National Republican., 1877-02-19
ussrieArINa ASSASSINATION.

ISsTlGATINo ASSASSINATION.
In speaking Of the decision in the Louisi.
ana case, the editor Of the Capital yester.
day published the following: EI
ssY 20 "a, Il
that will follow the Inauguration"
This is boldly and in the most lawless
manner instigating assassination. 1t Is
blood thirsty; 1t is seditious; It Is treason,
and 1t is the imperative duty of the United
States government to make the most of IT,
When an intelligent man. reared in
the most cultivated circles Of society,
and living under the benign inHu.
ences Of 9 peace.loving and law.sbiding
community. dare to boldly and openly ad.
wise assassination Of the President elect of
the United Statee, it Is high time the heavy
hand Of the law was moving TO the rescue.
II the editor Of the Capital dare breathe
such foul and seditious doctrines, there
will be found those who are base enough
TO practice them.
The fight Of the Democracy for the
past ten years has been with
weapons Of violence, intimidation
and cold .blooded and cruel murder.
It has been their vicious, bligh.ing theory
Of political warfare and also their daily
practice.
For one hundred years they have been
feeding upon the flesh and gore Of human
chattels. and ii has so whetted their appe.
tite for blood that the taste has become ir.
resistible. Mob violence, assassination
and murder have followed in its wake.
It has become the prowling wolf Of their
existence.
1t is the wolf which, when threatened in
1851, sprang ferociously at the throat of the
nation, and fastened It's fsngs deeply there,
leaving wounds which are not healed
today. ...s
1t was this same wolf which sneaked
clandestinely through the open doors of
Tsmmany Hall into the city Of New York,
and left that metropolis in q sea of debt
and on the verge Of bankruptcy.
Il was this same prowling creature
which, In the form OF the infamous Dr..
BLAcxBuRN. spread the smallpox con-
tsgion through our Northern homes,
while our stalwar sons were at the
front shedding their ife.blood for the pre-.
servation Of national unity.
II was this same wolf which pounced
upon the form Of the immortal SUMNER in
the Senate Chamber, and left his almost
lifeless bcdy mangled and bleeding upon
the floor.
1t was this same creature, in the form Of
the assassin BooTlr, which struck down the
martyred LINCOLN at moment when he
had achieved the crowning victory of his
life.
1t was this same wolfis aheep's clothing
which went prowling % over the land but
q short time since howling reform" 1're.
FORM" that it might grasp Ne shining
prize of national power. and now having
been defeated in this hypocritical attempt,
1t appears again in the most dsmnable of
all its shapes, in the form Of the editor Of
the Capital, and cries out in its cowardly
and seditious wrath:
w man thps returned 10 soper can ride in
n m fgffs Aa IA. "a IL r. IL
10 6e tneugursfed. re are ehed fer the slavery that
will Joiioc The Inauguration"
If this be not sedition coupled with trea.
son then we fail in comprehendlns the true
meaning of the words, II the strong arm
Of the law has not been paralyzed,i 1t should
punish the instigator Of assassination and
the promulgator Of reasonable advice.