Year: 1877

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up by q lying pretense in regard TO law.


The majority of votes in Florida had been
discarded even by the majority of the com.
mission, to make room for party fraud and
the dirties5 tricks of chicanery.


The Senate rushed in haste to grasp the
four stolen votes of Florida handed them by
the eight Republican commissioners.


In the Louisiana case 'most Democrats
fear another party vote by the commits
sion disregarding all law and adopting
all the frauds" alleged against the Return
ing Board. This coarse slander of the
motives of majority of the commission
has been given to the public by one DEM
ocratic organ. The Washington cor
respondent of the Democratic organ
proper says:


The Democrats have determined not 10
yield to the verdict of the tribunal in case
it's action in regard to the vote of Louisiana
is marked by the same dense and desperate
partisanship that characterized its action in
the Florida case.


The organ itself says:


The Electoral Tribunal might have paei.
fed the country by disoarding all partisan
lbu anu juueh4oho IL ~OoOAN-
ance with the constitution and the highest
principles of truth and justice. A thousand
such tribunals could not quiet the country
through crime.


So there is to be no more acquiesence in
the decision of the national returning
board, if it shall prove adverse to the de-
mands of Democracy, than there has been
in that of the State boards under similar
circumstances. The national commits
sioners are DETAINED in almost the same
language with the Republican members Of
the Louisiana board, and were the power
of the House adequate we should expect
to see Judge Bradley and Senators Morton
and Edmunds imprisoned in crypt, and
required to confess that they had covered
up a decision in favor of Hayes "by a
lying pretense in regard to law"


We have, in the position of the Demo-
crat, the same arrogant assumption which
distingu ishes the acts of the Democratic
party. The commission is held to pro-
nounce Judgment Gin accordance with the
constitution and the highest principles Of
truth and Justice" And who is to say
what is the constitution and the principles
presented? The Democracy is one party
to the question. Why shonld Inot, then,
the Republican party throughout the
Union send committee to inquire Of
these Dem ocratic oracles the principles
upon which alone this decision should be
presented. If one party is always wrong
and another party is always right; if one
party must always submit to the Law
while the other will only submit when tht
law meets its approval, then have we al
infallible orthodoxy, expounded by al
order privileged to construe and execute
the law, and then are all others serf
bound to obey the will of an aristocrac!
and heretics condemned to expiate thei
political errors by such penalties as thei
political superiors may indicate and i'm
pose.


All this, however, points to evasion
and resistance on the part of the nationa
Democracy to any decision which a tri
bunal instigated by themselves may pro
nounce contrary to the will and interest


of the Democracy.


Should the Republicans succeed in hay


ing the will of the people, as ascertaine


at the polls, confirmed by the impartia


adjudication of the men chosen for thei


superior ability and integrity, pass int


the legal organization of the government
we shall regard it as a miracle. We IT
member what violence the Democracy ha
committed at the South what frauds
has perpetrated in New York an
attempted to perpetrate here. Ho
an armed occupation of Washingto
City has been threatened with purpos
to install and maintain Mr.. Tilden b
force-how the Democracy have tendere
the commission as a mode and means I
success, and how it has now announce


BY some among them that unless that d
: cision shall be what they approve the
will fall back upon their reserved right
revolutionary opposition. We should n
gard the peaceful Inauguration of Pres
dent Hayes as piece of good fortune
: the part of the Republican party whie


can only be due to the perfect good fail
in which they have acted. They ha'
submitted their claims not merely to Il
, United States, but even to an appella
tribunal at the instance and with the a
prbval Of their opponents. The Amer
can people will see and judge, and Il
Democracy will find that the same matte
which has elected President can pla


and maintain him in Office.


In the meantime we can only regard Il
, conduct of the Democracy as inspired
q purpose to seize the government und'
a color of law, and, failing in that, to Q
a eanize rebellion and throw the Cover
: ment into anarchy. We have hope tn
a they will not succeed in the first obje


and a settled conviction that they CT
' never succeed in the second.


KELL0aGis CERTIFICATE.