The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-06-05

sft1e CONSTITUTION oil tue UniteQ state
: for assistance. Not a soldier ccult
, be moved, not q musket be used 40
der penalty Of fine and Imprisonment
In the South, where Illicit distillatioI
is carried on 10 every nook and corner
where the collections of taxes is rt
sisted by force Of arms-revenu
officers are shot down like dogs, an
the authority Of the government
openly defed, not a soldier could b
used to sustain the President 10 en-
forcing the laws.
In view of the fact that this OF
tempt to chain up the army, and de
priye the President of all control o
it follows fast upon the assault on BIZ
Official title, made by the Potter res
olution, which Enthusiastically point
to his eventual deposition from Office
there can be no doubt in the mind o
any observing or rejecting man, tha'
the Democratic leaders not only de
sign, but are preparing for revolu
ton. 10 this conclusion, the lettel
of Post Master General key-him
self a Southern Democrat-point.
unerringly aud openly. There is nc
mistaking the significance of its con
Guiding paragraph mo man need
hopel that the schemes of the men
who have engineered the move.
ment to unseat President Hayes can
be carried on without a bloody civil
war"
Equally decided 10 his views of
this movement, and outspoken 10 his
opinions, is A. II. Stephens, formerly
Vice President of the Southern Con-
federacy, and a present Democratic
member of Congress. Says be, in a
letter to the New York Times:
l look upon the whole of this proceed
ing. concocted as it was, conducted as ii
has been. as most unwise, most unfortun-
ate and most mischievous. lis effect will
be to disturb the peace, harmony and
quiet ofthe country. Neither Mr.. Potter
nor ANYBODY else can prevent it, and / say
10 him most respectfully, that nothing
shoit Of au immediate, general and firm
concert OF action of the law and order
abiding people of all parties, Republicans
and Democrats, throughout the Union,
in ~reprobation of this investigation pro
ceeding any further with a view to disturb
the Presidential title, such as announced
by the Pennsylvania Democracy in their
Convention a few days ago, can arrest the
most fearful consequences. Those who
have. though innocently, sowed the wind
will reap the whirlwind. My own opinion
is, as / have repeatedly said, this affair
will prove in the end either a contempt
ible farce or a horrible tragedy. Whether
it will lead to the MeXicanization OF u
Federal Republic, the result must show /;
but | say. as | said on another recent oc-
casion. that all soft words instilling in
the mind of the people OF this country the
idea that Mr.. Hayes can be peacefully I'M
seated by Congress, are as delusive and as
guileful as the whisperings of the great
arch-i end in the shape OF a toad in the
car of Eve from which sprung all our
woes.
1t being as clearly evident that
revolution is Matching now, as it was
in lS59-G0 that rebellion was o fact,
and it being he duty of the Presi-
dent to crash out revolutions and
rebellions with a rigorous hand, it is
undoubtedly the object Of the Dem
ccratic conspirators to leave him
powerless to use tie army of the
Government for its protection. Pre-
paratory for the rebellion of 1861 the
and Navy were so widely scat
tered, as to prevent their concentration,
aud therefore render them practical
ly useless. Now the game is to re-
duce the army to q mere skeleton,
and forbid its use by statute law.
The Senate is to-day, all that
stands between the country and this
second Democratic rebellion for which
the way is being so clearly prepared,
and we trust and believe it will stand
by the Republican party, in frustrat-
ing the present ~traiterous schemes of
the Democratic leaders in Congress.