Year: 1878

For A PARALLEL TO THE THEFT OF
THE PRESIDENCY history may be search
ed in vain. Mexico does not furnishit, nor
does France. 1t was deliberate crime;
coolly concoeted and ploddingly carried
forward from day to day and week by
week and month by month. There was
no valor shown; no risk run; and no
danger of bloodshed to either of the
wicked conspirators. There being no
semblance to the act in either Mexico or
France, nor by Frenchmen, nor Mexi-
cans, it will not suffice to look to
either of these countries for parallel
for the remedy for crime as deliberate
as murder and as monstrous; while it is
far more dishonorable than any revolu-
ton that was ever perpetrated upon the
people of any country. We need not
look to the Napoleonic code for a remedy.
Nor need we look to Mexico; for that
heroic and struggling people does not
furnish so mousing species of rascality
from the time the Spaniards We're driven
from their soilto the present day. 1t is
true Mexico has been revolutlonized fire.
quently and the government seized; but
the act has been usually been done at
the risk of the life of an adventurous
soldier. So too Napoleon, the great Cor
sican seized the government of France,
and built upon it an Empire. But he
risked his life, and put himself at the
mercy of such as dared to kill him for
his audacity.


But the deliberate barter and sale, if
you please, or the deliberate stealing by
fraud and by perjury of the votes of the
citizens and all the franchises of 100000
900 of people is the most awful deed
when its possible consequences are con-
sidered or reflected upon that was ever
committed. We verify believe the par
ties to this fraud We're deliberately plot
ting to bring on another civil war; hop
ing that the Democratic party would at
tempt to inaugurate Mr.. Tilden by force
and bloodshed and butchory would then
be the result. The war that would
have followed would not have been sec.
tional but have pervaded every State.


Can the mind contemplate anything
more horrible? Can honor rrepose where
such a crime was plotted and carried out
where the lives of thousands were ex.
posed to real hazard Well may the
mind be puzzled to find remedy for such
crime if il looks for a parallel.


But there is none so blind as will no
see. The remedy is as easy as it is to de
clare the title to an estate The absen
or the supposed deceased has but to an
pear and exhibit his title. And MI
Hayes, should Congress resolve to rccoe
nize Mr. Tlden, would find his eyes ha
been opened; and that there was IL
Court, Congress or other body that cou
confer title where it did not exist.-H
would no doubt be glad to get off froI
Washington with his ill-gotten salary {
ojO0o0 year, without making any flu
ther disturbance. And the Sherman
who were party to The crime, for tn
money that they found in it, would me,
the eternal disgrace they deserve. I
allow Hayes to continue to the end of h
term is to perpetuate periidy and mal
crime, perjury and dishonor reSpectal |
No party is more deeply interested
ousting Hayes than the Republics
party. For they have set an cxmnp
and a precedent, that may afford Il
Democrats the power and the opportur
ty to hold the government for half a ce
tury. And who knows that this is not
part of the bargain.