The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-11-15

victory which resulted in my election
was the expectation that through the
chief magistracy system Of reform sim
liar to that which had been 30 accom-.
nlished in our metropolis and in our
State administration would be achieved
IN the federal government, For that
object it was necessary that j should be
untrammeled by any commitment ia
the choice of men to execute the offices
of the government and untrammelod by
amy obligations to special interests.
had been nominated and | was elected
without one limitation to my perfect in
dependence. To have surrendered or
compromised the advantages Of this po-
sition by a degrading competition for
returning board certificates would have
boen to abandon all that made victory
desirable, and everything which could
have sustained me in the larger strug.
gle that victory would have imposed
upon. me. | WIS resolved to 90 insa
the Presidential chair in I full command
Of all my resources for usefulness, or
not at all.
"While thus abstaining from an ig-
nominious competition for sucl, certit,
Gates, | saw these certificates obtained
fur the Republicans electors, who had
not been chosen by tho people, aud do.
MED TO tho Democratic electors, who had
been chosen by tho people. These false
and fraudulent certificates, now confess
cd and proved to have been obtained
by corrupt inducements, were afterward
made tho pretext for taking from the
people their rightful choice for the Pres.
idency and Vice. Presidency. These
certificates were declared, by the tribu.
nal TO which Congress had abdicatod
the action OF deciding the count of dis.
puted electoral votes, to be the abso.
Lutte and indisputable conveyance OF IT,
tie 10 the chief magistracy Of the ma
tion Tho State of Florida, which had
united all her executive, legislative and
Judicial powers 70 testify to Congress,
long before the count, who were her
infnuine agents, which had by statute
used a re-canyass, the issue Of new
rtihcates, and formal, sovereign au-
,cntication of tho right of the true
ectors to deposit the votes entitled TO
counted, was held to be incapable of
Enmunicating to Congress fact
pich everybody then knew and Ehich
anot now be disputed. Congress,
Dugh vested by the constitution with
authority to count the electoral
tea, though unrestricted either ns TO
time when il should receive eYi.
d1nce or as to the nature OF that evi-
denoe, and though subject 10 no appeal
from its decision, was declared to have
no power TO guide its own count by any
information it could obtain, or by any
authority which It might accept from
the wronged and betrayed State whose
vote was about 10 be fillsilied. The
monstrous conclusion was thus reached
that the act Of one man holding tho de-
Gliding vote in a board of State canvass
ers (for without his concurrence the
frauds Of the other returning boards
would have failed) in giving certificates
known at the time and now by him.
self confessed TO have been false and
fraudulent, and confessed to have been
obtained by the promise of office
tificates whose character. was known
mouths before Congress could begin the
cofint-mnst prevail over all the RENE
dial powers Of tho State Of Florida and
Of the Congress of the United States
combined, and must dispose Of the chief
magistrlcy Of this republic.
s. J. TLDEx.