The Morning herald., 1876-11-17
TINE SITUATION.

The present aspect Of affairs is calcu-
lated to alarm any true lover Of we'll or.
dered liberty. No matter how heated par
t,sa1ship may declaim in favor Of one o.
other Of the Presidential candidates, calm
and thinking men who lock beyond mere
party success, are truly worried by the
probabilities Of the future There are few
persons who dislike turmoil, internecine
broils,o or bloodshed more than We do; but the
fraud against popular right, the conspiracy
against freedom, the illegal intrusion oi
federal troops into the States Of South Car.
oli.a Louisiana and Florida and the as,
sumption on part Of the President Of fed
eral functions and powers (which have
been jealously reserved to the Stalas) is 'o'
such character as must produce the total
destruction Of Gull. Institutions, that we ask
a conference of the Democratic States for the
preservation of our form Of government
Such . conference Of the States aud the re.
sultant manifestation of their power, can
alone save constitutional liberty.
The people are in the habit Of landing
the great men, who gathered into their
hands the threads Of discomfort,
and led the people through a
successful war century ago, for the
preservation of their chartered rights, in
vaded by George III. and his ministry
Take up and review the then conditions OF
public affairs, and it will be seen that the
wrongs which drove the colonists to arms,
were Of iu6nitly less magnitude, and very
much less dangerous to liberty, than those
which are now being inflicted by the e1-
ecutve upon the American people.
1t is always wise in perilous times to &C
back to those monitions which the De-
claration Of Independence, and the Con-
stitution contain for our guidance; these
two instruments ought to be to the Amer
ican people-now in wilderness OF
trouble-what the cloud and fre-piller
were to the Hebrews in the deserts Of
Arabia. 'The history" says the Declara-
,ion Of Independence,
"of the present King of Great Britain, is s
history of repeated injuries and usurpa.
tions, all having in direct object the estab-
lishmept Of obsulute tyranny over these
States. To prove this, let facts be sub
mit.ed to candid world.
He has dissolved representative house;
repeatedly for opposing with manly firm
ness, his invasion on the rights OF tn
people.
He has effected to render the military in.
dependent Of and superior to the civi
power.
He has combined with others 10 subjec
us to Jurisdiction foreign to our Constitu
ton, and unacknowledged by our laws; =
In calm, honest sincerity, We ask an
predjudiced men if the President Of til
United States, has not been repeated
guilty Of every one of the charges "
quote as having been made century ag'
agains, the King Of England; nay! he hs
gone farther:-and by the Use OF the al
mics Of the United States, is now endea'
oring to place man in the Chief magi
mates chair by fraud, and treasonab
manifestation of armed power, who faile
to receive a sufficient suffrage for h
election. If our fathers appealed to Il
God Of battles, in the last dread resort
freemen, will it be matter Of surprise
the lesson taught by them-engraved uPt
the worlds history in letters Of fire, shou
find imitators and ardent disciples, VIII
wrongs like unto those against which tn
fought, are being inflicted upon the
sons?
"No man knoweth what day or
hour may bring FORTH" it therefore
hooves the capitalists Of the lar
who have been absorbing for some til
past, the money products Of our industri
TO speak out loudly against the canoni1
ton of wrong in the States wehave alrea
named. As sure az the Lord liveth,
free people of these free commc
wealths, will not submit to the rule Of n
who have scofed at right, made libert!
a byword, and enshrined anarchy and n
nile in at least three Of the Southern Sta
The choice Of the people Of Louisiana
subverted by Sheridan's soldiery c
pie of years ago; such subversion failed
alarm the great body of American peo
a. it only affected the political status Of