Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-03-18
S, OHIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 1s, 1878.

ously apologized here for his mad
vertent birth in Massachusetts, until
the Southron condescends to hold
him bIameless by reason of his minor
ity at that period. have cautiously
restrained my pen thus far lest l
might he esteemed an alarmist with
ears pricked at any shadow; Dut
when / have reason to believe that a
deep and deadly mine, already laid in
the South, has been pushed north
ward, and that Tammany lends her
spades to the project; when the mis-
chievous enmity here, though unable
at times to resist its instinct for vio-
lence, calms to what it itself conceives
to be q marvellous show of patience,
vet abates none Of its pent fury;
when the Southern Democrat believes
rebellion a right, not a crime, and
sees he must recruit his Northern
partisan, who was idle in the late war,
and thus remove the issue out of q
section into a union; when the
Northern leader, ,gnawing his knuckles
in his hunger for power, consents in
the name of Democracy to surrender
himself again as before 1860, and at
this hour commends the violent cree
ton in 1872 of sham Executive and
Legislature in Louisiana by the
Southern element that will seek to
erect in 1877 a sham National Execu-
tive and Congress, is it not about time
that the souls of loyal men through
the country were aroused to the new
peril of the Republic, saved but ten
years ago from the same wanton
hands? In 1860 few at the North
credited the menace of the revolution,
hence it cost four years and infinite
waste to arrest the flame that crept
and grew from the first campfire, as
if the country were but wild prai-
rie. Let not our prescience willfully
close its lids now, for the danger is
far greater than in 1860.
The passion that leaped into armol
then is enveaomed now with chagrln
at it's fruitless sacrifices, but has SC
disciplined its hate as deliberately to
husband every resource for revenge
1t staked its all for power in the pomp
of war; it will next approach by
stealth so as wrest the power before
alarm can rally loyal men to save it;
then it will summon its impatient le-
gions to succor the usurpatiOn, i'm
provised out of the electoral vote, or
through the failure to count it. The
rebel Generals will first make quiet
reconnaissance as Congressman, then
whip out their uniforms from their
portmanteaus, and sound the peal OF
''double quick" to the Democracy
northward and southwark of the Cap
itol. The danger of the cheat will
be largely in the fact that the South
ern Democracy will assume no Longer
to combat the General Government,
but to be especially charged with Its
maintenance, and that the Northern
Democracy, which has slavish y lie
clined to rebuke assaults upon Re
publican Commonwealths and hourly
fiaorant violations of law at the
South, from mere peevishness towarc
the Republican party, will find an ad
ded motive in its longing for Otiicla
largess, to withhold dissent from the
usurpation, and if need arise, to de
fend it under its call for armed re
serves to assist its trained leagues
The question arises, to whom is Pres
ident Grant to resign his authority il
March, 1877, should the Democratic
House consummate the scheme re
cited. Is he to await the election o
the Democratic Speaker of the Forty
fifth House, and then vacate for him
the Executive chair. or is he to con
tinue its incumbent while the TIVE
Houses stand for an indefinite perloC
in antagonism, because one House
fraudulently persists in its objection
to as many electoral votes as frustrat'
its aim for power? If he retire 10
the Speaker, he retires for the Democ
racy, which not only presents tina
Speaker as the fruit of its deliberate
fraud in the House upon the electora
vote, but will persist In that fraud 81
that no decision as to a President
elect may be reached, and that tn
Democracy may strike root in tn
Government beyond all hope of rem
edy or arrest. The Speaker woul'
necessarily be Southern Democrat
in view of the overwhelming delega
tion from that section, and an ex-rebe
officer, in view of the weight attache
to service in the rebellion. Richmon'
would be moved north of the Poto
mac; a Lieutenant Of jeff. Davl
would occupy the White House.