The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-02


President is declared to be casting an amorous
owe upon the Maryland militia, body of trea-
sonable antecedents and tactiou proclivities.
This force, we are told, has been recently re-
Organized and of the 10000 men OF which 1t
Is composed there are said to be 46OO in the |
oitv of Baltimore. There are other facts which
are not reassuring. We printed yesterday
telegram that Gen. Grant having properly re-
fnsed to grant the requisiton upon the General
C5overnment for artillery, Governor Swami has
purchased 12-pounders in Baltimore, and
placed them in the charge of companies COM
manded by Rebel soldiers. This is startling
enough but we must add to it theexpenditure,
by State already impoverished, OF nearly
$500, 0O0 for uniforms and muskets. Why
should Maryland prepare for war; Why
should Governor Swami organize militia
which is little better than Rebel armyt 1t is
argued that if the President were disposed to
subject Congress to a 'Pride's Purge" or to
drive it altogether from the constitutional
domicil, this Maryland militia would be found
a ready and convenient auxiliary. The worst
of these rumors is that they should be current
at all. The burning shame of the whole mat
ter is that any body of unclouded reason should
think such usurpation possible. The dishonor
to the republic of Chief Magistrate to whom
such intentions may be seriously imputed, is
greater than the danger Of their practical full
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what we have again and again declared-that
the public mind is in a condition of chronic
alarm and watches with nervous suscepti-
bility for the slightest indication of Executive
violence. Never before has the country been
in predicament so humiliatipg 1t is dis
grace to be credulous, and it may be ruin to
disbeeve.
After a dozen vetoes and after persistent
evasion of the laws enacted in spite of Execu-
tive prohibition, it certainly becomes all loyal
citizens to be upon the alert That prediction
may be important now which ten years ago
would have been simply ludicrous. The
mouthpieces of the President threaten war,
and, if there is to be war, we prefer to COM
mence the campaign without an hours delay.
We propose to encounter the Rebel army of
Maryland with bloodless weapons, and, by
giving them taste of the peoples quality, to
decrease their passion for practical combat,
The President may not care for the popular
will, when it does not keep time and tune to his
own, but we suspect that the warriors who are
to be summoned by the White House reveille to
take Congress into custody may prove to be of a
less uncompromising nature. They may have
an apprehension of predestnate ropes and of
the Dry Tortugas. Ii the coming State elec
tions condemn as Enthusiastically and as en-
phatically as they should the President and
his "policy," the sonorous language OF the
great result will not be wasted upon the Balti-
more banditt. We have tried the stuff of
WHICH JIl6y are indIlc, anu IL GllOJ oO quhOhly
apprehended General Buffers uncompro-
missing intentions, they will hardly prove more
obtuse in the face of great Republican MAORI
ties. His Excellency may call them, but as
there is no law which, at the risk of their lives,
can compel them to parade in Washington
to crafty his love of military spec
tacles, they may take time for re-
Election before they obey the summons;
and, if they reflect at all, it is probable that
they will prefer the comfort and safety of
their own fresdes to the chances of grapeshot
in the capital. They are, no doubt, a phalanx
of uncommon closeness and compactness-a
legion rivalling the regiments of Rome but
Mr.. Johnson is not Philip of Macedon, and
would have cut but a sorry figure in crossing
the Rubicon. He may, for aught we know, be
reading up in French history, and preparing
himself for the crisis by careful study of
Napoleon's management of the Council of Five
Hundred; but he is no more Bonaparte than
Washington is the Paris of 1893, or the Mary
land militia the veterans of Lodi and Arcola.
Up to this moment we believe that Mr.. John
son has been dreaming of a popular support
and cooperation; and it is time that such
reveries should be rudely interrupted, for his
own good and for that of the country. Let us
have noble Republican victory in New York.
showing upon which side the State ranges
itself unmstakably, and not one mercenary
trooper will march from any quarter at the
call of selfcreated dictator
IeTHaps we are treating TINS matter too
seriously. If it be true that the President is
meditating the military experiments of which
rumor is speaking so plainly, the reception of
General Sheridan in Baltimore must have been
anything but encouraging. 1t is question
now whether the loyal people of that city
would permit the militia metamorphose
themselves into the Swiss Guard of Mr.. An
drew Johnson. ''It was expected, says the
report OF General Sheridan's passage through
Baltimore, ''that the Rebel inhabitants would
interfere, but they did not the crowd was so
very enthusiastic cheering Sheridan and
groaning Johnson and Swami 1t is to be
presumed that those who thus welcomed a
prescribed hero will keep a watch over the
movements of their mlitiamen; and if Gene
raj Sheridan is wanted in Baltimore or Wash
ingtOn, we are sure that authority will some
where be found for calling him to the rescue
of law and of order.
Impeachment and the RumOrs of Execu-
tive Resistance
From The N. Y Times
we have attached no importance to the
rumors imputing to President Johnson the in
tention of forcibly resisting Congress in case
it should resolve upon his impeachment and
suspension from office. They seem to us
utterly preposterous and absurd. Yet tbav
obtain oredence in many quarters, and are
widely used to excite and arouse the nnbli,
mind in regard to the pending canvass. And
we see that Senators in Congress, who ongb,