The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-03-06


again. The great doubt was, would the
United States go through so fearful
struggle and come out safely-come out
soon alsoa vital, efficient power, posses
Sed of dominant Legitimate government,
acting under the law Upon that point
rested our or dit, and as the result seemed
doubtful for us our bonds went down as
the prospect frightened they went up
But the war was brought to close. The
Legitimate government had triumpbantly
asserted its power, aud was respected and
supreme in the exercise of all its func-
tions. We had falsifed all the examples
of history and all the i'll natured prophe
ccs by going through the great struggle
without political convulsion, ard the vast
debt we had incurred to rescue the nation
seemed safe the pledge of our honor sure
to be redeemed. But all at once there is
an entire change. We are thrown back
from the fixed point we had reached and
float in the uncertain sea of revolutionary
troubles, so tossed hther and thither that
none can say where we may be beached
We are again in the category of nations
whose great wars ended in great inter-
necine contests for political power and
people must reason to our future from
such examples as that of France, in which
the series of changes ran through score
Of years and upset all law and order. Who
shall say now that the nations bonds will
ultimately be Of more value than were
those of France or that the United
States greenback will not figure in the
same chapter of monetary history that
rccitos the story Of the French assignats
Our tendency is downward in the same
direction. Already party has dared to
raise its head to put forward reputation
candidate for the Presidency and now
that the people can see no prospect that
the burden Of taxes will be relieved, now
that there is all appearance that our fl
nancal condition will 20 from bad to
worse, this reputation party will find its
hands immensely strengthened in popular
sympathy, and may suddenly discover that
it has grown to be one of the great expo
nents of the popular will. And thus it is
that impeach meut, and the disturbance it
involves, means in the result neither
more nor less than national bankruptcy.
THE WASHINGTON soUARBLE-DANGER
OF OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE.
Ia all the clustering, fuss and fury and
disgraceful state of affairs at Washington
at the present time, the only danger to
the nation of kindlng the flames of civil
war and anarchy in our midst is in out.
side interference. As long as the parties
in Congress and the White House are left
to make fools of themselves, which they
are doing in the most effectual manner,
there is not the slightest danger to the
country at large. 1t is a very disgraceful
quarrel as it stands, and has already been
productive of enough trouble and talk
But when we find the Governors of Penn.
sylvania and Illinois Offering to place SOL
diers at the disposal of Congress to enable
them to carry out their disorganizing
schemes, and crazy leaders in our princi.
pal cities organizing "Johnson Defend
ers," the case becomes serious in the ex-
, treme. A single company of troops sent
to Washington might plunge the nation
, into civil war and bloodshed, aud it is the
duty of every true patriot to discounte-
nance in the most emphatic manner any
such criminal and suicidal course The
condition of affairs at the national capital
is critical enough, aud needs to be investi-
gated and settled in the most delicate
manner. Reckless partisans on either
side should not be permitted to cmbroil
the people Of the various States in the
quarrel and precipitate them into a gulf
of civil war and fratricidal strife, from
whence it may tax all the energies and
, immense resources of the country to ex-
tricate them. Let every one, therefore,
!, who has the slightest spark of patriotism
: in his breast watch closely and frown
down any attempt on the part Of officials
or individuals to interfere with force in
this Washington squabble. There is not
the slightest necessity of employing bayo,
nets or artillery as arguments on either
side. If the contcuding parties be left to
themselves to bluster and be the laughing
! stock Of the world it will be for the inter
ests of the nation.
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