The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-11-11

lMPEAcnNENrs.-Although the coming SEES.
sion OF Congress will expire on the Sd Of
March, and thus allow less time than is need.
ed for continuing the work of reform by a
thorough reduction of the public expenditures,
still there are certain grave duties that must
not be omitted.
The President, his Attorney-G General, and
his Secretary Of War, to say nothing Of the
other members of the Cabinet, have, to effect
a partisan object, defied the plain letter OF
the Constitution, outraged the laws of the
land, and broken down all the barriers that
have heretofore stood as protection to the
States against Executive usurpation.
Ii Louis Napoleon, in the day Of his great.
est power, had attempted what Grant has
recently done in broad day, and without the
least indirection, it would have cost him his
crown, and probably his head. The Car of
Russia, autocrat as he is, would not dare TO
try similar experiment on the forbearance
OF his subjects. What no monarch in the Old
World would risk, the President of the United
States has not scrupled to do, as if in defiance
and mockery OF the free institutions which he
has sworn to support.
Immunity for bayonet rule in Louisiana,
where soldiers with arms in their hands over.
threw Government and Legislature fairly
and legally elected by the people, and sub.
stituted frauds for both emboldened Grant in
his recent invasion of South Carolina, TO aid
the election Of she most corrupt crew that
ever disgraced the name of civilized govern.
ment So, too, in Virginia, in Louisiana, in
Mississippi, and other Southern States, where
Federal troops have been thrown, with the
sole object Of int!midating peaceful voters,
and of holding the color line nnbroken for
third term OF Grantism in the name of Hayes.
Superadded to these outrages, Marshais of
the United States and their deputies, in nine
cases out of ten the merest creatures Of pow.
er, and without any responsibility but TO their
masters at Washington, have been instructed
to take possession Of the polls, to disregard
the State laws, and to assume q supreme po-
lice control over the elections, all in the teeth
OF the solemn judgment Of our highest judi.
cial tribunal. Hi.lll -
When the gravity Of such acts is considered
and their dangerous tendency Ia properly es-
timated, the wonder Is that the people have
not risen up in their midst and hurled these
vulgar usurpers from the trusts they have be.
trayed and the placed they dishonorsd. Step
by step, backed by formidable party, Grant
and his concern have advanced toward a mil.
ltary despotisn. On the eve of Presiden.
tal election they throw off the thin mask
which has heretofore partially hidden their
reasonable designs, and convert the army,
after the fashion of conspiring commanders
Mexico and South America into tn cir per.
sonal instrument.
II this conspiracy against the public liber.
ties is allowed to pass UNPUBLISHED now, a
precedent will be admitted that some day
may stab the heart Of the republic. All bus.
mess OF the coming session should be secon.
dairy to that which looks to the integrity Of
the Constitution and faithful execution of
the laws. Hence, he hope to see Grant, Taft,
Cameron and their associates in this plot,
brought before the bar of the House of Rem.
resentatives and impeached for high crimes
and misdemeanors. If a partisan Senate
shall see fit to acquit them, so be it. But
they should be branded with infamy, if for no
other reason, in order that the world may see
that we of this generation have not forgotten
the lessons Of our fathers, and are not willing
to see the work Of their hands stricken down
without an effort to preserve tn. y. Sun.