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SON. TILLMAN, Editor. _
TIU'USDAY. NOVEMBER 23, 1576.
The Political Status.
Tljo groat suspense) in which liie
ronntiy is held, clearly indicates that
the infamous faction intend; if the
people will i :it tliem, to FI oil to
power, and to wield the machinery of
govern ru,nit to tin own .■■** lofucli m,
nml selfish purpftscs. The great ntnl
vital question iu, wiU they lie permit
ted to snatch from tbo pooplo their
rights, and liberties, and establish in
the place of free Democracy V “-I
wuh'nj !" Arc the masses ready to |
see the snt) of this boasted, and cher
ished free American country set m a
cloud of infamy no dark, so obscure,
that there will not. b ■ one ray of the
light of liberty 1. ft them; or will they
rise in their majesty and lnirl from
place and power <••. rv accursed vil
lain who would dare interpose his au
thority to circnmsoi ibe tee rights and
freedom of ilie people.
Wo feel that wo but utter the sen
timents of the great .majority of tun
American people, when we ray that
they are with one accord; ready with
one simultaneous shout to say, “Long
live the Republic; or if we are to be j
deprived of our lib: rib s, then let the
old ship of State strand at once and
fso to niece. l -'.” But in uglxvc*hs uuikj }
let so dire a calamity pass by; yield
ing the helm of State to the people s
choice and standard bearer, Samuel
J. Tdden. Will they do it witnout
deluging the country in blood, or will
the lovers of freedom and liberty have
t > force the faction of usurpers to
obey the will of the majority of the
American people. Y\ e believe, yea,
wo trust that tins bitter cup will be
permitted to pass by, and that the
shout may yet go up from the centre
to the eireumferauco of this broad
land, “Long live tbo Republic 1 ’ Sc
mote it bo.
Soldiers.
AYhat does it mean ? AYhy are sol
diers being massed at Washington
City ? Do the people believe, or can
they bo made to believe, that they are
en route, as stated; and that their
movements have no ; ditical sigafi
cance. It will certainly be very diffi
cult to convince the people that the
usurpers do not design holding to the
(Government at all hazards. X. hat is
to bo the final effect ? AVhither are
we drifting? Has the mission of lice
government on this continent reached
its climax ? Are the free people of
America to stand iuly by and see their
liberties trailed in tiie dust as indif
ferent spectators, or will they assert
their rights, and dare maintain them.
These are questions that at this time
the public mind are very geatly exer
cised over, and to remove the sus
pense either way will be a relief.
The Carpet-Hugger.
(W niton for the Quitman Eepoetkb.)
This pest to the South germinated
in the hot bed of corruption, the fruit
of the war, and like the apple of the
Dead Sea, is not less unpalatable.
They swarmed upon us like the locust
and their depredations upon our
property, are scarcely less in oxidise
than the ravages of that insect upon
the vegetation of Egypt. The verita
ble Carpet-bag now immortalized in
history, harmless in itself, was the de
pository of their fortunes, save what
they had on their backs. The brass
in their face and deep dyed villainy
at their hearts was their whole stool:
in trade, and the origin of a niaine
before which honesty trembles and
virtious indignation hung her head
in despair that they succeeded in their
base purposes even beyond their most
sanguine expectations, we have occn
lar and pecuniary demonstration, for
like the Territories and Paschalicks
of the O-unaiili, the South is desola
ted and her wealth transferred by ra
pacious greed to the capacious pock
< ts of tht>*e tools of arbitrary power,
the usurpation of which has caused a
death blow to themselves and eternal
disgrace to the administration which
sustains them. It is an old trite sav
ing that “The Gods make mad those
whom they intend to destroy.” Its
applicability to the present stirring
even's, indicates more truth than po
etry, for the desperation and tenacity
with which they ding to departing
power may properly be termed mad
ness, which can only be equaled by
their temerity and depravity. AVith
the exception of Louisiana and South
Carolina, Florida, properly the land
flowers, but now nearly a desert, has
suffered most from these vampires in
human shape; whose last crowing act
of villainy was to give that State into
tbo tender keeping of a pair of mon-
atrocities whose character would dis
grace the inmates of a penitentiary.
Ret aside tho people of a State, sec
ond to none in sociability and refine
ment and loyalty to tho government,
yet their virtues have been transform
ed into vices for the purpose of in
creasing prejudice against them at
the North and insuring greater socur
ly to themselves in the accomplish
ment of their nefarious designs. AYe.
| need not wonder tutu that the citi
! zona of Florida should unite with
their brethren of other Slates and in
solid phalanx at the polls express by
j their vote their jiistindignalion at
I such flagrant wrongs. They could
S bear poverty but not infamy and fully
aroused to tho situation and their
i duties they manfully performed
i them to tho discomfiture of their ene
ma who contemplating success*
from fraud iu which from long prac
tice they are adapting because too
diarp even for themselves, and being
fairly caught iu their own trap, arc
• now a prey to despondency. Yet,
■ like drowning men, they catch at.
straws, and, notwithstanding, the
people holds them and their despica
ble chief responsible for fair play in
tho canvassing of tho votes. They
, hope against hope that fate or the
D---1 will give- them one more chance
: to complete their designs against the
; State they have so nearly ruined and
eagerly desire to accomplish. Isut
thunks be to God! The Carpet-bsg
j ger will soon be one of the things
that lma been, 'Vila even Florida,
down-trodden Florida, may rejoice
, in the prospect of deliverance from a
pest whose end is annihilation. South
Carolina lms shown n precedent it.
will bo well for her to follow, ns it will
insure to her tho majority she has
; fairly and honorably won in tho pres
ence of ignoraneo and fraud and re
lievo her from an incubus which the
day dawn of returning freedom will
. banish forever.
Madison.
Onv Washington Lei; my
WAsnncoTON, D. C., Nor. 17, 1870.
The election news appears to run
in the same beaten track that ii, has
pursued for many days, and is as dif
ficult to day to say who will be in
augurated as if was on the sixth inst.
The Republicans have received fewer
boasting dispatches. Chamberlain
appears to have entire confidence iu
his returning board giving the State
To Iluycc, while Hampton's majority
"is conceded to bu over eighteen hun
dred.
A dispatch was received last night
from Senator Jones of Florida, by a
member of his family, slating that.
Florida had gone for Tilden and
Hendricks beyond a peradventui e.
Oswald Ottendorfcr, editor of the
“New York Stunts Yeitnng,” givis
later, a gloomy view of * lie state of
affairs in Lonisina, in a dispatch to
that paper, (intud New Orleans, Nov.
15, he says: T lie return of the Parish
Commissioners made cut i:i two-fold
copies, most of w hich has come to
hand, and the substance of (hosere
maining, have been telegraphed, dear
ly show that, the Democratic majority
iu Louisiana amounts to SO"9 votes.
Nevertheless, it is the purpose of the
returning board to count in the Re
publican electors by throwing out. the
entire vote of some Parishes, and part
of the vote of certain others, on
grounds, fhe ebsurdity of which could
be made clear if there could bean ex
amination. Fortified, as they are,
against moral pressure, tho members
of the returning board defy public
opinion, and they point to the results
of the elections, in tho majority of the
elections in the Northern States as
proof that the majority of the people
of the United States are prepared to
sanction their frauds and usurpations.
Under these circumstances, the men
from the North, now hero, will luirdlv
be able to do anything. They may
collect tiie facts for an impartial re
port to be submitted to the nation;
but such would, in view of tho uncon
: corn of the American people, under
these circumstances, look like a funer
al discourse on the grave of the Rc
pi tuiiC.
The New York I! 'arid of yesterday
says, it is admitted directly or indi
rectly l>v Democrats and by Republi
cans that Mr. Tilden lias received a
lawful majority of the votes of the
electors lawfully chosen to select the
next President of tho United States.
Ike attempt to keep tiie country in
suspense upon this point, not with re
spectable Republicans like Mr. Hayes,
who made haste to recognize his de
feat like an honest Tuan, a gentleman
and a patriot, on the day after the
election, but with the least trusted
and most disreputable of that party,
the Chandlers, lugoraoJJs, and Mor
tons. It. is maintained only by a
shameless countenancing of men pub
licly branded uscorrnpt and dishon
est, like Kellogg, Packard, Chamber
lain and Htearnes. Is it not time for
decent Republicans to hc-tir them
selves in the matter. The reckless
attempt to nullify the, election of Gov
ernor Tilden t.p the Presidency of the
United Staten is likely to cost the
country quite as much, if not more
than black Friday or tho panic of
1873. The prophesied usurpation
cannot bo forced through upon this
country. The law, ns .Senator Bayard
well says, will give weapons enough
with which to defeat it. A contested
election for the Presidency is quite as
much in order as a dispute regarding
tho success or defeat of a candidate
for Alderman or a member of Con
gress.
Frequently, under the present gov
ernment of the State of New York, a
contest for the position of a State of
fice has extended over nearly the
whole term for which ho was elected'
The inquiry into the result of tho re
cent Presidential election may, there
fore, should Air. Hayes lie awarded
the seat by a fraud in tho returning
hoard of Louisiana, be prolonged
greatly, anil keep ti e question as to
who is the Constitutional head of the
government iu such doubt as to be
disastrous.
Dim.
(By Telegraph to tlio Quitman I‘ri'or.TEit.) i
Tallaiiasseb, Nov. 112nd. 1870.
Democrats, early to-day, served in-!
jnction on Gov. Stearns, reatraing him
from canvassing the returns; or issu
ing certificates to electors to the ex
clusion of State board canvassers. In
jection to bo heard at Tallahasseo on
Thursday, and Gov. Stearns required
to show cause why injunction shall
not be perpetual. It scorns to have
been an unexpected step, to the Re
publicans. Prominent men of both
parties continue to araive by every
train, and other conveyances across
the country. If llio injunction is re
strained, mandamus is to follow on
returning board, to show cause why
they do not begin the canvass.
Columbia, S. G, Nov. 22.—The Su
premo Court to-day issued perempto
ry mandamus to tho board of can- ]
vassers to issue certificates to mem-1
Iters of Senate and house of Represen
tatives, appearing on face of returns
to be elected. The final contests in
those houses are to bo decided by the
members themselves. This gives in
Semite, 18 Republicans and 15 Dem
.erats, and in the houso GO Republi
cans, anil 01 Democrats. Demacratic
majority of one on joint baliott. Leg
islature counts voles fer Gov., nml
Lieutenant Governor, and elects U;
S. Senator. The Court has decided
lo consider the other contests sepa
rately, and will hear arguments this
p. in. as to counting the electoral
votes.
How Hie Democrat Can Gel the
Vote or Florida, etc., Counted.
United States Senator Whyte, of
.Maryland, in all interview with a
Baltimore Sun reporter, said:
Ho is confident that Air. Tilden
has carried Louisiana and Florida,
and probably South Carolina, and
that iu spite of the Returning Board
tho votes for Air. Tilden in those
States will be counted for him. Tho
votes of such electors will bo certified
to the Prsident of the Senate, and
copies will also be sent to Senators.
AY lien the Senate and Houso sit to
gether to count the votes in Feb
ruary one toller will be appointed by
tlio Senate and two bv tho House, who
will count and declare the votes as
they are handed to them by the Vice-
President. Should the Vice-Pres
ident. decline to produce the certifica
tes in favor of Air. Tilden, a Senator
may produce copies ol them and move
that the votes be counted. The A ice-
President may also decline to put this
motion to the joint convention of the
two houses, iu which cave the tellers
will be asked to put. the motion to a
vote. As two of tho tellers will be
Democrats and one a
Republican, a majority of them
can decide as to the propriety of
putting the motion, as the Demucrat
|ic majority in tho House is large en
ough to controle the joint convention
it is plain that the votes of all tho
States that are really cast for Mr. Til
don may thus be counted. .Should
the Senate withdraw and decline to
' count those votes the matter will go
to the House of Representatives for
decision, as in the case of a lailuro to
to elect, by the people. In that event,
of corse Air. Tilden would be elected
President of the United States.
! The Upturning Board Criticised by
Air. Wheeler.
In a report upon Louisiana affairs
; presented to Congress by Wm. A.
Wheeler, (Republican candidate for
Vice President) Geo. F. Hoar and
\Ym. P. Frye, February 23,1875, the
action of the Returning Board of 1870,
i which was the same as the present
| one, is severely criticised - Matt
| Carpenter’s doctrine that the function
iof that body is a purely ministerial
one is pushed to the extreme limit.
The report says:
“It never could have been meant
that this Board, of its own motion,
| sitting in New Orleans, at a distance
I from the place of voting and without
notice, could decide the rights of
persons claiming to be elected. The
; Board took a different view of ils
! powers, and proceeded to throw out
ihc votes from many polls where they
found intimidation and violence to
have existed. The result was to do
! feat persons whom on the returns they
j should have declared elected.”
And now Mr. AYheeler’s only ehapec
of an election is the, hope that this
; Load will repeat the action which he
: denounced iu these terms but a lit tle
more than a year ago. He was then
fearful lest an evil chance should
tiring it to pa is that “electorsgaining
their office in like manner (by illegal
means) shall turn the scale in the case
of a President of the United
States.”
The classic Marcellas, lute Govern
|or of Florida, elected by iguriorance
and seated by impudence, his twin
land choice companions, has, with bis
plobiun chum, Dave ’Gummerv, boon
j hurled into oblivion by the voice of
!an outraged people. Oblivion did I
■say? This cannot be, for in this
case, Lethe has lost its virtue, and
memory must remain bearing a Leth
ograph indellibly stamped upon the
mind of that lump of obesity. That
soap-fat embodiment and abortion of
Eve’s sperm while will act as an in
cubus which life remains to the
youngest citizens of that State.
Madison.
AVilliam Pitt .Kellogg, who was
; hiuisel.'counted into office bv the
most disgraceful fraud known to
America politics, is preparing to
count in Rutherford B. Hayes? How
do the people of the North like it ?
WAR.
The foiling clippings indicate tho
tone of the American press, nnd sa
vors of I Bar. If the villainous fac
tion now controling the affairs of this
country persist in setting at naught
the will of the people. Read and re
flect, but don’t mistake the true situ
ation of the country.
BAYONETS AND BALLOT IIOXIIS.
Omaha Herald’.- “With United
•States bayonets crossed over every
ballot box in the Palmetto State to
enable Chamberlain’s black lit ids to
drive white and black from the exer
cise ot an untrammeled ballot, tho
plea of intimidation to account for
tiie victory of Tilden and Hampton is
a shameless and cowardly and infa
mous resort of these minions of arbi-
trary power.”
“HUIIAH LOU TILIU v.”
Cincinnati Gazelle: —“The twelve j
negroes murdered by the bulldozers
in one parish in Louisiana, because
they crossed tho dead lino, didn’t
vote and won’t count. That’s the,
way the bulldozers get up free elec
tions. ’Rah for Tilden and reform.” i
HOWLIN'; l--u WAIL
Jersey City Aigns:—“Republicans |
are howling for war. Tho old bloody
shirt having become worn out, they
thirst for a now one.”
LET us HAVE PEACH.
Chicago Tribune;—“Would Mr.
AVatteiron have him (Grant) imitate
, the imbecile and cowardly course of
James Buchanan and let madmen set
lire to Louisiana, which might spread
ito the whole Union if blown by the
| hot breath of fanatical partisans and
' reckless demagogues?”
SEITHEB PARTY FOR WAR.
Chicago Tribune:—“YV'o venturo to
I say that there is not a corporal’s
I guard within the democratic or re
publican parties who contemplate
war with anything like serene satis
faction, much less enthusiasm.”
ORANT AGAINST PEACE.
Richmond Dispatch;—“AA'hen
Grant, said,‘Let us have peace,’it
would be charity to consider him as
drunk, for he has done nothing that
i tended to the entablisment of ‘peace’
and ‘harmony’ among tho people and
j ‘equality’ and right among the
| States.”
ARKANSAS SENTIMENT.
Little Rook Gazette:—“Having
| tested tiie toleration of the American
people by seizing and controlling for
years, by arms and fraud, ; senarate
: States, they now contemplate a mili
tary it.up i/V/i 1 by which they shall,
retain the control of all the States.”
chant's “intliweulm
Columbia (S. C.) Register:—“Un
der other circumstances we could t ut
express commendation of the lan
guage of tho President accompany
ing his orders to his generals to ex
ercise strict military supervision over
the ballots cast in Louisiana arid
| Florida. It is an insult am! impnta
i tion upon tho people of those States,
even more flagrant than his invasion
lof South Carolina was an outrage
! upon our citzens.”
BLACK AND TAN POLITICIANS.
Nashville Banner: —“The Christian
people of the country at large have
felt themselves able to bear the mis
fortunes of their Southern neighbors
with fortitude; but there are national
interests at stake just now, and no
dirty blaek-nud-tan politicians in
! South Carolina can be permitted to
trifile with or compromise them.”
AFFIDAVITS HELD BACK.
Hartford (Conn.) Times:—“The
returns are still hold back; the old
game of ‘affidavits’ of ‘intimidation’ is
once more resorted to at the last’hour;
i and Sheridan is ‘or, hand’ again. The
j people will accept cheerfully any fair
j and honest result; but tho whole
; country revolts at this itffainous game
to set aside the actual result by
fraud.”
•wink war 111 -
Terre Haute Journal:—“The Til
, den men of the North and South will
not be cheated or counted out. YYe
appeal to all our brethren, to demo
cratic governors and democrats ev
i erywbere to stand fast in Hie faith, to
come up to the grand work which
|■ he hour may yet cull for. We say
; it, that these United States by a quar
ter of a million majority have called
Samuel J. Tilden lo tho chair, of state
The Inajority rules. The majority
will fight if there aro no other means
to save this country. Are we cowards
i and slaves? Is the spirit which made
us freemen and tho States a republic,
now dead? Let the republicans dare
evoke the wrath of this nation. We
put down rebels once and it can be
done again. All the democrats ask
is for an honest election and au hon
est count, and for that they must
even fight or become forever branded
ns dotards and time servers, when
the crisis calls for heroism and cour
age.”
A DEMOCRATIC OPINION.
The Now York Journal of Com
merce (democratic), after explaining
the powers of tlio returning boards in
the disputed States, under the laws
of those States, says:
The contest is not, therefore, about
any possible device for miscounting,
or underhand trickery for cheating
iu the count, of the popular vote. It
is a question as t.o what these several
canvassing boards may feel called
upon openly to do, and be legally jus
tified in doing, in tho way of correct
ing or rejecting the votes which are
placed in their hands for compila
tion. If they assume in all the tim e
States to make such changes as wil
reverso tho majority sont to them,
democratic partisans may rave and
threaten, and thoughtful people of all
parties may disapprove or heartily
condemn, but ave see no legal method
of setting aside tho inevitable re
sult.
What, docs Mr. William M. Evarts
think about it? He was the most
conspicuous Republican who protest
ed against the marching of troops
into the Louisiana Legislature, and
the kindred Louisiana outrages. Now
precisely tho same game is attempted
by the very same men—Kellogg,
Grant and all the rest-—and the end
desired is the counting in of tho can
didate in whose support Mr. Evarts
came out a few days before the elec
tion. The Journal of Commerce, the
most conservative and probably one
one of the most dignified papers in
the country, says that Mr. Evarts'
speech was made for a fee. This
may • r may not bo true, but it would
nevertheless bo interesting to know
what Mr. Evarts thinks about the
proposal to elect a President on the
Louisiana plan.
A Deeply Interesting Letter on
t.’ii' Loaisinii .Situation.
The communication subjoined isex
. traded from a private letter address
-1 ed to one of the editors of this paper.
■by Rev. R. Q. Mallard., I). D., pas
] tor of the Prytania Street- Presbyterian
| Church, New Orleans.
Perhaps no individual or servant of
! God enjoys in a greater degree the
; love and confidence of the entire
i Southern community. Dr. Mallard
|is also noted for his moderate and
; conservation views upon ail subjects,
; and his remarks on the situation in
i Louisiana at this critical juncture,
will command universal atten
! tion:
i We are, as you nay well suppose,
; under tremendous excitement just at
! this juncture. Yet, perhaps, under
| no greater than that felt everywhere.
; (fur State in a peaceful election, will)
! all the machinery in the hands of the
j Republicans, has by dint of hard
i work and general determination to
throw pIT tho incubus c; • n ns, going
I by the vote actually cast largely Deip
j ocratio. What the infamous “Re
taining Board” may make of it none
can teli. Ihe presence of a large
dtffnalion of men of distinction from
the North, and of all parties, is a moss
favorable eirciimsfau- e. Any wrong
done now by a board with a negro
undertaker a a membi r and anotiiy
ignorant African upon it., and worse
men of nnotbar color, will be perpet
rated in the presence of the whole
! eoun.ry. It is indeed a grave crisis,
and our redubliean institutions are
I now being put, i believe, to a beav
| ier strain than even during tho war of
j the Confederacy. Both sides then
professed to adhere to the coustitu
j tion of our fathers. If it shall prove
that live men shall he the arbiters of
! the destinies of millions of freemen
j and elect a candidate not. elected bv
people, then is republicanism a
! failure.
The matter is on my mind all the
j lime and a subject of my praver. If
tiiere was ever a time when it behoov
;ed a nation to call upon. God it is
surely the present. I stand amazed
at the Providence which has devel
j oped upon a wronged State tho set
j element of a great national election.
I The “Louisiana case,, this time is a
national case. Its settlement has
passed beyond our hands into those
;of the people of the Union; and ours,
when the whole caso is before the
, Returning Board and the jury of
distinguished men already here, will
jbe a passive policy. Iso judge from
I what I hear from a sorce in which I
have confidence. —Ex.
R. Q. Mallard.
All the friends of Reform, includ
ing not only those who voted for Gov
-1 ernor Tilden, but ales tho thousands
who believe that ho has been honest
; ly elected, and ought not to be count
led out, in Florida and Louisiana,
should he on their guard against all
. hot and immoderate talk and injndi
i cions action. The question which
i threatens to arise is so serious, and
] in some aspects so dangerous, that it
jis the duty of every good citizen not
|to add to the danger by scattering
I sparks him self. Let the excitement of
your Republican friends spend itself.
Many of them are good men who are
temporarily deceived by tho lies of
i the Republican National Committee,
jlt will not, be long before nil fair
! minded citizens will find that Gov.
! Tilden has been rightfully elected,
and that they can better afford to see '
a President inaugurated who is not
!of their choice than to have free in-j
stitutious turned into mockery bv the
inauguration of a President counted
in by fraud. Public sentiment is al
| ready overwhelmingly with us, and it
rema ns for us not to drive i- - away by
a luck of that moderation and judicial
temper which wc must nreserve even
in the face of such an outrage as the
Administration is ready to attempt.
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Capital of the sAate.
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SnpiARY.
Philadelphia Times: —It is a truth
that uoMoslionl misunderstand, that
if Samuel J. Tilden basheen honestly
chosen President of the United States,
there will be no government to
administer iu this land, after the 4tli
of March next, until he administers
it; nrtd it wi tild be but the feeblest
imitation of tho revolutionary preten
ders of the tempest-tossed South
America mockeries of civil authority,
to attempt the inauguration of
i Rutherford I>. Hayes against, the
'deliberate judgment ot the people
that his commission is the creation of
frrud. It is these pregnant, truths
which will unite the demand of upright
men of all partiesjto protest against,
the manipulation of returns in Louis
iana, South Carolina and Flori
da.
“All h—ll cannot prevent Packard’s
election,” was the wn v in which Vi il
lium Pitt Kellogg summed lip the
situation in Louisiana, in a conversa
tion with the correspondent of the
Philadelphia Time*. Mr. Kellogg de
clared that if llepuhlidans were com
ing down to New Orleans to nose
around the Returning Board, he did j
not want Republicans who parted
their hair in the middle, like 'William
Walter Phelps, but, thoroughgoing
fellows like George Hoar and William i
P. Frye. The charmingly candid \
Mr. Kellogg also expressed bis regret ;
that Senator Logan was not coming ;
This is a time when Kellogg and
r.mcy and Packard are sorely in lied
of Republicans who part neither their j
lciir nor their houe.-.ly in the mid.:
die.
It i • said that David Montgomery of
Florida, intends to retire into private!
life in some distant State,(the farther;
from Florida the better) and calm the
qnahus of conscience by giving full j
scope, to the enjoyment of his ill-got-!
ten booty. Ho ignores all bu tho
i igbth commandment striking out
the adverb, which sails his case admi
rably. He is quite heraldic in his
notions and intends to constitute a
Court House inflames with n bag I
containing $30,000 underneath, for!
armorial bearing. David is evidently
not 'vitout taste; this is beautifully
reminiscent, and reveals a volume in
his history.
Mali -on.
A Reitllican Paper on -i i;i; situa
tion.- Ibe Pt’iladel| hia J.'nqeiter. a
Republican paper, aider alluding lo!
the present political sit nation, which
it di dares to be “as iin-.at'.afactorv as
LK>.ssibi<V’ *s;’.vs:
‘li WO should hlijlM'iV jd’t-'S tl; i
oiv.cjt cri.-is without t‘: .-sur. Com- !
ijiv.ss will be criui.uaiiv lie;:\-eiiui 1
snoul; it bCore uuorht r r::i ;
f •' c :<•i l. . pi • •; :
a i t (.mu Lt'iicr oi the exi.-; him c< Mr.iit :> hi
•M.x.-iver shall buMv ilun-.i
elected pivsi'U’ni'. ip.cut : the!
w-u-io* Matthat iue was jhirly a-ei
I'oruu liy riei'M ib i.,r uhe sil 1.0 do
liiiv i .-itren.pt iu tui:c* ins seat a •
suite worse than that vf the Cavc-I
ion threatens. That
was but a solid tSouth oppos' and by a
swiii but ihc other "oidd tea.
s’lijd ,**. t>uiii uniting with a dovid*=d
North against u deviJc-i North.”
r ihe Jbr-;;:; were in favor of Gov.
1 Lives election before his defeat, and :
l 'hev arc now in favor of couiitiug him ,
1 11,7 ri spite of it. Does any one suppose |
that there is a corrupt organization !
in tho country th.it is not anxiously j
working and waiting lor Gov. Ha ves’ j
election by count, r.i tiie face of his
defeat by ballot ? The Kings know
that Gov. Tild oil’s accession to the
Presidency means political death to
them, and they, having failed to pre
vpn; it by lair means, will do their
best with foul.
In front of tlio Union Iheague
House, Saturday night, gas jets were
arranged to form Die words “Virtue, I
■ liberty and Independence.” and, be-j
lore the wind began to blow, looked
very handsome. But soon ‘Virtue’!
was wiped out, then ‘ljiherlv,* and as
a bystander observed it, he exclaim-;
eil: “Ht>w emblematic of the Repub- '
bean party; there’s ‘Virtue’ gone, ami
‘Liberty’ gone, anil but d—<| little of
Tiidenenilcneo’ left.”— Philada. Even
ing Chronicle.
John Adnms, colored, was elected
lo the Legi-laturo from Lee couutv
by a lrrge majority, but a few days ’
afterwards, the county surveyor, in I
tho course of his round;), found out !
tout the Hon. John lived exactly SOY -
'■ntiu-M feet out of the line, ami Fence
he could not take his seat, from Lee
county. The Democratic candidate,
therefore, is elected, and tho Hon. j
John lacks just seventeen feat of tho
State Capital.
The United States, Senate, servile
mit was, would never recognise
l Kellogg s usurping Government in
j Loui'-iami hv admitting any of his
j Senators to seats, though they harn
i mer away at the floors for three years.
Do ?Jr. Chandler and President
! Grant suppose that, the American
| people will countenance a similar
fraud now, if it should be committed
by desperate men, to save themselves
from political and personal ruin ?
The Republican thieves wore seen
to be desperate during the campaign
just closed, but it was never suppos
ed that they were so desperate ns to
attempt to carry an election by force
and fraud, which they could cot car
ry by honest ballots. Their conduct
; since the election lias been amply snf
j ficient to justify the popular impres
sion that. they are fighting to keep j
out of the penitentiary.
No party ever before in the history
of this country endeavored to hold
on to the Government win n the peo
ple had given it notice to quit. A
party of “moral ideas,” ought to have
nicer notions of the ownership of
p roperty.
Cleveland Pla.imh ~lei: - While the
Democracy are anxious amt willing to
acquiesce) in any fair and honest de
cision, they will resist to the bitter
end any attempt to Iraudiilently
“count'' m Rutherford 11. flaws as
President ot the United Slates.
Pittsburg Post: -Five hum red
thousand while votes n puseni Tii
deu’s majority over iiaye.i in the
Union. This vote largely embodies
the property, intelligence and cour
age of the Amcneau people. They
know their rights, and, knowing, bine
maintain them.
Hartford Tunes: it is humiliat
ing to the American people that such
momentous result ns the return of
votes of the Mate of Louisiana are in
the hands of men who have, on former
occasions, been guilty of gross frauds
upon the ballot, and have been con
victed of those frauds by two Repub
lican commit tees of Congress.
Buffalo Courier:—The chances
remain, as they have from tho first,
immensely in favor of Tilden’s election.
This, of course, presupposes an ap
proximately fair count in Louisiana,
in the improbable event that neither
Florida nor South Carolina comes up
to tho present appearances. Such a
count tiie country, without regard to
i party, will demand and must
have.
■ nil- u The maple fact
8"' I •to 1 that, (hot the decision of
the Rep nh.-iiM.ri ii.:i: agers as to what
result, shall bo declared in Louisiana
ami '; C.u ■! i- |,< I in abey
nnce until it is ascertained whether
”1 da <"•■■■ i'O “counted in,” and
. , • • rided w bother to uudei'take the
.“a . hlil i •>: . prt-Vi t ot con
-p. ■ . iyi: M, :.. in sys
tem of j bin
I•■'; 1 1 * j aII 1 arc yelling
'l-i'-.ui.*: a- i vYi.ile ihenip;--.'’ Bosh!
I l*u ii n •; I : i i.i tod .States ex
pre■ .sad li ■ 'c i , iid-.u ot tin." sort of
nonsense last 'I ... --day by giving Sam
uel .1. '. ilile-n an cjorii' in the electo
ral coiiege, and -it;v.',oL/t) majoriiy on
the popular vote 1
Before the election il was a con
test betvveeAi parties. Mow it is -a cor:-
I lest between the people on the one
I side, the i ■:!, ve- in m n".s j . ulcit
by llu: army, on tiie cd.i r. I
! pie have i n*t :is !. I .-s ~ p- (
! pose to Ira VC 1 bem no . the .
wore cast:...;!.. prop e,
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poplijn*’ V!‘lP iii t . . •: .■ ‘ ; /; .ra
biiiltLS.
-ilr. D. A. kitroud of i> ■ ..v and
- Uics Lull Elaiei ~ bpcort
county, srij marriod an. - Ah
ehanye.
How in the dr.ee can a man Ra d
vvoiuim bo married only a it.i!U: ?
Double weddings arc getting al
most as common us twin eggs, but
then cold weather always does hurry
up tins sort of thing.— Ej’rhanqe.
X. hfit Las cold weather got to do
with people s getting married.
A few years since, at 1 ire celebra
tion of an anniversary, a poor peddler
who was present, being culled upon
for ;t toast, offered the followin'':
“Here is health to poverty—it sticks
to a man when nil his friends forsake
him.”
This is an anxious time for the
defaulters and thieves in the Govern
ment service, whose crimes are yet
undetected. Every on > of them is
i opiti >■ and praying that the Return
. " Do.uds will count in Governor
Hayes.
MSHI / \ ”
A GREAT DISCOVERY.
J'v rh.* use of which cv.-ry family may
! give i heir Limm that brilliant polish pe
("-■i; b> tin.! laundry work. Saving time
fin ironing, more than is entire
Y.': •••ranted. Ask f< r Dobbins’.
dobbins, ; co.,
-■> N, Courtii tit, -Philadelphia.
jnl-10-tf
(t ' JIA, Brooks County.
T c.MTAM X BATON BOON l.aa applied
h*r c.v -mptiGa of p.-rsu By, and I will
nass noon the s:une at eleven o’clock on
Monday th - 4t.li (I, \ o! I). f ember, 1876, at
my ofiiig.
J. M. Shearer,
Ordinary.
Nov. loth. 187fi.
hi- SOLVTWN.
The Hr in known an Olsncr A Cos., was this
day dissolved by mutual consent. The bu
siness will be continued under the name of
J. Olsncr, as heretofore.
Quitman, Gu., Nov. 6tli. 1876.
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