National Republican., 1878-05-29
MIR. PorrAH ADMITS THE REVOLUTION


MIR POTTAH ADMITS THE REVOLUTION.
Admitting that the Democracy does not
intend revolution-and we do not admit Il
by any means-common sense must show
that 1t is drifting in that direction Its ma
tional committee did nothing to turn the
current Of Greaserism back into tho ways Of
peace and quiet, and now Mr.. PoTTAH's
Pronunciamento furnishes irrefutable evil
dence Of q covert design 10 involve the
country in another dispute about the Presi-
dental title. 1t Is not so covert, either, for
Old Ceramics bluntly says:
When the whole country was at fcvcr.heat
on the subject of the election. way WAS found
to establish tribunal to pass upon the cleo
ton, and every one submitted to that deter.
mination. The Presidents title rests upon
that. II nor douId appear that there rds
frdHd, Thich pd,pabiy affected The electoral ,otc,
dm Thfch The Commission did no' notice. and II
ieGa' remedy er't' for correcting The error, you
cannot bdicre that sHch proceeding uHdrr The
idT could lcad 10 disturbance. II there be no
such legal remedy existing, and Congress
should hereafter, by the approval of tho PrcSi.
dent, or by twO.thrds of both Houses without
that approval, provide one, why should the
| legal determination thereafter had any more
| produce disturbance than the decision of the
Electoral Commission didH II is exactly be-
cause this is not Mexico, aud because the peo-
| pie prefer determining questions by legal
methods and " the legal methods have not
been provided, to invent legal methods of de.
tcrmining them, and to submit to the deter
mnatiOn thus arrived at-that this country
cannot be Mexicanizcd.
We say in reply to this special pleading
that the frauds, if any there were, which the
Electoral Commission did not notice. y
were buried beyond resurrection, except by
revolution, when "evcry one submitted to
that determination Of the question by
that Commission. And we add, most cm-
phatically, that n reopening Of the Title
upon alleged frauds. based upon allegations
of Democratic manufacture, on the suborncd
testimony of such misCrcants as MCLrN,
whose official acts were passed upon by the
Elcct1ral Commission, and whose aiter-thc-
election so-caled confessions have no pos
sible relevancy TO his Official duties, would
not he based upon fraud which palpably
effected the electoral vote, and which the
" Commission did not notice" On the con-
trary, il would be y revolutionary pro-
cecding, in violation Of the submission
to the determination of the question
by the Commission, and one that
the Democrats themselves would not sub
nit to quietly il the situation were re.
vcrsed. 1t would he simple nonsense ia
talk Of submitting these questions again
and again, even if this alleged new tcsti-
mony were Beyond suspicion; but, suspi-
ciOus MS it is and based upon the costly
pDsi-bciium still hunt of the defeated candi-
date, every pcacc-loying patriot in the cOun-
try will he aroused to warlike determine.
tiOn to prevent it. 1T is exactly because
this is not Mexico and because the people
prefer determining questions by legal
"mcthods," and then abiding hy that
determination. that they will car
cstly object to the inycmtian ol
other methods, based upon pcriury and
Cr pr,'C evidence for the unsrtt!rmrni
Of the original determination. We assure
M POTTER and his fri.Ow-G reuscrs that
the people will no, wait for the elimination
Of this second attempt to reopen the Title
The disturbance" he talks of has already
begun. A few more strides by him and his
co-conspiratOrs will develop the now slum'
bcring elements Of wrath against them into
wakciul vengeance. Revolution will be met
by rightful force. and he, with his gangs o.
seditiOus investigators, will be hurled from
power. In lsG0-'Gl the people rested quicil,
while traitors plotted the ruin of the couu,
try. They do not propose TO repeat the cx
pertinent now.