Year: 1876

We print elsewhere curious report sent
us from Washington by an occasional CORE
spondent of certain manmuvres Of demo-
Gratis regarded there as suspicious. There
is also report from Philadelphia Of an at
tempt to get possession by forged order OF
the telegraphio dispatches sent by the
President day before yesterday. For this
last trick there seems to be no motive as
signed


The public mind is just now in an ex-
cited state, and all rumors gather volume,
and no doubt many are wrongly credited by
excitable people. We print these mainly
because they furnish us convenient text
for little Sunday morning sermon to the
political gamblers OF both parties We
warn them that this is no time for tricks.
The people Of tho United States have got
their eyes open; they will not be deceived;
they do not mean to be sold out; they do
not care much who is President; but they
mean to have IN honest and fair count.


We are not so foolish as to suppose that
the leading statesmen of either party would
condescend to trickery or fraud. But in nm
emergency like this the personal interests of
lower class are involved, and this especial
ly in the Southern States now in dispute |;
and the fraternity Of political gamblers
may have among it some superserviceable
members who would not hesitate at any
trick If these people will take our advice
they will keep their hands of They are
certain to b. discovered, and the country
will then be too hot to hold them. No party
will be powerful enough to shelter them,
even If it Wished to, and no decent man Of
either psrty will want to.


No doubt we shall have in the next few
days some wild and startling assertions
of trickery, corruption and fraud from
both sides. Overanxious, superserviceable
AMI disappointed partisans will become the
p.ey Of their diseased imaginations and
produce the gravest accusations. We ad-
wise everybody to remember that we are all
Americans, and the greater part of us decent
Christian people; neither republicans nor
democrats, taken as mass, will consent to
fraud; no leading or prominent member Of
either party would consent to it; neither
Mr.. Hayes nor Mr.. Tilden, anxious rs both
doubtless are on entirely public grounds to
be elected, would accept the Presidency if
the election rested under the taint of fraud.


The ofice-holders and the office-seekers
are naturally very deeply excited over the
result; and one or the other will be deeply
disappointed when it becomes known. They
are the real authors of most fthe excitement
we see; the people, though doubtless anx-
ious to sec on each side its favorite success
full, are mainly solicitous that an honest and
fair count shall be made. They do not
care much whether Mr.. Tildep or Mr.. Hayes
is the next President. They believe, rightly,
that the country is safe under either, and
they know perfectly well that if the party
which shall now prove successful does not
conduct itself with remarkable prudence
and wisdom they can turn it out of Con-
gress in two years and out Of the executive
in four. No political party can ruin or dan
gerously injure this country in two years !;
that is the rock on which the permanence of
our institutions lies. Last week the parti-
san journals of both sides were vehemently
denying this fundamental truth. To-day
they already freely admit it and range them
selves on the ground where the HERALD
stood-alas nearly alone-during the entire
canvass.