The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-01-20
The Real Danger.

danger to the Republic is not from
military usurpation. There is
more imminent peril in the infiam
matory harrangues OF Thurman and
Hamilton; in the djsorganizing
appeals of Schurz and Bayard; in
the quasi Endorsement of insurrec-
ton and murder by Cooper Insti
tute meetings, and the mad reso
lutions for the withdrawal of Fed
eral troops from Louisiana and the
punishment of faithful officers,
introduced in the House by Cox, of
New York, than in twenty Grants
or hundred Sheridans. Let us
analyze this cry of military dicta
torship Schurz makes it, with his
spectacles turned solemnly to the
ceiling and his forefnger on the
manuscript where the eloquent
sentence terminates. Thurman
makes it, waving his red silk pocket
handkerchief in the air as if the
very contemplation of the bloody
scenes to follow had crimsoned it.
All the big and little Democrats in
the House and Senate follow in
their wake, and the refrain is
caught up and echoed by lawyer
in New York whose patriotism is
an unknown quantity, and by a
very good old man who, by his
rhymes, not his politics, has gained
the respect of the nation Revers
ing the words of Friar Joseph
when bored by the lines of Rich
ellen, we exclaim: sit is strange
that SO good a poet should be such
q pour statesman but these men
and their followers, some of whom
are rogues and others ignoramuses,
shout themselves hoarse in desclib
ing the dangers to the country
from military ambition, while with
their own hands they tear down,
one by one, the safeguards erected
against the mad assaults of revolu
tionists and hot headed inoculasts.
We have an army of $4,000 men.
This, to protect our immense from
tier, to deal with the savages, to
man our forts, and to protect ex-
petitions constantly sent out to
explore our comparatively unknown
Territory in the far West. Not
few of the enlisted soldiers are men
who served in the rebel ranks
during the war. They are com
lnanded by men of every shade of
political opinion. and by men who
are not blind and mechanical serv-
itors, but who have beliefs aud are
free to express them. Is there a
sensible man who believes that the
President, with this handful of men.
contemplates Napoleonic coup d
etat? Does the men who utter
these absurdities in Congress be-
lieve what they say? Is it possible
that there is an individual SO mad
as to seriously contemplate the
overthrow of the Republic and the
planting on it's ruins dictatorship,
with handful of men who could
be annihilated in day by the
militia force of even the smallest
State in the Union7 And Congress,
which has in it's own hands control
of the numbers and organization of
the army. is asked, gravely and
seriously, to recall or disband this
handful of troops for fear that
Grant or Sheridan may use them
to foist upon the country a military
government? There is danger to
the contrary-immin danger;
but it does not arise in this way.
It comes from Democratic approval
of violence; from the defense of
revolutionists; from the encourage
ment which instruction, disorder,
and anarchy are receiving at the
hands of men whose greed of pow
er surpasses all other consider
atoms; whom ambition hath made
mad Let the people of this
country beware of them. If the
precedent of non interference to
uphold the Constitution, defend the
laws, suppress violence, and pro-
tect struggling people against
assassination and slavery be once
established, as these men are now
trying to have it established, the
beginning of the end will have been
reached. and not military govern
ment, not government of force,
but no government at all, will be
the consequence. The day of Sc
curity to life, liberty, and property
will have passed, and even the
blatant demagogues who now
demand such consumation will
shudder and shrink from the ruin
they have wrought--Inter Ocean.