The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1879-12-30
REVOLUTION
Threatened by the Beaten Bull
DOkers.

W. " ~ AAOAN
Threatened by the Beaten Bull
Dokers.
II They Can't Win by Fraud They
will Triumph by Bayonets.
IIntense Feeling In Wsshington
Over the Situation In Maine.
WAsHIsaroN, December 23.-The per.
fcrmaucc OF Senator Hamlin at Bangor
the other night In advising the people
Of Maine, ia Q public. speech, TO treat
Governor Garcelon and his Ceuncil as
loathsome pariahs, because the G ,ver-
nor and his Council have kept their
oaths and executed the laws without fear
or favor, and the announcement that the
President has promised in advance to
recognize Rump Legislature in Maine
if the Republicans will organize one,
has started what promised to be the sem.
sation OF the session here. Denocratic
Congressman from all sections OF. the
country are ou.spoken in their denuncia-
tion of the incendiary talk Of Senator
Hamlin and OF the indecent haste which
II Is alleged the President has shown to
lend himself in advance to a partisan
scheme before the emergency has arisen,
and before be can possibly know wheth-
[ers the Republicans will he in the right
or rrong,o OF it. legally or morally.
The following private letter, was re-
celved here to-day from gentleman
prominent, In public lie, and who is
thoroughly posted as to the Maine situa-
ton. He says:
1.-THE Republicans are gaining trick
lon us through their halloo about fraud,
usurpatlon,r revolution, and the devil
knows what In Maine, without any, JUS
lti6cation whatever. They are making
these charges wi,hout q single specifica-
Iiion There is not specification which
they can truthfully make. They never
| Will endeavor to make one They are
holding public meetings: they are howl
Ing through the press; Blaine is writing
editorials Tor the New York Tribune, or
los least dictatlng their tone. Other
prominent Republican papers through
Ieut, the country are stating absolute
| falsehoods ip Q general way about the
taction or Governor Garcelon and his
| Council. The fact 10 this: That the
Governor and Council Of Maine would
have violated their solemn oath Of Office
| II they had taken any other step or
tcourse Of action. The Interpretation OF
| the Law under which they acted LEFT them
no choice ia the matter except to obey
or. disobey its requirements. The result
Of their oheying the Law is fusion ma.
jority In the State Legislature. If the
reverse had been the result under exact
" such actfon-upon teehpicalities, liz
regularitiss, bogus returns, (tor returns
are bogus when they are not properly
signed and youched for) r)-no. word Of
FcritIcism would ever have been uttered
by the Republican Senator who is re-
nowned for Fort Scott and sunstroke,
nor echoed by any Republican in this
land. The men whom they denounce
and criticise with loud adjectives and
Indecent language are men who are uni
versally respected IN the State and in
their Immediate neighborhood among
ell Who know them Intimately and those
Who have q general acquaintance with
who have been lsuied Tor
EsheIr problty; men on whom the Repub-
|Ilcans counted, or pretended to count,
for non .sctIon because they we're 80
|high-minded men who have never be-
lore been charged with any suspicion Of
wrong doing, legally, or morally, and
who are now simply denounced because
they have not done as rxbid faction in
politics would desire 10 have them act
Only this. and nothing more"
Touching the celebrated Luther B ,r-
den case, Senator Morton In the Elec-
toraI debate said 'sThe United States
shall guarantee each State q republican
form Of government, and to decide what
lis the government, of Q State, aud wheth,
Ter It is republican in IFS form, is pow
er expressly 1ieyolved upon Congress,
| and cannot be transferred or disputed.
except for q single purpose, and that is
ito enable the President to determine
what government he will sustain in a
case of insurrection or domestic vio-
ience. ID the case of Luther VS.. Bor-
den, q case familiar to you ell, the Court
says: Under this article of the Consti-
|tution 1t rests with Congress to decide
what Government is established, in the
State; for as, the United States guaran.
tees 70 each State republican govern
ment. Congress must necessarily decide
what Government iss established IN The
State before II can determine whether II
/ Is republican or not" :
|Sg5 PREPARING FOR WAR {.
q NEW YokK, December 93.-A dispatch
from Washington Gays: IA circular
without signature hss. been sent to the
elsrks In the departments froms Maine
Who served id the Union army during
the war, ordering them 10 20 strange
their afsirs that they cad meet without
delay u the Grand Army hall and or
ganize ride club and start at once for
Augusta, Maine The -circnlar. -ssys-;
"Uniforms.. great coats apd caps will be
furnished, with ratioas and trsnsporta.
tion. and q supply of Spencer rifles will
be provided on the way North" m
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