Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-21
THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION.

IEOUu u we'll 1 =" ~ ~
York Herald, for the reason that it
takes the most sensible and truthful
view Of a peaceful settlement of the
presidential question that we have yet
seer published, and n that every
good citizen will most heartily indorse.
The article says: No American can
consider without a shudder what
would to-day have been the condition
of the country had the opponents of
the Electoral bill succeeded in defeat
ing it. No other measure could have
been adopted, for there was not time'
and the two houses would have met
on the l4th without agreement, with
out the possibility of agreement, and
in the midst of a whirlwind OF excite
ment. not only in Washington, but all
over the country. 1t would have been
too late tfen for the counsels of wise
and conservative men to make them
selves felt on either side; and there is
not the least doubt that we should
have been in a state of revolution.
Fortunately the good seuse and pa
triotism of the best men Of both
parties in Congress and elsewhere have
averted so dire and ~disgraceful a catas
trophe; but the people will not forget
that they do not owe this escape. this
safety from the greatest of calamities,
TO the partisans of either side, either in
Washington or elsewhere. The coun
try ought not to forget the
men who, as members of the
Joint Committee. sank their party
feelings and wishes and united upon
this wise and necessary measure.
They and all who voted for the bill
deserve to be held in honor. They
guarded the nation from an ignomini-
Gus disgrace and a calamity which
might have been fatal to our inStitu
tions and which would have inflicted
AT any rate, whether Hayes of Til
den becomes President, the country
will have peace" the President is re-
ported to have said some days ago to a
friend. He was right, and he, too, de
serves credit and honor for the sup
port he gave to the bill in all its stages.
When this matter is settled and the
next President, be he Hayes or Tilden,
is installed, the American people will
have a right to be proud Of themselves
and proud ofthe statesmen whose wis
dom and moderation will have carried
the country safely through perhaps
the greatest peril which a free nation
can encounter. Since the eth of No
vember the people of this country have
undergone a test of their good sense
and temper which has attracted the
admiration of the world, and justly so,
There is no doubt that deep and dan
gerous irritation has been felt a l over
the country. When the history of the
present crisis is searched out hereafter
it will be found that the danger of an
outbreak was greater than most quiet
people imagined. Happily all this is
now past. We are settling the trouble
in the American fashion, in the way in
which a people protesting to be
Christian ought to settle it; We have
been able to discover ways of peace
where other nations have fallen into
civil war. The present period will be
accounted the proudest in our history;
for no achievements of war, no victories
on land or sea, Of which we may
boast, car ever equal, in their
beneficent effect-not only on our own
fortunes, but on the of liberty
and civilization all over the world
this peaceful triumph over our own
exasperated passions.
Whoever is defeated must Lear the
loss with immediate and absolute sub
mission, and if the leaders Of the party
which shall prove to be beaten are
wise they will lose not a moment, after
= the result is known, in giving the most
conspicuous and cheerful assent to
that result. The country demands an
equally cheerful and loyal acquies.
cence from whatever party may now
prove to be beaten. 1t will tolerate no
opposition, and it will express it's con-
tempt for grumblers. A disputed cleo
ton is a grave calamity, a sense of in
justice suffered is not a slight matter;
but this great question has been sub.
mitted to the arbitration of wise and
honorable men, who will, we believe,
conscientiously do the solemn duty
imposed on them; and when they
have done it, and when Congress has
done it's share under the law, what
ever the result may be, that is final
until the next election.
SENATOR FRELINGHUYsEN, Of New