Year: 1876

Philadelphia Times. There

 are few American citizens who

 will not forget their partlsanship

 o-day, when they face the com

 mon peril that confronts alike

 government, credit and the public

 peace. 1t is no time for the off

 ces of party prejudice or for

 mean contrivance to attain party victory. It is an occasion that

 summons every patriot to duties

 far above and beyond all interests

 of individual ambition or of polit-

 ical organizations. The president

 has spoken to the nation and to

 the world Tn tones which cannot

 be interpreted to sanction fraud.

 His words are brave and worthy of his great office, and there will

 be a hearty response to them from

 honest men of all parties. His order that "should there be any

 suspicion of a fraudulent court on either side, it should be reported and denounced at once," is to be received in the only spirit that could inspire such language, and it must be obeyed in the fullest integrity of It's plain meaning. It means that the missions of Xiii patrick to North Carolina and of the othes. ministers of fraud has, tened by Chandler to South Car olina, Florida and Louisiana, must call halt, If it means less than that, it IS monstrous faisehood, and there is nothing in the order of the president to warrant the apprehension that he is anything else than entirely honest and pa triotic in his appeal to the coun- try that has so conspicuously honored him. We'll does he say that mo man worthy of the office of president should be willing tL hold it if counted in or placed there by fraud. Either party can afford to be disappointed Tn the result, but the country cannot afford to have the result tainted by the suspicion ofillegal or false returns" In this manly deliver ance the president speaks for the whole conservative and business interests of the country. They obey party discipline and aflini ties in ordinary contests, but when revolution threatens the subversion of all government, public credit, public trust and public safety are thrown into the eddy of battle, and party interests perish in the instant before the claims of free government to be saved from the death blow of the reckless revolutionist, who would shatter the whole fabric of just authority on the altar of polluted partisanship.

 We believe that Samuel J. Til den is honestly and lawfully c.Iosen president of the United States. His large majority of the whole popular vote is admitted. but that can give him no rightful claim to the high office unless the electoral college shall fairly elect him. If it shall, in faithful obe- dience to the laws, elect Ruther- ford B. Hayes, there are none who will refuse the most cordial ac- quiescence; but the country is not in temper to have the positive expression of the popular will overthrown in the electoral col iegc by such hands as have en- throned the Kelloggs and Spen- cers and Pattersons of the South. They may be submitted to in or der to save the fountain of free government, but should they pour their deadly poison into a presl- dential contest and subvert the solmn judgment of the republic, they would at once plunge the no blest government of the earth in to anarchy more hopeless and ten fold more terrible than that of Mexico. It is truth that none should misunderstood, that If Samuel J. Tilden has been honest. ly chosen president of the United States, there will be no govern ment to administer in this land, after the 4th of march next, un- less. he admisisters it; and it would be but the feeblest imita- tion of the revolutionary pretcn- ders of the tempest-tossed South American mockeries of civil au- thority, to attempt the inaugura- ton of Rutherford B. Hayes against the deliberate judgment of the people that hls commission is the creation of fraud. 1t is these pregnant truthes which will unite the demand of upright men of all parties to protest against the manipulation of returns in Louis jana, South Carolina and Florida, and which will compel the Chan dlers and like political despera- does to swing to the rear until the peril they have madly invoked has been averted by the patriotism of the whole people of the country. We hope and believe that right will come out triumphant Tn the end, not because there are not enough of leaders who would gladly overthrow it, but because the business interests of the coun-