The daily gazette., 1880-01-05
MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1850

Our old friend Of the Delaware Gazette
seems 20 be propagating some rather re-
markable Democratic ethics ane;.t the
Maine hasco. His doctrine boiled down
ts simply that what IL is outrageous In
lsadicals TO do while In power. 1t Is proper
for the Democrats to do when they gair
the power. This is fighting the devil with
nre with q vengeance, but unfortunately
IL " the DEVILS own fire that must be bor-
rowed. No other IRE will answer such a
purpose.-Oecii Democrat.
The language in the quotation above
Ia neither truthful nor fair. No where
In the GAZETTE has It inculcated the
doctrine Of retaliation. We take nc
stock In the 'devil," or his "fire )" albeit
We may admit that he is very useful
and indispensable amid the necessi-
ties which man is surrounded.
We quote again from the Cecil Demo
crdt:
"a further answer to the Gazette might
embody q general denial that the people
OF Maryland have continued the election
laws made by the Radicals. The RadI-
Gals, true to their instincts enacl ed laws
whose purpose was TO disfranchise every
voter who could not be relied Oh to vote
the Radical ticket, and they fell early
victims 70 their spirit of outrage and out
lawry. The Democrats pruned the laws
SO made Of all proscriptive features, and
turned what was intended as an engine
OF oppression into an agis OF enfran-
chi ed liberties. But even If IL were not
so, THE CECIL DEMOCRAT will say to the
0dseue In All candor that 1t advocates sub
mission TO laws till they are regularly re-
pealed, and II knows no more heroic mot
TO than that OF Leonidas at ThermopyIm
tell those at LacedRmon that we lie
here in obedience 10 law"
Our esteemed contemporary takes an
e1 pdrte view of the matter. He has
certainly not read the defence which
Governor Garcelon has made to the
furious threats and attacks of Blaine
and Hamlin. In view of this Governor
Garcelon might well reply in the lam
guage OF another "strike but hear me-
and he of the Democrat commend him
self 10 his fellow Democrats of Maine,
by Withholding his blow as did Eury
blades. Had the blow came from an
enemy Of Garcelon's party it could not
have been more unfairly hurled. The
very heading shows that that is lily con
cealed beneath few chosen sentences.
Under the Radical registration laws
OF Maryland, as they originally existed,
the Governor appointed the registration
officers. The Democrats did not vote
themselves into power while these laws
were being enforced by the Radical
election officers.
governor Swami would not cooperate
With-lhe Radicals in the enfranchise-
ment OF the Maryland negroes. He
abandoned that party when they passed
laws giving the negro the right TO vote
In Maryland. And at the next oppor-
tunity appointed Democrats and men
opposed TO negro suffrage to register the
voters. This is our remembrance of the
case. In some instances the very men
who had been prescribed by the Radicals
because of their sympathy or alleged
sympathy with "rebels," were appoint
ed to make the registration of voters
This looked very much like fighting
the devil with "his own fire." The case
cited by the Cecil Democrat bears no
analogy to the action of Gov. Garcelon.
As we understand his declarations. II
would not be tenable in any State, and
We are rather surprised that one SEEM
ingly to hold SO high an opinion of hon.
orable and fair dealing should have cited
1t at all. Certainly none but a thief in
TACT would hold an 'office" secured in
that mode. There being no votes cast
for the gentleman who by mistake was
returned by the clerk as one of the can
didates-elect. Gov. Garcelon declares
that he is proceeding according to law; the
Republicans have unsuccessfully chal-
lenged the legality of his acts.
With due Difference to our esteemed
contemporary Of the Cecil Democrat we
beg to suggest that the motto of.the
heather King is even more apropos to
Gov. Garcelon and his Council. He has
been appealed to by many of the Repub.
licans to abandon the calculation they
have made, and they have declared re-
peatedly that it was in exact accordance
with the constitution and laws of Maine
Why, therefore, should he not say to
these people in the laconic language of
Leonidas, 'go, passenger, and tell at
Lacedamon, that we died here in
obedience to her sacred laws"
So far as we can learn from Governor
Garcelon's speeches and declarations. he
is acting the part of a brave man. de-
termined upon supporting the laws of
Maine, his native State, Just as he finds
them recorded upon its statutes and
doing this too in accordance with the
usages Of former Governors and Conn
ellis. Leonidas was, as our friend of the
Democrat knows, as despotic Prince
as many of the f st, and it looks rather
odd TO see a modern Democrat tako
refuge behind an ancient heather auto-
crat, casting aside even the law of revo
lution under which the Fathers secnrod
that boasted liberty we now possess.
Now, as to the Maryland resistraticp
election laws, we hope our esteemed
,ntemporary will permit us to cali -.
attention, from memory, more f,rr
thereto. II he will examine the fla %
the Democrat from 1854 TO 1894 H.