Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-11-30
Let President Grant Be Tm-
Deachel.

If President Grant has violated the consti-
tuition, as some cf the Democratic leaders so
confidently charge, we say let him be in
peached.
If, in sending troops 10 New Orleans, to
Columbia, to Tallahassee, he has broken law
or a constitutional provision, let him he i'm
peached.
If in what he has said and done within a
few days past he has attacked the liberties of
the country, or has broken his official oath, or
set at naught any constitutional safeguard
whatever, We repeat, let him be impeached.
If in his order to General Sherman the 9TH
er day he broke law of the land, let him be
impeached.
If in his order to General Ruger to see to
it that the lawful custodians of the ballots
should be protected in Florida in a peaceful
count the President violated the constitution,
let him be impeached.
If in his order to General Sheridan in Lou
isiaDa, or to General Hunt in South Carolina
to the same effect, he has broken his oath to
maintain anc defend tine constitution, let him
be impeached.
If it is asserted or insinuated that he has
given or sent to these officers any secret in
structions violating the constitution, lee him
be impeached, and let these officers, who are
men of honor, soldiers of high repute, who
have offered their lives for their country-let
them be summoned to the bar of tie House
to bear witness. They will tell the truth.
The country stands once more where it
stood in 1860. The nation is strong, health
full, inclined to peace and order; but once
more the politicians of the two parties are
urging it on to war. They stand safely be-
hind, out of any possible fire, but they do net
scruple in the least to urge the people forward
toward the dangerous edge of things Daily
they increase the excitement their constant
effort is to stir up suspicion, hatred, aliena-
ton of one part from the other; to bring US
nearer and nearer to an explosion, which if it
takes place, will find them sifely slowed
away in bombproofs and out of the line of
fire.
We have had enough of this. One great
civil war was brought on, contrary to the
will of the people of this country, by the pol
iticians. We give these gentry, these talors
of Tooley street, timely notice that they must
not bring on another. They are playing
gigantic game of bluff; but we, the people,
are the stake. Let them pause. Forty mil
lions of American citizens have not toiled and
to let parcel of demagogues
waste their substance and spoil their lives If
these political leaders persist in stirring up
hatred and strife they will have to fight it out,
and they will find themselves this time held
by the people personally responsible and in
manner which will not be agreeable to them
or safe for them.
The E1press of last evening makes per- |
fectly temperate and absolutely accurate arti-
Gle in yesterdays Herald the pretext for tor
rent of incendiary insinuations and assertions
1t compares the conduct of the President and
the present condition of affairs in the disputed
States to the grievances which brought on the |
Revolu ion and the war of 1872 We should |
not notice such stuff from different and un-
official source; but we choose to notice it in
the Express. That journal is an official organ
of the Democratic leaders 1t is said to be
the property of Mr.. John Kelly and other
prominent Democrats. Its sentiments are
known to be inspired by the most important
of the Democratic leaders. 1t is the mouth
piece of all these leakers; but we trust not of
Mr. Tilden.
We warn these gentlemen to call off their
dog. We warn them to muzzle the intem-
perate zeal which in the present excited con-
dition of the public mind tries to infiame the
ignorant and indiscreet members of its party
and threatens riot and civil disturbance if any
one dares to point out peaceful way of solv-
ing our difficulties or ventures to hint that
there are peaceful methods. We beg Mr..
Tilden, Mr.. Hewitt and the other Democratic
leaders here and all over the country to re-
member their responsibility just now; and we
beg the Democratic leaders in this city in par
ticular to bear in mind that they and no one