Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1872-06-14
The Supplementary Enforcement Bill.

The Bill as amended by the committee Of
conference and which has passed both Houses
of Congress. and is therefore the law, provides
''That in any county or parish in any Con-
gressioHal district, whenever ten citizens in
good standing shall make known TO the Judge
Of the United States Circuit Court their desire
TO have the registration or election guarded
and scrutnized, the Judge shall appoint two
citizens OF the election district or voting pre-
cinct, OF different political parties, as Super
yisors OF Election. They are not 70 have any
compensation or authority 10 make arrests, or
10 perform other duties except 10 be IN the i'm
mediate presence of the officers holding the
election, and to witness all the proceedings,
including the counting of votes and the max
isg the return thereof
Eere, freemen, is The charter Of your liberty,
held at the snfferance Of tyrant, what think
you off t? Can any man in his sober senses
and who has spark of the feeling of true lib
erty say that any necessity existed for the en-
actment Of such law. The Democrats, aided
by n few Liberal Republicans, Tough. against
the bill through all the stages Of its progress,
and would have stranglel the monster, but by
dastardly trick in the Senate and the iufa-
nous ruling Of Senator Anthony, (then in the
chair) this Supplementary bill was tackled on
as an amendment 10 the Sunday Civil Appro-
priation bill, thus holding the Democrats re-
responsible for a failure of that bill, if the
other was defeated. The bill WAS modified
and passed by a strict party vote. In the eyes
Of sober reason no necessity existed for the
extension of the Bayonet Law unless indeed
the partisans Of the would-beagain President
thought il necessary to overawe the South and
deprive that people Of their vote. But these
liberty hating gentlemen forget that courses
like chickens come to roost," and though the
provisions of the bill extend over the whole
Union, is designed especially for the South,
hat it may recoil upon their own heads in the
Northern States, judging from the tone Of the
press in that section.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, "a republican
paper) denounccs its object as quitting the
polls ia November under military contro., "
aud says Chat the country will not submit to
military rule in times of absolute peace" that
Il the Senate insisted on its mad scheme ''the
favor in which General Grant now stands may
be taken from him.
The N. Y. Herald, Independent, says ''that
there is no more necessity for extending mill
tary law over the Southern States than over
the New England States, though they pro-
pose to bring both under the same law, fearing
''it may become necessary, in case of Greeley's
endorsement by the democrats, to carry the
South at the point Of federal Payonets."
The n Y Saa independent rep. asks, care
they mad ~ Have they been struck with
Insanity ~
The N. Y Tribune said the Senate had Use
riously injured its character"
The ~ Y Post asks if the Senate was ''mad
or what %
The bill is utterly ndefensibe, but Grant
Can sleep peacefully in his cottage at Long
Branch, even though the whole South groan
in bondage day of deligerance must come.
'The mills of the gods grind slowly, but
surely"