Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-05-18
The Potter Resolution.

The Potter Resolution.
NEW York. May 18.-The Times COM
mentiug on the action of the House yesterday
says this whole business Of investigation is the
work OF handful of man individually unim,
portant, but able to use the machinery Of the
caucus as to commit the party 10 spite OF the
better judgment Of the majority of its members.
The resolution does not express the mature
result of conference representing the party as
whole. 1t merely tells the purpose Of fac
ton Of which Mr.. Tilden is the guiding spirit,
and its adoption by the party in Congress in-
dictates how abjectly members respond to the
requirements of the INSCRIPTIONS men who
hold the caucus sacred.
The Tribune regards the action Of the House
as revolutionary and says the democratic reso.
luton is not only indecent and knavish. it is
an attempt to get up new rebellion against
lawful authority. Ia either aspect it could be
resisted as matter Of right; in the latter it was
duty to resist it. Until the revolutionary 10
tent is wholly defeated, republicans ought to
treat all compromises and ad iustments that may
be proposed precisely as peace at any price
CopperheaGs Wcrc treated when the first rebel.
lion began.
The Herald says: No Intelligent man of
either political party can longer doubt that this
whole batch of incendiary attempts were instl.
gated by Mr.. TideD. He never did anything
more characteristic OF bis still hunt" method.
| This astute and secretive plotter who mistake
cunning for wisdom is, no doubt, sincere 10
thinking that he has been delrauded of an Of.
| fee to which be was elected by the people, and
be probably iusti6es to himself the underhaod
| attempts be is making to shake the stability OF
the Government, imperi the public arquillty,
| and disturb the business of the country. But
neither bis aim nor his methods will be endorsed
By the public sentiment Of the country. 1t the
democratic party sets itself in array against
the title of President who has been regularly
inaueurated, and has completed nearly half bis
term, the party will exhibit a truly remarkable
example Of political suicide. The indignant
opposition of the country to an attempt to
| Mexioanze cur institutions will render the
democratic party as odous to public feeling and
as contemplate in numbers as it was at the
close of the civil war. This great blunder Of
the democrats the republicans are prompt to
seize upon, to their OVID advantage as will be
seen by The republican address which Is issued
on The heels OF the passage of the democratic
resolution. Against the cry OF Fraud they
raise the cry of revolution and they will unite
the whole North once more in their support.
The World regards the republican address
as wild aud unwise and tending to excite the very
cIamor and confusion which those who thu:
misreprescnt the action of tbs democratic
majority pretend to dcprecate The World re
fers to the report Of the Republican Congress
sional Committee in 1869 upon the alleged
frauds 10 the State of New York, which
report considered it Of the highest inn ortancc
that Congress should provide remedy against
future frauds. 1t says: Has remedy against
this danger sioce been found or provided
Certainly not little allegations of Senator Conk,
ling as to Lo1;-iaua and Of the Chairman oil
| the Board of State CanVas5ers as to Florida
arc true and substantial. All that MIR. Potter i
resolution aims to accomplish is tf carry out a
measure which republican committee OF Con
gress 10 1869, truly pronounced to be OF the
| highest importance. Is that measure OF less
| importance now, when as a majority OF the
people of this country believe the absence OF a
proper remedy" against this danger 10 tlorl'
do and 10 Louisiana has actually resulted in the
elevation Of a candidate to the presidency "by
votes fraudulenty or illegally cast
The Sun has no editorial. but prints figure
head with the word FRAUD 90 the forehead,
with the following title Tho portrait, as
deiniated by Mr.. Charles L. Adams. of the
man who yesterday saw section of the day OF
Judgment. A person who must forever carry
upon his brow the stamp Of fraud first triumph
ant in American history. No subsequent &C
ton can wash away the letters of that record.
| CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS