South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1870-11-04
The President and the Troops.

to b. sending ronps ahou; the country,
near the Day of eleeri,n, to be used f'r the
purpose Of intimidation and oyerswing the
people.
Troups are not marched about without a
purpose. A military movement ia king
dom, such "a he iucrease e the means #
war or the marching of large fnrce to tho
border. slwsyR induces an inquiry amongst
neighboring nations as n the "bj Ct ot ~.
II is considered a proper inquiry, and l.
generally promptly answered. Such move
ment Is understood 10 have an object which
looks u the employment OF fnrcc. Aud ia
these States any one Of them should uaiu
raj 5 feel uneasy NJ seeing a large force sud
denly quarieIed WITHIN n. hound-rles. Bar
IN the case of New York, for instance, there
- no cnncealment about the motive of send
ing four Thousand troops 10 that city, and
swearing in eight thousand maT9hals for
service there IL il the declared purpose
of the Administration 10 use this frrmida-
be array for keeping order IN a community
which ia not only at peace. bu' which never
has resisted the authority of the United
States, aud which expended hundreds ot
thousands and sent forth large armics to
put down the resistance If the Southern
States 10 the Federal Government The
facts are strange, aud there il no account
Iug for them ia any UtherWsy than that the
mems of force collected are ICieuded mere
~ FIR party purposes 10 alarm aud nveraWe
ne party for the pdvautsg. Of another -
The welfare Of the entire community re
qu'res no ,uch protection, AMI the prec-.
lent IL ia OF peril nay, Is itself an exer-
else of u<urpei, de.p'tic authority.
Tue President has no right to dispose
troops in the Ststes for the preservation of
order not disturbed, nor frr the enforce.
mcnt of laws not obstructed Tho civil au-
thority is entirely sufficient for carrying out
the laws, ami until the National Executive
i called upon by tue Federal judges or the
Governor of State he should not send y
nan nor n gun to he used for the enforce
ment of law. II was never intended that
h. should, and TO send them without appli-
cation is a stretch Of power and precedent
dangerous to pubic liberty .-Rjch. Dis
BAD MATERIAL FOR UNITED STATES
MARsHALs.-rhe New York Sun (rrpub.
iican) publishes a list Of the names Of
over dozen scoundres, felons, pick
pockets aud robbers who have been swuru
IN as United States Deputy Marshals to
serve in New York city to "-ecure an hon
est election" on the Sih Of November. The
list includes the following for the eighth
ward a white man who had served ten
years in Slng Sing State prison for bnrcla
ry and never pardoned cnlorrd man aud
4 white man now confined in the Tomb
prison, both indicted aud awaiting rial tor
highway robbery ; an unpardp ncd pick pock
et, who had served terms in the New York
and Massachusetts State pris,u.; newly
released State prison convict panel thief
and peuitentiary convict wbo has Just been
released from Blackwel's Island Dutch
Fred, keeper of a house ofiii-tame the keep
~r of dance house frrqueuted by the low
est prostitutes, pinps, thieves and ''bsdger
pu !ors > homicide and several other les
ser criminals belonging to the SIKH, tenth
and fifteenth wards. Several hundred spe
ci ,I marshals have been appointed in New
York, including 100 colorcd citizens. ali
It cost of $40 each pr dag for severai
days before and after The election
4 HORRIBLE TRAGEDY We have been
o. PERMITTED to copy an cXtrscl # le,t,r 70,
. gentleman ia aur village, which reveals %
most terrible cireuco',snc" that happened
urar Ccnrra'ia, Illinois Il is SIS foIow-
1t seems that in the West when there !,
mything extra To- be done, one ;'eighb.r
goes TO help the other 40 bis person wished
20 nut up "A large houS. on his place anu