The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-02
- CHI A r L IS TON .
FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2, 1866.
TIE BALTIMORE IMDROGLIO,

certainly ON occasion Of very just concern. 1t
is less threatening now, perhaps, than it was
few days since. The Police Commissioners,
charged before the Governor with having used
their office Of scrutiniEing the registry Of votes
to the interest of the Republican party, and
who had threatened to resist the power of tho
Governor to remove them, have rcctdcd some
what from their extreme position. They have
not yet condescensled to enter u defence, but
the investigation progressing, they arc inform
ally present by their counsel The armed or
carnations to sustain them seem to have abated
greatly their zeal and preparations; the "Boys
in Blue" from Philadc1phir have not yet ap- |
pearcd upon the theatre of action. dctach- |
ment Of Government forces seem to have exer-
cised o SOLDERING and salutary influence upon
public feeling, and it is probable, therefore,
that if these officers shall be found guilty
of the maadminist charged-of which,
from the developments, there is no reason
able aucstion-the Governor will remove
them, without the disturbance of public order
which has been threatened, and that the crisis
will pass without that trial of conclusions be-
tween the power Of regularly constituted
authorities and the agents and exponents Of
higher Republican law, which it was feared
might draw to their solution the two great
powers of Radicalism and law, which are now
at issue before the country.
With this solution, however, the difficulty
will not be. yet completely ended. The re-
, 1noval of these Commissioners will, doubtless,
result in the election of Democratic Representa-
tives from the city of Baltimore and o Demo-
cratic Senator from the State of Maryland, who
will appear in Congress under the charge that
their elections have been illegally effected. Be-
8 fore the Republican majority in either House,
competent to determine upon the election, quail
: fication and return of its several members,
allegation will be proof. 1t is scarcely possible
that they will not all be unseatcd, and the re-
y suit, therefore, though apparently in favor Of
y the Government, will but give to Congress an
It other opportunity of exhibiting the fact that
in consstcnce with their present position as tho
+ admitted Legislature of the country, they car
= exercise whatever Of political power is neccssa
o ry to make their place secure and turn aside, t.
,s. lame and impotcnt conclusions, whatever mere
at ly political proceedings may be brought to bea
40 against them
is In this conclusion it is not pleasant to nc
u. quesoc. Apart from own momentous in
~ 10 terests at stake upon the issue, we have nc
-, been able TO Withhold tribute of admiratio
n to the Government for its stand in support
II the forms and traditions of the Republic; an
we cannot but lament the dissertations in tht
Dr. political structure, heretofore regarded as th
nc temple Of American liberty, which must nece
49, .n sarily result from the triumph and unbridle
no license of the Radical party-a party whic
to acknowledges no law but Of its own making
,re which exhibits nothing but brute power
ho power which, spripging from the lower cond
mo tions Of society, can consider no objects, r
ic- spcct no obligations, that ought to affect
on government of q civilized community. A pow
49,, so constituted, with o instinct of q
ich gression-and of aggression upon law and G
the der, and all that is venerable from its conHe
em ton with the past or commcndable in t
Or prcsent-cannot be fit to WELD the fortunes
70 shape the destincs for people so individual
no W., elevated as are the people Of these Unit
an. States. The triumph Of this party, thereto
tt,o would bc calamity not only to the South, /
Two to the whole country. We have lost 30 mu
hat that we cannot be greatly agtated for the lit
LID that Is le1t US. we nuNe CuAlcuScu iulc
fallen in the encounter, md nre prepared
% VI accept, with whnteVer of composure may
~ possible the condition Of fallen people; b
,;to- irrespective Of our fato, it is to be regret
ttor that this fair md aattcring experiment Of r
o in rcscntativc liberty; this lauded system of
It in publics; this fair and fertile !and,> and
ap- people, SO generally educated and 80 clcva
laua in their views of life and its duties, sho
O. - come to this conclusion: that in the hou
md fruition, in the acme Of their fortunes, t
who should be arrested and crushed by such
clare agcncy-should be swept over by po
which cmbodies tho principles Of social
IS u.s. political desolation, and which forces ther
nae look to the shelter of dcspotism which, tho
,,;r, obstructive of those hopes of n prosperous
O do perpetual Republic they have so fondly G.
over ished, will give them at least physical sec
oy Of ty from the perils of that anarchy that, "
fnt Of out, so threatens to cngulph them.
aBoS To avoid this dreaded contamination, the'
IS eo, obviously no power but that which consist
" nas,r the present Government. Whether that wi
n,ori. ,,r sufficient is yet to be determined. VIC
tho often expressed the belief TINT tho issue is
susceptible Of political solution. We were
Il for convinced that tho appeal to tho people OF
woro North would provo failure; that that pei
.Sa,r,. ,yor1I ~ foroon II.