Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1877-12-22
COaIMUNICATED.
MONARCHIAL VESTIGES IN THE
UNITED STATES.
No. s.

to the breaking out of the late war was
comparatively unobjectionable, because
unobtrusive and inexpensive, although
with our Republican forms
of government, which prerequires pop
ular sanction for every policy enacted
into law. But since the war, the army
has not only assumed unwarranted au.
thority, but in the most oppressive and
form, actually arrogatlng 10
themselves Legislative, judicial and mag
isterial authority, in obedience to the
requirements of party dictatlon as
prompted by tanatical hatred And
now, in extra session, the lower house
of Congress, by a clear majority OF sup
posed friends of unquestionablej justice,
and sanctioned reform, cannot cut down
the army below what even MIR. Grants
administration left it. And, what is
most strange, Southern democrats from
the opce self-reliant State of Texas stand
shoulder to shoulder with their revllers
aud prosecutors. Surely Gen. Hous-
tons militia have all passed away child
less, or that would not be So Instead
of retaining soldiers elsewhere, the
whole army ought to be on the frontier,
until the true Republican system OF NIL
li.ia defence shall be organized under
our noble West Virginia Senator's bill,
now before Congress. AS a general
thing, do not like the ier taiionis doc
trine, but l trust when the Great South
ern Pacific Railway subsidy comes TO
be acted on, that every republican dem
ocrat will say to the Texas standing
armycrats, "Please excuse me.
Yes, it is very hard to break away
from ancient trammels, which makes
the old surprise new, however the col
onies succeeded. Of the whole human
family, perhaps not more than one man
in a thousand does his own thinking,
and fewer still do the acting, and this Is
true even among Congressman. Let
the whole body now in session (with
oysters prepared) be candidly asked TO
point out the actual need of $4,000 men
enrolled as physical protectors of the
States, at a cost of $23, 100000, and a
school boy can anticipate every word
they will say in answer. Then ask
them if well regulated citizen soldiery
put on foot by sovereign State enact
ment would not accomplish the same
thing with but little expense, and they
say perhaps So but so no further. II
the officers of the army were bereft OF
their plumes and soft places, Congress
men would 60 to work to beat swords
into ploughsbares, and John Browns
spears into pruning hooks; as the Scrip
ture teacheth.
But there are some glorious symptoms
outcropping in the Hall of Representa-
tiyes. Agricultural Colleges are to be
furnished with u S. Arms, if the Bill
passes, SO that the young men are to
learn to shoot, as well as their minds TO
expand. This, in connection with Sen
ators Davis proposed law for organic
ing militia, will revive the spirit OF pa
triolism amongst the people, and our
fading liberty will revive.
The war office will be superseded by
department of Agriculture, and its
head will occupy the chair made vacant
in the Cabinet by the Secretary OF War
as Secretary of Agriculture, and over
the door will hang the plough, whose
share was once the brilliant vanity
swinging by the side Of some distin-
guished hep-hep-hep.
Then, what will be done with the
Mexican horse thieves our Texas Con-
gressmen inquire. / answer, inquire OF
your own brave militia. They would
soon settle that question, and Mexico
would not interpose an objection, but
under treaty stipulation would help to
put them down, aud especially if they
were conventional Mexicans from the
Texas side. And the troublesome In
dians, who would quell their scalping
propensiliesi Read the early history
of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylya-
MIA for an answer. Ask the biograph-
ers of Daniel Boone how Indians we're
conquered then. Bat when men are
starving for bread, because great Cor
porations have ground their hard-earned
wages down to nothing, and they strike
for living wages, and brave C) Govern
ors call upon the acting President for
troops to put them down. What then'
All! what a crisis. Well. let us imag-
inc remedy even for this. Let the
Matthews, the CAROLS, and the Hard
tranfts who happen, by the gracious
favor OF the people, to be Governors in
the sovereign States, where those out
breaks occur; to summon tribunal 10
hear the complaints and the defence,
then to submit terms of justice, against
which no people ever rebelled. If a
pacific course had been pursued when
the storm was rising at Martinsburg,
during the la;e strike, no U. S. soldiers
would have been needed. So with all
causes for which the army, is claimed as
a necessity. It is the result CT misman-
agement seeking cover under false ne
cessity, in which the casus beM is often
more sinned against than SHINING. If
only people would do their own think
ing there would be more independent
acting, and much greater discovery in
what might be, instead of thougbtless
submission to WHAT'S. r.
Charlestown, Nov. ~, 1877.