The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-03-15
The Army In PolltIea.l

The closing hours of the Forty.foiirth
Congress will pass into history as memo
rable for the vindication Of the righE of
the peoples Representatives to hold the
purse strings of the nation, and in the
exercise of that right &c check Eyecutiya
encroachments. After q prolonged and
angry struggle over the Presidential
question, which had seemingly divided
the Democratic party duriby the last
days nf che contest into tso wings, thew
were rt'nited in Ian instant and welded
together in q solid mass when this great
principle was assailed.
The Army bill reported by the commit.
tee Of the House contained two leading
elements. First, n reduction of the force,
from twenty-five thousand to seventeen
thousand men; and secondly, a prohibi-
ton against the President using any bart
of the money or the troops thus granted.
in sustaining illegal, governments liz
South Carolina and Loui.iana. Twenty
yeara ago the RAn.h!;es;. then . major
ity In the House, taclteI. on q similar
condition to the Army bill, making it
applicable to Kansas. s,B giIss .ne - I.
When free speech. and free immigra-
tion into that Territory were to be de-
fended, the Republicans Of that day, In
the freshness of their youth and in their
fidelity to the principle which called that
party into existence, demanded that q
Democratic President should not use the
army 70 cid or ahet in The extension of
slavery. They were right then. Now,
when 1t is proposed to curb tho Excct,-
tive and to defend fhe rights of the
States against oppression, to nratset lih-
erty and to put down tyranny and fraud,
some OF the same men and the same par
ty, grown corrupt, and loose, and denlor-
allied, turn. around and renounce the
very principle which gave them the only
claim to popular confidence and sup
port. #% tif -
The Senate, led by Blaine and seconded
BY all the extremists, would neither nc,
cept the reduction Of the army nor yield
to the clause prohibiting the use oftroops
to maintain Packard and Chamberlain.
Nor would they even submit TO any
diminution of the great pay emoluments
now received by our snperauous ,Gener-
els and their magnificent stats. Repeat
ed confere. ces were in vain. The revo-
iutionary leaders who are now striving
for the possession Of Hayes, and are
iuimical to exsry suggestion of o cnncil-
iatory policy, determined to, force. this
issue, and thus to drive the more noierl
ate wing Of the Republican party into
line. ~. ,.7..',,ss s.;s.. ILL., - ,,.-
The House of Representatives stood up
bravely and faithfully to It's duty, and
insisted upon maintaining its position !:
and the Army bill was lost blythe obstis
macy OF Hayes professed friends in the
Senate. No injury will be inflicted on
the service or on the country by this
| mishap. We rejoice at the failure, be.
| cause publ, attention will now be drawn
to the huge military establishments which
the people are required to snppcrt by,
oppressive taxation, and to the Disgrace.
full abuses which have grown up under
it. The money for the army is alrsaiyi
appropriated for the current fiscal wear
to the 30th ostJuue, or, ffoaF months
/ ahead. TT ,re is abundant time for re.
| Election, aud if an extraordinary sesaion
of Congress be required, Why, let it come,
Meantime, the Fraudulent President win
have shown his hand by acts and his
intentions for the future can be bettt E
gauged than is now possible. .',7 'e'g
During the last eight years, the army
has been used as grso- machine TO puil
down honest and set Up fraudulent Cow
ernments in, the South !. or in other
words, to uphold one party and to defeat
another. The spectacle recently prs.
eented in South Carolina, florida, and
Louisiana, was not only humiliation to
American character, which has submit
ted tamely to these repeated scandals
under Grant, bat was an outrage upon
| the name OF free sinssitutions.t tjtepTby
step we have been following. In Tho
beaten paths which lead to military des-
potism.
Now, when Fraudulent President
has been installed in Office who sooner
or later must fall iAto the hands of the
RE. desperate leaders, and who is al
ready ruled by the corrupt ccunsels Of
John Sherman and his Ring, The House
! of Representatives. speaking and acting
for the people, wih take no cheap pro,
fessions and canting phrases for guaran-
tees. They have locked the doors of the
Treasury after the Isl. of July, and Hayes
cannot repeat the burglary by which he
entered the White House, without being
confronted with penalties that he ia not
anxious to seek. If he and his friends
mean what of late they pretend, what
Ineed is there of this great standing army
| with IN expenditure or moro than forty
millions year ?--NctU York Sim. :
- A clervyr,-stl Naa nrenar;nr Ma die.