Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1878 — A Fact Not to be Forgotten. [ARTICLE]

A Fact Not to be Forgotten.

Since the manner and method in and by which Mr. Hayes was inducted into the presidential chair is apt to engage a good deal of the public attention, it will net come amiss to revert to tile great electoral contest of 1877. The 'rick by which the monster fraud of the age assumed legal rorm was devised by the cunning and wholly unscrupulous Vermont Yaukee, Senator Edmunds, who managed in some way to incorporate a provision into ihe electoral commission bill maki .g the decision of the tribunal final, “and tile count proceed in conformity ther ■■ with, unless the two houses shall separately concur in ordering otherwise.” This eituning provision put the count of the electoral votes into the hands of the Republican Senate—although tae constitution clearly contemplates that the vote of no State shall be counted against the judgment and determination of the House. As the Senate refused to join the House to “order otherwise,” the decision of the commission stood intact, and Florida and Louisiana were counted for Hayes and W teeler. But after the Senate refused to reject the unrighteous decision of the commission in those two States, tlie House solemnly enacted this pregnant resolution:

“Ilesolved by the House of Representatives of the United Mates of America, Tout it is the duty of the House to declare, and this House does hereby solemnly declare, that Samuel J. Lildeii, of tne Btate of New York, received TJ6 electoral vo.es tor the office of President of the United Btalcs, uli of which votes were east and lists thereof signed, certified and transmiited to tiie seat of Government, directed to ttie President of the Ben ate, in conformity with the Constitution aud laws of thellnited Btates, by electors legally eligible and qualified as «uch electors, each of whom Had been duly unpointed and elected, in the maimer directed by the Legislature of the Btate in and for which lie east his vote, as aforesaid; and that Bamuel J. Tildeu, having thus received the votes of ti majority of he electors appointed es aforesaid, tie was thereby duly elected President of the United Btates of America for the term of four years, commencing °u Jthe fourth uay of March A. D., 1877; and this house further declares that Thomas A. Hendricks, having received the same number of the electoral votes for the office of Vice President of the United Btates that were east for Bamuel J. Tildeu for President as afoiesaid, tiie votes having been cast for him by the same persons who voted for the said Tilden for President as aforesaid, and at the time and in the same manner, it is the opinion of this House that said Thomas A. Hendricks, of the State of Indiana, was duly elected Vice-President of the United Btates for a term of four years, commencing on the fourth day of March.”

The vote on this resolution was taken on the fourth day of March, 1877. One hundred and thirty-six votes were given in favor of it, 88 against it, and ti 6 did not vot'\ —Ligonier Banner Bro. James represented the King of the Sandwich Islands at the mas querade at Mr. Warner’s. Sec. Seward, well known as one of the best harness makers in the State, will next weeK commence business in the rooms recently vacated by LaRue. We wish him success, and feel satisfied that he will deserve it.

The new board of trustees,ora majority of them, are so elevated over the little brief authority with which they suddenly lud themselves invet - ed, that they spit upon the expressed wisli of the people with reference to 'lie appointment of corporation mar dial. A few short mouths will pass ina the people will spurn from pliie those who Lm,d dared to treat them with contempt.