The Prospect Before Us

It is now exccedingly probable that all the States which votcd ior Mr. Tililon in 1876, and which gave hlm a decided majority of the Electora, and a niajority of more than a quarter oí million of the popular vote, will go ior Hancock. The Electoral votes of Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina, ninctuen in all, were stolen by the conspiratois who organised the Great Fraud. The late Zaeh Chandler and the present John Sherman were principáis in that conspiracy, with James A. Garlield as chicf of start' in his doublé capacity of visiting statesmau at Kcw Oiienns to aid Wells and Anderson in their falso returns, andas memberof the Electoral Commission to sustain them and the forged cartitieates of Electora whieh KeÜojrg and his crew had fabricated. The Tilden States wouW give Hancock 203 Klectors, or eighleen more than the necessary number of 18o. There ia hardly a reasonable doubt now abvHit any one" of them, and the probability is, that after Indiana .sh:.ll hftve made her record, other.s will !e eager to fall inlo the winning column, and thus contribute to a swëepiüg victory. Confidence ísaíso fortiKed.by the conviction that, if lcgally elected, General Hancock will takc his seat in the White House and will cxercise the functions of President, in spite of all machinations to the coutrarv. The friendg of Hancock will claim nothing that is not righl, and will submit to nothing that is wrong. The conspirators of 187( are now in possession oL stolen power. Tliey cannot repcai their foriner frauda, because their confedcrates in the South are no longer able to pack Returning Boards or to falsify eortiUcates. Hut they are fully capable ofresorting to ot her met hods ecjiially crimiiial, in order to retain control of the Government. Tle standing army of more than a hundred thousand ofliceholdcrs is a mere fraction of the enormous power wielded by tbis Administration. The Treasury alone handles over six hundred niillions a year of reccipts and expenditures. The eustoms, the bank?, the internal revenue, the Port-office, the Indian service, the pensions, the patente, the land .service, the army and the navy, the revenue service, the coast survey, the judicial service, with the marshals, deputies, district attorneys, clerks, commi.ssioners, and othet branches, reach into a multitud of interests, and touch the pockets of millions of people. The beneficiarles of tbis sjstem do not mean to give up without a severo struggle. They are cóntending not ! onh lor what they have acquirod ;Uready and what they expect to get in the future, but also to prevent any ex posure of the methods by which they ( have beeome enriched. Henee thoy fight desperately against a chango, and they will not scruple at any meaus to prevent that desired consumruation. But (Jeneral Hancock will probably be elected, and in that event lic certainly will be inaugurated.