The Inauguration

The inauguration of Mr. Hayes into the presidential office has boen accomplished. The solemn verdict of history will be, that it was the most disgraceful and shauiuful political outrage ever consuuimated in this country. The ouly event in any way to be oompared with it was the late civil war. But even in oomparison with that this last is the cro wniug infainy of our political hiatory. When the South went out of the Union it did not undortake to destroy the principie of self governinent, and to annihilate the liherties of the people ; it did not undertake to put upon the people of the North a government not ofits choioe. It clainied that the will of the North should rule the North, while the will of the South should rule the South. But here coinés a groat party, and deliberately through fraud and perjury annuls the will of the people as it found expression at the ballot box, and sets up a dynasty to rule aftor having been repudiated by one niillion inajority of the white citizens of the country. It is the Louisiana outrage of the annihilation of self-government and political liborty enacted on the broader field of national politics. No other people in the world would submit to it peaoeably. It is one of the blackest crimes and most dangerous precsdents which a free people can ill afford to submit to, and whioh would have justified a resort to orms if neceasary to prevent its villainous oonsummv tion, If ignorant, narrow, and contemptible partisanehip fires its oannon and beats its drums, patriotism, honor, and justice hang their heads in shaine. So foul was the whola tranaaction that the miserable partisans who consutnmated the outrage could not raise a single cheer to greet the final announcement of the result in the halls of Congress. Let not the memory of these things die, until the Republican party, with its banner all befouled with and trailingin the dust, ia made to feel the righteous indignation of an injured people. Let it not be forgotten thut fraud, under the guidanoe of the Republican party is enthroned in the White House, and evn sits on the benen of the Supieme Uourt of the United States. For four years let this ring unceasingly ia the ears of the American people, and then let - the infamy and dishonor of it be washed away aa by a deluge. There remains yet the appeal to the ballot box ; and if then it appears that fraud and perjury are mightier than ballot, there still remains the old Plymouth Rock, out of which strong hands will cut the gun Hints of liberty and justice. 1. Fellow citizens, rpmember that the Constitution saya : "The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and Houae of Representativas, open all the certifioates, and the votes shall then be countod." What ia the vote '( The Coinmission says the certificates of election constitute the vote. The decisions of oourts of justice in almost every State in the Union declare that certificates of eleotion are not the vote, but only evidence of the vote, and can, like any other evidence be disputed, and shown to be falso. And UDpn Jhis auestion the weie'ht. It is not the decisión of a board of can vassers, but the vote of the poople that coufers the title to the office ; and if a board of State canvassers refused to couut the vote, it would not at all defeat the election by the people. This is sound law and sound coinmon seuse at the saine timo. 2. Remember that the Constitution says : "No person holding an offioe of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector." The Revised Statutes of the United States, section 131 provides : 'The electora of President and Vice President shall be appeinted, in each State, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in every fourth year succeeding every election of President aud Vice President." Mark well : (1) No person can be appointed an elector under the Constitution and laws of the United States who holda an office of trust or profit nnder the national government: (2) under the Coustitution and the law electora are ajtpoinled on the Tuesday next after the tirst Monday in November," which ia the dny of eleotion, and not the day when the electora cast their vote iu the electoral college. Thi8, then, ia tho supreme law ot' the land, and accordiug to thia law theCotnmissioii was bound to decide thia controvorsy. Seven of the eight perjured and dishonored Eepublican members of the commmission refuaed to to recoive any evidence to ahow that electora had been appointed in violation of the letter and spirit of the lawe, thereby laying down the doctrÍDe that although a State ahould trample upon the Constitution, and viólate ita expre88 and emphatic provisiona, the authority of the Uuited Statea was powerless to prevent the outrage, or to vindícate its authority. The impudence and infaray of it ! The eighth man, Bradley, a Ju8tice turned demagogue, declared in contradiction to the expresa provisions of the Constituí ion and the law (which showa the appointment to be made in November, aud that a person disqualified at that time cannot act ) that if the elector waa eligible on üec. 6th it waa sufficient. This decisión of Bradley's, moreover, is a direct oontradiction of every decisión made by any court in England or America. The only thing the man could support hia opinión upon was the action of the Sonate in admitting to ita body those not qu;Uified at the time of their eleotion. But the provisión of the Con8titution on theae two subjects is vory different. The Constitution says : "No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty yeara." It does not say he 8hall not be elected until he ia tliirty, but it does expressly próvido that no person ahall be appointod an elector under the conditions speoified. We raight gofurtherinto this political infamy of infttmies, but we turn away from it in disgust and sorrow. It constitutes the most dishonorable chapter in all Americau history. It ia not written in blood, bnt in that which is worse than blood, moral oorruption, damning perjury, and fonl degeneraoy. We are asked to accept tho reaalt. Never ! We will never accept that which comes stained all over with the blackeat and vilest of political crimes. - a usurpiition and a friiud presiding as Chief Magiatrate over the American nation. Sulnnit to it we will for the present, but accept of it we never will while Anglo Snxon blood continúes to ilow in American veina. The men and the party that have cousuminated thid villainy of villainies will tind themselvea banished from power and place. Then, and not till then, will we accept thia , thing, and cease to dwoll upon the story j of its foul wrong. PUBLICUS. In tiie Republican State Convention on Wi'ilnusduy there was au auimatod contest over the candidates for Regents. On the first ballot Hon. Viotory P. Collier, of Battle Creek, late State Treasurer and one of the best business men of the State, was nominated, recaiving 478 of the 607 votes cast, Ou the second ballot Goorge L. Maltz, of Alpona, was nominated, the vote standing : G. L. Maltz, 307; B. D. Pritohard, l.'J'i ; W. H. Withington, 116; H. C. Potter, 26. The Vree l'ress oorrespondent says of Mr. Maltz : Mr. Maltz, who spent his boyhood days in Detroit, will be reinembered chiefly as au ofticeholier under Ki'illir.;m official. It is hardly coucealed that lus uoininatum was iufluoucsd, in a great degree, by tha ayiupathizuro witli Dr. Rose. And of Mr. Collier : Mr. Collier, it is believed, has foviued no opinión as to the hability or cumpiicity o( oither of the partios to the cheniioal dolalcation. - Our neighbor of the Courier threw out his flag yesterday, and we presume will to-day claim a complete victory. President Ha yes sent the following nominations to the Sonate on Wednesday afternoon : Secretary oí State - W. M. Evarts, of New York. Secretary of the ïreasury- John Sherman, of Ühio. Secretary of War - Ueorge W. McCrary, oí Iowa. Secretary of the Navy - Richard M. Thompson, of Iudinna. Attorney General- Charles üevens, of MassacbuBetts. Postmaster General - David M. Koy, of Tenneesee. Secretary of tho Interior- Cari Schurz, of Missouri. And Blaine, Chandler, Camarón, Logan, Morton & Co. are not happy. An Fxeoutive session was held but no confirmation made. Objections wure made to each name by leading Republicau Senators, - to Hvurts by Blaine, to Sohurz by Conkling, - to Key by half a dozen. All were referred to Committees. The Republioan State Convention did a good thing on Weduesday in unanimouslv renominating Judge Cooley. He is an intelligent, able, upright judge, and the nation will be fortúnate if President Hayeg can find as good a pieoe of timber to give additional respectability and diameter to the sadly dilapidated and demoralized Uuited States Supreme Court. - - . 1 1 ii The llouso attauhed a provisión to the Arniy Appropriation bill prohibiting the use of troops to uphold either the Nicholls or Packard governinentin Louisiana, the Senate retused tocoucur, and ' so the bill did not pass. The House was right. The United States soldiors have been too long degraded by being made the pólice and bull-dozing tools or agents of the Republican party. The attention of Demócrata in this city is invited to the cali for Ward Caucuses in another column, and of those tnroughout the county to the calis for County and State Conventiong. The Inaugural address of President Huyes w ill be found on our iirst page. It is a fair document, and will give more satisfwtion to the Democraoy than to the body of the Republicana. IT WAS Fitzpatrick, that iubilant biger man than old Grant." And now J. Madison Wells can subscribe himself "President maker." ONE who knows assures us that there is notuing singular m the uniform decisions of the Electoral Comniission : "An eigut spot always takes a seven spok." Desi'ite tbevigorousefforts of Blaine and Morton, Kellogg, the creation of the Louieiana Returning Board, was sent to the committee by a vote of 35 to 29, See address of the Democratie National Committee on fourth page.