, 1879-04-24
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WARRINGTON d. c., April 4, 1879.

D., yesterday "a' o"S ~
notable of the present debate. 1t
was characteristic in its novely, Tor
the speaker took view of the CON
troversy that nobody appeared to
have thought of before. 1t is not
military domination, he said, that the
Democrats are grasping for, but civil
mower; it is not the military arm
that they are afraid of, but the civil
authority Of the Govt, backed by
the right to call in the aid Of the
troops to enforce civil law, the same
as all citizens are liable to be called
upon to form ''posse commlttatus
for the enforcement of the laws by a
civil officer. The army cannot now
be used to oppress the citizen. A.
an army it caanot act at all, neaI
places of elections or anywhere else.
but the Democrats object to its us"
as an aid to the civil power becausr
it is potent to enforce the laws which
they do not want enforced. This
view of the case rather astonished
some of the Northern Democrats
who want it to appear that the OBJ
ject of the Republicans is to preserve
military despotsm, as they cal! II.
and of the Democrats to restore civil
authority. There can be no mistake
about il; what the Democrats fear
is civil authority, and the bugaboo Of
the "troops at the polls" is a mere
pretense. Following the able speech
es of Garfield, Frye and Belford,
this speech of Robeson will have a
grand effect. All of these speeches
should be read by every man in the
land, and it is probable that the Re.
publican Congressional committee
will take care TO send them broad
cast. They ought to be sent in
connection with the firc-eating ha
rangues Of Chalmers, Blackburn aud
other rampant rebels, who have done
even more for tho exposure OF their
own usfaroos designs than the Re-
pubIicans could do. In TACT all the
Confederate Brigadiers in the Senate
and House announce grandiloquentIy
that they have come to take their
own, the power which was wrenched
from them in 1861. They remind
us forcibly Of the aate.war days,
when loyal men were insulted by Sc
cessiOn swaggarts, aud threatened
with annnihlation if they did not
bend the knee. Fortunately the
Republicans are united aud earnest
in resisting the new method of Re-
bellion, and although the Brigadiers
threaten, it is probable that they
will have to be the ones to surrender
or suffer defeat.
The Democrats have found new
cause cf anxiety in the resolve Of
the Grsenback caucus to oppose the
81 called political legislation. This
is rather surprise, for they had
counted upon the assistance Of that
squad. One of the Greenhackers
proposes to move to strike out the
troops clause in the present bill, and
all but one Of the Greenbackers
will vote against the bill if that
motion does not prevail. The one
exception is Ladd, Of Me-, who is
anxious for Democratic preferment,
and will act with that party upon
nearly all questions of similar ma.
ture.
Several important meetings were
held here last night to take into con.
sderation the immigration move.
ment resulting from the proposal oil
Senator Window. Thousands ol
letters have been received from all
parts of the South asking for aid aud
advice in this movement, and it was
thought best to organize in some
way TO direct the migration SO that