Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-10-26
|. RADICAL RULE WORKING TWO
WAYS,

The New York Tribune of October 10Th,
furnishes a signal illustration Of the utter
lack of principle shown by the Radical
leaders. In the same column Of the same Is
sue, Il comments on affairs in Maryland and
Louisiana. In reference 10 the proposed ac-
ton of Gov. SWAMI in regard to the Police
Commissioners of the city Of Baltimore,
whose removal, for malfeasance in Office, by
the Legislature or by the Governor, in the
recess Of that body, is expressly provided for
in the law creating them, the Tribune says:
There is serious danger of riot in Balti-
more should Gov. SWAMI endeavor to re-
move the Police Commissioners By force.
His order is a direct attempt TO break down
all the constitutional enactments by which
the Union men Of Maryland have justly
sought to prevent rebel soldiers from tyran-
nizing over the State. There is a danger
that force will be used, and that it will be
resisted. We trust not. If there are
troubles let the courts and Congress decide.
There is much reason to hope that the stand
taken by the Union men will convince Gov.
SWAMI of the uselessress Of this wantOn at
tack upon the Constitution of his own State.
In other words, Gov. SWANS discharge
of his sworn duty is pronounced violation
of the Constitution and the laws, and an
outrage upon the "loyalists" Of Maryland
an invasion Of the prerogative OF the petty
oligarchy which, having disfranchised ma
iority Of the people, seeks through the
agency of corrupt officials to still further
prescribe and Cypress them. In regard to
the conflict between Gov. Wells, of Louisi-
ana, and other parish officers, which is
threat on the part of that inscriptions
1oyalist' to remove officers eLectedby the
people, because they refuse to be the instru-
ments of Radical mischief, it unblushingly
says:
We have more bad news from Louisiana.
It is said that Gov. WELLS intention to re-
move the sherifs from office, for refusing to
discharge their duties, will be resisted by
the rebel secret organizations, who will at
tempt TO overpower the military and renew
the massacres of Unionists. The authority
of Gov. Wells is above question in this
matter.
In the first instance, where the power of a
Conservative State Governor is clear, and
his duty to remove appointed officers for
gross misconduct is plain, this oracle of radi-
calism denounces him, and hints at armed
resistance, and the initiation of another
civil war. In the second case, where Rad
ical Governor, holding his place in known
opposition to the will of the people of his
State, proposes to interfere, without the
shadow of authority, with the rights and
powers of subordinate officers duly elected,
and whose conduct is approved by the peo-
pie, it justifes him, and demands that the
Government shall tender military aid to
him in his unholy efforts to crush the peo-
pie of Louisiana into submission to the Rad
ical oligarchy of that State, which has
already drenched the streets of its chief city
in blood.
Sauce for the Radicals must be strychnine
for Conservatives. The military arm of. the
nation must uphold the illegal action of a
State Governor acting in the interest of
Radicalism, but ifthe same armis extended,
in obedience to tho law, in aid of State
Governor endeavoring to maintain the Con-
stitution and laws of his State against gross
violations and innovations upon the guaran-
teed liberties of the people, it must be re-
sisted by Radical mob, euphoniously called
the "boys in blue" The President who re-
fuses to sanction the infamous usurpations
of Wells must be reviled as a traitor and
usurper if he supports the just authority
of Gov. SWAMI. This is Radicalism I'M
masked and in all its hideousness. 1t has
no respect for constitutions, laws, principles,
rights or duties With full and restrained
sway in this Government, it would destroy
in three months every vestige of lawful gov
eminent, and substitute its own unbridled
license for well-ordered liberty.