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Can Well Rest Till Calmer Times

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
August
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

A Bcuson of panio is no time in which to urge the increase of the Fedral armyfor the sake of protecting the States f rom local disorder ; yet thig is ow done by Bepublican organs, who l8o assume that tho Foderal Government ought to make this local robellion national matter at once. There are ertain methods prescribed by which a tate may claim the aid to which it is ntitled froin the Federal power, and in o other way can the President iuterere. lint, as regards an increase of the rmy, this is a matter that we can well et rest until calmer times. Then we lould all of U8 probably recognize the act that the oíd plau is the best, and íat each State can protect itself with ;g own militia much moro safely mn by relying upon an appeal to a great central power to come to its id whon threatened with troubles at lome. There is danger in the suggesion. - Botton Poat. If we had a standing ariny of a million iiii-ii, troops could not have been moved with groater oelerity to points where needed, nor have proved more effeotivo in overawing turbulent spirits, than wo see renulting from tho disposition of our National Guards in this State Let other States havo au equally efficiënt military organization, and there need be no clamor for a large standing army to preservo the peace

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Old News
Michigan Argus