The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1878-06-13

have been cast for such and such per-
sops ms President and Vice-President
TT can not be, therefore, that any au-
thority can reside anywhere to try any
uuesti IN, or to find any fact, that is 10
warrant the two Houses in rejecting the
votes of any Electoral College OF whose
authority to give those votes the state,
through it's constituted authorities, mas
LEGALLY informed Congress. All such
questions and all such facts 1T belongs
| to the proper authorities OF each state
to try and determine, before the per
SONS supposed to be chosen electors are
assembled to give their votes. Any
attempt by the two Houses, or either OF
them, to go behind the certificates, and
TO determine the right of the electors
to give the votes which they have Ger
tilted. when the State has decided that
right bv it's competent authorities. Will
lead to conclusions in which the people
of this country will not acquiesce.
"Thus if it shall be found on an III
spection of the certificates Of the Elec-
toral College, when they are opened IN
the presence of the two Houses, that
MIR. HAYES has received l85 votes or
more. that result must be accepted by
the people us the legal result, whatever
may have been the frauds committed III
Louisiana or any other State in taking
or returning or counting the popular
vote. 1t is perfectly proper for Con
press to ascertain the fact of such frauds
in an authoritative and conclusive m;.n-
ner for the information OF the people,
but the certainty that there are such
frauds can not affect the legally certi-
fed election. Mr. Hayes must he in
augurated and acknowledged us Presi-
dent. even if the legal result is SO faint
ed with fraud that honest men revolt at
the very thought of what they must
submit to. There is no alternative brt
civil war; and that forms au unneces-
sary aud inadequate remedy, and is not
to be thought of. If Hayes shall he de-
clared President, with grave reason to
believe that he has not been honestly
and fairly entitled TO have the electoral
votes of certain States, he and his party
must bear the consequences. Those
consequences. if his opponents are wise,
will be, not Hsat ]tis tile 10 Tie office rs TO
be resisted, hut that the people are to be
appealed to to use their constitutional
and peaceful method of redressing all
wrongs and furnishing all outrages-
namely, by the ballot box. No such Yp-
peal can be mntle if The country as 10 be
plunged into anarchy By denying Hayes
tile 10 0te o6fce. Our Government must
be preserved aud perpetuated; and chat
it may be, grievous as the wrong will
be that takes from Tilden States III
which he has certainly carried a mniori
ty of the popular vote, ne nast submit
10 Hta qorong, III the entire certainty
that the party Responsible for it will i'll
due time he rewarded with political an
Inhalation"
That declaration of the New York
Sun, to it's million readers, broke
the loins Of the democratic party,
and struck the presidency from it's
grasp. The Electoral Commission
hadnot yet been thought OF. Lit was
born of that declaration by the New
York Sun. The leaders of the re
publican party took the Sun at its
word, and the Electoral Commission
was framed, and, by a vote Of eight
to seven, decided exactly what the
Sun had said-that there WAS nc
authority anywhere to go behind
the electoral certificates, no matter
how fraud,tlently they were oh
tanned.
And now the Sun, maddened and
mortified by its fatal blunder, and
by the result of its hlunder, at
teinpts to shift the burden of its
responsibility from its own Shout
ders to those of a few southern de
mocrats IN Congress, who are per
fectly willing to investigate and
expose the election frauds of 1876
and vino have voted to do so, hui
who are in favor of following liter
ally the above advice OF the Sun
given in December 1876.
80, consistency, thou art a jewel
i From GALVESTON to Mexico.
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