The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-11-15

PRESIDENT ITAHEI>ON.
Tho exalted Office Of the President Of
the United States should. and Away
will command respect. but when the
Chief Msgislrate so perverts its fupc'
lions. through weakness or deliberate
design. as to turn loose the MINI 'u'
under his control TO peIsecuie and har
rass a loyal aud uuoilending people. }
snould be remembered. that aiterall. be
is only public servant. and TO be helo
RESPONSIBLE for his evil deeds. IL is. T.
poss,ble. an aggravation Of his oileist
that he persecution aud outrage whch
he had the power to suppress 10 tnen
mention, should have been directed
agai1 st the State, which gave birth TO-
IN honored his ancestors.
Since toe lettres de oachet q
LOUIS XIV. which consigned men With
ont notice TO the Bastle. there has been
no greater outrage than the arrest OF
the Judges ~ election on frivolous pre-
texts twelve months after tie commits
sion of the alleged offeusos. their being
t,rp from their families by the Otter
disrepulahle instruments Of tyranny
known as Republican deputy mdrshals,
and dragged like common criminals be
fore United States Commissioners.
Because the people Of Virginia have
lust gained great victory and
been delivered from one impending
calamity. they should not forget that
while the Republican party is in power
their vigilance should be s!eepleis.
What safety can there be for any one
when a creature ike Malone can be
backed by the whole power Of the
government in causing the arrest Of in
Docent citizens. and perat,d as be l.
by defeat, who can say what direction his
malice will not take. # his ally, the
President, has not been warned by the
Republican reverses in the North.
1t is easy to decry danger which
seems to have passed, but with Harrison
in power it is threatening and ever
abiding. and il is net T. be forgotten
that the cases of the arrested judges Of
election are yet to 20 before the grand
iuries in the Federal courts. What
may we not expect when q mepdacious
informer and witness testified in Lynch
burg tnat he was present at the election
at Aspnwall. and that he was threat
ened by the pastor and an elder of the
neighborhoOd church, and that the
elder stood near him IN a hostile at,i-
tude. and with gun IN his hands.
That this testimony Was pure fiction.
without even the eemblance Of truth,
in no way diminishes the hazard which
every good citizen runs Of being
dragged into the Federal courts, and
in possible cases, when there can be no
rebutting evidence. of being con
demned to ignomluious punishment,
on the testimony of vile negroes aud
white Pariahs.
1t is hardly to be expected that Mr..
Harrison Will heed the voice of the State
OF his forefathers. but he can hardly
turn deaf ear to The sound of the IT'S
ing tempest which threatens his admin
istration in the North. If be failed 10
be warned by the best journals OF bis
own party which condemned his IL
Ii mce with Malone. it may be that the
voice of the people of his own section
W II come to him as an admonision of
his own totteriog fortunes. and OF how
lit lie he has done TO win the cofidence
OF the county.
We do not pretend to estimate with
accuracy all the influences which con
trolled therecent elections in the North,
bu; we think it not extravagant 10 on
olude that the Democratic uiumphs
were in some measure a protest against
sectional hate and condemnation OF a
President, who. proiessiug TO be civil
service reformer. gave his approval to
wholesale evictious from Office, who
protesting to be Christian. allied him
self with notorious blasphemer, and
protesting to be pure in his policy and
methods. backed with his whole power
and influence the deliberate effort Of
bad man 10 place his own people under
the heel of their former slaves.