The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-08
An Interesting Post Obit on
the Final Declaration.
Banning on Funeral Professions -Assassi-
nation - Grant - Delegate Steele -
Black Hills Mail - Lincoln
Territory, Etc.
EDITORIAL coRREsPoNpENcE.I

time are fast rolling away, and the
American people seem to have awak-
ened from a troublesome dream, to re-
alize at last that the visions of war and
blooCshed which lowered about them
with forebodings of horror. are now no
more. A few minutes after 4 O'Clock
this morning, after an all-night session,
Vice President Ferry declared the final
result of the count to be 1876 votes for
Hayes and Wheeler, and 1874 votes for
Tilden and Hendricks. The formal
declaration in due. form, and according
to law, was then made in favor of
Rutherford b. Hayes for President and
William A. Wheeler for Vice-Presi-
dent, whereupon the joint convention
was finally dissolved. Thus ended the
greatest and most threatening struggle
for the Presidency that has taken place
in the history of this nation. May we
never have to pass through a similar
crisis.
The scenes enacted at the Capitol
during the great electoral count, which
your correspondent witnessed from the
reporters gallery, will be remembered
as the most exciting that have ever
transpired in the House of Representa-
/ tives, and the successful termination
of the count, under many embarrassing
circumstances, will be handed down to
posterity as the greatest event in
American history, or in the history oil
the entire world. Anxious as the
Democrats had been to push through
their electoral bill, they regretted it
almost as soon as the count began, and
after one or two test votes of the joint
commission, they instituted a course of
flibustering which would in all proba-
bility have resulted disastrously but
for the prompt anu wise manner in
which their leaders refused to counte-
nance the revolutionary proceedings.
President Hayes is expected here to-
day, and will probably be sworn in on
Sunday, March 4th. The inauguration
celebration on the 9TH will not be very
extensive, as but little time is left for
preparation. Cabinet-making is now
in order, and the generous friends of
the new President are disposed to take
the labor off his hands, and provide
him with a full, ready made cabinet.
Cheyenne is not represented on any of
the states which have come to my TO-
tice. and therefore 1 hope Mr.. Hayes
may smash all these states. Col. Rob-
ert NJ. Ingersoll is often mentioned for
a cabinet position by his friends from
Illinois. I support him with much
pleasure, for, while his legal learning
and remarkably sound judgment would
add lustre to the new administration,
his persuasive tongue and %well-known
piety would have a most desirable eff
feet upon those who are lost in the sins
of the Democracy.
Mr.. Banning, NJ. c. from Ohio, on
being asked yesterday why the western
Democrats were delaying the count by
factious opposition, replied: They be-
lieve in professions moving slowly at fu-
nerals." The Democrats are sorely
troubled and bowed down with grief as
they see the south gradually withdraw
ing from their corrupting embrace.
When Mr.. Yeates, of North Carolina,
tainted Hewitt s. Co., the other day,
with having cowardly turned their
backs upon the south fifteen years ago,
you could have seen the hair gradually
rise on the head of Sunset Cox, urtil it
seemed to stand on end. We ought to
have a society for the prevention of
cruelty to Northern Democrats. Should
the south leave the Democracy, the lat
ter will need the brains of smarter men
than Hewitt, Field, Springer, ct al, to
keep the organization together.
1t is surprising how quiet Governor
Her bricks has kept during the entire
embroglio. He has not been connected
with any of the miscellaneous schemes
in which Col. Pelton has implicated
Mr.. Tilden. While Gov. Hendricks
comes out of the fight without any
stain on his character, MI. Tilden has
been robbed Of his good anne by the
knaves and schemers who have sur
rounded him.
Rumors of assassination plots and
cou%nterplots are rife here to-day, but l
believe President Hayes will ride in an
open carriage from the White House to
the Capitol and return on Inauguration
day without molestation or harm. None
but lunatics would attempt assassina-
ton, and Inauguration day is not going
to be a good day for lunatics.
1t is with the sincerest regret that
friends of all degrees, from acquaint-
ances to intimates, look forward TO the
departure of President Grant from the
White House. They leave a home
where for eight years domestic happi-
ness, sympathy and kindness have pre-
vailed. They are leaving a home where