The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-22
THE FRAUD.
THE HISTORY OF THE PRESIDENTIAL
FRAUD-THE sTRUGGLE-THE EN.
PERIMENT-TRE FAILURE.


PERIMENT-TRE FAILURE.
What Kellogg Has D1scovered-The Ease
With Which Hayes Could he Ouste&
from the Presidency.
Especial Correspondence of the Demoorat1
RIGGs HOUSE.
Washington. May 1s. 1878.
The exceeding siowness of the grinding of
the mills of the gods has been faithfully ex-
emplified by the patient waiting of the de-
frauded Democracy for an opportunity to vim
dicate the majesty of their majority. 1t is
yet to be seen whether, now that
THE MILL OF INVESTIGATION
has been set going, it's grst will be as fine
as the grinding has been slow When 1t shall
be surveyed In the calm light of history fifty
years hence, the political record of this coun-
try for the last year and half will have
| quaint and curious appearance. Usurpation
that would have cost many q monarch his
| throne If not his head has been endured by a
| so-calied free people with an equanimity and
patience that might be supposed to belong to
the Russian rather than the American eharac-
ter. Frauds and crimes, which, if enacted in
private pursuits, would have paved the way
| TO the penltentiary without chance of turn
ing off, have been turned by the baleful al
chemy of partyism into deeds of merit to be
rewarded by the gift of exalted places Theft
| which, ii applied to dollar bill, would have
| landed It's perpetrator in a police court, has
| made the thief secretary of the treasury
| when exerted upon the electoral vote of q
| State.
| And, as ii to add touch of grim comedy to
this strangely out-of-jont drama of crime
and baseneSs, the de fdcto administration
| which was the deeouement of it, set out in the
| first instance to reform the nation and regen-
crate the American people. After year and
two months this tragical farce ends in q
| search-warrant to reCOup the stolen presiden-
cy and In an inquest upon the steal ITSELF
Last night after the resolution had passed
and the era of retribution had set in, [ took
down disordered scrap-book in which have
taken the trouble to preserve large amount
OF evaneSeent literature 1t contains the
letters I have written to the DEMOCRAT from
December, 1876, to date, nearly all of which
have in one way or another related to the sub
ject now in hand. They are simply records
of
THE PROGRESS OF FRAUD
from day to day, each one written in the
spirit OF the maxim that sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof" and taken tooethar
book OF annals.
discover that the epoch of Fraud is di-
visible into three periods:
l. The period OF struggle,
2. The period of experiment.
8. The period OF failure. And now the
epoch closes in collapse.
:. LII you will run your minds eye back along
the course of events you will easily distin-
guish these periods. The first began with
Zach Chandler's brief but memorable tele-
gram reciting that Hayes had 1876 votes and
was elected, and ended when perjury and
Hayes riding with Grant in a hack up PENN
sylvania Avenue to be inaugurated.
I. The second period began when Hayes af-
flxed his fraudulent presidential signature to
an inaugural message, glad with
PROMISES OF REFORM
and bright with glittering pretenses of public
morality; and this period has been ending
ever since.
The third period began when Hayes exem-
pllfled MS doctrines OF reform by carefully
calling out all the thieves forgers and ner-
jprers who had aided or abetted the crime bv
which he became President, and appointing
them to positions OF trust and power ranging
from the secretaryship of the treasury to the
surveyorshiD OF the port OF New Orleans.
THE COLLAPSE
has come. This is a brief history, or rather a
syllabus OF the history of what Charles
Francis Adams-prior to the appointment
directors OF the Union Pacific Railroad-called
Fraud First Triumphant" It is necessary
10 Keep the main points in view in order to
reach proper conception of the magnitude
yesterday. La my judgment, those resolutions
OF investigation possess an importance little.
II at all, inferior to the declaration of in,
dependence. The great declaration formu-'
lated the rtgtt OF the American people to gov
ern themselves. These great resolutions de-
clare and yindcate the capacity of the Amer
lean people to govern themselves, in that they
suggest method and provide means for re-
under peaceful auspices, the first conspiracy
ever formed in their midst to overthrow the
principles and set at nought the practices of
their self-gOvernment.
have indulged in these trite and tirpsome
refleGtions by way OF introduction or preface
to description of
THE INVESTIGATION MOVEMENT
itself, to an outline of it's intended operations
and to summary Of its evident or ayowed
designs.
deeply and directly interested in this move
ment is that embraced in the subscriptiOn list
of the New Orleans DEMOCRAT. For, although
the movement had its apparent rise in an act
mandng to know why the expression OF their
will had been nullifed in the counting Of
votes for President and Vice President
in 1876 y, its real origin was in the
IcSc1 -eiuluR pIOGtSb Oh Lne people OF LOU
isiana and Florida, who had been directly
deprived of their true representation in
the Electoral College. 1t is, perhaps, not
altogether out of place for the DEMocRAT
under the present circumstances, to indulge
In trifle Of self-satisfed retrospection Of
its own conduct respecting the great Fraud.
There was time when it was fashionable for
southern newspapers to sound hosannas to
the works OF the fraudulent administration
while they shut their eyes and stopped their
ears to the story Of its origin. The cry of
when the c0wardly tactics, or want of tactics
at headquarters In New York had lost ali bv
default, was perhaps a necessary accompani-
ment OF panic, but it need not have been any
thing more than tempOrarv nltcrv. there