Year: 1876

Especial Correspondence OF the Republican,


NOTES FROM TIE CAPITAL.


WASHINGTON, December 2, 1876.


In conversation yesterday the President
is reported to have expressed himself cheer
fully and hopefully relative to the presi-
dental complications, over which Demo-
cratic sheets and orators are making them
selves so miserable. He believes peaceful
result will be reached. although it is bound
to be unsatisfactory to q portion of the
voters of the country.


Relative to the use Of the army 10 civil
affairs, he denied that it, or any portion OF
it, had ever been used to oppress the peo'
pie of the South, or for any interest other
than that of peace; that it had only been
used in the South since he became Presi-
dent, after being requested by lawful au-
thority to interfere, and when it appeared
that the State government was in danger OF
being overthrOwn by unlawful combinations
too powerful 10 be suppressed by ordinary
processes of law. He is also reported to
have said that in no instance could United
States troops be shown to have interfered
with the hight Of suffrage. nor had their
presence contributed TO restrict the rights
Of any voter, whether Republican or Dem.
ocrat.


In this connection it occurs to ths mind
OF many refleclng people at this critical
iuncture OF national affairs, to ask what
must be thought OF the motive OF class of
newspapers whose columns are daily filed
with appeals to the mob and disloyai spirit
of tho country, to disregard the verdict
of the seventh ultimo as it shall have
been declared by officers designated by
Law for that duty, after an open and care
full investigation of all the facts in the
premises, unless that result shall be favor
able to Mr.. Tilden. With such papers it is
sought to still further exasperate and in
flame the lawless audiences to which they
address themselves, by representing the
President as constantly plotting to win
over the army and navy to his support in
his contemplated coup d'etat, which accom-
plished, he will declare himself dictator
and put 20 the sword every patriot who
dares oppose his nefsrious purposes. OF
course it is understood by such pestilential
sheets. that they are dealing with very
low grade Of intelligence, and that their
readers can not see that they are being
lured to their own destruction by such in
famously wicked suggestions, which spring
from q groveling hope Of self-aggraudize-
men. TO come through the anarchy and
bioodshed they are laboring to bring about.


1t is believed here that few days lore
will suffice to arrive as q correct result in
the matter OF the late election; and, al
though threats and rnenaces are still made,
the feeling of peaceable solution gains
strength every passing day. The intelli-
gence of the country is unalterably opposed
to any other, and will compel the obedience
of every other element.


There is very little excitement here over
the mixed condition of political affairs in
the Palmetto State, the pioneer of the NULL
fication business in JacksOn's day, and OF
the secession movement in 1860. It's situa
tion was long and earnestly discussed al


the Cabinet meeting yesterday, where il
was finally decided that no military inter
ference was called for further than to sus
tain the State government against aEy act


of revolution or usurpaticn that may be at
tempted.


Nothing has ever inflicted a severer SHOCK
70 the humane instincts of residents here
since the days of Andersonville, than tht
revelations of the horrible atrocities Of the
bulldozers of Louisiana before the members
Of the Returning Board, and in the
presence of Republicans and Demo
Gratis. Undemonstrative people were
betrayed into a vigorous expression
of their detestation of the heartless, aban
doned wretches guilty Of such crimes, moi
against political party or the sacred right
of suffrage, but against humanity itself
Very few Democrats we're found with suff
cient hardihood to defend them, although
the witnesses by all manner of absurd sup
positions. But the bloody Democracy OF
that miserable State has st last over.
reached itself, for hundreds who have hith-
erto sneered at the "bloo6y shirt" and
spoken of Southern outrages as the crea.
tions of political party for effect, or gross
exaggerations, have become sincere be-
levers in the truth of the existence of an
organized and armed conspiracy through
out the lately rebellious States.


The city is rapidly filing up, although


members of Congress have been very tardy
in getting here.


Thanksgiving passed of with about the
usual number of intoxicated jewellers, al
though with fewer arrests for breaches of the
peace. Many turkeys and bushels of Gran


berries were consumed, and the debris
piously given to the poor. REP.
The Temperature.


The thermometer at Louis Frigerio's, No
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