National Republican., 1876-11-27
ATvo-FDeEp SWORD.

1t appears from the ofaclsI proceedings O.
the State Democratic committee of Ohio and
Che utterances of the Confederates Of Louis
ianathat the President in his recent order to
General Sherman anticipated an alarming
national peril. That peril consists in the
danger of partisan warfare over the change
of administration of the Federal Govern
ment. The Ohio Democracy and the
Confederate Democracy of Louisiana both
demand fair expression of political will
by the citizens of the negro majority
States of the South, free from what they
are pleased to call the frauds and terrorism
Of the Republican leaders in those States
The Confederate Democratic leaders claim
that if left perfectly free to express their
wishes, the colored citizens Of Mississippi,
Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina
would cast their votes for Democratic rule,
State and national. While saying this, the
Ohio wing Of the Confederate Democracy
sounds the bugle call to arms and sends the
note of admonition along the Democratic
line from Maine to California. On the
other hand, the Republicans claim that
Mississippi is to- day a revolutionized State,
in which the colored citizens are practically
reduced to serfdom, and that the Georgia
plan thus applied to Mississippi is being sp-
piled to Louisiana, Florida and South
Carolina Upon the assumption of these
facts the Republicans appeal 10 the nation
for fair play, free ballot and fair count
of the Presidential vote in these negro
majority States of the Confederate South.
In between these two parties comes the
military order of the President. Like
flaming. two-edged sword the command of
peace and supremacy Of Government, thus
sent forth from the Chief Executive of the
nation, puts an extinguisher upon revolu-
tion, come from what quarter it may, and
gives assurance also that all the facts. pres
ent and antecedent, of the Mississippi case,
of the Louisiana case, OF the Florida case
and of the case of South Carolina will now
undergo rigid scrutiny. In this proclaim
ton of Peace and Right and Government
authority the people sustain the President.
With this attitude of the President the r.
publican leaders are satisfied. But how is
it with the Confederate Democracy We
shall let the very language of the Ohio
Democracy answer the question in the fol-
lowing resolutions, passed at a meeting of
the Democratic State Genital Committee of
OHIO and number of representative Dem
ocrats from various parts of that State,
assembled at Columbus on Wednesday, and
printed in our news columns Thursday
"Resolved, That patriotism demands of every
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the result of the Presidential election as fairly
ascertafned, and we deprecate all partisan
feeling in the discussions of fact and law OF
which that result depends.
"ResoIoed, That it is due to the people and 1t
is Indispensable to the preser Tstion of free
government, that the President shall not be
chosen by fraud or force, and we appeal to the
officers charged with canvassing the vote and
making returns to allsy public apprehension
and suspicion by open and impartial action,
thus commanding the cordial acquiesceuce OF
the American people; but, admonished by
the past action of the present Returning Board
in Louisiana, that such returns may be falsely
and fraudulently made, we demand Of the
Senate and House of Representatives to exert,
II necessary, the constitutional powers vested
in them, Jointly or seyerally, to the end that
whoever has been fairly chosen by the people
shall be declared and inaugurated President
Of the United States.
sResolved, That we regard the concentration
of regular troops at Washington by the Presi-
dent on the eve of the assembling of Congress
as an act calculated to throw discredit upon
the disposition of the people to obey the law
and submit to the results of the Presidential
election as legally ascertained, and excite un-
necessary alarm as to the stability of the Re-
public, thereby imperiling peace at home and
public credit abroad.
"ResolVed, That we recommend to the Demo-
cratic Central Committee of the State to cor
respond and confer with other State Demo-
cratic committees of the country, with view
to full undefsta nding of the facts and per-
feet concert of action In maintaining the rights
Of the people in the late Presidential election
as determined by proper legal authorities. 4
speeches iDdorsing the resolutions were
made by Thomas Ewing, George H. Pendleton,
G. W. Morgan, Durbin Ward and Others"
Exactly why tho conduct of the Presi-
dent referred to is calculated to throw
" discredit upon the disposition of the peo-
"ple to obey the law" is not explained.
As President, Gen. Grant is bound to ex-
ecute all Federal laws, and to Support,
"protect and defend, to the best of his
"sbility, the Constitution of the United
"States" The latter instrument makes
him Commander-in in Chiefof the Army and
Navy for these purposes. State central
partisan committees are not recognized by
the Constitution as the guardians and de-
Tenders Of the rights and liberties of the
people. But here Is bold attempt to
usurp that power. Here We have official
notice from the Northern Democratic
wing of the Confederate power that there
is to be concert Of action" on the part Of
the Confederate Democratic party in re-
sisting the right Of the negro-msjority
Ststes Of the South to stand in the South
as Republican communities. These would
be revolutionists are eager to confront the