The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-11-23
Threatening Already.

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Forewarned is forearmed; and it is, there
FORE well that all persons likely to be attached
in any official capacity, high or low, to the
National Administration which is just coming
in, and all Republican Senators and Represen-
tatives who value their lives, should have
their attention called to the following startling
language, used by CORES popdent of the
World, and printed in that newspaper on the
l4th inst.:-
"If governments were intended to besuperi0r
10 the sway of humSn passioas, and TO be sd:
ministered according 10 firm Intelligence ami
Justice: no gGyernm nj on eaitn slauds Ia sucn
need Of warning that which has obtained
another four years lease of power over the
United States. Since radicaltsm nag been in all
ages and counties, AS IN ours, provocative OF
social turbulence and crime, it IL not unnatursl
to suppose that the incoming radical al mluts.
trallon may have serious disorders to contend
with. Prosperity and tranquility in the SouJh
will be int Genre as long as the policy which mas
been pursued at W ashinRton Is unPemitted;
the lives of certain high officials may be endan-
Rered President Grant himself may have, as
Abraham Lincoln had, m aniac for Nemesis"
There is no point Of view from which these
words can be considered in which they can
appear to sensible and unjaundiced eyes as
other than sedtious and threatening. They
practically assume that the administration Of
General Grant may be guilty of acts so cruel
and tyranrous and intolerable that men mad
dened thereby may become involuntary muir
derers. II the intention of this writer were as
conscientious as it is probably otherwise, the
fact could be pleaded with but little effect in
eXtenuation of his instigations; the best tina.
could be reasonably said for him would be
that he was the victim of homicidal dementia,
and might himself easily become one of the
death-dealipg avengers of the South, whose
advent he foretells. AS he is probably as nearly
in his right mind as passion will permit him
to be, it may be judicious to point out to him
that publication like that upon which he so
l., L.
Which any Government bent upon severe mea-
suIes could desire. Ne respectable President
could permit him elf 10 be bulhed out OF any
course which he might have intended honestly
to adopt without an intOlerable imputation OF
cOwardce. No Administration allowing itself
to be SO controlled in its omissions and COM
missions could escape deposition at the hands
Of an indignant nation. If assassins prowl
about the White House, there will be mill
try guard at the vestbuls. Ths most sum-
mary processes of the law are vindicated when
writers in public journals hint at murder as a
remedy for political evils, without any warn
ing of its utter faulty.
The fiery spirit who has issued this pronun-
ciamento is good enough to give us in brief
his views Of an important branch OF political
philosophy. If blOodsbed in high places is to
be prevented, Governments must be superior
to the sway of human passions" The inuendo
here is that our own has not been thus supe-
rior. Governments must "bs administered
according to o firm intelligence and Justice"
The inueDdo here is that the Government OF
Mr.. Lincoln was unintellgent and unjust, and
1t is further limited that it was provocative
OF turbulence and crime" The ground here
taken has nothing to do, as the writer pre-
tends, with the trial and execution of Mrs.
Surratt. The concluding reflection of this
prophet csrries the readers mind book to the
initial crime;-"President Grant himself may
have, as Abraham Lincoln had, maniac for
a Nemesis - This is substantially an apology
for the assassination; and no ingenuity of con-
struotion can show it to be otherwise. The
writer has inherited the pistol of Booth, and
he draws it in terrOTem upon the President
elect. 3d." he cries, "as Lincoln did, aud
your life is not worth weeks purchass
You must be a conservative, or bs killed as
! he Was for being a radical ! You must be
more intelligent than he was; yOu must bs
! Justel' than he was, or you will create ma
Iiacs who will come to Washington and shoot
! you es he was shot /" This IL bat fair para