The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-07-20

WAaK10TuN, July -, 1850.
In ID madness and holly, tAe Ocnvenfioa ct
Chicago. nominated for The grsatest once On
earth. man who pedured himseh I'm regard to
the sock of the Credit Mebili9, and w.s guilty
also Of an attempt at subornalDn Of perjury By
Oakes Amea This added 70 Ne i've thouaand
dollar bribe taken in the D50olyer pavement
contract, ought to be sufficient 70 bury him and
his party num human sight But in the opinion
Of your correspondent these crimes shrink into
atomic propogtions when compared with that
gigantic crime committed By the iniAmous eight
Of the Electoral Commission, Of whom James
A Garfield was leading and conspicuous mem.
ber To lie under oath. aboss his interests in
certain stocks, and to receive bribss are venal
and selfsh offences. affecting the pejarer and
bribe taller himself more than any other person.
They are crimes of base sordd nature, which
any man of grcss sensibilities and unbalanced
moral nature IL liable 10 commit when pressed
with sore temptations But The crime Of the
majority Of the Electoral Commission b Of far
deeper and more dangerous character, il was not
mere venality, involving injury to . few, and
loss Of selfrespect only n was . crime involv-
pie. Yesl all mankind-it jeopardized the per-
petuity not enly Of our national government,
bat Of Republican governments the world over.
When it was known that more than quarter
OF million majority of the voters of the nation
had cast their ballots for President Tilden, and
that the Electoral College was in his favor, hon
est men and candid minds everywhere expressed
submission. Only in the persons Of such politi-
cal knaves as Zach Chandler, his namesake Bill,
and jim Garfield, was any purpose harbored to
thwart the expressed will of the people These
rogues manipulated the elastic conscience of
Madison Wells, and by Official emoluments guar
anteed to him and his poor ignorant negro asso-
ciates, induced the Returning Board report from
Louisiana by which a majority for Tilden of
nearly ten thousand was changed to q majority
for Hayes. Similar proceedings occurred in Flor
ida and under the same auspices.
General Garfield was chosen as q member of
the Electoral Commission, appointed by Con-
gress, to examine into and decide upon the
question as to whether Tilden or Hayes had
been elected President. Petty officers from these
two States reported that Hayes had carried
them. Now mark the baseness Of criminality
of the majority of that commission. They voted
eight TO seven that although they were clothed
with all the power Congress rurpoeed in the
premises, they had not authority Of law to ex-
anime into the facts of the case. The report of
Wells and his fellow criminals was q fnality
above the law, above Congress, was, in brief,
almighty These men had taken q solemn oath
to examine into the facts, but as solemnly voted
to z, they would not do it. They were sworn
to investigate, but voted to z, they would not.
They had promised under oath to decide the
case in accordance with the facts. but voted 8 TO
that the facts should not be inquired into.
Go and search among the archives of Sodom.
Prince Muhet the oldest of mummies, to Jefries,
the knave among jurists, and no where can
parallel be found for this modern Republican
iniquity. Other crimes struck down men, this
was aimed at all men others affected the life,
liberty or property of few, this wickedness
brief, crime against the species, an outrage on
mankind. Let no Democrat forget or condone
this crowning villiany Of the age, let Us rather
unite in one solid, harmonious phalanx; let Us
give time, money, speech, pen, hand, head and
heart to the work of rebuking with q nations
justice, the wretches who contrived and execu-
ted the hellish plot. Do this and James A. Gar
fields chances Of election will be far less than
visitation to him by the bolts of Jove. Away
with the infamous eight now and ever mere.