The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-06-03
THAT PENNSYLVANIA RESOLU-
TIDN


1t Is Enthusiastically evident that the
Radical party, both press and people, are
striving with great earnestness to eXalt
unduly the third term sensation, and by
keeping it prominently before the public,
conceal, by it, other charges against them
of even greater proportions. To this end
it Is being constantly affirmed, with APP
parent pride and pleasure, that the third
term ''spooI' has been exercised, mot by
the Presidents letter, butt by the
resolution of the recent Republic
can Convention Of Pennsylvania de-
nouucng it, and that now the
party can 90 into the. fight, tighten
ed Of this burden, and dIscmbarrassed
Tor the fray. But what did the Pennsyl-
vania Republicans do after all? They
SIMPLY denounced the third term; but in
the same breath, eulogized the Admins
tration and endorsed its every act, even
to the veto of the bounty act, which they
declared they favored. Now, the third
term is undoubtedly n question well cal
culated to create alarm. 1t is no light
step toward the destruction OF the Amer
lean Republic, for any one man to I'M
sgine that the Chief Magistracy Of the
nation is his individual property, and
that he had won his title to it by
valuable service rendered to his country
1t is really a very grave matter when
any one man can thus parade his acts rs
n reason why his dreams of personal am
bition should be gratifed. Caesar took
idcntically the same position in Rome,
and so graycly did certain Romans look
upon his conduct that they ncontinently
slew him. But grave rs the thing is, it
palcs before the acts actually performed
by the President and which are now
part of the history of this country That
direct thrust at the liberty of the Amer
lean people, and attempt to convert the
treomen of four States into the slaves of
his will-thc Force Bill-whch he lob
bied for; that Butlcrian infamy--the
Civil Rights Bill, by which it was hoped
TO gain the negro vote-which he signed
in twcutv-four houaS after its passage;
that most outrageous interference with
the Louisiana Legislature by L. ). SOL
diers. which he endorsed; that Infamous
attempt to destroy the peace and prosper
itv of ArkansaS-couver it from Il
condition ofquiet, to one Of anarchy and
confusion, in order that he might seize
upon it body and soul-which he advo-
Gated; the Wholesale arrests, by landaulct
WILLIAMS and his mlnions, of Southern
citizens on trumpcd up prcteNts whichhc
countenauced; AL these and many others
enough to consign this administration TO
eternal intamy, have been endorsed most
heartily by the anti-third term Pcnnsyl-
wanna Republicans, and so endorsed
though every one Of these outrages were
manifest.y pcrPctrated for the sole pur-
pose of securing the third term.
1t may be concluded, then, that the
approval of these things will be promi-
nent plank in the platform of the
Radical party during the COM
ing contest. The man they nominate
must stand upon it. Who is SO thoroughly
blind as not to see that the naked idea Of
third term considered outside of 50
dangerous man as GRANT is, by far, less
Objectionable, or traught with less peril TO
our institutions, than are these steps which
have been taken, and which cannot be
lsa.ss. The Pennsylvania Republicans
haze dsAo4aosd the least; but endorsed |
,se GREATS. evils which suffering !
,,,sr,ry bss % complain of at the hands
r. ..r.' party