The daily gazette., 1877-06-19

NAAOSAN w ohS AsSPNDp~NH PrPS'S " 80
give an open support to Hayes pretend to
be very much offended at the speeches Of
Mr.. Tilden and other Democrats who
gave utterance to their opinions at the
dinner given to Mr.. Hendricks before he
sailed for Europe. But these papers know
that the very words they make the most
objection to are true. They know full
well that Mr.. Hayes was not elected to
the office he holds by the voice of the
people; they know that a majority Of the
Presidential electors were elected by the
Democrat that the Tilden electors in
Louisiana were chosen by a majority
ranging all the way from seven to ten
thousand, and that this was confessed
by Republicans in that State; while in
Florida the Tilden electors were proven
to have received majority. So certain
was it that Tilden carried these States
that the Radical committee sent by Gen.
Grant 10 Louisiana to examine the re-
turns did not dare TO count them openly
where they could be scrutinized by both
parties. They did not dare to do this
even after they had counted and arrang-
ed them themselves. The cowardly
scolIndrels knew too well the effect Of
Cross questions upon the perjurers who
had manipulated the returns. Had they
suffered the returns TO be examined even
by Congress there would have been no
Electoral Commission necessary; and
had the Republican candidate received a
majority of the votes of the people, or a
majority of the Republican electors been
elected the Republican partisans would
never have allowed the question to have
gone before commission-they only
submitted to it because they knew Mr.
Tilden was elected. John Sherman knew
this then and he knows it now bette
than any man in Washington and h
knows that every signature he places tt
bond of the United States as Secretar,
OF the Treasury is a false and counter
felt signature if it should be proved, a
Mr.. Senator Eaton and other able gen
tlemen declare, that the Electoral Com
mission was an unconstitutional body
All the legality there is 10 he found i
Mr.. Sherman's issue OF bonds is derive
from that commission, or the tacit sui
mission of the people. If Mr.. Hayes
not constitutionally and lawfully electe
he cannot perform an act that will be;
the scrutiny of a legal examination. An
it is possible under the varying circun
stances which popular opinion is lab
to that if bonds were issued by this a
mistration that they would be tainted
with usury or counterfeit, and did tn,
thus emanate from State they might
called into court and their legality que
toned with less doubt about their bell
declared illegal than some notes that ha
come out OF our county courts not wor
the paper they were written upon.
Grants threats and John Sherman
dishonesty, backed up by the sword
the hands of VIM. T. Sherman, Gener
was the cause of the people of this cou
try being defrauded of their votes. The
men will go down to posterity with Il
stain upon their escutcheons, and in yea
to come, when the whole scheme of fra
is established and fixed upon them tn
will cry in vain, ''out, damned spot, oui
But 1t will be fixed upon them as inde
bly, as the mark of Cain, ard their reI
tations will to this extent be tarnish
and ruined.