Plymouth Republican, Volume 23, Number 22, Plymouth, Marshall County, 15 May 1879 — Page 6

SUPPLEMENT.

THE CIPHER DISPA TCHM8.

In the Stimmer of 17 Tub Nkw-York Triptxk fnond itself in possession of a mass of telegraphic dispatches which had passed between certain leaders of the Democratic party in New-York City and their confidential agents in various contested States, at the time of the canvass of the electoral vote in 1S7'. The whole number of these dispatches was not far from 400. A'nout half of tin in were in plain English : these, although they were Sometimes useful in determining the meaning of messages of another kind, related generally to transactions of little importance. The rest were in cipher, and a slight examination was sufficient to show that tiny covered political Beercts of the first Consequence. "We first began dealing seriously with these dispatches during the Summer of 1878. The fact that the publication of the famous "Gobble" message had soon brought forward a person familiar with the cipher in which it was sent, led to the belief that a similar result might be reached again. Specimens of the various ciphers were accordingly published from time to time, accompanied with comments intended to attract to them wide attention. Our hope, however, was completely disappointed. Koone teemed to know the key. Absolutely no help came from any quarter. All manner of suggestions were received, and many were tried, but none proved in the end to be of the slightest practical value, save a single one communicated by Se retary Kvarts. That gentleman suggested that possibly a thorough student of pure mathematics might be able to divine a law ou which the ciphers w ere constructed. Copies of a few of the dispatches were thereupon sent to a mathematical professor in a distant city who had kindly offen d to attempt a translation, on the condition that his lUH should under no circumstances be made public; and although (having comparatively little material to work with) he did not succeed in discovering the system upon which the ciphers were const rneted, and never seut a single translation until after the Bame thing bad been translated in the office, ins work bad, nevertheless, considerable value. a corroborating tne results attained by others I lore thev had reached the point where their w ork proved Itself. Finally. I committed a large number of the dispatches to Mr. Johu R. G. Hassan!, chief of Tiik Tribune stall', and a sencsisand determined efiorl for their translation was tairly begun. Shortly atterward. Colonel William M. Grosvcnor, als of '1 iik Tribi ne stall, who had Income greatly uitere - ed in the specimen dispatches thrown out, asked for a chance at the same work, and a oiisidera Ide number of the dispatches were confided to him. These gerfHeuien at first worked independently of each other, and without communication. For a time both grimed blindly, if not hopcless!, in what s .med ti impenetrable darkness of ihe ciphers. Ahout ihe same date each began to get glimmerings of the system ou wnicu th double cipher was constructed. When, after weeks of labor, they first compared notes. Mr. Hassard had found two transrsition keys and was just finishing a third, while olom 1 Grosvenor had found three others. The system being thus discovered, the rest were found much more rapidlv. The last was discovered by I oth gentlemen on the same evening, the one working at Litchheld, t onn., the other at Englewond, K.J. Each hastened to transmit the key to me, and the two letters came upon my table the next day v it hin an hour of each other. A dictionary cipher bafttcu research much longer Its character wus easily determined in the office, but the dictionary on which it was constructed could not be found. Due circumstance, however, at last demonstrated that the dictionary in qne,tion must be one of the editions of Webster, for one or two words occurred in some of t he di-put In -sent in this cipher which were not found in any of the modem English dictionaries, excepting YN ebsters. Mr. Isaac N. Ford, of Im hum si. Stall', had meantime, laboriously gone through forty or fifty dictionaries of all nor t sand eiaes, omitting, unluckily, the very one which had at first been suspectoo. for the reason that it happened to be the only one not OU tne ebcl es of the downtow n beokItore where these scan ties were made. Just as the hnut was narrowed down to this particular dictionary, the mathematical professor telegraphed that this dictionary was the basis of the key, and in twenty-four hours the ciphers it contained were unlocked. After the mam work bad Wen done, a number of dispatches among local politicians at the South, apparently of minor importance, went in ciphers of a different character from any previously translated, wero attacked by Mr. H ssaid. Among these were the double number and the double letter ciphers. I had intrusted in all about 400 dispatches to Mr. Hassard and Colonel Grosvenor. When they had finished their labors only three of that whole collection remained untranslated. These are in ciphers r-f which there are no other example, and they Lave not vet been mastered. Valuable aid was rendered by many of the younger gentlemen in the office, and as the hunt became kee in r, almost the entire ."staff took part lit It. The credit of translation. ho w e wr. belongs absolutely to Mr. Hassard and Colonel (irosvenor. They ice eived no assistance from any outside quarter, excepting from the mathematical proleaeor betöre mentioned, and received trun him no translation whatever, and no important clew, until after they had discovered it themselves. w. R. Tribune Ojfict, January 1 1, l7ü.

SECRET MSTOItFOF TUE ELECTORAL CANFAS IS 170.

The history of the electoral crisis in November and December, IftTß. a disclosed by the cipher dispatches of the Democratic leaders and their secret agents, coyers a period of about twenty-eight days, from the 8th of November, when it first became apparent that the Presidency depended iin the count of the vote iu two or three doubtful States, until the Gth of December, when the electoral ballots were duly cast for Hayes and Wheeler. Hy deciphering these telegrams Tiik Tkihine has discovered that agents were at once sent out from No. 15 Gramercv Park, the resilience of Mr. Samuel J. Tilden, to South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana, and that others, at the West, received telegraphic orders to proceed immediately to Oregon, in order to "capture" one or all of those Mates for the Democratic candidate. Thev all resorted to bribery, communicating to Mr. Tilden's nephew, Colonel W. T. l'elton, the pari itiulars of i he bargains 1 hey concluded, and receiving from him a distinct and formal approval. 1. In Florida the secret agents were Manton Marble, C. W. Woolley. and .lohn F. Coyle. Marble transmitted to iramerey I'ark, lust a proposition for the purchase of the Honda Ketiiriiing Hoard at the price of giiOO,OUO. I hat was rejected as extravagant, and the figure was reduced to fjUo.ooo, ut which price Colonel Peltou signified ins willingness to close the transaction. It fell through m consequence of a delay ill the receipt of the message of acceptance. 'j In South Carolina the purchasing agent was bwitb M. Weed. He telegraphed to Colonel PsJ.

ton, on the verv day of his arrival at Columbia, a proposal to buy the Canvassing Hoard forSO.OOO : to whi'-h l'elton appears to have readily assented. This figure was too low, and the negotiation, after lasting six days, was closed at the price of 0. OOO. It was arranged that Weed should meet a messenger at Ilaltimore, who was to carry the money in three packages ; and he particularly requested that Colonel l'elton should act as this messenger himself. Weed accordingly arrived in Haitimore from Columbia on the 20tn of November, and Pelton arrived there at the same lime from NewYork; but again .a little delay upset the scheme. Subsequently a plot was formed to buy four member of the lionih Carolina Legislature, for ilO.OOO, and having thus ohtamed control of the State Government, to put the Hayes ( lectors in jail, and kwh them up in separate cells until the day for casting the electoral votes had passed. '1 be result of this vilhiny would have been to deprive South Carolina ot any vote, and to throw the choice of a President into the House ot Representatives, which would have elected Tilden. The Bias tailed bc ause the four meiuliers could not he bought. 'i. In Oregon the Democratic Governor withheld a certificate from one of the Hayes electors on the ground of ineligibility, and, instead of allowing the other electors to fill the vacancy, gave the certificate to a Tilden elector named Cronin, who had dearly been defeated. The secret agent in Oregon was one J. N. H. I'atrfc k. He telegraphed to Colonel l'elton that it was ncc ssary to " purchase a Republican electoi to recognize and act with " Cronin, and the price was w..ooo. This proposal likewise was accepted, and t he money w as sent to Oregon, where it arrived only on the Oth of December, ju-st too late to be of any use.

THE CASE uF MR. TILDES.

A scene of intense dramatic interest was witnessed at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Saturday. In a low, dark room, excessively hot and densely packed, the whole world sat at the reporters' tables, or crowded close wit h note-book in hand, to catch the faint whispers that fell from a worn and haggard old man. With the look of a corpse except in moments of excitement, w ith slow, far-away voice and slow, painful movements, drooping left eyelid, parchment-like cheeks, and ouivering hand, Mr. Tilden repeated his statement, evidently prepared with great care, in a voice much of the time hardly Siidible four feet away. His manner show rd inten M and increasing nervous excitement, hv great effort restrained ; the body rose und feil in the seat incessant, as if he were trying in vain to rise, and the seemingly half urn less left arm shook like a loaf, 1 hen the excitement burst restraint, the face flushed almost put pie. the lip quivered, the right arm repeatedly smote the table with great force ami passion, and the voice rang through the room with painful intensity, like the shriek of a drowning man. Alter every such effort, the sentence died away, as if the voice were stopis-d hy closing waters. The effect WM almost that of a oVatb-bed declaration. Had the mattet thereof equalled in force the solemnity of manner, this declaration would have had a great eflect. Not. indeed, that the peopaa would have been more toady to lift to the Presidency a mau so broken, and so manifestly living only in bitter and torturing memories. Hut the mattet was ley no means equal to the manner :n impressiveness, nor could any unprejudiced hearer avoid contrasting the declarations ol Mr. Tilden with biso . n admit ied conduci toward men arhcss deeds fill a dark page in the history of the count iy. Mr. Tilden's testimony was doubtless as strong as, after tour months of preparation and consultation, it was possible to make it. That it was not execednigly strong was due to the inherent and insu perable difficulties of his position. It was not possible for him to state that, in respect to Weed, Marble. Woolley, Coyle or Pelton, either in watching their doings, knowing their character as he di I, or in reprobating their acts when they lecamc known to him, his conduct w ;:s consistent w ith the spotless virtue and unwavering purp M which he professed. It was not possible for him w holly to conceal that low moral tone which half SXeOSed l'elton for trying to hu y votes, because he was su.tt to believe without evidence that others had done or attempted the same thing. Hisonly Intense feeiing w as not wrath because of crimes commit ted, hut wrath because of 1 osS sustained, l'elton w as tolerati d and kept when he whs Known i have done WIOBg. Years afterw ard he was disow ned with indignation only when the public had found him out, .Mr. Tilden's declaration of his ignorance of corrupt negotiations seems as broad, full and emphat ic as it could be. If there were mental reservations, as it now appears there weic in his published card of October last, of such character that an exact statement ot truth had the public effect of a statement that was fa'se, they do not ret appear, lie claims to have had no knowledge that Pelton was communicating in cipher with the Democratic agents at the smith; no knowledge that Weed had gone to South Carolina, until be returned: no knowl-dge that Wooilcv hail gone to Florida, or Patrick to Oregon; no knowledge of any corrupt proposal as to South Carolina, until it was arrested by Mayor Dooper'l retusal to provide uioii. v for n, and no knowledge een then or afterward of the true nature of the negotiations in that state or the others. These assertions, if fully believed, acquit Mr. Tilden of one charge only to eouvici bim of another qaite as fatal to his position as a 1 'residential candidate. For they are to be compared with certain facts now fully established : L Mr. Tilden knew W. T. Pelton thoroughly. Democratic newspapers, hj way of preparing the scapegoat for the wilderness, are accumulating proof that I'eltou's conduct . especially in regard to money matters, had hccfl such that DO confidence could be placed in his integrity, and these doings were best known to Ooveinor lüden, who had suffered by them. Yet at a most critical and delicate time, when " the air was full of rumors of eorrun- ' I ion," as Mr. Tilden biui.se It t. st nies, be ditl utl. i l'elton to condui t the confident nil coiuuiuiiic.il ion Between New-York and tlie Democratic agents at the South. He knew that corrupt proposals must reach such a man. A word from him to Mr. Hewitt, Mr. Cooper, or Mr. Pelton himscll, would have stopped such communication, and caused all propel agents of the party at the .South to be warnen to onaamnni.ate only with Mr. Hewitt. It he had evw said, ' Pclt'Ui is ihdiscri ei, and may make scandal.'' or " Pelton is corrupt, and may buy or promise to hoy," there would have been an end. Sir. Tildeu adniits, and the world knows, that he did hoi speak that w oid. hy not f II. Mr. Tilden knew Weed. Woolley, Coyle and Marble. He had se n under the Veneering, and knew Marble for the Jooeph surface ot the age. He had bet n the chairman ot the Democratic Mate Committee in 1 Mi. and necessarily knew of Mr. Woolley's part in the impeachment of Johnson. Re had BOOB Goveffaet, and necessarily knew tbCBtOelintiea of the asoat skilled lobbyist at Albany, it was his duty to know w hctbei -in n men lepn - atnitcd the Democratic National Committee, at the very points hi r corrupt ion w as most probalde. ill. It is ahsolutely iniMssibl. that tsamiiel J. Tilden was ignorant of all the cipher telegrams which MM Real the South, unless he maih an effort to be ignorant. It was his halm and his very nature to gne sxtraordioarj attentioa to the detale of oolittcai contests. If it w tne that he did not got constant reports from the men mad Bontb, it can only be because he suddenly made an eatraordinary etloi t to suppress natural anxieiv and inipatieuce, and to put behind huu the habits ol a

lifetime, in order not to know who was telegraphing, ami to whom, and what about. That Colonel Pelton had been in charge of correspondence, not leQBSjac be was trusted bv the committee, bnt beennae he was thought to represent Mr. Tilden, was of

necessity known to Mr. luden from the angrj aitacks ot Democratic papers upon the " Uureau of NineeaBBoepe." If Mr. TiMen did not find out what Ins nephew w as doing, it was because he was determined not to know. IV. Confronted with the fact that Colonel Pelton had asked aid in crime from Mr. Cooper, it was not possible for Mr. Tilden to let the bargain go on witboatt making it his own. in the eyes of Messrs. Cooper and Hewitt. Put when Pel ten was recalled, why did Mr. Tilden flJt no question t He swears "it was not necessary!'- Vet l'elton remained as before in charge of telegraphic correspondence of the Committee. Mr. Tilden, even then, did uot top that, nor try to stop it, nor make the slightest effort to know what had been done, or would be aVaBodatiag the weeks that still remained. All this scandal proves the talsity of the answer, " it was "not necessaiy " to ask. Hal he asked at that tune. November 21 . and stopped the telegraphing, or caused Mr. Hewitt to seo the telegrams, tBOOSCond job in South Carolina, and all the jobs in Florida. Oregon and Louisiana, would have been prevented. He did not ak nor utter a word to prevent them. WhvT V. At that tune, about November 21, it became known to Mr. Tilden what Smith Weed had been doing. He now swears that he " took Weed to task for taking part in sue transactions,'' after W eed s return. Hut after thai the second job in booth Carolina was arranged by Weed himself, bv telegram from New-Y. rk. After that, and as late as December 4, the extraordinary legal dispatch was sent to South Carolina Import anl Judgment on quo warranto be obtaimd Thursday. If order to do " liver paper appurtenance to office be disobeyed, " immediately commit Cat coi tempt, or if the nghtM fnl ekscton attempt the exercise of authority by "nieetinir, attach for contempt. Prepare before- " hand and enforce immediately would lie appropriate. W ould be humane to imprison them BBP " aratelv during Wednesilay. All probably de- " pends on our State. Leave nothing uiiilone. Verily, "the vou e is .lact.b's voice, but the hands " are the hands of Esau." VI. Mr. Tilden chums that it was safe to let Pelton alone because he could get no money. Put this is palpably mil rue. P Itoii did get money to send to Oregon, aad from a hank In whica llr.Tilucn w as especially well known. There w ere hundre ls oil anscrupulous Democrats who have given larger sums than P Iton needed. br much smalh r victories. If there were no others, there was John M rnss, y and the I. inoenitic gamblers who had at si ike over T.2(K,OO0. Did Mr. TihMO reason. "Pelton will no longer dare to go to Cooper, or to "come to me: therefore other money, not by candi"date oi comuiittee. w ill be found, ami 1 shaii know " nothing abont it " 1 Did berelleet, " Then I can "juoye that I doooanced and stopped the ab "tenipt"t If that was not his reasoning, why did he never bsanlre, mterteie end stop Peltooa chares of eorrcspoodence tbroogb his amnaroot lepra en tat ion of air. Tildes himself. VII. After the act for which Mr. Tilden took We.-d "to task,'' be retained that person as his manager of forces in a Democratic convention. After Marble bad said that votes were for sale in Klornla, Mr. Hid en took care to ask no more, but Doatinaed on intimate terms w ith htm. After Pellon's journey to Baltimore to meet Weed, and for more than a year after the lull public exposure or the OreeBM) business, l'elton remained in Mr. Tilden's boose. This treatment of men known to be guilty a ill, by the public, beheld conclusive proof that ilr Tildfin profiasion of absolute and tintwerving boetility to bribery is not true. He was boatile to any bribery that ocold be traced to him, and particularly hostile to any brils ry that was foond out, and destroyed his own prospects. .No other form of moral indignation has been shown in his Conduct. Bot he virtually placed W. T. Telton in a position w here he w as sure to have opportunity to buy votes, knowing well that he was a in in who would buy vot if he could, and that he could find the money; in that position he held Pelton by tar tally refraining from any word ot natural caution or protest j and he took extraordinary pains for weeks not to find out anything about the nf l'elton was making of his peculiar poweis. This is Mr. Tilden's re old, upon his own testimony. What else will appear, when the die potchoa i nt tn 1 i W. Smith shall have been i raced to the person who aetaalljr receiTcd and opened them, we shall probaldy see. The Louisiana matter has not yet been brought to light.

A CRT FUR MtWE FREEJOM.

From Thf -Vcir York Tribun. In ttie doubtful dasb of f&S BMnusg grav. With hammer and drill and jimmy and crank, Some hiirh-totied men they plundered a hank, And the pp cioiis spoil the enti led away. What ilesolation the owner lotmd! And he said, "A l- onit tea hesine; I'll set a fileol soldiers aroond ; 'l"hes hiuh-loiied coves h"V ben too freeIt seems to m.The he gag too free!" And lie stationed soldier-, solemn and still. And bis vaults be piled with tne gold again; Then Basse OB tiptoe 1 he ll I gl -1 oned tuen W itb hammer and crow and jimmy and drill ; " We lie crushed in the tyrant's fanirs!" thev cried. As I lev BjeJ the troopers; " we're slaves, may be! Tb s) ,-! acle el nelly Wounds our pride; 11 tbey went ort we should led moie 1 ree Withdraw 'ein and we Should feel more free !'' The hih toned men thev lingered there, With iimmjf and drill and hamnier and crow, And they kept a-walking bo and fro, Willi a persecuted and sadtb ni d an . nd a mohs-team waited beside the wall. ou troopert go tl and lei us be !n I liev said. " We all.'l tlolll' liotlllll' at all, IJut if you 'mis went arc should li el more free. We all agree Woohoiihl feel more frei-.'' And the high toned men uttered dismal croaks. And Bonn shed their Jimmy and hammer and saw, Ami shouted, Yoe'donghl to obey the Ion Which says that you shan't lie a w at chin' folks P T.hva the owner said, "1 remember yon I V'ii were lure afore and y ou went forme; T ye bed 1 nil swing what wouldn't ye du? i'ai i I-, i gneaayeoi bos boo tu fr-e rrebaps," says be, "A leetle til b I ' TUE WALOMOVB BLACKßUMN.

Now that the retreat has been begna it is a pood time to recall some of the gifted and valorous Klackiuirn's reinai k s i oiicei ninif I lie weakness ol yielding. In his tan oils "wining .nt " peeeh be declared that tbe I einocr.it ic side of the i hainber would " never yield or nrrender unless this Coo(jress shall have died by virtue of its limitation. A principle cannot bt uipromiscd. It may BS MI rendered, but that can only be done by its advocate giving proofs to the world that they are cravens and cowards. We cannot yield and we will sot field. We are planted on our convictions, there we ill stand. He w ho dallies is a dastard, and be who doubts is damned." Whether Itlack,ni ji has "dalle d ' ai "doubted " is not revealed, but there is no doubt that the wholo party is " damned."

" TVkXa RACK TBE HAXDSr The party in power in the Legislative Department of the Government has served its notice upon the country. It may as well be accepted at once. In the Senate Mr. Saulsbury, lor his party, arrogantly assumes the responsibility of power, and with a resonant crack of the whip that brings back the old days bids the Kepuhlicans in that body be not only patient, but silent and submissive, while he and his political associates work their own sweet will. Confederate generals direct the couns. Is of the organization that controls the Senate, apportion among themselves the committees and among their constituents the patronage, dictate the course of legislation, and shape the policy of the party. At the other end Of the Capitol Mr. Si poena, late Vice-Presiuciit of the Confederacy, Mi. lu a tran. late Postmaster-General of the Confederacy, Mr. Chalmers, late a BrigadierGeneral of the Confederate Army, with others more or less prominently cooneeted with that disastrous political venture, have given out that the people having called the Democrat ic party hack to power to relieve the country from the evil consequences of eighteen years of Radical misrule, it is the duty of the present Congress to enter immediately upon the task. In both Benote and House there is uncommon anxiety on the part of the. gentlemen newly invested with power to enter at once upon its exercise. Instead of shrinking from its responsibilities, they are eager to assume them. Ami we must give them credit at least for apparent sincerity. They certainly do act as though they fully believed in themselves, and believe that they had actually been 9ent for in a crisis. In their expressions, their tone, their manner, their whole behavior, they indicate as plainly as iossible their belief that their reappearance in Congress is the result, not of their own, but of the country's confession of error and repentance. I hey have come back, they say, in so many words, to correct the mistakes and sweep away tbe legislation of t he past eighteen years. They have confidence in themselves, to say the least. And who. pray, are the gentlemen stepping so ooofldentlr to the front, and bidding everybody else st ami back while they take the Government in hand 1 Their unsparing condemnation of existing laws and their startling proposals of radical changes invite us to a scrutiny of their record, and an inquiry as to then titucsa for the revolutionary proceedings they have in contemplation. What is the record of these nu n who assume responsibility with such jauniy self onnfldOnrs I It is not far to seel;. In 1859 they were intrusted with almost unquestioned power in all depai t incuts of the Government and tn arly all the States. There was scarcely an opposition. W hat was their statesmanship T In those years they bad Kl on foot an agitatiou which cost toe hi their majority in the House and created sectional division in parties; and this continued Wit boot their gaining anything they set out for, until the Government passed completely out of their hsnUs in I860, and then they ratered upon a conspiracy to break up ami d itrov it. What fitness does the record

Ol those ciijht years show f They tried for four pears a QofSI BBBtOt of their own. Does that reioid show such a large capacity for statesmanship that we should send out for them tn come back find take ihe old Union in charge f Here are financial questions to he solved by legislation. What certificate of fitness lor this work do they bringt Only this: thai they left the Government in lsdl in such straightened circumstances ami impaired credit that its bonds were at a discount, and it could scarcely borrow money in the markets of the world ; and that in their own experience of a confederacy they eeeeesded only in making a currency which was so worthless as to be a source of mirth among tBCBkSStTea. And they have come backtoaGovernmeiit whose credit has been raised by the legislation of these eighteen years to a nar with that of the wealthiest nations in the world : to a Government winch the same legislation has put iu a position to reih cm its obligations in the monev of the World, This is the legislation they feel called upon to .weep a wav. and t Ins the certificate of their titbcm lor financial administration. Here art serioos questions of the relations bet ween capital and labor : what special StsMOl have they shown for legislation upon this subject ? Only this: that eighteen years ago they struck out for themselves in a new Government whose corner-stone was the system of slave labor. Ihe re is to-day no such nratem in existence, and their acquaintance with that of tie labor and its relations with capital dates only from the fall of their ahortivo Confederacy. Here is the system of internal reveane which sceuis to have aroused the interest of the late Confederate Vice-Tresident, Mr. Stephens, who says it should be thoroughly overhauled and ehsnged : want constitutes their fitness for this workf Only this: that their rebellion made the system necessary, and that its collection in the Southern States is attended with more tumble and cxi en.se than anywhere else because resistance to the Inn is more general there. There are laws to he passed und appropriations to be made for the postal service: what constitutes the qualifications of these gentlemea foe this dwtgrf .Notbinf thai we know of, except that they boobs from a i, Moii which has nevei paid for its own postal facilities, out has always exhausted the surplus de rived from the profits of the service in the Northern States, and required additional appropriations from tbe Trtiaenrj to furnish its mail accommodations. Did Mr. Keagan, the ex-l'ostniaslcr-Gencral of the Confederacy, show- special fitness lor legislating ujkiii this subject when he recommended the payment ot a mail contractor w ho was shown by the it Minis of biB own departm.-nt to have been paid once already ? Ml. Stephens expresses a purpose to repeal the law taxing Mate KauKs, so that the sevetal Stales may chat ter banks of issue, as of old. No one w ho is old aneogh to remember the convenience and the beauties of the State bunk currency we enjoyed before the war will after tins question Mr. Stephens' wisdom as a legislator upon that subject. States which repudiate their bouds might perhaps ( hatter banks whose notes would circulate with those of the National banks or with greenbacks, it does not now .seem probable though. Itut the treat tblag which all I cinoc rate unite in saying that the party was brought back to power for is to repeal the infamous election laws. And what is then special litncss for t his sort of legislationt Well, only this: that among the hist offences for which this party was repudiated by the. people twenty years ago WM its outrageous frauds upon t he ballot-box in Kansas, in the attempt ot these gentlemen w ho have come back to govern us osteal that Mate; that, from that time on, they hat notoriously defrauded the ballot-box when evei and wherever their needs required, ami opportunity offered, notably so in this city and that they bore regained their ascendancy in the National Legislature by means of the most unblushing frauds at the polls m the Southern States that were mi known even in that party's history. That qualifies them to be the protectors of the ballot and to legislate wisely for the freedom of elections. These at e the men and this the party who have come back to take charge of the Government and sweep away the legislation of "eighteen vesrs of Kadical miamle." i hey make no bones of saving so. They are not slow to announce their mission nor aie thcr modest in picking up the incidental official spoils. As for us, we make no complaint ; we have no disitositinn to say a word to revive the animosities of the war. Hut the calmness with which these people come forward to make our laws upon all these varied questions, and the assurance w ith w hieh they assume that they have been called in to overturn existing things and build anew, mast naturally challenge inquiry as to their qualifications torso large a task, and the preparatory school iu which they were fitted for it.

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