The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-09-19
Grant Dragooning the South,

Grant Dragooning the South
The resolutions adopted by the Demo
cratic Convention of the Second Congress
sional District, arraign the President for
sending troops to the South to overawe the
people at the coming elections in the in
tereai Of the party in power, and charge
him with violating his oath Of Office, and
with subverting the principles Of free
government. The language Of the second
resolution is as follows
That the President in sending federal troops
to invade the precincts Of sovereign States
unsolicited by the executives thereof, under
the specious plea Of executing the enforce
ment act, but really to oserawe the people at
the coming elections in the interest Of the
party in power, has violated his oath Of office,
subvertea the principles Of tree government
and afflicted the people Of these States with
rule that is alike tyrannous and oppressive.
That the enforcement act, which, us inter
preted by the Supreme Court Of the United
States, was passed exclusively for the protec-
ton Of eolored citizens, is an outrage upon
tHt tights vi tftIy Nuttt ulAu IN our COUNTY,
and deserving their universal execration.
Every white citizen in the country with
proper appreciation Of his citizenship,
viii utter his indignant protest at the
polls by depositing his ballot in condemna-
ton Of the use Of Federal troops for party
purposes, and in condemnation Of an I'M
just discrimination by Radical Congress
against white men in favor Of negroes
1t was not enough that the black man
should be placed upon an equal footing
with the white man, before the law; a
Radical Congress and Radical Supreme
Court have actually put the black man
above the white man, in the Enforcement
Act.
The sending Of troops to the South to
dragcon the whites into submission to the
carpet-baggers and negroes, is nothing
new. The Nelo York Sun, adverts to the
fact in the following terms
ssThis desperate game has been played be-
fore BY the same parties to operate on cleo
tons. That the present agitation is the result
Of a wicked conspiracy is now manifest not
only from the best sources Conformation, and
exposing the ialsehoods Of Kellogg and his
associate plnnderers, but from the concert
with which the whole crew Of earpet-baggers
and scalawags simultaneously rushedto WASH
ington and Long Branch with their fabricated
stories"
The Nebo York World speaks out in
earnest words against this latest expert
ment in political terrorism. In well
written article under the caption of "Grant
and Louisiana" that Journal says
Since Grants former harryings of the South
for the purpose Of alarming the Northern
people And Of driving the Southern whites
from the polls, change has been wrought in
the public sentiment Of all sections Of the
country which bids fair to react disastrously
upon his latest experiment in political terror
ism. The time has been when a crusade
against "outragesn ia the South carried
despair TO the South and alarmed many honest
people at the North into the belief that the
movements OF the troops were directed against
y Tettl uaukcI. Dut tuC W Will Has
been raised once too often. The Northern |
people are not deceived BY it, and the South |
ern people as q rule have the good sense to |
see that their best protection from serious
persecution at the hands of Grant and his tools
Is in the knowledge which the country begins
to get Of the true state Of affairs at the South
and Of the character of the men who direct
them. hchonest people Of Louisiana are in
no wise paraiyzed in their efforts to secure
good government by the announcement that
Grant had listened TO kellogg's appeal and
ordered troops to Louisiana. They have done
nothing which causes them to fear the presence
Of Federal troops. And kellogg's object in
calling for troops has been so far defeated in
that the presence Of troops has no effect to
oyerawe the determined opposition which has
planted itself agains, him. If the nefarious
wrongs and robberies which Kellogg contem.
plates in the next election are eonsummated |
By the aid Of Federal troops Grant and his |
snbordinates will be directly responsible for |
them. Before Grant and the Republican |
party lend themselves and prostitute the army |
Of the United States to the further oppression |
Of Louisiana and the further robbery Of her
creditors, they would do well 70 count the
cost Of the experiment. Ifthey fail to count
it now, they viii find the paying of it far from
pleasant or profitable few months hence.