The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-09-09


degradation; it wont pay
The New York SIN, Independent Re-
publican, says Tho opinion Of Mr..
Cushing, quoted by the Attorney General,
was given in 1854, with reference to the
execution of process under the Fugitive
slave law; and it was true opinion with
reference to the execution Of that and all
other process. But in 1865 an act of
Congress was passed, now re-enactcd in the
revised statutes, section 5,52S, making it
a highly penal offense for any officer Of
the arms, or other person in the civil or
military service of the United States to
order, bring, keep or have under his au-
thority or control, any troops or armed
men at any place where general or spec
ial election Is held in any State, unless
such force be necessary to repel armed
enemies Of the United States or 10 keep
the peace at the polls.
sour liberties are not ia such desper-
ate condition as all marshals, attorney gen.
erals and all other officers viii find when
this election isover."
The New York World argues that it is
in South Carolina and Louisiana that these
"new privileges Of the Department of
Justice" are to be employed with unscru-
pulous effect, and adds:
sfThe matter has resolved itself into
this: The Republican administration has
determined to elect Republican successors
by any means, however desperate and
however Illegal. 1t is meant to throttle
free government in one section of the
country in order to secure control Of the
whole. There will be no installing the
result if this purpose is allowed to be
carried out unchecked. There is one way
to prevent this outrageous perversion of
authority. That is for the people of all
parties, all alike concerned in the mainte-
nance Of constitutional limitations, to
protest with one voice against the reyolu-
tionary schemes of corrupt, desperate
and malignant demagogues who have in a
thousand ways shown themselves unworthy
Of power"
The New York Commercial advertiser,
Republican, seems to doubt the policy of
this circular, and says;
snow that Attorney General Taft has
given his instructions to the United States
marshals in the South, he should see to it
that these persons do not exceed their
duty. The Republican party desires that !
the rights Of all men be respected, and |
this some Of the Southern Democrats do
not seem disposed to allow. If it should
attempt anything different it would use a
boomerang that would turn back, and do
itself far more damage than was inteatead-
ed its opponents"
The order which General Grant and
the corrupt leaders Of the Republican
party have just issued in the name Of
Judge Taft means revolution. It over
throws every principle of the government
the fathers founded hundred years ago
blots out state lines crects a central des-
potism at Washington subordinates the
civil to the military authority; closes the
courts--for the marshal Of the United |
States and every one of his hundred thou
sand deputies, ifhe sees tit to appoint them,
can take the judge from his bench and
make him part Of the posse comitatus; in a
word, it suspends on the day Of the elec-
ton constitutional government in every |
State in the Union. Itgiyes the marshal Of |
the United States and every reputable or
deputy he may appoint abso- |
lutte power. On the seventh day of next |
November overy officer of this State, aud |
Of every State in the Union, FROM Cover |
nor down to constable will be the snbordi-
nate Of any man the United States
marshal Of Maryland may choose to ap-
point as his representative. He win have
command Of the army and the navy and
the marine corps. He viii be the com.
mander Of the militia of the state, Of the
police force Of the city, and IN addition to
all he can call out the whole population to
enforce his authority.
We ask every citizen without distinction
Of party, Republicans as well as Demo-
Gratis, If this is not revolution? We ask
them If this is not a power too vast, an
authority too great, to vest in the hands
of any man? We ask them If It is in
consonance with the genius Of our gov
eminent, with the spirit of the con-
stitution 7 This Infamous order is now
upon the statute books and every State
in the Union must submit, that day.
But we ask them if they meanto submit
to it in the future? They will make
the answer at the ballot-box. If the
citizens Of this and other states at the
next election ese to continue the present
party in power, they will have consented
to the revolution which has taken place
in our government; they viii have con-
sented to the practical overthrow Of the
government TINT was founded in rs.
The order Of Judge Taft is the
browning infamy Of the Republican
party. Framed ostensibly to protect the
purity Of elections, II practically DESTROYS
the ballot. 1t is the most desperate ex-
pedieut ever devised by party to perpet
uate its own power. It is fitting supple
ment to the outrages of the late war to
the dark and ensanguined page Of re.
construction; to the robberies Of the
public treasury TO the prostitution OF
official trusts to the shame, the dishouor
and the degradation II has brought upon
the whole country during the last eleven
years. If the country at the polls next
November, BY voting for the candidate Of