The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-08-24
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Law Us. Power.

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Commodore VANDERBILT was once adj
yiscd "to get the law" OF certain matter.
Law ?" he exclaimed; .'why have the
s,o,cer already General GRANT conducts
the Government on the same principle. He
cares nothing for the law. All he desires is
power. This he has, and this he uses most
unscrupuIously. The decision OF the highest
tribunal in the land that the State courts
have exclusive jurisdiction in ordinary cases
OF murder, arson, &C., makes no impression
upon his sluggish mind. claw" he en-
claims by his acts, /" care not for the law.
! have the power: and this is sufficient Tor
my purposes" So as to JOHNNY DAvEN-
PORT and his outrageS. \ majority OF the
investigating committee of the House of
Representatives reported that the President
and the Attorney-G cneral had unlawfully
disposed OF the eighteen thousand dol
lars which those officers gave in 1872 to
DAVENPORT to be used in reelccting
GRANT to the presidency. The same COM
mi.tee advised that suit should be brought
in the name 0! the United States to recover
the money. 1t was taken out OF the Trea-
suYv, said the committee, contrary to law,
and ought to be recovered. CONTRARY to
law" saws GRANT, u ask no farors OF the
law. / had the power in 1872, and used
that power: and have the power III 1876,
and I intend 10 use it again. Let
the law confne itself to underlings.
l am above it,. The President has by his
uss!rpations OF authority made in effect just
such declarations rs these. He has, in sig
ma! contempt Of the declaration OF the
House that the violator> of law should be
punished by the courts, ordered that the
army shall be held in readiness to execute
the will OF his carpet-baggcr agents and his
scaiawag and negro tools. He has not hesl-
tated to quote thee language OF the House
resolution in an order which treated that
resolution us if its words had been uttered
in derision. He has inSultcd the good sense
of the people and made il mockery OF the
House OF Representatives by using Its IAN
suagc TO justify sacts which that language
was intended to condemn.
Again: IN the matter OF controlling the
tented himself with violating the law and
the Constitution and running counter to the
decision Of the Supreme Court in sending
trcops to the South. but he has ordered
thousands OF dollars to be expended in the
North for the purpose Of clecting HAYES.
He has ordered deputy marshals, super
visorS Of elections, DC, to be appointed i'll
unknown but no doubt immense numbers
in the northern cities in order to overawc
the Democratic voters. lie has done this
notwithstanding that the House did not APP
propriatc one dollar to be used for any such
purpose, nor even one dollar to the contIn-
gent fund of the Department Of Justice,
which last appropriation, if it had been
made, would have been used for clcctionccr-
in purposes.
These are the acts OF the Republican
President. The people ought to put an
end TO that sort OF rule as soon us possible.
There can be no real freedom in country
thus tyrannized over by 4 wiful and igno-
RAM Executive.