The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-01-12
WHEELING W. VA. MORNING, JANUARY
THE EFFECT.

THE EFFECT.
The Republicans professed to make
light of the 9th OF January meetings
and other demon strs tions throughout the
country, but 1t is easy to be seen that
they have had q salutsry effect, and SO
long. as the people show a determination
to maintain their rights and rebuke all
attempts at usurpation, the Republican
conspirators will be held in check. A
month ago Senator CAMERON seemed to
consider it q matter of amusement to
bave his bayonets cleaning fir om the doors
of state capitol, and to inaugurate q
governor and legislature that nobody be-
lieved to have been elected. Thejudiciary
was borne down by the bsyonet and then
impudently the query was proPounded
to the country-whst are you going
to do about it? The people
soon gave indications of what they were
going to do about it, and calls tor in
dignation meetings were promptly issued
throughout the country.
The second scene OF the drama opened
IN Florida. The government which was
counted in by fraud, proposed to attempt
the same game that had been played Ia
South Carolina, but the muttering OF the
coming storm was heard, the raised hand
was psra!yzei, and they reluctantly sub
mi,,ed to The decisions of the court. The
storm continued to gather and the thun-
ders were louder and nearer when the
curtain raised on the third scene In
Louisiana. The party which had been
cast out by the bayonet in South Carolina
was now within one months time
using the bsyonet tn cast out
the usurpers and robbers. The
administration at Washington - the
same administration which one short
month ago had been so ready to strike
down Constitutional liberty in South
Carolina-now halted, hesitated and then
refused to interfere, even when appealed
to by the PACKARD party, and permitted
the NICHOLS government 10 take for
cible possession of the various depart
ments without even protest from the
Silent Man. Who is it. after looking
upon the different scenes thus presented,
will not see the cause FOR this change, and
recognize it rs the effect Of the popular
uprising in Ihe States North of MASON
and DIxoN's liner The cool, patriotic,
determined words that went out from the
great Northwestern States carried with
them an earnest OF their truthfulness
which struck terror 10 the hearts of the
eonspirators. But the fourth and last
&C, of the drama is yet to be played.
The scene will be changed from the
South to the National capital. 1t will
be the Inauguration of the next Presi-
dent The same actors will be on the
stage. And the plot of the play will be
preserved. The conspirstors will still
have the purpose deep hidden in their
hearts to overthrow civil liberty and
inaugurste a government OF force. On
the other hand the mass of the pc pile are
as fully determined that it shall not
be done. They have taken in
the situation, they have studied
it and they have deliberately come to
the conclusion that "By the Eternal, the
Federal Union must ana shall be pre-
served" and as q necessity in order to
fully carry out that determination, Mr..
TILDEN, the fairly and legally elected
President, must and shall be insugursted.
The administration is evidently wiser to-
day than it was few weeks ago, and it
Is evident that it has st length learned
that law and honesty have some rights
which even Cabinet ministers are bound
to respect. Slowly but surely the Presi-
DENTAL problem Is reaching Just solu-
tion, and the drop curtain will fall npon
a scene of triumph of law aud peace, and
the vindicatioh of the purity and majesty
Of free government.