Year: 1878

on account of his great love and respect for
the memory of his brother, yielded to the
advice of his relatives and friends, and insti.
tuted suit to reclaim and re-establish his IT,
tie to the property. All honest and good
men will rejoice that this patriotic and noble
gentleman and veteran has succeeded in bis
suit, and that his declining years will thus be
soothed and defended from the cares and hu-
initiation of poverty and dependance.-M 0.
Picayune.


NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.
THEIR VIEWS ON THE QUESTIONS OF INvEs-


TIGATIoN AND PRESIDENTIAL TITLE.


The discussions in the recent meetings of
the National Democratic Committee on the
investigation of the Presidential election
membered that the meeting of the committee
at the time this question was attracting most
attention in Washington, was purely acci-
dental, as when the meeting which had been
called in February was postponed to May
there was, of course, no anticipation on the
part of any one that the House would author
ize an investigation. a striking fact was de-
veloped by the interchange of views Of the
members. The members, speaking individ-
ually and for their different Democratic con.
stituencies, to very large degree concurred
in the opinion that Mr.. Tilden had little per-
sonal hold on either the leaders or the masses
of the party, and they were practically unan-
imous in agreeing that it would be extremely
distasteful to the party generally if there
should be any attempt to conduct the investl-
cation with any purpose to advance the per-
sonal fortunes or aspirations of Mr.. Tilden.
Indeed, there did not seem to be any diversi-
ty of opinion on the point that Mr.. Tilden,
personally, really had nothing to do with the
matter now, and could not again, under any
circumstances, be an important factor in any
Democratic calculations.


In regard to any action by the committee
on the subject of the investigation the discus
sion was of great interest. Several members
of the House of Representatives held the
proxies of regular members of the committee
who were unable to be present These gen.
tlemen, as they had contributed to the pas
sage of the investigation resolution, were nat
urally anxious that their action should re-
ceive the Endorsement of the National COM
mittee, and argued with some earnestness to
that effect. There were other members of
the committee-some Of them gentlemen Of
enlarged experience and of commanding in
fuence-who were decidedly of the convic-
ton that the National committee should say
nothing on the subject The resolution which
finally passed was in the nature Of com.
promise, and its conservative character was
due to the influence of the gentlemen just
mentioned.


On the point of the title by which Mr..
Hayes holds the Office of President the dis.
cussion was probably more lengthy than on
any other branch of the subject before the
committee. Senator Mcdonald, who repre-
sented Indiana, made speech on this ques
tion which produced much impression. He
said there could be no possible doubt of the
deep and atrocious frauds and conspiracy by
which the Presidency had been given to the
man who had been defeated at the polls. He
was entirely in favor Of the investigation
which had been ordered. He thought the
frauds should be exposed, and the people
made acquainted with them in all their details
and all their enormity. Let them 60 to the
country, and let the Republicans be chal-
lenged to join issue and say whether they ap-
prove of deciding Presidential election in
such manner. Thus far would he 60, but no
farther. He maintained that so far as the IT,
tie of President Hayes was concerned it was
absolutely impregnable; that no power ex.
listed in the Federal Government to assail
that title; that the constitution had left the
election for President and Vice-President en-
tirely in control of the States, and all that
the Federal legislative branch had to do with
the matter was to count the votes sent up by
the States and declare the result.


The President, he said, was coordinate
branch of the government, and Congress
could no more undertake to assail his title
than he could undertake to assail theirs. He
dismissed, as unworthy of consideration, the
pretence that Congress could establish tri'
bunal, or delegate any tribunal already in
existence, to pass upon the title of President
after he had been declared elected in the
mode provided by the constitution. He de-
clared that there could be no conceivable
combination of circumstances under which
his assent could be obtained to any PROPOSE
ton attacking the title of Mr.. Hayes. There
was but one way by which President Hayes
or any other President could be reached, and
that was by the constitutional method Of i'm.
peachment, and the very act of resort to
impeachment YVES, of course, full and COM
pete acknowledgment of the validity of the
Presidents title.


Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, coin
cided fully with the views advanced by Sena-
tor Mcdonald. General Ransom said that as
senator he felt delicacy in addressing him
self to this subject, because in the possible
contingency of an impeachment he held that
it would be proper for senators to have ex-
pressed no opinion in advance on any of the
collateral branches of the subject. But he
desired to say that he was fixed and immova-
BILE in the opinion that no power existed any
where to assail or question the title by which
President Hayes holds his office, and it was
impossible that he could be party to any
movement looking to such end. He believed
that in thus speaking he represented the voice
of the South that the South would view with
distrust and alarm the indication Of any pur-
pose to reverse the verdict which placed Mr..
HAYES in the chair of the Chief Magistrate.
While this was the case he agreed that the
frauds which had been practiced should be-
exposed. Mr. Jonas, of Louisiana, was the
oni member from the South who gave ex-
preston to what might be regarded as extreme
views. He favored not only the investigation,
but the expulsion of Mr.. Hayes from office
if the frauds were proved.


Petitions have been prepared in Washing
ton 70 be addressed to Congress protesting
against any movement to assal the Presidents
title as destructive to the business interests Of
the country. These petitions are to be scat