Year: 1876

Oh, Reform! what multitude of sins are


committed In thy name


The st. Louis Times frauticaliy howis,


swell have Tiiden or fight" Don't be bash
full; take them both, for the country desires
neither.


Notwithstanding the festive gambler is
child-Iike and timid in his ways, yet he sskcth
for much tick while he waiteth, because his
wherewi!hal comcth not quickly from the


pool. -s..a -.r.
We do not hear the voices of Randall, Cox
or sayler in the din of our political confusion.
They have other business just now. They are


laying pipe for the Speakership, via the solid
South. r.. ..-


"Here's to who is who, from that which is
what, and how is now to where is when with
Hayesy days for fishing" and then you peep


through the bottom OF your glass and wait the
official count for an answer. ...r.
The Democratic ward politicians of New
York have notified the tramps they domiciled


in the city for election purposes that their


services are no longer needed. The tramps


claim the right of domicile until the election
is decided.


The crisis now pending is grave one, and
they vino would stir up strife that may plunge


our land into war and hopeless ruin are food
only fit for the gibbet. Let Us appeal to the
God of a steady and constantly developing


Providence, and not to the god of battles, for


judgment is His strange work and mercy His
darling attribute. .-...
Prominent Republicans in New Orleans, who


are thoroughly informed as to the latest events


transpiring there, deny most emphatically the


truth of the Associated Press dispatch last
night, which gave Louisiana to Tilden by 5000


majority. They maintain and reassert their


knowledge that the result of the count will be


good round majority for Hayes.


A positive national good must necessarily


arise from the remarkable closeness of the


pending political fight. The disgraceful and


criminal system Of terrorism which has char
acterized the Democracy's desperate struggle
for supremacy in the South win be exposed to


the consideration of the intelligent and law


abiding people of the country, who viii give


their verdict in terms that will be understood


and felt by the guilty Southern mobocracy.


"Ihe solid South has gone for Tilden and
Hendricks," cries tie Evansville Qndiana)
Courier; sand, by the God of battles, they
| shall be inaugurated." The beauty of this
Republic is the supremacy of the law. The


law says the person receiving the majority of


electoral votes shall be President. The man
who receives that majority will be inaugurated,
and no one else. Business is business.
Mr.. Louis Jennings, writing to the New


York World from London, says that the news
of the election Of Mr.. Tilden was received


with satisfaction. Natural enough. The


English people sympathized with the South
during the rebellion, and many Of them hold
Confederate bonds to-day. These bonds were
placed on the market the day after the elec-
ton, when it was supposed that Tilden was


elected Satisfaction |" Natural enough,
we say. 90


One great danger may arise from the aboli-
tion Of the Electoral College. 1t is positively
understood that the Democracy to achieve
| national triumph necessarily depend upon
popular majority in the old slave States, and


TO secure that majority in a direct vote for


President system of dlsfranchissment by in
timidation would be prosecuted such as has


not yet disgraced our civilization and nullifed


the constitutional liberties of the colored race.
In direct vote for President the North and


West would cast popular majority for the


Republican party candidate OF at least three


hundred thousand. In order to overcome this
vote Il would pecess;tate widespread Violence