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Show WHAT IS IT? Kililors Herald: If, as n strict cuiislMctiun of ethics and law put it, it ho a sin to steal a pin, a misdemeanor to steal a rlnll.ii and a crime to steal a hundred dollars, dol-lars, what kind of an ollenso it it (0 feloniously enter upon and lauo possession pos-session of the chief magistracy of a uatiou? This is the colossal crime which the brilliant christian statesman, states-man, R. B. Hayes, has nearly consummated; con-summated; and, to aggravate the infamy, is not a passive rvci-ivcr of stolen property but an au-uinplux before be-fore the fact. It is well known that, in utter defiance of docency, obliviousness ol honor and diivgard of the people's will, this man Hayes has been actively at work wilh hii co conspirators devising plans, hutch-1111; hutch-1111; up technicalities and perfecting frauds having iu view the foisting of hinmif upon the nationals presideul; that this nefarious business commenced com-menced upon tho memorable morning morn-ing of the 8th of November, alter it was clearly ascertained that nearly iiOO.OOO of a majority of tho voters and at least a dozen ot an electoral majority had utterly rcpudiatid him and the filthy gang with whom ho is associated. And yet the chief howl-era howl-era at hit back have the presumption to set forth his moderate, diyuitied and legal bearing. So fur from possessing any ol the qualities which mako up a statesman or a sound lawyer, he is not even a gentleman or the one principle of delicacy would forever preclude the possibility of his taking a public positiou which an overwhelming majority ol his countrymen have personally and by ibeir representatives forbidden him to take. Then, another deligbttul feature of this wholesale record of crime, is the super-loyal, hypocritical groan which Morton, Chandler. Hayes and the wholo coeterie oi traitors have sent up over tho Cronin vote of Oregoo; oven if Governor Grovor had gone outside the law (which he did not) in giviug Cronin his certificate, is it to much moro of an oflense to steal one electoral vote- under color of tho law, than it is to .ileal the entire votes of two stales by the same process? Il is tho old dodge of crying "stop thief," that the officers may become confused and go astray. But, then, we have tho asbiirai.ee that Hayes will be the grca', pacificator pacifica-tor and rejuveuator. We have the honor of the usurper himself pledged to this; but his honor, if be have any at all, is so innnitessimally small and so infernally elastic, that t'no democrat demo-crat who is further deceived by him deserves to be. S. A. K. |