Democratic candidates. This
question he intended 10 answer fully,
clearly and without reserve. Thejmain
opposition which the Democratic party
had TO meet was the influence OF the Ad.
ministration. Alter the defeat OF the
Republican party in November II still
remainad intact and nIaSpnad ,ka oIoo