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Show TELEGRAPHIC PRESS COMMENTS. Sow Yurk "tt'oria" Editorial Friday.) For ftll honest rcpuhlicnna tho pret-leut pret-leut di Ut at ion iu Louisiana ia full of responsibility us grave aa over rested upon self-governed men. Wo call upon such men to confront it calmly and measure it deliberately with us to-day in tbo light of the wordu deliberately used hy the acknowledged acknowl-edged leader of the respectable republican repub-lican opinion of this great city of New York less than two years ago (alluding to Evarta' speecb): The people are brought face lo face with a portcntious peril of what Evarts less than two vears showed uh ho clearly the dark' outlines looming up then in the future. If the people of Louisiana have elected tho Tilden 1 electors, and the governor of Louia- 1 iana, of whose character no honest man in the Union entertains any doubt, with tbe attorney general and returning boards of that state, dU-honcstly dU-honcstly appoint the Hayes' electors, and in the lace ot these palpable tacts Hayes, by tho votea of these electors, so appointed, is made president, thcro is no remedy in law, and no way left open to maintain tha truth of your institutions, as Evatta sternly said in January, 1S75, "hut civil war, engaging vast passions and and a vast multitude of men." Surely there can be no need of a word fromua in thewayof developing the magnitude of this peril. It lays every honest republican citizen iu the country under instant obligation to bring a direct moral pressure to bear upon tbe executive of Louisiana Lo constrain him into tho paths ol truth and jiiBtice. Upon the republican leaders in Washington and elsewhere this obligation weighs to-day with especial force. Upon Hayes iu particular par-ticular it preesex with all Lhe weight ol history and the hopes of the Union. Assuredly he cannot wish to be what Senator Murlon calls a usurper. |