smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1876

1t is not unlikely that this election may
involve the greatest strain upon our consti-
tuition and government that they have ever
been subjected to. From present indica-
tions Governor Hayes may possibly be
elected President by 1856 votes, just the num-
Der necessary to . choice. This would give
him majority of one in the electoral Gel
lege, including the States of South Car
olina, Florida and Louisiana. In this case
the Democrats may attempt to throw out or
prevent the count of one or the other Of
these States. Several Democratic papers
have already hinted at such plan and seem
to be preparing the public mind for it in
advance by claiming Democratic majorities


in one or more of them without q shadow of
foundation for such claim. Now we say
to these papers and to Democrats generally
that we want no more rebellion from the
Democratic party. If Mr.. Tilden is elected
by one vote, Republicans will submit, and
they will demand the same submission
from Democrats if Governor Hayes is
elected by one vote. The constitution pre-
scribes the manner and form of presidential
elections, and declares that the person
having q majority of the electoral votes
shall be President. If Mr.. Tilden she'll
carry q majority of the electoral votes, Re-
publicans will submit, although they know
that the grossest intimidation and fraud
have been practiced in some of the Southern
States. If the votes of those States are cast
fof him by the electors of the State. and
according to the forms of law, Republicans
will accept it as q finality, and, we
repeat, they will demand similar action on
the part of the Democracy if Hayes should
be elected by one majority. Under the COZ


stitu.ion majority of one is as good as a
msjority of fifty, no matter where it comes
from. The Democratic party has rebelIed
once against the verdict of the people, and
had to submit. The people want no more
attempts to Mexicauize the country, nor to
attain results by revolution which can not
be attained under the forms of law. We are
Year: 1876

The New York Herald contains the fol-
lowing interview with the President at
Washington on Saturday night:


Upon being asked what his solution was
of the present situati0n, he said. promptly:
count" The charge Of corruption and fraud
made against the Republicans by their op.
pOnents was then discussed, and he said:
Politicians in the South may instigate all
sorts of atrocities, and even be parties to
them to the extent of committing murder
and nothing much is said or thought about
it; but when fairness in an election, accord
ing to the lawful plan, is insisted upon, great
complaint is made, and there 10 q charge of
unfairness."


He went or to say that, in order to be
satisfied, as we'll as to have similar con-
viction carried to the minds of the Ameri.
can people, that there would be fair
count of the vote for Electors in Louisiana,
he had made up his mind some days since
to invite to 60 to Louisiana certain public
men of irreproachable character and re-
would carry conviction to the whole Ameri-
can people. 1t was not done as counter
movement to that of the Democrats under
the call of their political managers, which
latter action, however, he understood was
in compliance with the request of the peo.
pie OF Louisiana.


He seemed to feel that the end in view
favOring Justice and honesty-w0uld be
subserved by the course taken. Incident
ally he remarked that the sending of troops
into South Carolina and the Southern
States had produced good effect, and had
maintained the peace. When the present
trouble and condition of the public mind
was referred to, he said that he did not an
ticipate any trouble if proper precautions
were taken in time. All that q rupture of
the peace needed for its prevention was
irmness, prOmptness and decision, as we'll
as having force enough at command to nip
it in the bud.


Here the President reflected for moment
and reviewed an important epoch in our
national history. In the case of Buchanan,
in 1861, he said: 'If temporizing, vaccil-
ating and undecided policy had not been
followed, there would not have been the
civil war and its disaster. At one time,
had he acted with decision, he might have
stopped the whole thing with brigade of
troops, but he waited until the magnitude
Of the disturbance had got past his con-
troll"


..Do you anticipate trouble in the South,
Mr.. Presiden,l' asked.


"Oh, no." he replied, with q smile. II
have made it q rule through life never to
anticipate trouble. never look for it until
it comes, but l believe in being prepared
for it, and having the means at command
to check it,"


A reference to the result of the presiden.
tial election brought from him the opinion
he has heretofore invariably expressed. that
dent; but that it is q matter of duty and
propriety to submit to the result as it will
be honestly declared upon the counting of
the votes.
Year: 1876

The Cincinnati Enquirer foreshadows the
following line of Democratic action in case
of Hayes election by majority of the
electoral votes. It says:


81. The House will insist that the TWEEN
ty-second joint rule is in force, and then the
objection of the House will be sufficient to
reject the vote of any State.


so. 1t will be insisted that the Senate and
the House, sitting as joint convention,
must count the vote, and that joint conven-
tion would not count an unlawful vote from
any State.


"3. The constitution commands that the
votes shall be counted in the presence of
the Senate and House of Representatives
The House can reject fraudulent vote by
refusing to lend the sanction of its presence
to its counting.


~. By either of these methods, which
are lawful, the fraudulent electoral vote of
and then the House, having declared that
there has been no election of President
by the electoral college, will proceed, in
compliance with the constitution, to elect a
President"


1t is evident that the contingency Of
Hayes election has been thoroughly dis
cussed in Democratic circles with q view
to agreeing upon Q line of action in that
case. The three plans suggested by the
l%N4NuCS dI0 0A A0VVAutAVA0Ays TN0Vs Cu0
twenty second joint rule is not in force,
and without that rule neither house Of Con-
gress has the power to reject the vote of .
State. Second, the constitution says moth
ing about the two houses of Congress count
ing the vote, sitting in joint convention or
any other way. 1t simply says the Presi-
dent of the Senate shall open the certif-
Gates in presence of the Senate and House
of Representatives. land the votes shall
then be counted" The custom has been to
appoint tellers to count them, but this
is not necessary. The President of the SEN
ate may count the votes himself and
declare the result. Third, the House can
not nullify the constitution by ''refusing to
lend the sanction of its presence to the
counting" Their attendance is not of the
essence Of the proceeding. and the will of
the people, c0nstitutionally expressed and
recorded, can not be nullifed by the action
of refractory House of Representatives
in refusing to witness the count OF votes.
Finally, the lset suggestion OF the foreSo-
ing extract fully outlines the Democratic
plan OF action in case Hayes is elected.
They propose to ignore the action of the
electoral college, and, assuming that there
has been no election by the people, proceed
to elect in the House of Representatives.
This would be revolution, pure and simple.
We shall see whether the Democracy will
dare to enter on this course in case of Hayes
election by q majority of the electoral votes
If they do, as Grant remarked to the New
York Herald correspondent, it will be
"nipped in the bud. Journal
Year: 1876

FATIGUE A LuxuRY.-It is a great pleas
me 10 get thoroughly tired. The only way
TO fully enjoy rest and sleep is to get tired
hrst. Many person., have an idea that idle
erroneous notion. Idle persons enjoy moth
ing. A sense OF languor haunts them through
the day, aud Of restlessness through the
night. Nor, on the other hand, does mere
physicitf exercise qualify one for the highest
enjoyment of repose. II is the happy com.
bination OF mental aud bodily labor, requir-
ing recreation for both body and mind, which


alone qualities one for the complete realiza-
ton Of the luxury Of the change To rest and
sleep. And il Is only from such sleep that we
awaken greatly strengthened and refreshed.
Year: 1876

Either Mr.. Hayes is a man of little
strength of purpose, and of very slender
backbone, as we believe, or he is not;
and in either case Republicans who
really regard the good of the country as
of supreme importance, ought to con-
slider carefully whether it is not their
duty either to vote for Mr.. Tilden, or not
to vote at all.


In the event of Mr.. Hayes's election,
one or two things must happen; either
he will submit to the corrupt and
coDscienceless leaders of the party, or he
will stand by the promises and represen-
tations he has made to his private
friends, and break utterly with those
leaders. In the event of his submission,
the Republican party must sink into a
deeper slough of corruption than it has
yet sounded; in the event of his resis-
tance, it must be disrupted by more
violent and embittered quarrel than
that which the Wing party passed
through when John Tyler set up on his
own account, or that which shook the
Republican party when Andrew johnson
turned against it. And while Mr.. Hayes
would become to the majority of the
party the most odious creature in the
country, the party itself would be
shivered into fragments and destroyed,
as it would not be by the election of Mr..
Tilden.


The shadow of this internecine conflict
Year: 1876

According to these figures Tilden
would have twelve votes to spare, and
Hayes would require fifty-six to elect.
Conceding to him the four States class
flied as doubtful, he would still be short
thirteen votes. Where are they to come
from is question which the Republican
managers have not been able to answer to
their own satisfaction.


The most interesting points at this
time are Indiana and Ohio. No doubt
is entertained by the Congressional
Democratic Committee as to decided
majority in Indiana for Williams The
estimates generally agree upon fifteen
thousand, though there may be margin
of five thousand either way. At the
outset of the canvass the Democrats did
not count upon Ohio at all as one of the
necessary elements to elect. Previous
distractions on the currency had wrought
bad feeling and divisions. Now they
are united heartily, and the Republicans
are giving ground in the manufacturing
counties. The Germans are substantially
united for Tilden in the cities and towns
where they are mostly found in large
numbers. They have cast off Schurz as
leader-at least for this occasion. The
reports are encouraging, and the result
will be close but the State is put down
as doubtful.


Wisconsin is included in the doubtful
list, though the accessions to Tilden are
numerous, and the Germans are Jealous
Year: 1876

within the lines of the Republican party
is clearly outlined in the following
PASSAGE from the Springfield Republican,
Journal doing its best for the election
of Hayes and Wheeler:


OF course, he can not prevent the Blaines
and Mortons and Buffers and Ingersolls sup
porting him-and supporting him in their
own way. But he can prevent their crowd
ing and jostling the other sort-hiS sort-of
Republicans into the background. Without
violating the conventional proprieties of a
Presidential candidature, he can give the
country to understand where his sympathies
are as between the Bristows, Schurzes, and
Coxes on the one hand, and the gentlemen
in dyed garments who run with the machine
on the other.


The recent experience of Mr.. Schurz,
in whose retirement from the canvass
there is every reason for believing Mr..
Hayes concurred, indicates very clearly
that the Republican candidate is not of
a temper and quality to take such a
course as our Springfield contemporary
advises. He will never dare to show by
decisive action that his sympathies are
with the Bristows, the Schurzes, and
Coxes of the party, and against the
Chambers, the Buffers, the Blaines, and
the Grants. He has not done this yet,
and how can he ever summon up courage
to do it? And if he can not do it before
the election, when it would be compare
lively easy and painless, what hope is
there of his doing it afterward, when it
would provoke hot and terrific conflict,
full of danger and pregnant with de-
struction? .-E


These are things which Republicans
would do well to think of seriously.
Year: 1876

The sudden and general determination
to carry the campaign on the Southern
issue, shows uncomfortable alarm among
the Republican leaders. They are panic
stricken. They have compared notes,
and their conclusion appears to be that
on a fair canvass, ON the real issues of
the year, they will lose, and in despera-
tion the wcrd has gone out to fling the
"bloody shirt" to the breeze and make
the appeal, not to the reason, the honesty
and patriotism of the country, but to
prejudice, hatred, fear, and ignorance.
That is the way it looks to cool observ-
ers; and even if this were not the cor
rect theory of their policy, it is still true
that such is the suppression it makes.
Shrewd political calculators say, if the
Republican managers were not badly
frightened they would not force an obso-
lete and hateful issue upon the coun-
try. If they felt moderately sure of win
ming they would argue; it is because
they feel themselves weak that they take
to vituperation and denunciation.


The policy of denunciation, this ex-
clusion of reform and concentration on
the Southern issue is blunder of the
Republican leaders in several ways. 1t
alienates large mass of voters; it Gre
ates feeling of distrust and alarm
among the calculating or "loose" voters,
and it places the party in false relation
to the living issues OF the day. 1t may
exasperate and alarm timid and igno-
rant voters, but it cannot carry the coun-
try No thoughtful voter believes that
the country would be seriously endan-
gered or hurt if the Democrats should
come into power, and that sort of Lon-
sense excites as much contempt in SEN
sible men as the foolish assertion of
Democratic organs that the country
would be ruined if the Republicans
should succeed. If the RepublicaRparty
is to be for another four years party of
prescription in the South, party en-
couraging misgovernment and trading
on outrage there, then it is by all means
best, for all our interests, North and
South, that the Democrats should come
in; and this is the opinion of great
many thousand Republican voters, with
out whom the Republicans cannot sue
ceed in November,
Year: 1876




The Democrats are in better form now
than they we're in 1874 and 1875. In
each of those years they won. The peo-
pie are more conscious of the necessity
of change now than then, and then
they ordained change for this year. A
rational consideration of these facts will
give no Republican any comfort, and
leave no Conservative in any doubt.
There is an immense amount of politics
which does not write letters nor show it
self at public meetings. We are, as has
been well said, in the influence of quiet
revolution. Men are thinking for them
selves. Thousands of Republicans have
made up their minds to try the Demo-
cratic party. They know that things are
SO bad that any change will be for the
better, and they feel that the Republican
party can only go on from bad to worse,
unless it is relieved from the cares
of government and given full oppor-
tunity to reform out of Office. These
men do not mean to make any fuss about
their voting, or any mistake about it,
either. They do not intend to expose
themselves to the solicitations of one side
OF to the remonstrances Of the other,
Year: 1876

SoNG-wRITERs have good deal to say
about the "old school-house," but are
very careful not to mention the fact that
a rabbit track would have pHlled them
away from the dear old structure at race
horse speed during any period Of their
attendance.
Year: 1876

Reform is necessary to rebuild and es-
tablish in the hearts of the whole people
in the Union, eleven years ago happily
rescued from the danger of secession of
States, but now to be saved from cor
rupt centralism, which, after inficting
upon ten States the rapacity of carpet
bag tyrannies, has honeycombed the
offices of the Federal government itself
with incapacity, waste and fraud; in
iscted States and municipalities with
the contagion of misrule, and locked
fast the prosperity of an industrious
people in the paralysis of hard times.
Year: 1876

Dishonesty, rapacity and venality


have debauched the public service. Men
known to be unworthy have been pro-
NOTED, while others have been degraded
for fidelity to official duty. Public Office
has been made the means of profit, and
the country has been offended to see a
class of men who boasted the friendship
of the sworn protectors of the State,
amsssing fortunes by defrsuding the
Year: 1876

Reform is necessary in the civil serv-
ice. Experience proves that efficient
economical conduct of the government
business is not possible if its civil serv-
ice be subject to change atevery election,
be prize fought for at the ballot box,
be a brief reward of party zeal instead
of posts of honor assigned for proved
competence, and held for fidelity in the
public employ; that the dispensing Of
patronage should neither be tax upon
the time of our public men, nor the iu-
strument of their ambition. Here, again,
professions falsifed in the performance
attest that the party in power can work
out no practical or salutary reform.
Year: 1876

Across q NEW nOUdElAds


The story runs that for months the
miners in going to and from their daily
labors have travelled along certain path i,
wearing the earth away to the rock. A
vein was thus brought to light which pre-
sented no attraction to the prospector and
was trod upon as of no account. A la
borer two weeks ago, swung ledge upon
his shoulders and started early in the
morning for the mountain side. Reach
ing the ledge he carelessly allowed the;
heavy stone breaker to fall apon projec-
ting point, and thereby detached several,
pieces of the vein matter. The. white
character Of the rock and its glittering
particles caused him to pick up one of the
pieces, when dumb amazerer1t took pos
session of him, as he thus quickly began
to realize that, so far as is known, one of
the richest mines in the world had thus
luckily been discovered. Literally full
were the white specimens with bright par
ticles of almost pure gold, and although
shaft has been sunk to the depth of nine
feet, the rock increases in richness, and at
the bottom very thin stripes of wire gold
seem to hold together the fragmentary
parts of the vein matter. Untold wealth
is the sure possession Of the men, Virden
and Griffin, who own this treasure vault
OF the hills, and who have given their claim
the not very beautiful name OF "Spctted
Tail" l."-Deuv'ey Tribune.
Year: 1876

Lloyd's London Weekly gives this as
an English estimate Of the president,
lust now the most abused man in Amer
lea: "His services to the country arc
priceless. He rallied and led discour-
aged army, and by his iron will and un-
faltering courage saved the country.
Stern on the field, he; became modest
and kind afterward He saved Lee from
trial as a traitor. The fierce light that
beats upon throne is mild moonshine
compared with the glare under which
the president of the United States walks
and sits and sleeps. Time will do him
Justice. Over his tomb the nation will
repent for the wrobg done this great
citizen" t
Year: 1876

An exchange speaks as follows of
Whittaker's Life Of Gen. Custer, now
in press:


The Life of General CUSTER" which
is now being written by Captain Fred
erick Whitaker, we learn is progressing
RAPIDLY to completion. 1t will be one
of tho most charming biographies pub
lished ia years.-BothF author and Pue-
fisher have been greatly surprised at
the vast mass of rich material which
thew have beea able to obtain. Proba.
blv there is not another officer with any
thing like the reputation of General
Custer. Of whom so little is accurately
known by the people at large. The book
will Le fully illustrated, and will give
.raphic account Of Custer's life, both in
the army and on the plains with the In
dians. His lille was romance from be-
ginning to end. The author, in his
prelim mary remarks as follows:


This book aims to give to the world
the life of great man, one of the few
really great men that America has pro
duced. Beginning at the foot Of the
social ladder, with no advantages beyond
those physical and mental, given to him
by the God who male him, he rose to
the top. His upward career was so rap
I'd and phenomenal in its success as. to
deceive the world in general as to the
means by which he rose, and none more
completely for time than the present
writer of his biography. Much Of Gus
ter's success has been attributed to good
fortune, while it was really the result
of an unusual capacity for hard and en-
ergetic work, and rapidity of intuition
which is seldom found apart from mill
tary genius Of the highest order. 1t is
only after careful and complete exam
ination Of the character of the man, and
the perusal Of mass of private CORES
poudence, beginning in his days of ob
scurity, after the unconscious revelation
by himself of his inmost thoughts and
aspirations, that the author has learned
Alright to appreciate the personality of
the subject of this biography. The
world has never known halt the real
nobility Of the life Of Custer, nor a
tithe of the difficulties under which he
struggled. 1t will be the authors en-
deavor to remedy this want of knowl
edge, to paint in sober, earnest colors,
the portrait of such knight of romance
as has not honored the world with his
presence since the days of Bayard.


This may sound exaggerated praise
to some. A few short weeks ago it
would have sounded so to the writer.
He only asks the world to accept It to.
day, as his honest conviction and sober
testimony, arrived at after very thor
ough and careful examination, by one
who entered on the task with very diff:
ferent impressions. The current idea on
the subject has been largely due to the
expression Sc. afoat by Caster himself,
embodied in the words "Custer's luck,'
but never has there been more mis-
taken impression. To remove that i'm.
preston, to show to the world the dead
as he really was-an ideal hero is the
object of these pages.


This hook will be sold only to those
Year: 1876

Ye whose houses are quiet, sad and meian-
choly. untitled by the pleasant cry. the happy
howl Of infancy; ye who are childless. but long
for the pleasure and blessing Of baby. now is
your chance. On the levee. at the foot of Canal
street. Just landed from the steamer Shannon are
some half dozen large-size boxes. labelled con-
spicuously. Assorted babies"


We understand that. in consequence of hard
times. they will be sold Off ut the most liberal
rates. by the dozen IL necessary. so that every
body can get large and interesting family at a
very small expense. Call early and you can get
your pick of black. white, red and no-haired
babies.


2. S.A gentleman has just explained to us
that we were slightly mistaken in our remarks.
The boxes were labelled assorted babies" he
confesses. but did not contain babies-at least
not babies of flesh and blood, Of the crying and
yelling. shouting and kicking kind-but small
lager beer glasses technically known as
babies"


We accept the apology and withdraw all our
previous statements. Those who are anxious
for babies will have to try some other way OF get
ting them. For our own part. the cargo is far
more acceptable as it is. As between beer and
babies we have leaning toward the former.