Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1877 — THE PRESIDENTIAL SITUATION. [ARTICLE]

THE PRESIDENTIAL SITUATION.

It is diScalt, amid the shiftibg phase* of the political kaleidoscope, as it is constantly turned by newspaper correspondents. editorial comments and the rctabtions made hy investigating compo determine positively what are the bottom frets which will ultimately settle the presidential muddle. Numberless are the suggestions that have been made by men df every shade of thought, of every station in life, of continting interests, biased by prejudice and by education, as to the plan to be adopted by Congress not only to settle this question hotwesh Ur. Hayes and Mr. Tildem bat which should serve as a precedent with all the potency of law to govern any similar emergency that may arise in the. fulcra of our republic. Both houses of Congress hsve appointed conference committees, composed of gentle - men from among the ablest exponents of both political parties, to devise a rule or set of rules that can be safely applied to solve this grave problem. The telegraphic reports front Washington, both of the Associated Proas agency and of special correspondents, which were published ip th® daily papers of yesterday ptorning, stated that the senate committee, which k composed of Messrs. Morton, Edmunds, Frelinghuysen and Ooukling, republicans, and Messrs. Bayard, Thurman and Ransome, democrats, had agreed upon a report which they would submit to the senate on yesterday . Neither the details, nor even the outlines, of their work were made public; but it was said to cover ground that had not yet been the subject of congressional debate nor of newspaper discussion, and that would certainly be a surprise to the public. Whatever course may be finally adopted by Congress as the proper settleinent of this dispute, and whichever of the two gentlemen may be declared to |utve been elected President of the Pnitedf States, it is an opinion universally prevailing that the people* will gracefully acquiesce in the decision, and that no violent popular commotion, no serious disturbance of the peace and no bloodshed will follow. The republican press and representative men of the republican party, everywhere, counsel moderation, and quiet obedience to law and lawful authority. No member of the republican party ever did revolt against the government of his country while he was a republican; and no member of the party would be upheld a moment by his party as a mass should he rake the standard of rebellion. The meetings held at the capitals of several pf the Northern states on the 3th of the present month, by adherents of the demperntie party, were quite largely attended ; in some of these meetings speeches pf ap inflammatory character were made; apd resolutions, testy and menacing, were adopted as expressive of their deliberate judgment and broadest ideas of enlightened statesmanship; but they made little perceptible impression upon the minds of the great mass of people. Indeed, so far as the manufacture of public sentiment which is to bear fruit For the immediate advantage of the democratic party is concerned, they have proved to be miserable failures; serving rather to distrust the more conservative .X. V element of their own party than to create any sentiment of sympathy for the injustice which they alleged was being attempted to be practiced upon them. They disturbed the quietude of the American public as little as the firing of • blank rifle cartridge five miles distant would disturb the solid masonry of Fortress Monroe, or the rock of Gibraltar. Even that most sensitive of all tteten of public alarm, the gold maiket, did not experience a tremor of fluctuation, So utterly barren of the desired effect were these meetings, that the project of nailing • national convention based on a ♦similar purpose, has been incontinently abandoned. the more the Oregon electoral affair is ipffeWigated the deeper becomes the disgust of fair-minded people at the fpneteda of partisan turpitude which is 1 there unmn&ad. It seems u> be established beyopd reasonable doubt that a corruption fund dt plethoric proportions was the potent mesas resorted to by the democracy to aecotoplkh a result which, probably, will avail nothing to their ad- '- *>**» likrijr« W*£ upon them a .permanent injury, at Wat in that state if fa j# not frit so much ojeswfeere. Perhaps, however, the manias of the demqtymtie patty ought not tobe charged srith complicity b this corrupt scheme ihvttylty ty bare by their |

silence seemed to consent to it, for the evidence being elicited by the senate committee points towards Mr. Tilden ss being the party who was really responsible for the rascally transaction, and at the same time seems to show that ho resolved to try the experiment without consulting the members of the demoera tic national executive committee, and thst they had no knowledge of his action. It k an - opinion which appears to be shared in common by the newspapers of republican ptoelivitios and those of nonpartisan character, that Mr. Hayes has received 185 electoral votes to Mr. Tilden’s 184, upon an honest count of the lawful votes legally cast; and that he will be constitutionally inducted into the presidential office as the lawful successor of riysses 8. Grant.

There are those who sqnat down and wonder what has become of Gen. Packard’s libel suit against the Rensselaer Union. Given: MalorCalklns was Packard’s attorney. Mr. James published an independent paper and was a friend of Dr. Hayraond. Major Calking was a candidate for congress. Mr. James supported Calkins und the whole republican ticket. Exit libel. Sic transit gloria.—Laportc Argue. IJoni toil qui ma' y pensc. Given per contra: Gen. Packard’s suit is on the docket of the Tippecanoe circuit oourt awaiting the regular routine to be called for trial.. Befendant well supported by counsel eager for the fun to begin. As usual the surmises of a democratic, newspaper about the affairs of its neighbors arc like the constant tendency of its teachings. Altogether evil. <Sl'c(k) Argus , cum pulex irritants in auris, transit. In New York City ou the 16th the gold quotations were 106}, 106}, 107 and closing at 106}. Chicago market quotations tor same day were: Cattle—common Stockers, *[email protected]; butchers’ stock, $2.80@ 3.50; irfedium grade steers *[email protected]; well-fattened steers, [email protected]; choicest, [email protected], Hogs—common to good light weights, $6.10@ 6.20; poor to choice heavy 6.25@7. Sheep, [email protected]. *'■ .