The Morning herald., 1878-04-29
rs FRAUD TO BE nUNKENEELED
OK NOT

purity Of our elections. The will Of the
people Is expressed BY the ballots-any dis
honest. violent Or covinous interference
with their expressed will, whereby it is set
aside, as II It. had not been rendered, is
treason. The recent confessions of the
guilty participants of Hayes and Sherman
in the Prudential elections, demand that
Maryland shall be heard in the high Par)iaa-.
ment of the Republic. A sovereign State
has invoked the Federal Congress, to enfran~
elise the Supreme Court, with. power, to
carry out the reservations of the Electoral
Commission, as to the title of Messrs.
Tilden and Hayes, to the Presidency of the
United States. .rlla ~ e1a der tsv.C II
In times past myriads of men belted on
their swords and met in bloody combat to,
dstS5mine the claim of a contestant, founded
upon kinship, to a throne, and the lives
lostfn battle were held to be worthily spent
70 as to secure the legal rights Of Kings
and rulers by defeating usurpation, and
fraud. In our case the right invaded Is
higher and holier, than any regal one. i
has 1t, roots in the organic law Of the land
and II once treated as a nullity, an example
will be set, which may lead to a civil war,
before which tina Of the Sixties will pale.
Whatlarguments are advanced by our Re-
presentatives in Congress, against granting
Maryland, one Of the original States, a hear
ing upea this great. national plant against
anusurper. Mainly ".that 1T is setSltd,"|
"or that ut would lead to trouble to dis
turb IT," short-sighted s5atesmanship|
trulyl What Of trouble, sure to crop out
by, attempted usurpation In the future, if|
the American people permit Hayes to wear
the soiled, and stolen robes Of his office. If
the arbitrament of the Electoral Commis-
sion was final, and without reservation, no
legal road would be open to reach the
remedy; but::it was not SO, as the agree
msnt to arbitrate specially reserved the
legal right Of either or both Of the con-
testant. ,.,....,r ..,.r ~; ,,,,.. ., ...-....s
1t 10 conceded that Hayes title rests upon
fraud. There is not lawyer in the land
but will unhssitatiDgly say that fraud
vitiates everything it touches; that no
Judgment, or agreement, can operate to give
purity to fraud. "Time sanctifes it not,"
saith Lord Coke. A fraudulent act, says
wharton, cannot be set aside 'partirn, bpt
ia tsto," it is so Inherently bad that no
part viii be permitted 10 stand. %
Is there Q man in this bread land who |
pretends to doubt, since the Florida confess
si0ns, If he before was incredulous, that
giant fraud was perpetrated The duty of
every patriot Is to unkeunel and drag to |
light It's perpetrators, and every delay adds
to the injustice and multiplies the wrong,
The atmosphere of Washington, we very
much fear, is to cou,tly for the rough,
honest patriotism, which gave its blood fol |
the baptismal fount of our republic, and i
ags,n needed to throttle corruption. know 4
no Lord "but the Lsrd God Jehohvah,' |
WAS the answer Of one of the contipenta
WORTHLESS when asked to kotu to aa English /
Lord. II our Representatives were imbuded |
with this spirit, they like unto the demigoo
~ the revolution would cry aloud-"WeI
protest against tile founded in fraud, and /
bought Of Sherman, Matthews, Noyes, and
thei political bag men.
=, Shall Delaware, ever ju the van of States,
pledged 70 freedom of election be silent in |
the uavail Of liberty, and ratify the sale Of
the Presidency In: letters to her Repre-
seDtati1es, by public meetings and county |
protests, let her voice be heard in favor OF
guarding the right and ,avepging the wrong