The Americans are still reading the " confessions" and letters
published in the course of the inquiry into Mr. Hayes's election, and still disputing whether the Democrats do or do not mean to un- seat Mr. Hayes. We rather think they do. Mr. Potter certainly admits as much, stating that it is quite fair to submit the legality of the election to the Supreme Court, and many Democrats go far beyond Mr. Hayes. Their idea, we are told, is, if the frauds are substantiated, to wait till after November, when both Senate and House will be Democratic, and then " lock the machine," by refusing all votes whatever until Mr. Hayes and the Vice- President resign. The power of election will then pass to Con- gress, and they will seat Mr. Tilden. That seems to us a rather dangerous policy, as Mr. Hayes may refuse, and the people bold the Democrats responsible for the anarchy produced by locking the wheels. A much fairer way would be to impeach Mr. Hayes for a directly corrupt nomination to the Chief Judgeship of New Mexico, and abide by the result of the trial.
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