The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-22

| that further proceedings against the Presiden-
| tial title were not barred by the Judgment of
the commission. Further along he suggests
what the next process might be. It is the i'm
| peachment OF the President. He tells us. how
| ever, that he does not .'apprehend" such a
result; but when the country remembers what
desperate things the party of Mr.. Voorhees, has
| done it would be strange if the public did not
look with great apprehension upon the posi-
| blllty that both houses of Congress shall be
| made up of men who hold such views of Mr.
| Hayes title to his Office.
| Of the witnesses by whom these charges of
| fraud are to be bolstered up, Mr.. Voorhees,
| gives us, in his South Bend speech, charac-
| ter as degrading and Enthusiastically as any Re.
| publican ever ascribed to them He saws :
1.-The tool OF the conspirator is always swollen
with sense OF his own Importance by reason
| OF the guilty secret which he shares with men
OF position ana character. Sooner or later he
seeks to make the secret source of profit to
himself, nor will he ever be satisfied, The re-
suit is inevitable, and, when those who are in
his power lind themselves unable to appease
his constant and insatiate demand, he reveals
everything, as If thereby he atoned for the
original crime. Such is the philosophy of the
course pursued by McLin and Dennis of Flor
ida, and by Anderson and others in Louisiana 81
What is here said by Mr.. Voorhees, would, Il
proved, send man to the penitentiary in In
diana as blackmailer. OF the credit which
the law gives to such evidence, Mr.. Voorhees,
said in the defense of one of the whisky cases
at ST. Louis:
ga co-conspiriator is competent witness.
that is, he is competent to tell his
story. But the courts in England and Amer
lea tell you that, unless the word or oath of q
man who says he himself is thief and per-
Jurer is corroborated, and not by another of
the same sort. verdict based upon
such testimony would be unsafe, dangerous to
liberty and to life, and ought not to be rem
dered in courts of justice"
We can leave these witnesses, both as to
character and the credit they deserve, with
Mr.. Voorhees,. They are worse than those he
describes IN this last extract, for these did not
attempt as he says those did, to levy black
mail from the accused before bringing their
accusation. If Mr.. Voorhees, had, in this part
of his speech, dropped, like ''Silas Wegg,"
into poetry, he would undoubtedly have said :
And as God lives i'd not condemn
An Indian dog word of them.
Another evidence of this revolutionary spirit
which possesses the Democratic party is found
in the bitter war which was made in Congress
upon our gallant little army. Under the lead
ership of Banning, of Ohio, who held his seat
in Congress by the successful election frauds
practiced in his behalf by Eph Holland, per.
sistent attempt was made to reduce the strength
of the army to 10000 men. What had our
army done that it should be made the object of
attack 1t stands to every patriotic man as
the representative of that mighty host in blue
that made treason DOW in humble service to
the flag and the law. It is the miniature of
the Army of the Potomac, of the Ohio, of the
tennessee, of the Cumberland. Its chieftain
is that mighty captain who wrote new trea-
tise on the art of war when he put his base in
his haversack and marched down to the sea.
The name of Sheridan, of Schofeld, of How
ard, of Stanley, of Davis, and host of others
familiar to us by it's deeds of courage in the
great war, are upon it's rolls. Men who COM
manded army corps and armies with distln-
gulshed credit are it's regimental commanders
In the ranks are many veterans of the war;
What has it done since the war that it must be
spoken of in Congress as a source of public
peril threat against our liberties? It's SER
vice has been that of national police. Wher-
ever violence and disorder took horse and rode
down the law and trampled upon the defense
less, there some little detachment of our army
came, and their presence always brought
security and peace. Honest men came from
their hiding places, and the hand of blood
was stayed. These effects were wrought with
out buster OR bloodshed. The invisible but
potent influence of the law, Of national author
ity, reinforced them and made of corporals
guard host.
Why should these officers, who once rescued
the constitution from overthrow. be now sus-
pected of unfaithfulness to it's obligations E?
The expressed fear Of such an army is a pre-
tense. Formidable as it is. while it's breast
work is the constitution, while it marches to
the drum-beat of the law, as an instrument of
treason or usurpation it would be weak indeed
If we were to station our entire army as patrols
along our coast and frontiers, they would be too
far apart to speak to each other without a sig
mailbag. II they were to attempt to suhdue
the nation each man would have to stand
guard over about 1000 people. Scattered over
our vast territory in small detachments you
could hardly get 5000 men together at any
point in the States in a months time. Out
of nominal strength of $4,000 men. drawn
upon by details for signal service and for en-
glneerlng on public works, by sickness and de-
sertions, you would not have an actual
strength of $4,000 men. Yet Democratic
Congressman, who have seen with complacency
the entire machinery of Government, includ-
ing the militia, in the Southern States, pass
into the hands of men who were lately in arms
for the destruction of the constitution, are
seized with fit of trembling when they con-
template the possible overthrow OF our insti-
buttons by an army of $4,000 loyal men, the
CLINT of whose bayonets has always been in
the eyes of their country's enemies.
can not see how any one, not friend to
disorder and revolution, can desire to reduce
or impair the efficiency of our army. The at
tempt is supported by an almost solid South
The army does not seem to be in favor with the
Confederate Brigadiers. It's presence baked
for years the success of the Mississippi plan :"
But there is one place in the South where it is
very convenient to have some soldiers still.
Texas has the Mexican and Comanche for
neighbors. In section of the army bill, as it
passed the House in November last. it was pro-
vided that the army should be reduced to 90
900 men, including Indian scouts and hospital
stewards, and that of that number four full
regiments of cavalry-100 men to the COM
pany-should be stationed and kept in service
on the Texas frontier. don't think there is
any precedent for this. Usually the President
and the General of the Army are left to assign
regiments to those States where they are
most needed, and to order them from place to
place upon an exigency. But here, by vote
| of 133-all Democrats-to 1877, the House de-
clared that fully one-fourth of the army should
be stationed on the boundary of single South
ern Democratic State. I say one-fourth. for
when we add to the four regiments of cavalry
provided for their quota of Indian scouts and
hospital stewards, and the artillery and infan-
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