The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-24
rhs shame # Grants Administration.

It Is the shame Of ihe present Admins
istralion, that, in time Of profound peace,
when no hostile foot presses the soil Of
this country, troops IRE sent into DIFF
fereat States Of the South ostonsibly 10 |
preserve the peace and keep the inhabi.
tants from flying at each Others Threats,
or 10 prevent alleged outrages and assassi-
nations If these allegations were true,
il would be proof Of bad government, an
evidence that the people did not rule, that
their sovereignty had been subperted, their
win dehed, their right to selfgovornment
set at naught, and aliens and enemies
placed over them. Such state Of things
win not and should not be long patiently
borne by people who have known what
it is to be free. Nor can a pretorian
soldiery dragoon them into submission.
But these allegations are not true; in the
main they are false. The disorders in the
South are the results Of that abomination
known as reconstruction; which is but
another name for the basest tyranny and
oppression. Bad laws win make bad citi-
Gems. That government and system Of
laws is best where the people arc most
contented and happy Popular discomfort
and disorders arise only when there is
wrong or oppression. A corrupt and de-
graded rule has been foisted upon certain
States Of the South, and it is to maintain
that rule and the reckless and unprinei-
pied men at the head Of it, partizans of
the President, that Federal troops are sent
under direction Of an imbeeile Attorney
General, to do the bidding Of faction
This is the true state Of the case, and
peace and order are out of the question
as long as these subyersions and outrages
upon ffeemen are maintained by govern
ment in the name Of law and order. The
maintenance Of law and order has been
tho plea 81 the veriest tyrants that ever
cursed the earth and Redeemed its surface
with the blood Of hecatombs Of its slaugh-
tered inhabitants. But tyranny has never
been able to crush out Of the people
sense Of right and propricty and love Of
liberty. Grants soldiers win not be able
to do it. Things win grow from bad to
worse, unless good government obtains,
and the peoples rights are respected. It
is a iit commentary upon the local rule
set up in the South, and the best evidence
of its base, irritating and oppressive char
acter, that bayonets have to be sent to
maintain il. And this is supposed to be
a government Of laws, framed and enforced
by the people themselves; and this is the |
nineteenth century, with its boosted civil
lization, when riyht, not might, controls
the affairs Of men when reason, not brute
force and the sword, is the arbiter between
them. II would be so, but that faction
and tyranny interpose their obstacles
..Bsneaah the Of
Supremacy great. ths pen greater the s~asi.
Behold the areh-enchaaterr uAndi Itself i ae,hHsi
naf catching soscesy rum hana.
And Alaea BY the gigantic poSer Of TIE press
"a paraiyros ths thranes Of uanArehs,
Gives liberty ihs . eprrusssa miiaoa.,
Ind suiAss The broad oalh brs.,hless.
Take away the sasrai
States be saved without II"
Grants first inaugural closed with "let
us have peace" but he has given US war;
war to support State Government set up
by an illegal order of drunken Judge
war, against crushed and ruined people
whose substance has been taxed until the
property will not pay the taxes; war, in
the interest Of faction and all this in the
name Of lawrnd order. Did any people,
under the veriest absolutism of the old
world, ever suffer such outrages Not
ireland or Poland ever suffered more, be-
meath the heel Of unrelenting British and
Autocratic power!