The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-12-11

THE RESULTS OF BARGAIN AND INTRIGUE IN
THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
Extracts from bis late letter.

Extracts from his late Letter.l
WAsHINGToN. Nov. 81, 1873.
Our present status is easily summed up
The late elections show that the North aud
South are again substantially consolidated !:
that We have lost fifty electoral votes since
1876; that on the present basis the X tdIcaIs
would have forty five majority IN the col
lege; AID that if the present attitude OF
parties continues we shall certainly lose
every Northern State in 1880, giving the
Radicals majority of sixty-nige in the
electoral college. This result is plainly due
TO our having c0ndoned the fraud which
annulled our triumph in 1876, and thereby
abandoned the reform issue aud other i'm
portant principles upon which that trium pm
v as achieved.
The Radical party has maintai 1ed itself
in power and escaped the defeat which it,
pluudering and laundering policy would
sooner have brought upon l., solely by being
allowed to make the sectional issue. But
in 1876, by presenting candidate whose
financial and war record they could not
sail, and who had signaliZed himself a a
practical reformeT, we so TAR succeeded in
making the election turn upon he reform
issue and Democratic principles as to carry
four of the Northern States, aud make the
contest close if we did not actually carry
all the other great Central States. THIS
was done by the people against the virulenf
opposition of all our leaders in Congress,
bers who favored the nomination necessary
To impress this character upon the contest.
L Unfortunately. these yiruleut opponents of
the policy which dictated the nomination
aud secured the election Of Tilden had to
count the vote and they availed themselves
of this power to set aside the election
The prereXts upon which this was done
have now be~n ex posed and shown to be
false, 1t nows appears, by the evidence
tax eH by the Potter Commi tee that before
ha Etppfnrul m rliE zfn ftf
negotiations had been opened with Hayes
by certain of the Southern chiefs looking
to the consumnI alton, by them aud their
associates, OF the frauds Initiated by Wells.
Anderson, McLiu and their associates; thar
the Electoral Commission wa bur device
to carry out forpgone conclusion, and that
it was not from apprehension of war that
the Constitutional power OF the House to
count the electoral vote was abandoned by
the Democrats, and that power conceded to
commission controlled by their opponents;
for even after the commission had done IT,.
the House was not allow TO ratify il I'M
til the Radical leaders in Congress had
agreed that Mr.. Hayes should carry out his
bargain.
1t is grOs sly unjust to the intelligence ana
self-respect of the people of the North to
suppose that they can b. diverted from the
principle with which THden had become
Identified by the personal abuse heaped
upon him by vendl press. Every true
man IN England responded to the sentiment
of Lord Chatham, when, in reply to similar
assaults upon John wilkes, in whose per
son the right of suffrage was then assaulted,
that he would glory in maintaining the
right of Englishmen in lie person of the
worst subject in the realm But our Hayes
Democrats think our people are made of
different stuff, and can be tobbed off with
meaningless TRADE against fraud Will,
tamrly submitting to it, and proposing to
Obviate it in the future by selecting candi-
dates less obnoxious to Tom Scot and Jay
Gould!
The grounds upon which they attempt To
justify their abandonment of Tilden and the
great principle OF popular power with which
his name is now Identified are simply ride
ulOus. The grGUdn,eH of them is that he did
not publicly protest against the Eicc oral
Commission, and that his friends notified
him or his nephew that the returning boards
of South Carolina. Florida and Louisiana
were for sale, and suggested buying hem.
In view OF the facts with which the public
is now familiar, no rational man ,uld sup
pose that Tilden could by public protest
have arrested the proceedings taken in Con
gress To d pose him Mr. Hewitt testifies
that MeSsrs. Blyard and Thurman, the
leaders of the party there, had re
solved on their course before he was au-
thorized TO inform Mr.. Tilden of what was
to be done; and then, not in order
that he might be consulted upon any MAZE
rial feature of the scheme. He pronounced
he scheme to Mr.. Hewitt a surrender but
could not get days delay to enable him to
rave it discussed and its character exposed |
o the public.