The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-06-13

'omploh sense and common honesty
All these orders show palpable an,
shameless. determination on the. par
OF the Executive to control both tn
elections aud the counting of the vote
OF Presidential electors, as well as the or
ganizntlon ofState governments. The man
ner 10 which the troops were shifted abou
from one to the other Of these three States
on which the Presidential election depended
exhibits the animus of this infamous trans
action'fha manner SO plain that the way
farlng man, though q Republican, need no
err therein.
But the President tells us in his veto
message that there has been no interference
during his administration, and promises that
there shall be none. So we are to take his
royal promise to respect the peoples liber,
ties and not to have them secured by law ?
Here is the promise of one President of the
United States. and one who stands exceed
ingly high in Rcpubicon estimation, dated
November 10, 1876, to General w. Il. Sher.
man, Washington, District of Columbia:
Instruct General Auger, in Louisiana,
and General Ruser, in Florida, to bo vigi
liant with the forces at their command to
preserve peace and good order, and to sec
that the proper and lega! boards of canvas
sers are unmolested in the performance of
their duties. Should there be any grounds
OF suspicion of fraudulent counting on either
side, it should be reported and denounced at
once. No man worthy of the office of Pres
ldent would be willing to hold the Office if
counted in, placed there by fraud. Either
party can afford to be disappointed in the
result, but the country cannot afford to
have the result tainted by the suspicion of
illegal or false returns.
u. s. GRANT"
On the same day the following telegram
Is also forwarded to Gen. Sherman:
Tho President thinks, and agree with
him, that it will be well for you to give to
the Associated Press his telegram and mine
to you, referring to affairs now in the South.
j. ID. CAMERON.
Secretary of War;"
Of the vast open-jawcd and cavcrnous.
bellied nature of this promise [ have not
the heart or the time to discourse. l shall
content myself with initiating the discre
tion OF Dir. Rodman, who, returning home
one night full of tax paid and fearing that
his speech would betray him to the many
questions of his wife, for a long while main
tanned an obstinate silence, until at length,
to end the matter, he solcmnly remarked,
Mrs. Rodman, you know am man of
few words, and now am plumb done talk
ing" That subject Immediately became
res u9Judicata. am done talking on this
subject so we'll calculated to make an Anne.
rcan citizen blush.
The arguments made by the opponents
of these bills, especially those of the veto
messages, strike me with a good deal of
amazement. TO illustrate their absurdity
let us frame them into the semblance of
mathematical propositions, thus:
Proposition First: Heorem.-The troops
of the United States are Two thousand miles
away on the frontier and could not be used
to control elections if they were wanted. -
Senator from Maine
The troops could not b. SO used if they
were here, as the Jaw forbids it. promise
nc: to use them.-The President.
Hence it is revolutionary and dangerous
to liberty and the purity of elections to pass
this bill forbidding such use of troops.-Q.
T.. d.
Corolla,y .frst.-The necessity for troops
at the polls to secure fair elections is in
proportion to the squares of the distance of
their present location, 1. G., the greater the
distance the greater the necessity.
CoroUary second-The necessity for the
presence of troops at the polls is also in
proportion to the legal inability to use them
if they were present, and if the President
is determined not to use then, at all to con-
troll elections, then the necessity becomes
absolute.
Corollary Mrd-The revolutionary and
dangerous character of law consists in the
fact that it is useless, there being already
in existence laws sufficient to effect the pur
pose.
,Schohun,.-In the above it is assumed
automatically that the terms "liberty" and
'purity of election" arc synonymous with
the tern "Republican party" prolonged
laughter.
Proposition Second: Theoren, .--Th,
right of citizens of the United States to vot,
shall not be denied or abridged by tn,
United States or by any State on accoun
Of race, color or previous condition of servi
tude.
Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to en-
force this article by appropriate Legislation
The fifteenth amendment quoted by tn
President.
: The Supreme Court, in the United State
against Cruikshank, and in Myers as. HaT
; persett, have declared that the only righ
| ouorontool hv thic omnn1nont is tho rich