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THE REPORTER. J.'PBPPKIt, S"B., | J. T."UAKLING'tI'M, ■ Editor. Associate Editor. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY '22,1877 WAITING. There never was a timo in American history when the people awaited politi cal developments with more painful in terest than at present. It may be said, without the least cxaggeration, that the dearest interests of the rmtiou, the peace and pros, erity of our country, the honor and credit of the government, and even the existence of our liberties, will all be affeoie'l by the decision of the Presiden tial Commission at Washington. Nor does the faot that Judge Bradley, the fifteenth member, decides all the issues coding ttctore that Tribunal by his sin gle vote, afford anything satisfactory to the public. Hj really holds the most responsible position over held by a citi zen of the United States His vote is all-powerful, for cither good or evil.— lie is the eighth Republican upon the Commission, and he is the only-one that has so far had tho honesty to oast a sin gle vote against the high-handed out rage and unblushing fraud his seven party associates have endeavored te thrust upon the people. And we regret to admit that we have very little ground to hope for much justico from Judge Bradley. lie has never voted with the Democrats only on comparatively unim portant questions. lie recorded his vote in favor of fraud when colored with a show of legality, and declined to perform the principal duty with which ho was entrusted because the exposure of such glaring frauds as existed in the Florida ease would have defeated his party.— And we have no other expectation but, in tho face of all the proven perjury, brfcory, corruption and rasoality recent ly unearthed by tho Louisiana investi gation, that State will likewise be couut ed for Hayes by (hose eight Republican Commissioners. If that should be the ease, would not an konest and indignant people be justified in setting aside such an unwarrantable decision ? Think of tho poaition of fifteen intelligent men a common jury, and in tho trial of a cause eight of them refuse to hoar ans evidence in favor of one of the dis putants ! This is exactly the justice accorded to Mr. Tilden bv » - ..the Commission. pressly to in«# t e most servile of the brute creation when we advocate a policy of peace at any price. The heroes of the Revolu ti u would despise and dis>wn a progen ity so degenerate and contemptible. JJTo, we should submit to no such par tisan decisions as tho Republican ele ment of the Couimissiou threatens to { impose upon the country; neither are ' we to expect a war in consequence of a rejection of suoh decisions. But, oome what may, let us insist upon truth, juß tice and our rights uuder the Constitu tion. Poor Grant! The President continues his Sunday evening conversations, but as there are only two more such evenings in whioh he may unbosjm himself to his beloved Gubright, the country noed not be alarmed. Gt all the Sabbatb evenings that may, during ooming ages, be vouch safed to meu wherever to rest from their labors, only two remain in which Mr. Grant may spoak as the chief of this mighty nation. The end is nigh. ► The man once mighty in deeds is now beoorno garru lous in speech. The sceptre is about to fall from his grasp. And we wearily listen, Sabbath alter Sabbatb, to the in coherent utterances of the man who, only a few years ago, held iu the hollow of his hand the destiuies of forty mil lions of people, we e*a but wonder at the change. Unconsciously we turn back to the fateful day at Appomattox Court House, when surrounded on every sido by count less hosts, the gallant remuaut of the glorious army of Northern Virginia, at the bidding of its immortal commander, laid down its arms forever. Inseparable from that day is the recollection of the chivalrous courtesy the victors extended to the vanquished. We remember too that at a later day, when it was proposed to take vengeance on our great command er, that it was Grant who interposed and saved him from indignity. We remem ber, too, at a still later date, that it was' Graut who bore suoh unequivocal testi mony to the good faith with which Southern men had kept their pledged word to obey the Constitution and the laws. And then wo remember too—alas ! nnthin" more that is magnanimous, or '•'e. The demon of am ' 'in. Falsifyin oqi J. '"nt Jo'pq f*'u tie Judge Bradl.v, the President Maker. For the first time in our history we have an American Warwiok. We dare "hay that no man in the oountry is more surprised than Mr. Justioe Bradley in finding himself investod with the stu pendous power of deciding by his indi vidual action who shall be the next President of the United States. There was, indeed, a possibility that the decis ion of this great question might rest in his hands from the moment of his se lection as the fifth member of the Su preme Court section of the commission ; but such a contingency seemed improba ble It was hardly to be supposed that a tribunal so select in its composition, so largely consisting of members of our most august judicial tribunal, so re strained b> a high sense of responsibili ty, and solemnly sworn to "impartially examino and consider all questions sub mitted to the commission," that a body of statesmen and jurists so eminent for chafecter, aud bound by so impressivs an oath, would act and vote as partisans in a controversy of suoh magnitude and'' dignity. Among the last thingi ex pected from this high and responsible tribunal was a decision on a strict party line in every vote It was confidently believed that the odd member, the filth judge selected from the Suprome Court, would always he supported by such a number of his fellow judges and of other members of the commission that no decision would depend on his solitary vote. It was desirable, as a means of satisfying the publio mind, that the decisions reached by the commission should not rest on divisions by a party lino. But the first important vote showed that this was a delusion. It then became evident that the fpurteen members first appointed would aot throughout as thick-and-thin partisans, seven persistently standing by the claim of Hayes, the other seven by the claim of Tilden, and that the fifteenth member i holds in his 6ingle hand the power to determine who shall be the next Presi dent. From the moment that it became evident that tho ten (Senators and Repre sentatives and tho first four judges would vote as stanch partisans on every question, standing uniformly seven agairfst seven, from that moment it was apparent that Justice Bradley is invested with an amount of political power to >j jHch there has never bean a parallel I£ J [LI History of the United States nor This page is mutilated ! that cf Florida; but those features are not the ones on which the Democrats have heretofore rested their hopes. Their case, as they had gotten it up, consisted of a great mass of evidence which went behind the action of the Returning Hoard. Not a particle of that evidence will be received by the commission, and the order which rules it out spikes all the guns of the great Democratic batte ry. Nothing is left for them but to dis pute the legality 01 the Returning Board and the olegibility of two of the Hayes electors. There is little chance of their convincing Judge Bradley on either of jhese points, and nobody doubts that the other seven Republicans will steadily vote against them. Had the Louisiana Returning Board counted in the Tilden electors the Democratic party would not have oontested its legality. The two electors who had held federal offices re signed previous to tho 6th of December, the day en which they were appointed by the Eleotoral Oolloge to fill vacancies. With these grounds to stand upon it i s certain that the other seven Republicans ' and probablo that Judge Bradley also ) will vote to give all the electoral votes of Louisiana to Hayes. Had Judge Davis* instead of Judge Bradley been aeleoted as the fifth member from the Supreme Court the result might be dif ferent; but Judge Bradley has thus far given the Democrats no reason for hop ing that he will mako Mr. Tildon Presi dent. After voting to rule out the evi dence whiob formed the real strength of their case, when his single vote would have insured its admission, it is highly improbable that he will support them in the weaker aspects of their case. It is still in his power to make Mr. Tilden President, but if be had any intention to do so he would have voted to admit the evidenco of fraud, which alone gave Mr. Tilden's claim a strong foundation. Iu any event it would have required high moral courage for Judge Bradley to go against bis party, and had he boen willing to do so he would have permit ted the introduction of tho only evidence which could givo him a strong justifica tion in the moral Bcnse of tb» co«m»»- —N. Y. Herald. One Woman On Thurs'* whose pa r and k;' Bill to Establish Inferior Courts, The bill to establish courts of inferior jurisdiction in the several counties in tho State, has passed its third reading in the Senate, without any material amend ment or change from the following, which is tho original bill The great object of the bi'l is to provide a moie speedy jail delivery, thereby relieving the counties of the enormous costs — enormous at least in many of them —con- ttantly accumulating for the keep .and feed of prisoners in jail awaiting trial before the Superior Courts. The relief thus giveu to the criminal dockets in the Superior Courts will inure to the public good in another way, that is to say, by enabling the Superior Courts to devote a much larger proportion of their terms to the trial of civil cases. With better local governments and with speedy jail deliveries the people ol tho oountios under negro rule will be relieved of very many of the burdens under which they have so long labored A HILL to be entitled an act to provide for an Inferior Court in the several counties in the State, to be styled the Court of Common Fleas. Section 1. Whenever in the opinion of a majority of the Justices of the Peace of an; county it shall be deemed that the publio interest will be thereby promoted, such justices, or a majority of them, may proceed to elect three citi zens of the county, of suitable charac ter and attainments as Justices of,the Coart of Common Pleas, and such per sons so elected, shall have all the powerß incident to such a jurisdiction. Sec. 2. Said Courts of Common Pleas shall be field for the respective counties four times in each year, on such days as may be determined on and fixed by ft majority of the justices of the peaoc : provided, that a majority of the justices of tbe peace of the several counties shall have power to determine and declare that a less number ot such courts shall bo held in their county, (or that no Court of Common Pleas shall be held ■ therein); and in either of such eases such order shall stand until revoked by a majority of the justices of the peace of the county: pratriilttl, that if such order of revocation be made by such justices, three months notice thereof shall be given by posting a copy of such '■>r »t the court house door of said 'y, and at a oublie place in each 'he said *|-8t and sworn in the Superior Court* •hall constitute the grand jury, with thesaa* powers and duties with grand juries ia the Superior Court. Soo. 11. A majority of the Justices of the I'oace in such county as may take advantage of the provisions of this act shall elect a Clerk of this Court of Com mon Plaas, and he shall keep the reeords of his court in suitable manner in a book to be furnished by the Secretary of But*, and shall receive the same fees for ser vices by him rendered as are provided by law to the Clerk of the Superior Courts for similar services, and shall hold his office for two years. Sec. 12. The justices of the peace of such county, a majority being present, shall elect an attorney, properly quali fied, to act for aud in behalf of tha State in the county, who shall hold his office for the term of two years, and shall prosecute all matteis cogaisable in such court wherein he shall be sppoiat* ed, in behalf of the State, snd he shall receivs the same fees, on conviotioa, as are allowed Solicitors in the Superior Court, and shall be, ex officio, the advia* er and counsel of all oounty officers, aad for such service shall not be allowed say extra compensation exceeding twsaty five dollars a year, unless it shall beaoaa necessary to prosecute or defend oivtt actions. Seo 13. The Court of Common Pleas shall elect one of their number presid ing justice, but the fees of eaoh member of said oourt shall be fixed by a major ity of the justices Qf the county, bat not , to exoeed $3 per day ; I*rouuied, how ever, Thut in counties whore the busi ness of the court would be, thereby facil itated, the majority of the justices of the peace may allow such salary as thsj may deem fit, to such presiding justiea. Sec. 11. This act shall go inte effect -4 on ami after the seoood Monday of Au gust, 1877. ♦ — m Hampton. . Governor Hampton seems to be pro gressing very wall ia South Caroliaa in spite of Judge Carpenter's decision that he had not been duly inaugurated Gov ernor of the Stato. The people every where continue to recognize him in tha most substantial manner as the lawfil Governor by promptly and voluntarily paying their taxes to bis oollectiag officers, so that he has wnple funds at his c mtrol while Chamberlain has not money enough to pay the miserable guard that bold possession of the StaU House. All the public institntioaa of the State, too, are supplied by fands contributed by Hampton. A special from Columbia to the CEarlaa f Commerce states that ; "al colored Seaa district, aad "V of tha
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