Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1876-11-30
Could 1t Be Bone!

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The announcement that twelve OF
fifteen hundred troops have heen con-
centrated in Washington, taken in
connection with the fact that the Re.
publican leaders seem determined
that Governor Tilden shall not take
the seat to which he has been legally
elected, cause many to ask if it be
possible for GENERAL Grant to perpet-
uate the rule of the party in power
In the first place the manner oi
bringing the soldiers to Washington
was in Itself suspicious. Two days
before the troops reached Washington
a statement that they were coming
was telegraphed to a New York pa
per. The next day the truth of this
dispatch was denied in the mot posi-
tive manner by the highest Govern
ment officials. To reporter of the
World, President Grant, who is COM
mander-in-chief of the armies, " said
that ne had issued no ordets for a
concentration Of troops here, kand in
| quired IN turn what occasion there
was for garrisoning Washington at
this time or in the Immediate future
with any such force" "Gen. Sher-
man also declared that he knew Of nc
orders having been issued to bring
troops to Washington and seemed to
deprecate the unfortunate effectwnich
such statements might have upon the
country. 1t is true. however, that
additional troops hare been ordered
from Leavenworth to New Orleans
and to garrison duty performed by
some artillery companies before the
Indian campaign was reinforced"
To correspondent Of the Herald
the Secretary Of War said: There
was no truth in the report taat s3l
dicrs had been ordered to concentrate
at Washington, and that there was
no ounusual movement OF troops. Three
companies coming Eastward from
Kansas were being restored to posts
on the Atlantic seaboard, from which
they were taken to occupy posts on
the frontier which had been depleted
of troops to reinforce Generals Terry
and Crook in the campaign against
Sitting Bull last Summer.
Prominent army and naval off
GERS said they had never heard such
thing discussed, and laughed at the
idea > Yet in twenty-four hours af-
ter these positive denials from three
officials, without the knowledge Of az
least one of whom no army move
ment can be made, the troops did ar
rive in Washington and are to be
kept there. 1t is now said hey are
to do police duty at the capitai
the District government is very
weak affair, and there have already
been sigus Of turbulence. These are
the pretexts fo- their presence.
We do not believe that Grant and
the Radical leaders dare attempt 10
overthrow Tie Government by force.
We do nol hink that the Republicans
OF Centralis,s, for tie terms art syn
onomous. are as yet prepared iof such
step. But il th=y should IA mpt
+. there IS some reason for Deapig.g
that they wa1dd1Is..s5.s With nc sEriods
-rczis1auce. Suppose that by the per-
petuation of the fonlest frauds and
the grossest acts OF usurpation, the
Returning Boards Of Lou. siaaa and
Of Florida should give the electoral
kyote Of those States to the Republi-
Ecan candidate for the Presidency
insurirg him thejone vote necessary
to his election; that the Democratic
House should refuse to count the
votes thus fraudulently obtained !;
that the Republican Senate should
count them and the presiding officer
of that body should proclaim Hayes
President Of the United States; that
General Grant should say that by
reason Of the action Of the two Hous-
es of Congress ii was impossible 10
determine who was elected and that
until the question was settled il some
manner, he would hold over; does
any one suppose his pretensions would
be resisted? We do not believe they
would. A company of soldiers would
be more than enough for his purpose.
Not blow would be struck. WHO
would do the fighting? Not the South.
We have been obliged 10 bear so
much that we could afford to bear a
lutte more. Every Southern State
save one is in the hands Of its own
people. We have become accustom-
ed to negro suffrage and cannot be
harmed by it. The Southern States
are in a better condition at this time
than they have been since 1867. They
would have less perhaps to fear from
one man power than from the desper-
ate struggles Of a party to regain its
lost supremacy. Not the North. The
North is for Radicalism and Central
ISM The Republicans have just car
ried every Western State but Indi-
diana; every Eastern State but Con-
necticut, New York, New Jersey ant
Delaware. The tirnid men Of the
country would deprecate armed re-
sistance; the capitalists would sub
init rather than imperil they money
bags, their stocks, their bonds; and
before the slow process Of the Courts
could furnish a remedy for the usur-
patton, Grant would be so firmly en-
trenchcd in the White House that the
civil law could not dislodge him. "A
disputed Presidential election; char
ges of force and fraud made by both
parties; an irreconcilable difference
between the two Houses of Congress
large force Of regular soldiers at
the capital; a large section Of the
Union made Indifferent and apathetic
by oppression; the other section tim
id by reason Of its wealth; an influ-
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