The Hillsborough recorder., 1875-01-27
NORTHERN SENTIMENT.
ROCK THE cRADLEor LIBERTY.
Serinqfela ,,Mass.j RepuJlioan.

Springfield Mdss. Repubticdn.
April 20. 1858, oliver Cromwell drove
the representatives Of the English people
out of their chamber at the point of the
bayonet. January 4, 1875, Ulysses ) Grant
repeats the experiment-upou q smaller
scals, to Be sure--by sending fle Of SOL
diers into the State House Of an American
commonwealth on like Illegal, revolu-
tionary, treasonable errand. We shall see
what comes Of it. IL is possible thai the
old love of chartered liberty the old jea-
lousy Of arbitrary power, which blazed up
50 fervidly hundred years ago, beacon
light throwing its glare across two worlds,
has quite smouldered out. It may be that
the Americans Of this generation have quite
lost the secret Of that generous, yet wholly
Reasonable ana intelligent en- otion, which
fred the shot at Concord and kiudlsd the
biyouac fres at Valley Forge. Ii so, the
complete subversion Of oIr present institu-
tions is merely question Of years. lfnot
there will be such sohorons response tc
the manly protest and appeal Of the out
ragged State as viii convince Capitol and
White House that the patience Of the peo.
nle Is at last exhausted. and that any futh.
er experiments 10 this line will be attended
with serious Tisks-alike for institutors,
agents, and abettors. Let US bring the
matter home to ourselves. Louisiana issa
long way Of, and besides, the fact Of il
participation 10 the secession movement ]:
still fresh in the Northern memory. A
good many people IN this part Of the country
read abont the events occurring there very
much as they would read about similar
events occurring in Mexico or Niearagua.
But it is State of ths American Unior
for all that--a State Standing upon tht
same footing in every respect. 50 far As tbe
Constitution and the laws are concerned. q.
Massachusetts and New York, and Illinois.
So far Is the Constitution and the laws are
concerned, neither President Grant nol
Lieutenant General Sheridan has any righi
or exercises any legitimate authority at New
Orleans which be does not equally have o.
may not equal exercise at Boston. What
ever either of these pesons can lawfully dt
there. they can lawfully do here Suppost
Nr. B. r. Butler. for instance, should b
.he Republican nominee. for 9 sssrnor nexi
year. and should be soundly beaten at th.
polls--as he undoubtedly would be. Sup
pose President Grant should then avail him
self Of strained construction Of doubtful
eDsctments to install this defeated candi
date with force and arms in the Office t
which the people Of Massachusetts, had elec
ted another man. Sappose be should fol
Low up IBIS performance By placing The sr
INV of the United States at the disposal o
Mr. Batter. and BY sending Sheridan Il
Boston. with the remark that in the even
Of disturbance somebody 'woald get hurt
Suppose, finally. be should undertake (,
decide question Of contested seats in th'
General Court BY sending Gle Of soldier
into The State House while that BODY va
in session, vith orders 70 forcibly eject II,
sitting Democratic members. What woult
the people OF Massachusetts, think Of such ii
interference in their home afairs-of. .sucl
ause ofthe United States army How woul'
they feel aboat iti What would they "a,
about ii What would they do about ii? Ye
re repeat, IL this sort Of thing e lawfu
and right ia louisiana, il Is lawful AMI
right n Mssrchusetts. What Is sauce 70
New Orleans Is sauce for Bostob. To on
thinking. there has been 40 such occasion
"a the last hundred years Tor rocking th,
cradle Of liberty. aud rocking tito som,
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