Year: 1876

II Rutherford b. Hayes Is not right.
fully and legally elected President of the
United States he will never present him
self at the Capitol of the nation for induc-
ton into the Office But should the can
vass show that he is entitled to one hun
dred and eighty.fve electoral votes, and
that number is counted for him by the
President of the Senate, as the Constitu-
ton and all precedent prescribes, then
there is no power but death itself that
will prevent his taking the prescribed
oath and entering upon the duties of
office. He will be the constitutional
President the nation, and those who op-
posed his election will sulkily, perhaps,
accept the situation. But accept it they
will, as sure as the 4th of next March
comes in the course of the calendar.


Another thing also is very certain. If
Mr. Tilden should be declared elected it
can only be through corrupt aud danger
Gus influences to the peace and harmony of
the common country. Without intimida-
tion Of the bloodiest type the States of
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas.
Texas and North Carolina would all have
given decided and, iu some instances,
large msjorities to the Republican electors.
The Republican power in all those States
has been crushed out by an intimidation
that has followed violence, outrage and
assassination, to an extent that has made
it worth the life ofs Republican of color
for him to exercise the rights of citizenship
at the hustings and the bIllot-box. And
in the face of all this those several States
will be counted for Samuel ]. Tilden, and
if including them he shall secure major
ity Of the electoral votes by count in the
manner prescribed by law, the country has
no remedy against the wrong and must
peaceably submit to it in humiliation.
Though such result will expose the
farious dangers and wrongs through the
Legislative and Executive Departments of
the Government, where partisanship will
rule with high proscriptive hand, it
were far better to submit to all this for q
season and 'fsuffer the ills we have rather
than fly to others we know not of in resist.
ance of what is made. though .wrongfully,
10 appear as the popular Will.


The country has been warned of the
impending dangers. The attempt already
made to load upon the national Treasury
claims equal to the existing national debt
is as patent as any other fact in history,
and though the half has not been told, yet
the people to certain extent have shown
themselves willing to tempt such q fate.
When Tilden shall have become Presi-
dent if Providence permits such catas-
trophe to fall upon the country, Republi-
can lives in the South will be of as little
value as the rights of individual Repubh
cans will be at the National Capital and
elsewhere. Already in matters of trade
and traffic in the neighboring city Of
Baltimore it is said that proscriptive line
is drawn against Republican merchants
and trsdesmen, and an effort is being made
to crush out the business and trade of all
such as do not pay homage to the cause of
Democracy. If these things appear in the
green tree, what may we expect in the
dry, when Democratic power becomes
supreme in the nation? The foundations
of social organization and commercial
relation are jeupardized, if not to be dis
turbed and broken up; good fellowship is
to be trodden under foot; bitter proscrip-
ton for political opinion sake will peryade
the avenues of business, if the Confederate
Democracy bear sway, ard in this manner
the people will become alienated and the
Larmonies of business life will disappear
under the spirit that now rules the South,
and will invade the North should the party
Of prescription and baie ascend to power in
the National Government. The spoils OF
place. OF course, will belong to the victors,
but the spirit OF party conquest is not to be
ssted at that line. Such, to say the least,
arc the signs of the times.