Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-10-10
THE REBEL ARMY OF NARY
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From the New York Tribune, Octobtr1.1
The spprehensions of the country begin
to take form and so,idify into particulars.
The President is declared to be casting an
amorous eve upon the Maryland militia, a
body Of reasonable antecedcnis and fac
tious prociivit;es. This force, we are tod,
has been recently re0rganized, and OF the
10, 600 men of which il Is composed, there
are said TO be 1900 in the city of Baltimore.
There ara other facts which ale not reas
surfing. We print to day telegram that
General Grant having properly refused to
grant the requisition upon the general gov
crnment Tor artillery, Governor Swami has
purchased twelve Founders in Baltimore,
and placed them in charge of companies
commanded by rebel soldiers. This is
startling enough, but we must add to IL the
expenditure. by Il State already impover-
ished. Of nearly $500. GOO for uniforms ard
musket.. Why should Maryland prepare
FOR war? Why should Governor Swami
organize a militia that is little better thar a
rebel army? ii is argued that If the Pres
idcni were disposed to subject Cor
gress t, "Pridc's purge or
to drive il altogether from the constitu
,ional domicil, This Msryiai.d militia would
he found a ready and convenient auxiliary
should be current al all. The he ming
shame of the whole matter is that anybody
OF unclOudcd reason should think such
usurpation possible. The dishOnOr TO the
Republic of Chief Magistrate to whom
such intentions msy bc seriously imputed,is
greater than the danger of their practicable
fultillment 1t affords only another illus
tration of what we have again and again
declared-th the public mini is in a COL
ditiOn of chronic alarm, and watches with
nervous susceptibility for The slightest in
dicatiSn of Exscutive violence. Never be
! fore has the country been in predicament
40 humilaiin~. Ii is disgrace Ia he cred
ulous. and it may be ruin 20 di.believe.
After a dozen vetoes. and after persist
cnt svasiouS of the laws enacted in spite Of
Executive prohibition, ii certainly becomes
all loyal citizens TO he upon the alert
That prediction may bs important now
which ten years ago would have been
simply ludcrous. The mouth pieces OF the
President threaten war, and. if there is to
be war, we propose to commence the cam
paign without an hours delay. We pro
poseto encounter the rebel army of Mary
land with bloodless weapons, and by Civ
ing them taste OF the peoples qualify, to
decrease their passion for practical combat.
! The President may not care for the popu-
lar will, when it does not keep time and
tune 10 his own, but we suspect that the
warriors who ere TO be summoned by The
White House rcveille to take Congress into
custody may prove TO be of a less uncom-
promising nature They may have an APP
prehension of predeslinate ropes and oil
! the Dry TorlugaS. If the coming State
/ elections condemn as Enthusiastically and as
emphatically as they should the President
and his policy" the sonOrous language OF
the great result will not be wasted upon
the Baltimore banditti. We have tried the
stuff of which they are made, and il they
so quickly apprehended General
Buffers uncomprising intentions, they
will hardly provo more OBJ
fuse in the face of great Republican major
tiles. His Excellency may call them. but
Us there is no law which, at the risk of
their lives, can compel them TO parade in
Washington to crafty his love of military
.pectacles they may take time for reiiec-
ton before they obey the summons; and ii
lhev reflect at all, it is probable that they
will prefer the comfort and safety of their
own fire sides TO the chauchcs OF grape
shot in the Capital They are, no doubt,
phaisnx of uncommon closeness and
cOmpactness-a legion .iyalllnS Inc reSi-
mems Of Rome but Mr.. Johnson is not
Phillip OF Macedon, and would have cut
but q sorry figure in crossing the Kubicon.
He may, for aught we know, be reading up
in French history, and preparing himself
for the crisis by a-careful study of Napo-
Icons management OF the Council OF Five
Hundred; but he is no more Bonaparie
than Washington is the Paris of 1879, or
the Maryland militia the veterans OF Lon
and ArcOla Up TO this moment we be-
lieve that Mr. johnson has been dreaming
of a popular support and cooperation and
il is time that such reyerics should be
rudely interrupted, for his own good and
for thst of the good of the country: Let US
have noble Republican victory in New
York, showing upon which side the state
ranges itself Enthusiastically, and not one
lmerccnary trooper will march from any
quarter at the cali of 4 sclforeatsd dicta-
tor