THE UNITED STATES’ PRESIDENT.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1614, 23 April 1879, Page 3

THE UNITED STATES’ PRESIDENT.

The following note is by the American correspondent of the “Chronicle”:— Speaking of national politics, I should mention the result of the enquiry in o the alleged frauds of the late Presidential election. The majority of the Porter committee reported that the Republicans had been guilty of all the frauds and perjuries attributed to them, and that Tilden had been rightfully elected. There is not a shadow of doubt upon this point, although the Republicans upon the committee in a minority report, which reads like a political leading article in one of the leading journals, argue the other way. They carefully ignore the evidence, however, and confine themselves to a verbal criticism of the majority’s report. Such a report would for ever damn any British politicians who should submit its like to the country ; but here politics embody the worst side of human nature, and transfsr all that is mean, corrupt, and untruthful into meritorious action. Perjury and bribery, modified by murder and abuse of the judicial system, are the methods by which American politicians reach their end where practicable. I think there is less corruption, as a rule, upon the Pacific Slope than in any other section of the Republic. It is fortunate, in the interest of truth and for the sake of historical accuracy, that General Bon Butler was on this committee. Not liking either of the other reports, he has submitted one from himself, and a terrible arraignment it is of the man Hayes, and the methods by which he became President. The Electoral Commission comes in for review, and its scandalous perversion of justice is the object of scathing rebuke. General Butler points out the had effects already produced. The Supreme Court of the United States has been debased to the level of a political cabal, and it has ceased to possess the confidence or respect of the people. This is emphatically true ; and, as Butler declares, should similar circumstances arise as in 1876, it will result in revolution. The majority of the people will not submit to have their votes set aside by a conspiracy to sustain any political party in office. Butler’s report has been received by the whole nation as the expression of truth, much as the man himself is detested.