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An English View Of Grant's Military Absolutism

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Day
10
Month
November
Year
1876
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Public Domain
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Most oí tbe great powers huve a portiou of their torritory easily foniented into a state of rebellion. England had lier Ireland, which was for many yeais a hot-bed of treaaon, and remainwd so whilstt military surveillance and bad laws were euforoed. As soou as reforins were initiated, and abuses swept away, we heard little about disiiffeoted Ircland. Canada had her Ireland iu Manitoba. The United States has its Irelaud in tlie South, and more particularly in South Carolina. Although the modern Ameri can rails at munarchial Kngland and the recent military despotism in France, prides himself on the freedom of his country, we inforin hini that noither Frauce nor Eugland to-day would subniit to the military deHpotisui of Gene ral Grant and his friends. If any premier in Englaud, 'witk a people the sloweat to rebel in the world, had dared to issue suoh a proclamation as General Grant has, and endeavored by force to prevent one-half of the people of any State enjoying the privileges of oitizunship, we would not answer for his lifo. The power usurped by General Grtint is that which in England would not be taken without the consent of P.irliament. We are tuld that there is a rebellion in South Carolina, and the Governoi applies for aid to suppress it. He appeals to the Federal Government without any atteinpt to enforce order by the troops of his own State, and without even calliug togother the Leg islature to delibérate on the matter The whole scheme is as palpable a daylight, and modern history affords no instance of a statesman, in a free country, individually assuming sunh power as Graut bas. Riots, of course, are oocurring, and no wonder. The blacks irrítate the wbitos, and words come to blows. One-sided accounts of the affrays are reueived, and the black is a inartyr and the white a detnoii. Uool reflection, however,tellsa different stury. Some time ago, the Bepublican papers were teeming with accounts of the massacro of negroes at New Hamburg, in whioh the negroea were represeuttd as lainbs. investigation proved them to be to blame. Now the same party organs are silent about the massacre o' six whites at Cainhoy, and the assassination of several oolored Democratie voters by colored Kepublicans. These fncts only show a dotormiuation on the part of Grant and his friends to carry South Carolina, one of the few Southern States the Kepublicans command. It is to be hoped they will meet retribution

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