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Show BLOODY THREATS. Now that the election of Mr. Tilden is assured beyond any reasonable doubt, the republican managers, who cannot bear to loosen their grip on the treasury, or to have exposed their still concealed rascalities and robberies, rob-beries, begin to threaten resistance to his inauguration. They employ the language and breathe the fanatical and foolish spirit of the most violent class of the sescesBionists of 1S01 in regard to Mr. Lincoln. Blaine, in his speech at Buffalo, told the people that if New York voted for Tilden he would be certainly elected, and then asked: "Will you allow him to be inaugurated in that event?" A prominent speaker, who ! had thoroughly canvassed his stale, recently went to Washington, and admitted that Tilden would carry it largely. But, said he, "before- he shall be inaugurated the streets of thia capital will run wilh blood." The St. Louis Glvbe does not mince matters, in giving utterance to the purpose ol those lor whom it speaks, when it says: "No man elected by the process resorted to by the democrats ol South Carolina will ever be allowed to take his seat as president of thtt United Slates. This is our deliberate judgment." judg-ment." We advise these persons to keep cool and cot to let their angry pas-aionB pas-aionB rise. It will be hard to resist the inevitable result which is now foreshadowed. Sum u el J. Tilden will bo elected president, and the four millions of voters, north and south, east and west, to whose suflrajes he will be indebted for the office, will see to it that he is inaugurated on the 3tli ol March, 3 S77. I'lie officeholder:!, the rings, the jubbcrs, the thieves, the carpet-baggers, and the rogue?, who have had kill bwiug tor more than fifteen years, ai.d have run this government like a close corporation for their own profit, leaving to the people the privilege ol paying whatever taxes they imposed, will die hard, ot course. But they had belter not try a rebellion to retain re-tain possession, or Ihrealen to break things because they are to be turned out. Some of the usages of Mexico caunot Bafely be tried in the United States. We are a law abiding people, and our habit is to submit to the decision of the ballot box, even when it is I notoriously atufled, as has been the republican practice for mauy years in Philadelphia and all over the south, under carpet-bag rule. Nobody fears that Blaine would lead any resistance that he might incite. Ho is no more dangerous now to the reformers than he was to the rebels during the war, when he hirvd a substitute who Anally brought up in jail, whiie Blaine himself expended his patriotism in the lobby, and jobbery illustrated his sense of public duty. When Calhoun threatened nullifi-catien nullifi-catien aud violent opposition to the exocutiou of the laws, General Jack-aon Jack-aon did not hesitate to sav he would hang him as high as Haman if an attempt was made to put these menaces into execution. Blaine will take good care never to get his neck in the halter if he can avoid it. But some of his deluded followers may get into an ugly scrape by this sort of vaporing, which is intended to intimidate in-timidate the weak and ignorant. If they are wise at all, they will accept the admonition to keep cool, and be prepared to see our Uncle Samuel inaugurated like all his predecessor in the presidential office. N. Y. Sun. |