The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-12-07

| Editorial In Toledo Democrat by General ]. B..
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The President of the United States,
when his party is defeated in the election
of his successor proposes to concentrate
the army at the capitol and shoot down
the people if they dare to object to the
Inauguration of the defeated candidate
for President. Does the besotted would
be despot, Grant, really know what he is
doing or intends to do2 If he darts to
fire single gun at the people, God help
him and the scoundrels with whom he is
plotting, for the enraged millions will
rush upon him and his villanous gang
with irresistible fury. The people want
no booted and spured, tinselled satraps
Of a usurper at the capitol to interfere
with. the peaceful observance Of the con-
stitution and execution of the laws, and
if Phil. Sheridan knows what will best
promote his future interest and welfare,
he will not parade his uniform, sword
and sash near the Capitol building about
the Ides of March. The people have
borne all they will bear of military in
reference with the exercises of their pri-
vileges as citizens, and the bare belief
that the army is to be used to intimidate
the people, or their Representatives at
Washington, will raise whirlwind which
will eugulph in its vortex all who have
in any manner interfered with the Irivi-
leges which the American people have
been educated to hold more sacred than
life. Grant ocW use The army to shoot The
people on the 4h of March if they dare
to object to his decision as to who is cleo
ted President This is the reliance of
Hayes and the gang of villains who are
trying to cheat Tilden out of the Presi-
dency after the people had elected him.
This monstrous scheme, Concocted by |
Chandler, Morton, Blaine, and their con-
federates, to escape an expose of their
frauds in the administration of the Gov
ernment, has been placed in the hands
of Grant, who has evidently promised to
consummate it with the bayonets of the
United States Army. 1t will be the duty
of the House Of Representatives, the
first week of the approaching session, to
warn Grant of the wrath to come, unless
he at once abandons his intention of in
terfering in any manner, with the army,
or otherwise, with the decision of the
question as to who is elected President. |
That question must be permitted to 90
where the constitution sends it for final
decision--to the Senate and House of
Representatives-and if those bodies
agree, their decision, will be accepted
and maintained by the people; but if
they disagree and thereby determine that
there has been no election of a President
by the people, the House of Representa-
tives, as required by the cons titution, will
proceed Immediately" to choose presi-
dent, and when the question shall be thus
finally settled in strict conformity with |
the letter of the Constitution, resistance
to the decision will be revolution. 1t
will make no difference to the people by |
whom resistance is made; whether it be |
Grant, Chandler, Morton or Phil. Sheri-
dan; the same patriotic spirit which raj
lied solid North" to the support of the
government in 1861, will unite the peo-
pie in this Centennial year to crush the
men who dare to raise their hands against |
the Constitution as it was" and "as it
is" The Republic will endure, and out
live all the villains who are now trying
to subvert it by fraud and usurpation.