The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-23
THE BAYONET CARNIVAL.
Grants Infamous Scheme.
The Plot Against Liberty.
Sustaining Thievery by
Force.
New York Herald, Hayes Organ.

New York Herald, Hayes Organ.
If such state of things has existed as
General Grant is made in his proclsma-
ton to pretend, the Governor has had
abundant time to call the Legislature TO.
gether, but he has not done so. lie
should have called out the State militia,
but be has not done so. In short, there
i, no proof of the existence of an insur-
rsction in South Carolina, or of domestic
violence or of any effort of the Governor
70 find or suppress either. There Is u
good deal OF talk Of rifle clubs. Sup
pose Governor Tilden should enroll all
the rougbs and all the illiterate and
ignorant population OF the state and
none Others in the millItIa-should arm
them with state arms; and suppose, then,
in the midst of an exciting campaign he
should suddenly order the remainder Of
the citizens-the whole of the substantial
and intelligent classic disarm, and IT
they hesi,sted, order wholesale arrests by
Federal MarshalS, and call on the Presi-
dent Tor troops, what would be said of
such proceeding? Yet that is precisely
WnAL uONtTuOT AoS NOiSs
and what the President sbets him in.
Fortunately, so far the members OF the
Rifle Clubs have quietly submitted to ar
rest In fact the whole plan of the Dem
cratic canvass necessitates peace and or
der on their side, and this is so certain
and evident that the call of Chamberlain
for troops has clearly no other object
than the hope to stir up riot and violence.
The plain and dissgreeable truth seems
TO be that the President OF the United
States has been led TO abet Governor
Chamberlain in an attempt to create u
riot in South Carolina for the purpose
of coercing the people to re- 'l9ct him.
1t is impossible to believe that 80 serious
and dsngerou misuse OF lrger tor
psrtizan purposes will go unrpticed by
the voters of :he North"'H ) steS Such
acts, unless they are promptly con-
demned by the people, become prece-
dents, and if the people of the United
States should by their neglect allow
such a precedent as this to become
established, would hang a menace over
every election, and would surely soon be
misused IN manner TO create general
discord. No one pretends to doubt that
the people of South Carolina have for
maHy years suffered from public rob
berry and grave NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at the
hands of men who used the ignorant ne
gro to maintain themselves in power. AT
last there rs in Arkansas and Alabama,
even the negroes, or at least the more IN
tellgent part of them, have become
weary of misrule. At the same time
rs in those other States the Republican
party has become divided, and one fac
ton arrays itself against the party cam
didate. By this split the Democrats
reasonably hope to profit and carry the
State. They are using their utmost
efforts to do so, and they deserve the
sympathy OF every opponent of bad
government in the North. But in this
emergency, when natural causes give
the friends OF honesty chance, the Fed
eral power is invoked, and successfully,
TO step in to save Governor
Chamberlain from defeat which he de-
serves, and which the public good de-
mands. Surely that is not free or con-
stltutionsl government. What would
the people of New York have said if.
when Tweed and his ring were sbout to
be overturned, they had been able to
summon Federal troops and Federal
lnarshsls to help them and had procured
a Presidential proclamation ordering the
opponents of the ring to dispenser
From the Philadelphia Times, Ind.
Probably the bayonet-eection procla-
nation of President Grant and its twin |
order BY Secretary Cameron, were neces-
ssry TO make certain the election of Gov
ernor Tilden to the Presidency; but that
they have made the election of Gov. |
Hayes next to impossible, if not utterly
hopeless, must be patent TO
every dispassionate observer of
passing political events. The de-
liberste assault upon the peace, good
order and individual safety in sovereign
States by the Grant administration will
stand out in our history as entirely ex-
ceptionsl IN the abuse Of the most sacred
public trust, and the crlmsoned records
thew have written, and are still writing
from dsy TO day, are but the lawlessness
and death contracted for by desperate
political leaders. A characterless
who is BY courtesy called
a Senator from Sonth Carolina, who
would be overwhelmingly impeached
as periurer in any Pennsylvania court
where he is known, is the master spirit
of the conspiracy to plunge that State
into martial law to save his bankrupt
political fortunes, and the President OF
the United States and the Secretary OF
War, both of whom know him to be
wholly unworthy of credit, have obeyed
his mandates and flooded the country
with his studied falsehoods. There has
not been a recent instance of dis
order in South Carolina that
was not directly or indirectly
# his creation, and the submission of the
,stionsl authorizes to the use of the army
o give courage to the ignorant blacks of
he coast cotton anC rice fields, to in
lulge IN any form of violence, is a mon
trous crime against the peace of the ma
ion and the majesty of its laws. 1t is so
by intelligent men Of all par
les in the North, and it must recoll
With fearful effect upon the Kepubil-