Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-11-02
TREASONABLE LANGUAGE.

TREAsONABLE LANGUAGE.
Senators Booth and Cooper predict
tsat a closely contested vote in the en-
suing Presidential election will result
in a war more terrible than the last.
a number of other prominent Repub-
lfcan politicians have also expressed
the same opinion. We have new
heard from a Democratic source any
animation Of resistance in the event of
the election OF Hayes and Wheeler, no
matter how small their majority may
be in the electoral college, aconse-
quenty the inference is reasonable that
the Republican prophets only antici-
pate trouble of that nature in case of a
verdict being rendered by the people
in favor OF the Democratic presidential
nominees. We can construe these
grim predictions in no other manner
than as threats Of armed resistance to
the will of a majority Of the people of
the United States as expressed through
the ballot box, if the expression is un
favorable to the longer continuance in
power Of the Republican party, and
that the object of such intimations is
to prerare the minds of the people for
the holding of the reins of govern
ment by military power rather than
have them fall into the hands of the
opposing organization, even although
the people should manifest in a consti-
tutional and lawful manner their de-
sire that such change should be made.
We would ask any candid and unpre-
JUDGED reader what other construction
q be placed upon these horrible
proghostications, coming as they do
from the leaders of a party which has
so often evinced by its acts its utter
disregard of the Constitution and
the laws when they stood in
way of theaccom plishment of partisan
ends, and which has so frequently,
upon the most trivial occasions, an
nounced and carried into effect the doc
trine IF ismilitary necessity " as a pre-
text for the most fragrant outrages up
on the rights of the people. In view
ofthe fact that nothing has been said
or done by the Democratic party or
any of its prominent members that the
will Of the majority, however small,
of the people, at the ensuing election
will not be quietlyisubmitted 70, what
aver may be the result, we say that
Messrs. Booth, Cooper and others who
have:expressed such gloomy forebod'
ings cannot have reference to any 9TH
or contingency than the event of the
election of Tilden and Hendricks; and
we would most earnestly direct the
attention Of our readers to the signs of
the times as indicated by these treason
able ~utterances, and ask them If they
are. prepared to support the candidates
Of . party which in advance, through
its leaders, threatens to usurp the ex
ecutive branch of the Government,
and to hold by military force the power
which the people Of the nation would
consign &c other hands. This is no
bugboar or scarecrow. bnt is worthy
Of the serious consideration of every
voter who has the welfare of his coun-
try at heart. The Senators above al
luded to occupy high official positions;
are prominent in the councils of their
party, and whether they indorse the
tYaitorous designs of their political as
sociates or not, it is evident that their
opinions were formed from the utter
ances OF the leaders OF their party at
Washington. The probabilities are
that the election next Tuesday will re.
suit in the success of the Democratic
presidential nominees, and then we
shall see whether the will Of the peo-
pie is to be crushed by military force,
or the reins of government peacefully
resigned into the hands of those who
have been chosen to hold them.