The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-03-25
EErom the New York Tribune.

gun D0bWoeH OOl' NioiV va N4AN SA'N 'NN'
and the people who believe in law and
order on the, other, is to be an obstinate
one. 1t was thought that a strong express
sion ofpublicIopinion wouldbesu sufficient
to show the President and his immediate
followers the danger and the criminallty
,of their lawless course. But II has not
wet had the desired effect. 9iThe Presi-
dent only grows ugly under cfiticislniand
reproofand his dependents evidently, feel
that they will risk more in displeasing
him than in defying the sentiment of the
law-abiding people Of the cohntry!nNew
York, for mstsnce, is nearly unanimPps
in regard tothe recent outrageous pro-
ceedings in New Orleans. Our best .citi-.
zens, without distinction of party, have
ioinedin condemnation of them.u Even
the Republicans in the State Senate have
concufred in a timid resolution depr9caI
ting them. But Mr.. Roscoe Conkl ling
was the first Senator to stand forward as
the defender of the President in his vio-
'lation of the law, and the indignant pro
test ofthis State has not yet been allowed
voice in Washington. The President
seems sure of the servile aCquiescence in
both Houses of Congress among the
greater portion of the Administration ma
iority. The sordid fear of losing their
district patronage is stronger upon the
members than their sympathy with that
universal and generous anger felt all over
the Union, at tie unjust, arbitrary and
illegal behavior of the Administration.
The President has waited just long
enough to be sure OF his adherents. The
manner in which they have received the
report of the Congressional Committee
appointed to investigate the state OF
things in Louisiana seems, naturally
enough to have convinced him that he
may RELY upon their support to any ex-
tremity and illegality. This Committee,
majority of them being Republicans,
have made report which no candid per-
son can controvert, showing that the
Conservative Legislature broken up by
Grant and kellogg was fairly and legally
elected. If there were enough regard for
! law or honesty or fair dealing left among
the Administration majority at Washing
ingtoh to resist the imperious and sullen
demands of the President this report
would be accepted as final and conclusive.
The men who make it are among the
most able and high-minded in public life.
Two of them are Administration Repub-
| licans and one is Democrat. butthe facts
were so plain and their intentions, were
so honest, that they were able to present
a full and unanimous report. There IS
no decent pretext for not accepting it,
But the Administration majority, unable
to free themselves from the fatal influence
of the President, have resolved to send a
partisan Committee to Louisiana to col
| lect facts and rumOrs enough to break
down the report Of Messrs. Foster Phelps
and Potter How can you expect the
President to retain any respect for law
when he sees the law makers the craven
instruments Of his will?
He has not hesitated to show just how
much he cares for it, and how determined
he is to have his own.way ineyery South
ern State. He has seen his party ap-
proving or dumb While he organized q
| Legislature with the bayonet, and he has
therefore been encouraged to use the
same weapon Of the courts of justice. On
| Monday, Gen. Sheridan. acting under or
ders from Washington, sent Major Head
with q squad of soldiers, with fixed bay
onets, into the Sheriff's Office at Vicks-
burg, and forcibly elected the acting Sher-
iff. A. j. Flanagan. There is question
as to the validity of his election, which
took place some three weeks ago, the act
allowing special election in certain ca.
ses having been repealed at the called
session of the Legislature. But this was
of course a question to be decided by law,
and not by the bayonet. The Superyi-
sor had excepted Flanigans bond, and
| issued to him certificate of his election.
The army came in, simply as a partisan
of the negro Crosby, who never yet filed
a sufficient bond, and whose failure to dc
so brought on the recent riots, tbs prob
able, indeed that Crosby's resignation
made on the Sth of December; has been
considered valid, for when Flanagan has
elected, not Crosby, but McGhee. one Of
his deputies, was appointed by Chancel'
lor Hill, whose court was then in session
Of course, the tact that Judge Hill
countenanced and participated in this
outrage does not in he least alter its char
acter. We have grown too familiar with
the manner in which Southern Judges
accept the degrading assistance of the
military inillegal acts to feel any surprise
at it. The arbitrary character of the per
formance is only made more manifest bl
the fact that the Judge seemed ready TO
anything which the Administration
might ask him to do Yet no legal meas
ures had been taken to ascertain the righ
of Flanagan to his office. The same vi
cious circle of illegality which we saw a
New Orleans repeats itself at Vicksburg
Ames; who has no authority in the mat
ter, telegraphs to Grant, who has none
to order Sheridan, who has none, to pu
Flanagan out, and it is done.
We suppose there is a point somewher
, at which the patience even Of the Presi
| dents beasts of these repeated outrage
r upon the public character of American;
The response from the country is suffi
GENTLY quick and emphatic. The resul
f will be the utter ruin of the political par
| ty which sanctions these stupid crimes
, We should be glad to see, however, som
symptoms of ordinary common sens
) among the leading men of the Admins
t tration party, which might induce theI
t to persuade the President that he has a
ready done enough to kill the party, an
: that he need not go on disfguring tn
S corpse.