The Republican journal., 1876-04-27
Threatening War.
In recent speech in the senate, Bout
wei. of Massachusetts said.

In recent speech in the senate, Bout
wei. Of Massachusetts, said:
No, sir; if the people of this country fail to
to do their duty the government is lost. If they
| fail to overthrow the Democratic party by n
| vote so overwhelming that there can be no ex-
| cuse for bribery, for falsehood, for double re-
turns, this country, year from this, will be in
yolved in another civil war. Nothing but an
overwhelming vote of the people, from which
| there can be no appeal by traitors, will save us
| from civil war"
| AS Senator Boutwell, has the reputation
of being strictly temperate man, says the
| Missouri Republican, We are not permit
| ted TO give him the benefit of the charita-
BILE presumption that he was drunk when
the above remarks were made. Yet set
ting aside the alcoholic apology rs mad
Missile. we are utterly at a loss to under
! stand how any sensible person could DELHI
| erately make such a supreme ass of him
sell. The exhibition would have been bad
! enough had 1t been made on the stump in
the excitement OF holly contested politi-
cal campaign, but presented in the United
States senate it furnishes another evidence
Of the swift descent OF a once honorable
and dignifed body to the level Of a COM
mon pot-house caucus
The Massachusetts senator predicts an
other civil war, in case the Republican
party Is defeated in the coming presiden-
tial election. Pray, who is to get up the
civil war? Not the Democrats, certainly,
for ii successful at the polls why should
they want to fight? If not the Democrats,
then it must be our Republican friends
who propose TO appeal to the sword ii the
majority goes against them. This is Il
rather remarkable threat to cmanate from
an acknowledged leader Of & party which
takes particular pride in professions of
profound respect for the constitution and
the laws, and which has repeatedly de-
clared that no possible combination of cir
cumstancos can Justify rebellion Has
Boutwell, forgotten the eloquent denunci-
atoms he and his Republican colleagues
heap~d upon the Southern fire-eaters in
1SG0-Gi, when they announced Il disS olll-
ton Of the Union ia event CT Iincon's in
augurationo II he has not, then we advise
him to swallow dose of his own medicine
for the purpose of settling his brains "If
the people tail 10 do their duty" says the
belllgerenl orator, Chat is, if they fail TO
elect The Republican candidates) then
the government is lost No help for it,
not tie remotest chance of escape, not the
smallest loop-hole for salvation TO enter
1.-THE government is absolutely and ire
trievably "lost' if the Democracy are VIC
torious in November. 1t does not seem to
occur to Boutwell, that government
which has stood Grant for seven years,
and survived the persistent assaults Of the
army Of rascals whom Grant has drawn
around him, must be exceedingly tough,
and not at all likely to succumb to an
attack of honesty and decency If the
'Belknaps, Babcocks, Shepherds, Harring-
tons and all the big and little ringsters
who have been plundering the public
since the present administration came into
power, have not burst up the government
al machine, there is at least some reason
to hope that it will continue to run tolera-
bly, well after the Republican engineers
are in the penitentiarv and the Democrats
are placed in charge. AS for 1.-The trait
nrG'1 whom IL iS Ia
whelm." and who, if not "overwheImedn
will be the means of drcnching the land
with 4 second shower OF blood-we really |
do not see what there is left for them to
bctray. TIE party of which the gentle
man from Massachusetts is such brilliant
ornament, has given us fifteen years of
treachery and theft, and it would puzzle |
the keenest- eyed "traitor" to find anything |
to sell or steal. The "God and morality
broom has swept the federal floor clean of
all its movables, and nothing but lack of
time has saved the floor itself There was
never less temptation to treason than
now. The man whose purse has been
emptied by professional pickpockets can
afford to laugh in the face of amateurs, be |
they ever so wicked and willing.
The Editor leaves this week for Phila-
delphia to assist in looking after the in
terests of Maine in the great exposition,
and to be absent probably several weeks
The readers of the Journal will hear from |
him weekly, in the shape of wayside jot-
tings and notes on our great national festi-
val. If he doesn't get bewildered by the |
immensely of the affair, he hopes to give
a tolerably clear idea of our respected
Uncle Samuel, arrayed in holiday attire,
and receiving the nations of the earth as
his guests, And, better than all, he hopes
to look upon the representatives of all
portions Of our common country, its inter-
ests and industries, from Maine to Texas.
and from ocean to ocean-Federals and
Confederates, the wearers Of the blue and
the gray-again the ready defenders of
one nationality and common country.
And reader, won't all this be worth a
months time and journey to the banks
of the Delaware?
We publish to-day another interest
ing letter from Philadelphia, over the sig
nature of A. S. NJ, which initials will be
recognized by the friends of Mrs. Ann
Sarah Monroe. That lady is very happy
in her mention of the principal features of
the great exposition.