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Show SAM I'EL J. TILII-:X. .l Square ThIU Hy the Jlua i Mho Should belli thu Wliile , Uuu.i, 1 Nuw York, 12. At tho Maiihatten club reception, Governor Tudeu said: 1 EvorytjtjiJy kuowa that alter the recent . t'luctiuti the men who were eiecttd by J the people, president aud vice preai-dent preai-dent oftnu United sitate), wer count- 1 cd out, and tne men who were not elected were counted in aud seated. I disclaim any thought of personal wrong involved iu ibis transaction. Not by any act or word of Qjiueahall that be dwarfed or degraded into personal grievance, winch in truth ' m the greatest wrong that has stained our national annals. To every man of the lour and a quarter millious who is defrauded of the fruits of their elective franchise, it is as great a wrong as it is to mo, and no less to every mau of the minority will the ultimate consequence extend. Evils in government gruw by success and by impurity, they do not arrest their owu progress. They can never be limited except by external forens. If men in posacasiuu of government can in one instance maiutam them-delves them-delves iu power against an adverse decision at tho elections, such an example ex-ample will be initiated, the temptation tempta-tion exists always aud devices to give color of law aud false pretences on which to found fraudulent deciaiuiis will not bo wanting. The wrong will grow into a practice if once condoned. con-doned. In the world's history changes 1 in Buccession of governments have ' usually been the reault of fraud or , farce. It has been our faith and pride that we had established a mode I ot peaceful change to be marked out by the ogency 01 tne uauot uox. inu question now ie whether our elective ! aystem in its Bubstauce as well as its turra, is to bo maintained. This is the question of questions and until un-til it is finally sullied there can be uo policies founded on inferioi questions of administrativo questions ques-tions of policy. It involves the fundamental fund-amental rights of the people, t involves thu elective principle. It involves the whole system ot popular government. The people must signally sig-nally condemn the great wrong which has been done to them. They must ftrip the example of everything that can attract imitators. They must refuse re-fuse a prosperous immunity to crime. L'liis iu uot all. The people will not be able to trust the authors or beneficiaries benefici-aries of a wrong to devieo remedies, but wheu those who condemn the wrong shall have power, they must devise a measure which shall render a repetition of the wrong forever impossible. im-possible. If my voice could reach throughout our country and bo heard in its remotest hamlet, I would say: Be of good cheer; tho republic will live. The institutions of our fathers are not to expire in shame. The sov-reignly sov-reignly of the people shall be rescued from this .peril. A re-established successful wrong ne'er appears eo triumuhtinlly as on the very eve of its fail. Seven years ago a corrupt dynasty culmiua':ed in its power over the million of people who live in tbe city ot New York, It had conquered or bribed, or flattered, and won almost everybody into acquiescence. It appeared ap-peared to be invincible. A year or two later its members were in penitentiaries peni-tentiaries or in exile. History abounds m similar examples. We mutt behove id the right and in the future. A great and noble nation will not sever its political from its moral life. Governor Hendricka, after expressing expres-sing his acknowledgments for the honor, Baid he would not disturb tbe pleasure 01 tue occasion oy uuuer-takiag uuuer-takiag to recount the means whereby the will and judgment of tho people were defeated. The result as declared in Louisiana, Florida aud Washington, Washing-ton, could not be Batislactory to the people because it was not true. Even should the president aud cabiuet adopt a part, or tho whole of the policies and purposes for which the democratic oarty had been contending contend-ing for many years, ana which became be-came so distinctly defined last year, even that cannot remove or quiet public discontent. Democrats will make no factious opposition, nor will they seek to embarrass the de facto administration. The fraud first triumphant tri-umphant in American history must be assigned to its proper place among the crimes against popular govern ment, and made so odious that no party will attempt a repetition. All democrats rejoice that free governments govern-ments are ouce more allowed to the states of Louisiana and South Carolina, Caro-lina, and rejoice in the good fruits that must follow; but they know that, in the language of Governor Morton, "It had become inevitable." For years the democrats had contended in congress aud before the people (or free republican stales throughout tbe south, and finally it became inevitable, inevit-able, because rijht and truth were loo strong to be longer suppressed. |