The Republican journal., 1871-11-30
President Grant Sees in Different Light.

Consistency is said to be jewel rarer
than diamonds, and the record shows that
the President of the United States possess
ses preponderance of the latter-owing
to the tact that the first named may come
in the form of a present, while the other
cannot He is on record as declaring that
it would do neither him or the country
good that he should occupy the Presiden-
tial chair-while the revised opinion now
obtaining at the White House seems to be
that another term, if not q perpetual
occupancy will be healthy tor both
There is another and more memorable
occasion which points wholesome moral
in the past, and points the self-directed
finger of condemnation at the present at
titude of the President. Our readers will
remember that in 1866 there was trouble
in Baltimore and threatened riot, growing
out of the removal of the State Police
Commissioners by the Governor. Presi-
| dent Andrew Johnson was requested to
| send a force of United States troops thther
to support the constituted authorities
Gen. Grant, then eneral-in-Chief was
consulted by the President and directed to
make q report on the subject, which he did
on the 9th of October, 1866. After de-
failing the circumstances of the case he
| proceeds to discuss the question as to the
propriety of using the military forces in
the local affairs of a State, and among
other things, said
1.-The conviction is forced on my mind that no
reason now exists for giving or promising the
military aid of the Government 10 support the
| laws of MARYLAND. The tendency of giving
such aid or promise would be to produce the
very result intended to be aVerted. 50 far there
seems to be merely a very bitter contest for
| political a>cendencv i'll the State. Military in
| reference would be interpreted As giving aid to
one OF the factions, no matter how pure the in
! tention>, or how guarded and just the instruc-
tons. II is contingency hope never to see
arise iii this country while occupy the post ion
of Genera-in-Chef of the army to have to
| send troops into a State in lu relations with
! the General Government on The eve of an elec-
! ton to preserve the peace. If Instruction
| does come. the law provides the method of call
! ing our forces to suppress it
This, says the Washington Patriot, was
five years ago; the writer was then Com
mander-inC Chief, and is now President.
He did not expect that in five years the
nation would be centralized like Russia
OF France, and dreams of empire had not
dazzled and bewilderel him. 1t was
then believed by overy one that State
should be permitted to protect the peace
of its own citizens; that if any attempt
was made by the Federal Government to
control the affairs OF the local govern
ments, it would be met with force, and
the authors Of the treason be hurled from
power tried, convicted, and punished ;
that the unauthorized use of the army is
a crime; that the military force, illegally
employed, is mob, and its commander
| leading it, u criminal. Now, without the
faintest shadow of instruction or rebel
lion in the State of South Carolina-no
effort to obstruct the Government, or de-
NAL of the binding force of existing laws
OF the forms of established government in
the State-wth the whole State machinery
in full operation-no one questioning its
legitimacy-executive, judicial, and min
isterial officers in the regular and peace
able discharge of their duties-without
the solicitation or consent of the Execu-
tive or the Legislature, the Federal army
is hurled upon this defenceless State, aud
the dragonnades Of Louis XIV. repro
duced in what is still called, by courtesy,
"our Republic"