The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-24
REPUBLICAN SENATOR'S.

lackingthe Information until this moment,
that there is not a possibility that the repuo-
lican senate will consent, under any circum-
stances, TO the rejection of the regularly certi-
fed electoral votes of Florida or Louisiana
Cincinnati Commercial.
We are not advised as to the extent or
Character of the information possessed by
the Commercial. which enables it to speak
with such marked pOsitiveness upon sub
ject of such recognized importance. Ac-
cording to the Commercial the republican
members of the United States senate will,
under no circumstances. no matter what
facts are disclosed, relax their grasp
upon Florida and Louisiana. I'm
the interest of party republican senators
will indorse fraud, and if possible, in de
fance of truth, justice, law and the will OF
the people, inaugurate Hayes. The infa-
nous frauds perpetrated in Louisiana by
the returning board are repulsively hideous.
There is in them deliberate devilishneSs
that startles honest men of all parties.
They can not be excused or modified,
and only the most depraved- men
can be found to uphold them. To assume
that the republican members will recognize
and defend these frauds is to say, in effect,
that they are in all regards scoundrels as des-
perate and as despicable as the villainous
crew who, in defiance of the sovereign will
of Louisiana, gave the electoral vote
to HAYES, Notwithstanding Tilden's ma
jority was more than eight thousand.
While such internal scoundrelism is being
approved by the venal organs of the radical
party, and while they are proclaiming to the
world that the senate will not 'under any
circumstances consent to the rejection" OF
illegal votes, it is assumed that those who
favor a fair count and insist upon it
are anxious for war. If we are
to believe the Cincinnati Commercial
the programme of the radical party is fully
decided upon, and that it is the intention to
compel the American people to acquiesce in
the triumph of perjury. and remain silent
while their rights and liberties are being
wrested from them. But these conspirators
are exhibiting a profound Ignorance
of the spirit of the people they
are overestimating their ability to
accomplish their purpose. We are inclined
to the opinion that all the republican sena-
tors are not as infexibly in favor of rascal
ity as the Commercial intimates, and that
among their number there will be found not
few in whom the patriot is stronger than
the partisan, and that the greatest villainy
of this or any other century will receive
its death blow at their hands. In this, how
ever, we may be mistaken. The Commercials
estimate of the 'republican senators may be
correct Still we are of the opinion that
fraud will not triumph; that perjury will
not be permitted to sit in the high places of
truth; that four returning board despera-
does will not reverse the will of the people
of the country, and that the conspirators
will ascertain by experience that now, as
hitherto, honesty is the best policy.
If, as the Commercial intimates, republi-
can senators have determined to accept the
| frauds committed in Florida and Louisiana
as the basis of their future action, then the
issue is squarely made, and the country
may shudderingly contemplate develop
ments The Missouri legislature has taken
action upon the subject. Among PIE joint
concurrent resolutions offered in the house
of representatives on the 18th inst, We find
| the following:
| Resolved, That Missouri views with alarm
| and apprehension the many recently reported
cases of violent infractions OF the constitution
and usnrpations OF power Sy SnTSv &
countenancing and encouraging the utter dis
regard of law by inscriptions returning
boards, composed Of political mountebanks
and characterIess adventures in three of the
/ sovereign states of this union, In attempting
to reverse the honest decision OF the people at
the ballot-bOx. and defeat their Will by INSTALL
| ing in Office men who were repudiated by
| large majorities at the election held Novem-
Resolved, That the tacit acquiescence in
| wrong doing Is simply encouragement to fur
ther lawlessness, and we can not remain silent
and idle spectators to the progress of events in
our sister states of the south, by which their
| state governments have been ovtrthfown,
stalled in office by fraud, upheld, counte
nanced and sustained by the military arm oil
resolved. That Missouri, unnalter ing in her
allegiance TO the constitution OF the United
States, will not submit TO any violations OF
legally elected representatives, entering SOL
Resolved. That samuel ]. Tilden, of New
| York and Thomas A. Hendricks, of Indiana
were duly elected president and vice presi-
| dent of these United states, at the election
held November 7, 1875, having received a'largt
| as well as a fair majority OF the electoral vote
| and we demand their peaceful Inauguration
on the 9Th day OF March next.
Other states have spoken and there are
others still that1will demand a fair coun
, and the recognition of honesty instead o
. fraud 1t may be that republican senator
will remain inhexible in their advocacy o
T fraud, but above republican senators stand
the people and before the contemplated in
: fanny is fully consummated they win speak
ind what is more they will be heard. Il
| the choice of rulers their will is supreme
| Having declared 1t, conspirators will not b
S permitted to reverse their decree.