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4 SUPPLEMENT. SEXATOR CHAXDLER'S SPEECH. "So event of the closing nieht of the late session of Congress could compare in absorbing interest with the ten-minute speech mailo by the Hon Zachanali' Chandler in the Senate. It was a quarter to 3 o'clock in the morning. The hour and the events which immediately preceded it the man and the prominent part he had played in the most Btirring episodes in our National history served to give to the words he uttered a significance out of all comparison with the ordinary course of political debate. He said : Mr. Fkhsident: Twenty years ago I. in company with Mr. Jefferson Davisstood up m this chamber, and, with him, swore by Almighty God that I would support the Constitution of the United States. Jef ferson Davis eanio from the Cabinet of rranklin Pierce into the Senate of the United States and took the oath witli mo to bo faithful to this Government. Dnnnc four years I sat in this body "with Jefferson Davis ami saw the pieparations gointrou from day to day for the overthrow of this Government. With treason in his heaitand perjury upon his lips, he took the oath to sustain the Government that ho meant to overthrow. Sir, there was method in this madness, ne, in cooperation with oth'T men from his section, and in the Cabinet of Sir. Buchanan, made careful prepa ration for the event, that was to follow. Your ar mies were scattered all over this broad land, where they could not be used in an emergency. Your fleets were scattered wherever the winds blew and "water was found to float them, where they could not be used to put down a rebellion. Your Treasury "was depleted until your bonds bearing t per cent interest, payable in coin, were sold for SS cents on the dollar for current expenses and no buyers were found. Pieparations were carefully made. Your arms were sr.ld under an apparently innocent clause in an Army bill providing that the Secretary of War might in his discretion sell such arms as ho deemed fit lor the Government to sell. Sir, eighteen years ago last month I sat in this hall and listened to Jefferson Davis delivering his fare well address, informing us what our constitutional duties to this Government were, and then ho left and entered into a rebellion to overthrow tho Gov ernment that ho had sworn to serve. I remained here, sir, during tho whole of that ter rible rebellion. I saw our brave soldiers by thou sands 1 might almost say millions as theypasscd on to tho theatre of the war. I saw their shattered ranks returning. 1 saw steamboat after steamboat and railroad traiu after railroad train bringing back tho wounded. I was with my friend (pointing to General Burnside) when ho commandod the Army of tho Potomac, and saw piles of legs and anus that "would make humanity shudder. I saw the widows and orphans made hi this war. Mr. President, 1 little thought at that time that I should live to hear in tho Senate of tho United States eulogies upon Jefferson Davis living a liv ing rebel on the lloor of tho Senate of the United States. Sir. I am amazed to hear it. and I can tell tho gentlemen on tho other side that they little know the spirit of tho North when they come hero at this day with bravado on their lips, uttering eulogies upon him whom every man, woman and child in the North believes to have been a double dyed traitor. No man voutured to interrupt ; none felt insulted. It was simply crushing. THE VOX 1'OPULI. Frtm The Troy Times Hep.) Tiie Nkw-Yokk Tihiilwi: is worth a dozen Potter Committees to get at tho truth of tho electoral " fraud " business. AUDACITY OF f HE FRAUD CUT. From The Orange (.V. J.) Journal Rep.) This black and intnmous record needs no com ment. In untolduig it to the gazo of the American people The I'kiuuxi: has done a work for which it deserves and will leceive the thanks of honest men of nil parties. It i tho crowning feat of journalism in America, if not in the world. Think of the au dacity of Samuel J. Tilden and his " coparceners," "who, with tho consciousness of such villany stain ing their iouls, hai- kept tins country lor nearly two years m a .state of teimcut by their accusations of "fraud" against the Republicans, and bv their efforts to smirch the character anil disturb tlie title of President Hayea! flunk of Tilden standing on the steps of his house m Gramcrey Park, the very Bpot where tin-so schemes ot bribery were sanc tioned, ami daimg, with hypocritical lace, to say: "A great fraud, which the American people have rot condoned, and never will condone never, never, never!" TWEED'S OPEliATlOXS DWARFED. From The Christian Vnion. Poo's famous otory of the "Gold Hug" pales into insignificance in comparison with the serial story which lias just commenced in Tun Daily Tkihunk. Wo know not winch to admire mnst, tho extraordi nary luck or extroidinary management which Las brought into its hands 200 cipher dispatches cent by tho Democratic managers over tho wiies pending the electoral count ; or tho detective bkill with which the cipher has been discovered; or tho editorial skill with which the public appetite lias been whetted to the last degree ot impatience for the full publication and interpretation of these dispatches. The Democratic managers involved, including, wo aro sorry to say. Mr. Tilden himself (lor though no dispatches are signed by him they were sent to and answered from his house), nitis't cither ntlonl some other interpretation of them or be convicted bv their silence of attempting a fraud that dwarfs that of Tweed into microscopic propor tions. If the ostrich sutlers its head to hide in the Baud much longer, its body will be o lull of arrows that it will never recover. Tin: Tirniuxi:, by its disclosures, lias probably put and end to " still hunts" and rue use of cipher telegrams bv tho pol iticians ol tho future, for both of which services it deserves the thanks of the American people. SOME P01XTS ESTABLISHED. Tliero aro a few points which have been con clusively established by proof that tho Potter Com mittee would gladly have ignored entirely. It is well to notice these : I. It is conclusively proved, by tho admissions of Smith Weed in his secret dispatches to Gramercy Park, that the actual majority of tho votes in South Carolina was for the nayes electors. Yet it ia ad mitted that Mr. Weed, the favorito lieutenant and right-hand man of -Mr. Tilden in Now-York politics, tried to secure tho votes of South Carolina for Til den by bribery. It is conclusively proved that tho Board in that State was at no time for sale, that Mr. Weed was fooled by the reports brought to him by a person who was anxious to get the 3,000 for his services as intermediary, and that W. T. Pelton, Mr. Tildon's nephew and confidential secretary, weut to Baltimore expecting, as ho admits, to re coivc and to pay over tho money for tho purchase. Tho vote of South Carolina, then, was cast exactly as tho majority of voters intended and desired. Domocrats tried to buy its vote and failed. II. It is conclusively proved by the admissions of Mantou Marble, in his secret telegrams to Gram ercy Park, that tho actual result in Florida de pended upon tho decision mado as to ono precinct in Alachua Countv and the returns from Manatee County, thero being only about ono hundred ma jority either way. It was Bccrotly telegraphed by Marble that "it would not strain Board much to throw out " the disputed Democratic votes in Mana tee. His opinion of tho worthless character of Democratic claims in that caso was confirmed by the Board, which also threw out the disputed Re publican votes m Alachua. There is not a particle of proot that either of tho members of the Board ever was for sale. The two Republicans wero strongly convinced of the justico of their caso from tbn lieirmiiiii'' and in cverv decisive action they were sustained bv the Democratic member. Marble and Wooliey both transmitted to New-York propo sitions designed to sway tho decision by bribery, but failed. Evidence taken in the Congressional contest in that State has proved beyond disunite that tho Republicans were right in their claims, and that tho votes believed by them to have been cast wero actually and legally cast for Republican electors. But tho essential question is not whether the Board may have been mistaken in judgment; tho vital fact is that it decided according lo tho law as laid down by tho Democratic member, tho Attorney-General, and its honest convictions, and was not'for sale, although tho Democratic leaders tried to buy its decision. III. It is conclusively proved, in respect to Louis iana, that a reign of terror and violence in several parishes, caused by Democratic crimes, hail made it dangerous, it not impossible, for active Republi cans to bring out their vote. Such was tho terror ism that the proper othcers aid not dare, ior tneir lives, to make formal protests until they had es caped iroin tho reach of Democratic assassins. Some of them wero afterward murdered because, having thus escaped, they told the truth. For tho express nurnoso of preventing tho success of a patty bv such means, a State law had intrusted ex traordinary and arbitrary powers to the Canvassing Boaid powers which would neither be needed nor conferred in a civilized State. Those powers wero exorcised by strong Republican partisans, and thero is not the faintest shadow of a reason for believing that they required or had any other inducement than a sense of justico and an iiitn' hostility to the party of assassination and 1 acre. The Democrats insist that their assassin si ould have triumphed, and that thero was ' Greta Fraud," be cause massacre was defeated by the exercise of ex treme and arbitrary powers conferred by law. Tho Republicans, on tho other hand, rejoice that for once tho revolver and shot-gun failed to elect a President. IV. It is conclusively proved that tho Democrats, being defeated elsewhere, tried to obtain by bribery in Oregon a vote to which they had no shadow of claim. The offer of money went from Mr. Tilden's own bouse, and tho money itself afterward went from banks and bankers with whom ho has closo and confidential relations, at the request of hia im pecunious nephew. That attempt to swindle the country failed, as similar attempts had failed in South Carolina and Florida. And now the thwarted assassins are yelling " Fraud " because they could neither get the power by murder nor by bribery. THE raEW-YORKTKIBUNE Tun Tiubuxe lias long enjoyed the distinc tion of the largest circulation among the best people. It is now spending more labor and money than ever before to deserve that pre eminence. 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Not a word from Beck in this absorbing crisis. hat a noble dim is here unhinged! Calling it by some other name won't make it any less of a backdown, sweet Democrats'. Fernando Wood doesn't think that ho ought to tackle tho tariff again. No more does anybody else. Senator Eaton, of Connecticut, is as ferocious with his mouth as a menagerie lion on an illumi nated poster. It is old news evcrvwbere except in Washington that public sentiment is overwhelmingly on tho side of the Republicans iu this scrimmage. 1 ne uemocrais in congress nave now spent a week in trying to lind tho easiest way out. Prudent people would have thought this thing over beforo they went in. Having failed to bulldoze tho President by rais ing a hullabaloo in his front yard, the red-shirted Democracy now steals around under the back win dows and tries it on there. A judicious Republican programme seems to bo to keen up a vigorous prodding of the Dumocrata about backing down, for that is a sure stimulus for a fresh crop of retroactive blunders. What troubles tho Democrats most in tho Presi dent's message is its " insolent tone." There isn't anything of the kind in it, but if thero were what business have a lot of rowdi, who have been call ing the President a "fraud," to complain of it I If the Democrats knew that by conciliating the negroes in the South and defending their right to vote thev would stand pome chance of carrying New-York, Ohio and Pennsylvania next year, they might be able to do a good deal of damage.
