The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-10-24

venience and profit the standard of order and
loyalty 10 The State Of MarJ land. The Governor
Is vested with lawful authority 10 hear COM
plants against the Commissioners, and IL neces-
sary TO punish them by removal Com 0laints
are brought In cue form before him, and these
he cannot neglect. But the Commissioners
they will appear only before q tribunal of their
own choosing and prepare by force of arms TO
maintain themselves in Office. IL wronged, the
came law which makes the Governor their iud &c
when the Legislature is not in session, provides
them means OF redress; the law will sustain
them in their offices II they are entitled to hold
tb EN-; and justicem might thus be secured without
prejudice 20 the peace OF the com munity.
Why the difficulty then2 Simply TO promote
the ends of the radical faction. To do this,
Baltimore has for several days been placed on
the verge oil bloody riot. There has been no
waiting for the operation of the law; no token
of reliance upon its, power. AS though con-
scious that the law Is against them, the Com
missionere, carrying out the radical will have
from the first avowed determination to rely
exclusively upon brute force. A mob has been
organized, disciplinen, and armed to maintain
the Commissioners as against the law ana
since the authority of the Governor must be
Wind icated, If need be by force, no special
faculty is required TO comprehend the peril
which threatens the peace OF q populous city.
One indiscreet act on either side may In an In
slant revive on the soil of Mary land the horrors
OF New Orleans.
II such a catastrophe be averted, our thanks
will not be due to the radicals OF Baltimore or
their friends in neighborlng cities. Not only in
Baltimore, but in Washington and Philadelphia,
has there been persistent effort to encourage
the Commissioners in their defiant attitude, and
to prepare the country for the beginning OF
another civil war. Appeals have been made TO
"Boys in Blue" TO hold themselves ready TO
march into Baltimore to aid in resisting tue
authority of the law. In short, certain radical
leaders, having taken unto themselves right to
overrule the law, have busted themselves IN
doing all that is possible to evoke the mob
spirit. If new revolution be not lnaugurated
by riot at Baltimore, 1t will not be because
prominent radicals have not been willing to
promote it.
Pass from MARYLAND to Louisiana, and we have
another version of the same story. In Mary
land a conservative Governor is called upon to
try and perchance remove radical Cominls-
sioners. In Louisiana a radical Governor talks
Of removing pro-Rebel Shorifs, and there, as In
Marylan1, Preparations have been made to resist
and defy the law. The Sherifs are charged
with neglecting or refusing to perform their
duties when pro-Rebe defendants are involved
and an armed organization has been formed to
cooperate with them. They proclaim purpose
to fight rather than submit to removal; and
lawless Boys in Grey" throughout the State
are appealed to for succOr. Governor Wells
must recede or the Sheriifs must succumb, or q
conflict Is inevitable.
IN both cases the animatmg spirit is the
same. 1t Is the spirit of lawless violence, work
excitements from which there seems but scantY
chances OF peaceful e3Cape.
The picture might be extended almost inded-
nitely. Its details differ according to the
locality. But in more instances then we care
now TO enumerate, the volcanic elements to
pregnant with danger, and the country ought
not to be unmlndful OF their existence and their
power.