The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-04-20
ANOTHER CIVIL WAR THREAT
ENED.

Mr.. George S. Boutwell,, lately Grants
Secretary of the Treasury, and now a
Senator from Massachusetts, in the course
of a debate in the Senate the other day
used the following language:
"No, sir; if the people of this country
fail to do their duty the Government is
lost If they fail to overthrow the Dem.
ocratic party by vote so overwhelming
that there can be no excuse for bribery
for falsehood, for double returns, this
country year hence will be involved in
another civil war. Nothing but an over
whelming vote of the people, from which
there can be no appeal by traitors, will
save us from civil war"
What does this mean? What can be
the purpose of such threat? Who is to
begin the civil war which Mr.. Boutwell,
announces? Is it the Belknaps, the
Robesons, the Babcocks, the Shepherds,
who will set on foot this method of re-
tanning power after they have been de-
feated in the election? Have they au-
thorized Mr.. Boutwell, to speak in this
manner, and is he their mouthpiece p
Are the people of the United States not
to be free to choose in accordance with
the Constitution, in the election of next
November, such candidates as the major
ity of them may approve? Or must they
take men who will be satisfactory to Belk-
nap, Grant, Robson, Babcock and Bout
well, under penalty of a new civil war !?
What else can be the signifcation of
Mr.. Boutwell's menace? If the Demo
cratic party is not voted down by an over
whelming majority in November, he tells
us, this country a year hence will be in
volved in another civil war? Not at all,
for, as he tells us, the civil war will fol-
low the success of that party, and sue
Cessful party can have no occasion to ap-
peal to arms. 1t is the unsuccessful the
defeated party, which can alone ex pect
or desire to gain anything by such an
appeal. This threatened civil war, then,
will be made by the defeated Republic
cans, and be made simply because they
are defeated. This is the whole sense
and the only sense of Mr.. Boutwell's dec
laration. He requires the people to let
the candidates of the Republican party
be elected in November, or a civil war
will be commenced after the Inaugural
ton of Democratic President
Such is the programme put forth by
one of the most conspicuous supporters
of Grant and Grantism, and of the whole
indescribable system of fraud, corruption
and public plunder which Grant and his
followers have fastened upon the country
For these revolving features which the
of the United States dis
plays at the present time, Mr.. Boutwell,
is, according to the measure of his abil-
ity, as much responsible as any other
man. He has been in the Administers
ton, and left to become a member of the
Senate. From the first he has done
but aid, abet, applaud and justi-
fly the enormities that now surround us.
But his threat OF a new civil war is fool
ish and contemplate. The people will
not be frightened by it. Even Grant
would not dare to resort to such a scheme
His last experiment in that line was
when he sent troops to Louisiana to over
throw the government which the people
Of that State had elected, and to install
another in its place which the people
had rejected at the polls 1t is an ex-
pertinent he will not repeat, and that
Boutwell, alone will not attempt. The
Reform President who will be elected in
November will be peacefully inaugurated |
in March, and will carry through the
work of reform without any effort at |
new rebellion.