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ceodlng*” of tho Court, and keep tho
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Public See Uncut KtocwUere.
eon lest aud by which oo brilliant and
glorious a victory has been achieved.
A. II, S.
—.— » »■< * ■ ■
Slimy of our excliangcs are trying
to show tvhut the “New Departure”
means. To ull each we would say
they had better be considering what
the late victory in Kentucky means.
If any want information on that sub
ject let them read the article in to
day’s paper from the Iiockford (Indi
ana) Democrat, and the able and
truly eloquent speech of lion. J
I’roetor Kuott, of Kentucky, just on
the eve'of the election. A. 11,8.
As an (pdieatiou of the. iJgL tone
of sentiment prevailing with tlie
masses of the Democracy in diflbront
parts of the country, we take the lib
erty wf-presenting to our readers, to-
dxtj, erf rati# from (wo letters, jnst at
hand t one from Washington City, tho
great centre of political action, and the
other from New York, the great cen
tre of trade and commerce, os well as
the head quarters of tficj New Departs
Prists.”
These letters come not from poli
tician*, or those on gaged In the work
of trying to manufacture public
opinion, but from men who look npon
government aa something intended
tor higher objects than the mere oh
tain incut of the spoils of office; men
also, of sense, who mix with the |>eo-
plo, and sympathise with their fil
ings ami wants: with their oppres'
sinus and their ]>atriotic yearnings
for redress, through the proper, the
peaceful, the quie t, the constitutional
nml all powerful agency of the ballot
box.
The letter from New York was
penned under the immediate shadow
of the New York World, tlie great
leader of thane ‘MisafTected Homo-
crats” who arc now making swh gi
gantic efforts to persiitwle the rdnt
mid (ilc of Lhe.rally, e\cry where, to
abandon their principle#, go over
at masse to tho enemies’ ground
take possession of it, occupy aud
, “ build npon it.” This leading or
gan of the “ disaffected/’ established
as ■ Radical sheet, and having oi-
l>uused, nominally, the cause of the
Democracy only since about the close
of the war; not at all liking the
Jeltersonian doctrines announced in
the l’lalform of the Party in 1808, it
will be recollected, took its ‘•Depart
ure’’ therefrom just before tho elec
tion of that year, and contributed no
little to the defeat of (Seymour and
Muir. I.ike the “ Isme captain” in the
story, it was the first to “depart,” and
ouliiy^u^W&i'tes'anillbllowers.
This “liuno captain” who thus
signalized his course by abandoning
thoprincipVeiwnd enure dftjio IVunoc-
,ryy!p t^e ycry Ueatof tho first grewt
contest he was ever engaged in under
that banner, now assntnes to l>e a
lender of the parly!
That paper is truly entitled to tho
leadership of all those who wish to
leave or “depart” from their Demo-
crotie iwiiriatioup for any reason or
j»urpo«s it linteiep—either Ijcciusc
they donfffike the ^etforsonian doT-
trincs upon which tho organization
is founded, or because they think it
will “not pay" to maintain them ;
Jipt if is entitled to no leadership iu
the Democratic hosts of the United
Slates—Ihe Ihri-v millions from whom
it so ingloriouslv departed in 1808!
The extracts of tho letters lvfVrml to
aro as follow^;
Wisuixarosi Onr, D. a, I
August 7, 1871. |
Uu.i. Alexander II. Stephen,:
lit Data Sir—As it bos been four or
Uvo years since 1 wrote to you, pardon
me for dropping yon a line or two.
1 fully approve overvtbiug you liuvo
raid in Tut: Sr a, and If there is any
salvation for the country it must bo on
tho lino yon Lave indicated. AU the
Democrats I bare conversed with agree
that yon nro right, Ac., • « »
I am very truly yours.
New York, Aug. 0, 1871.
ITiv-t. ,1. H, Stephens:
MtDzar Sir—Absence tom tho city
delay'd the writing of thin latter, there
fore you will allow mo at this time to ox-
press to you my unqualified admiration
of roar “New York World onoe more."
I have no woods to adequately express
to you my approval of your orticlo under
the above mentioned title.
It elcars up the fog about the 14tii and
15th amendments clearly and eiticctirely.
There arc no other issues in tho contest
of 1871, pn Using and vital ns State
ltfghts on the one side, and centralization
of power on the other. * • *
I bless yoa In my heart for your explo
sion of the “New Departure” which
says wo don't condemn the smssg itsetf,
lmt only the means by which it hsa been
aooomplishod. * * *
Yours most truly,
Wc could add many more similar
ilcinonstroHons of jfcpuhir approval,
coming almost daily from Maine to
California and Oregon, bnt neither
time nor space will allow. We give
these two a* samples of the w hA.
They show that there is life iu the
old “iron ribbed” Democracy yet—
and that thejfrwe men of the Party do
not intend to ruu away from their
guns in the contest of 1872, nor to
wilct them cither. They intend to
Uaud by them and give from them
Bt such broadsides as the “llour-
™* 11 ” of Kentucky gave in their late
Twin the Rorkfffd (Indiana) Democrat, 5th Ann-
Tbc Dive Old Party.
From the uicinorablo campaign of 1800
(says live Nashville Union and American.)
down to tho present, amid nil the shift
ing issues of three quarters of a century,
tho Democratic party has over been in
the field, mid with a few exceptions, in
tho van. To tiint party belong all tho
glories of tho post; its reign hue been the
reign of peace, proeperity nnd progress;
and when it has at times been displaced,
manifold anil bitter evils have come upon
the country. Tho fate of tho nation and
that of tho Democracy nro intertwined.
Tho explanation is, that our pnrty main
tains too living, essential principles of
oar system of government. It has boon
moro than n pnrty; it has been the em
bodiment of the political life and legiti
mate aspirations of tho American people.
Compared with European annals, our his
tory reads as if tho Democracy wore tho
constituted government, while other par
ties, arising from time to time, have been
tho successive forms of Opposition The
essential principles that givo suc-vitality
to our party, being identical with the
Constitution of 1789, are oquelly dura
ble. They wore applicable to a confede
racy of thirteen Btates and three millions
of pooplo; they will prove equally boned
cial to furty Btates nnd forty millions.
With our fathers, the absorbing ques
tion on which Clay, Calhoun anil Web
ster burnished their brilliant intellects,
was, What shell we do with our Treasury
surplus? Tlie present generation, with
its weight -of national debt, pronounce
theta very “dead” issue; hut with ahalf
century ot Democrotlo rnlc, tho hopo is
not extravagant that it may again lieoomo
the jilvot of politics with onr cbihlrou.—
Later enmn tho Nattvo Americans, and
then tho Know-Nothings; and wo may
have to light that struggle over in the
noar /ataro, twenty ffGrs ago, internal
iuprovcmoutH came knocking at tho pub
lic tluor, ii#beggars; tho people voted to
gfvo thorn A start in life. Twenty years
honec, mft¥nal improvonwnts arc likely
to oouic up uguii), not as beggurs, bat as
domineering tyrants; and tho people, un
der tlie lend of tho Democracy, will liavo
to meet the changed ismio. Thu« our
principles have been tried and proven
equal to every issue iu which tho inter
ests of tho people and of free institutions
are involved. Those who imagine tlmt
tho Democracy must make ft “new de
parture” to meet newly sprung issues, do
not understand the live old party which
hna survived all tho shocks of time, and
which emerges from a horrible civil war
more united than its triuuiphaut oppo
nents, so that to-day Radicalism gives ev
ery ovidence of early dissolution, wliilo
tho grand old Democracy uover boro
greater promise of coming and contiuucd
usefulness. Wliilo lladicalhm barely
subsists in a dozen States, fed on Federal
porridge, tlie Democratic 1 tanner iloaU to
the broeze throughout the Union, rally
ing tho people by its invocation of time-
honored principles.
1111. >ISW 1>EI»A U l l 11E.
Tlie Law, the Bogle, imhI tlie
llblvrr ot the bo-cnlli-tl
• Aiiteuilinoiiti-
Spwli of Has. J. Drector Knott
at l-miiieucr, K j.
lb'iiimnitlc Faith in Dcniorrttir
Policy.
Filuiw-Oitixen* :
iiH'ltiiwaUi y in vital
the present oc
T am opi
ablo to meet
”•? . the .
INtlnful oouaci.
theoxpoitaticms of tho large aud intelligent audience
I havo tho pleasure of sooiug before me. 1 hare but
little t hjuu ity for more rhetorical display,
tho most favorable clrt'umaUucoa, and, worn dawn
aa 1 am to aouia extent by the st-vore physical suffor-
ing uuder which 1 have been laboring for nearly two
day« paid, 1 foil compelled to oppeolto your kind
forbearance to oxcus* me from attempting anything
of tho kind, n- I tin aattodod it could only end In a
S ortify iOf failure. I trust, also, that you will par-
in wo iff pretermit offffrvl.v tho ordinary topic* ol
political discussion which have occupied tho popular
miuddurmg the prearut ctiUvaHs. mid coniine myeclf
exclusively to duo which In every tlay being brought
more and mot# prominently into view, and up,
which public opinion is yet iu tho process of font
tion. i allude to tho (juoatlou aa Ui what ahonld ho
Utop
the H
lion. I would not h« uutb ratoiKl
the importance of the v arioi
of tho tariff, internal taxation, and other huidrod
buI^ocU which have boon ao thoroughly and ably
dlacuaaod by tho aovcral caudulatoa aluioat avery
where throughout tho Btatc during the aummer, l»u
thla l couaider i»arainount to them all; for. in my
ludgmcnt, it not only iuvolvoa the exiatcuco of the
iViuoeratic party, hut the proaperity of our form of
goreruwrnt aud th« libertiea to which wo aro ontiUcd
under It I will crave your indulgence, therefore,
while 1 aball attompt to givo it a calm and diapataiou-
ate conaidoruUon.
tub TnimxxNuj m.'unu.vr.
With regard to tho Thirteenth Amondracut, I have
auunly to way that t auppoae there is not an intelli
gent Democrat in Kentucky or elaewherv wlio pn
poaea t*> rwiao a uumUou a« U» its validity, or who ei
tertains an idea that tt over will, or ever can, bo dl
turbed. Infamous an was the broach of faith li
volred in the act of forcing It upon those 8tat<
whose Legislature* refuted to ratify it, and whose
people were literally robbed, through ite operation
ot utlUona upon iclUiona of dollar* worth of prop
erty; reluctantly aa it may have boon aeaented to by
time States which had been recently crushed to tho
very earth beueath the remorseless heel of a terrible
im destructive war. and which were, therefore, in
no condition to offer any material opposition I
adoptiou, it waa nevertheless proposed, as all
cede, by two-thlrda of all the members who
been elected to either houaeof Conoreee. and rail fled
by tho requiaite number of State# through tog I *la
turva oheean by Hectors poaa«'saing the (|uaTi&ce-
tionH presoriUd by tho several State* themselves In
their respective constitutions, and having thus be-
oome a part of the organic law of tho land in imrau
anoe of the tenus of the constitution, aud having
received the acquieeceuoe of those most matoriaUy
affected by It, no one that 1 know of either proposes
or desire* that it should l>« repealed or interfered
with iu any manner whatever. At any rate, that tfan
Democratic party entertains any such idoa or tuteu-
turn is someth lug that will t>e geecrted by no cue
who possesses tlie lutolHgnucc of an ordinary oys
ter, or moral hom sty enough to keep his hauds ont
of his neighbor's corn-crib
Tito so called
rourr«KMTn and FinriKTH amkndmbiits.
bulwark of Mate
iu oommeod Heelf at once to tho apprehension
commonest rapacity in tho uulverse, that
nothing rmn be Justly coualdcrsod the logical reaolte
of a war beyond the acoumplhfhiuent of tho purpose
Jbr which mat war wan declared and waged. If this
slaughter of ita entire people. I'ulese, therefbre.it
can ^e truthfully said that the war waa declared and
carried on for tlie avowed purpose of manamltlng
and enfranchising the negroes of the south; nay
more, unless it can bo truthfully averred that the
war was inaugurated and prosecuted f»r tie- express
purposes of ib-pr'.v mg the HUU-e of Umlaut ‘ *' "
of tlu ir reserved righlM, and to v«st all |kiw«
General Goveruiaeut, to lie cxerrisod by ilacAioriliug
to tho unlimited discretion of Congress, it cannot be
pretended with any show of either truth or reason
that theso amendments are to be classed among'its
legitimate results, any more than they arc tho nt-cee-
tbat the limitations in the written constitution may
WHAT A UK THX TACTS?
Curtain Htates asserted their right to *evor their
connection with the Federal Union. That right was
denied by the general government, aud in order to
decide the issue thus raised between them, an appctvl
was made to arms, the ultimate arbitrator of natidns.
There was, however, as all will remember, a wide
spread distrust as to the ultimate purposes of the
party which had Just acoeeded to power, not only in
the mind* of tho Southern people, but with Urge
numbers throughout the North. Aud in order to
dUpel any minapprehen*ion wherever it might exist,
Congress, soon at Ur the ooiumoucement of hosliii-
tii s, declared With a unanimity ami an amiarcut ear-
ueslutKs aud sincerity scarcely paralleled m tho leg
islative annals of mankind, that the war w aa “not
w aged ou our part in any spirit of oppression, nor
for auy purpose of conquest or subjugation, or pur-
1-0*0 of overthrowing or Interfering in any way with
tha rights or ostsblinncd institution* of thone States,
but to defend and maintain the constitution, and to
proserve the Union with all tho rights, dignity aud
equality ol the several Btates unimpaired." And
not only was the design to connuer or subjugate, or
in any manner interfere with the rights or institu
tions of auy Btate, thus declared by Congress In the
strongest possible language, but both tho other co
ordinate departments of the government were • H
nulled to the *amc doctrine iu terma equally explic
it, emphatic and unequivocal.
The very first pledge of the executive, then recent
ly installed, was that while he had neither tho right
nor tho inclination to interfere with the Institutions
of any Htate, he would see that the laws of the Union
should bo enforced iu all the Btatea of tho Union
alike, while the ludlciary. In every case in which the
point wa* directly or incidentally adverted to, de
clared that the statu* of the oovcrsl Btates would be
the same after the war as before it.
THV bl'l I'bUSlDN OT THE UKUELLJON t OXFEUUKD NO
litOlIT* OT CONCENT.
I will be i-ardoned for citing one case especially,
not only because it puts this question beyond con
troversy, hut because it derives ten-fold more author
ity from having becu decided in the very focul center
of all wisdom- uuntau and divine. 1 alludo to the
celebrated case of Amy Warwlok. decided in tho Uoi-
ted Htates District Court of MassachuHotts - a cmae
long siuce familiar to every legal mind In the coun
try. Iu his opinion, dofivured in that case, Judge
Hprague, the distinguished juri*t. before whom it
ws* tried, made use of the following plain, emphatic
and unmistakable language: “It has been supposed
that if tlie Government have the r ghts of a bellige
rent then after the loboliion is suppressed it will
have the righto of conquest; that a State aud it* in
habitants may bo nonnauoutly divested of all politi
cs! advantages mud trusted as a foreign territory.—
This is an error; a gravo aud dangerous error. *
* * • When the United Btate* UlA pos-
Mgsiou Ot a rebel district they merely vmdicatAhoir
pruminting tilio. Undoy despotic governmentTcon-
Iteration may 1m> unlimited, but under our govern-
meut tho right of sovereignty over auy porlio* of a
Htate is given and limited by tho constitution, and
will he the same after tho war as it was before.”—
Much was tlio theory of every department iff tho
Government during tho progress of tho war. and tho
/»> t* were exactly coincident with it when the rebtl
lion w** sUpprcsM-d. The only legitimate results of
the contest were simply Uie establishment of the
principle that a Htate had no rigid to uccodo, and the
rcausortion of tho supremacy oi tho constitution over
the Btatea lately in ruvolt as over tho other member*
of the Federal Union. When the storm of war pas
sed sway it left tlie Bouthcrn Htates precisely In tho
condition it found them—each with its own consti
tution, its own local government, republican inform
a* it had ever becu, its own tews, its own Institutions
aud its own dignity aud equality as a component
part of tho Federal Union.
Those facta wore not only recognised by tho J udi-
clnry immediately after the war, but were deliberate
ly acknowledged by both the legislative aud cxetutivo
departments of tho Government In the very set of
propoiiiugand submitting tho Thirteenth amsndinout
to tlie legislatures of those States for thsir ratifica
tion. That amendment was itself a solemn admis
sion of record that not oven tho despisod institution
of slavery had boon overthrown by tho war, while it*
ami in full operation, but that oach >-i them
t.tlo l to an equal voice in tho ratification of auy pro-
posed amendment to tho organic law of the Oeueral
tlovi mou nt. This is a conclusion from which rcas-
on or logic i-.n fiirulcU no poMiblu
.ml it co«M,fo«vtAt<]ft to dui/br evmio It.
IIUTORZ or TIIK AHKiyiHXNr,.
Decoding then upon tho Uypotliosis, thus acted
J l-y'evsry department of the Govuraqwnt, and
:h those especially who denied tho rigfct ol
X
however, stand upon very different ground*. I have
aeMrted eteewbere, and 1 propone to mtfulnlu. the
truth of the proposition hem teMtny, that if them it
~ ‘ugle particle of senFo or moaning iu tlie provis
I of the Federal coustituUuu, preeeutiug the man
in which amendments may be made to that iu
struroent, neither of th.we fNklM erUeles p<w.
eesenn any mote validity or • flout as a part of the
organic law of thie government, or any more blad
ing force upoujdte several Btatea of this Union, either
morally or h'gafty, than the rcsolnlion* of a mob as
rc rubied In the streets of your town.
1 am aware that there are those who disdain any-
thing 10m » calm, logical investigation of any quee-
- i. from a oousUtuUonnl standpoint, who Ignore
simplest and plainest dieLstcs of common ren-
i. and roundly assort the validity of these no-
called amoftdnmnU upon the gratnitoo*
that they are tho legttimnte re suite of
too, tf-«i tt has recnafly hsemno
» ho have hitherto noted with the Democratic
if not to Justify, every crii
U U utterly unfoundod m tect
re, however, refused admltUuco, and their
btett* deuioi thsir constitutional right to a reprosen
. branoh of Congronn. la vain thoy ap-
bcllion had hong restored . .. ^
of the war to their previous condition aa oo-eoual
BteU* la tho Union, or rather that their oonditlon
had never been chaugod at all, bat that they still re
tained all their righw; dignity and equality as such,
1st u* so* how tbeaa pretended aiueudmnhts were
proposed and ratifiai. Having rescinded their ssv-
end ordionnoes of recession, aud ratified the Thir
teenth amondmont, tlio olevou Southern Status pro-
lodod to elect their Senators and ltepresontativu in
3iigrcs*. Their Senators were elected by tho very
Legislatures who had Just been oallod upon by Con
gress to cxerciHO tho highest function in tho cutlro
range of th-'ir authority, and whose ratification of tho
Thirteenth auteudmout had becu accepted aud pro-
ulgati d by it as valid iu every particular. Their
iproiMUitativos wore choeeu by tho identical const!-
louoios who had elected (ho inemliera of those Leg-
islsturcs, and whose constitutional right to do ao
not disputed by auy one, but acknowledged by
aa. Those Senator* aud Representatives presented
themselves at the Federal capital, aud asked to be
admitted to their seats to whleh they wi re entitled
uuder the constitution, and for which thoy |>ossussed
every qualification prescribed in that iuatruniiuat.—
Thor ~
mMi
pealed to tlio constitution, widch plainly and <
phaticolly guaranteed to Uiolr rMpecUv* States
S ual voice in the Soaato. aud a l-oprcsentetion in the
•use iu proportion to their number - **■ *“
donum.led that their respective quali
ho.Usicrndned by the same standard which haa l>oen
applied to tho Senators aud Representatives; from
oilier State* *tauding ou precisely Uio nemo constitu
tional footing with their own. It did uot suit the
revolutionary parpeso* of the faction iu ]
of thu legislative (lepartmont of the govoi
admit them, so tho doors of Congress ’
temptuouHly slammed la their faues, and the cutii-e
powers of Federal legislation asMiunod by an u*nrp-
tug fiagmeut of that body, which, with au effrontery
amounting almost to absoluto sublimity, pr<q>osed
what is called tho Fomteonth amendment to tlie
constitutiou, aud demandod its ratification st the
hand* of tho vory Htate* whose Souatorn and Rep
scuUtives it had Just ruthlessly spurned from the
vestibulu of the Federal capitol.
rnoroexD nr a minomity.
U you will tsko the trouble to examine the Jour
nals you will find that the proportion was oarriod in
tlie Senate by a vote of AJ to 11—three Demoere
two Radicals uot voting—end in the Bouse by
of 138 to *6- three Democrats and seven Radicals not
tr.tioual existence to ('ougross, there would have
been, upon * fUU rot*', a otear nudority of three against
it in the Senate, while it would have failed In the
lloure by sixteen votes. Yot wo are told that wo must
admit that this suieudmout was proposod in accord
ance with ths terms of tho Constitution, which
thisamcmliucnt was proposed, what shall be said of
tho vernacular __
content myself with a bare recital of facte,
sutuuitted to all tho sutc*. but fkiled to recetva the
ratification of the reqnaite number by tour Mi Herat
ntly n'Jected it
lug been thui . __.
gi Jatnrewof aU die Htstee, aud IU
dearly defeated, It woe, oc Hording to evei
of common reason, and every parliamentary rule aad
prevedent with which I am fhmilior. dead to all la-
tents and purposes, and ooukl only be Beaurreeted by
being egaiu proposed and again submitted to all the
States. Duta new and very different principle waa
applied. It war deliberately determined to hold on
ery petty ftufaalteru; the ordinary machinery of Jus
tice was displaced by tiie military commission and
the drumhead court-martial; the ciuxen waa reixod
Without wcarenut, accused without indictment, tried
without a J»uy, oundoamed without law, stripped of
hi* property without compensation, imprisoned
without tho benefit of the habeas carpus,
and denied evea the privilege of appealing to tho
civil arm of tho government for protection
drees. In the
time the habiliment* of eitlaeu-
ship were stripped from thousand* and tens of thou
sands of thoiuoNLIatuifiggnt portion of the white pop
ulation, through the <*peratk>n of wide-sweeping irfls
enforced at tha point of the bayonet; while the bal
lot, which had been torn from the white man, was,
by au usurpation as umusti us as it was unauthor
ized. placed in tin* hand-i of the recently manumitted
■dares, ffor waa that all, nor half, ir madam onlum
itecll bad taken an umetir, it conld uot have vomlteit
up such an ofTssouring uf miserable inlecruoute as
tho horde* of loathsome vermin who, aMured by ths
rich prospect of pi uuder, sxirmod from every por
tion of the Union to fktten, like gangs of hungry
MlBj Ui»on the fallen proaperity of that
of our country. (Great
l WllUiOT
wolves, ui
section of
I know this may sound like the extravagant lan
guage of exaggerated hyperbole, but I know, and
you know, it is the literal tenth- And no aaau who
knows anything of the first elements of civil liberty,
who ever felt any of the more generous Imputes* of
the human heart, can review the long and damning
catalogue of bitter, burning wrong* which ware per-
single word tho party iu i*owcr,
elm- of brute force, «nd in open
once of overy obligation of the oosistftutfoai, created
a set of more instrument*, utterly subservient to its
own will; commanded thorn to organize Just such
pretended legislatures aa suited its own purpose*,
and then compelled these so-called legislature# to
givo their formal assent to its revolutionary proposi
tions to amend the Federal constitution under the
penalty of perpetual military vassalage. This is the
plain, simple truth of the matter, and no one with
tho slightest regard for veracity will pretend to deny
it. [Applause.]
coxraon or avmrnxot uuna rtum the states
11* DEFIANCE or a I OPCLAB VETO.
Now, everything I have said of the manner in
which the Fourteenth Amendment was proposed and
pretended to be ratified is equally truo of the Flf-
ire. The Fifteenth as* grand master-
Fraud, as a sublime insult to tho popu-
n improvement even upon the mon
strous feature* of It* predecessor. Tn# proposition
to admit the negro to the right of suffrage had been
but a year or two before voted down in nearly every
Northern
Radical _
it had just
fraud, and every other appliance that might I .
necessary, compel -ay*, compel—a sufficient
ber of the recusant Btates to give It their formal as
sent to satisfy the letter of the constitution, an# thus
make a show of having complied with ths forma of
the law. Ten Btates whteh, ea 1 have already shown,
bad been time and again recognised as coequal Btatea
of the Federal Union notwithstanding their rebel-
Uoa. ataadtag precisely upon aa equal footing with
all the other State*, were accordingly throttled by
the nithloe* hand of revolutionary force. Their coo-
■btnUcnz were annulled, their laws abrogated, their
legislatures disbanded, the ermine stripped from
their Judges, and their Governors displaced, and all
the Amotion* of civil government committed Id uiil*
itary satraps, whose dominion over the life, liberty
and prvparty of every man, woman and child la their
respective districts was p unVatfUrf and * -^-~**
any alieolnU despot that ever ,
over may portion of the Almighty's fiootetqsk There
*- noted elf over ths entire Booth such s
aamstAUA or orraaerev, • \
violence, outrage, nod official crime of every descrip
tion. ee waainner seen before among civilized men,
and «toh arl trust in God wO) never be nan agten.
■very guarantee in the bill of right*, esery .effBfl
•n Btate by overwhehaiug mAJoritiee- The
party itself, in the very platform upon which
.ust succeeded in electing its President, had
pledged itself to tho great principle—so far as the
loyaTBtateH were concerned at least—that tho right
to regulate the elective franchise was inherent in the
several Btates. Yet scarcely had the shouts of tri
umphs which greeted their success died away before
they made this proposition to strip the States of the
last vestigo of iudei>endeuco by robbing them of this
great paramount right. Th®fr candidate elected up
on that platfurm was under every obligation that
could influence an honorable gentleman to maintain
aud dofend, for those who had honored him with
their coufldence, the principles avowod in it. Yet
while the acclamations that greeted hie inauguration
wore echoing along the heights of Arlington aud
‘Georgetown, he was reading his imperial mandate
before the Btate Legislatures to violate the veiy first
pledge it contained. When it was before the Senate
tho proposition wa* made that it uhould bo submit
ted to Legislature to be elected, la order that the
people themselves might be heard, bnt.it wa*
promptly and contemptuously rejected. What right
had tho people to be heard on a question like that, or
any other involving the (instruction of their liberty ?
It was submitted to the Staton, and. like ihe four-
toeutb had boon, was fairly defeated upon a iftll and
filial action of their several Legislatures. Uut the
ruling party was determined that it should have at
least the appearance of a formal ratification at all haa-
ards. And what waa done? Georgifi, whose Legis,
lature had rejected it, was absolutely expelled from
the Union, aud compelled to reverse her action aad
ratify it under pain of being subjected indefinitely to
tlie tender mercies of Uie military despotism to
which she was summarily remitted, while the vote
of New York wa* retained in favor of it, notwithstan
ding her Legislature had withdrawn her aasont to
its ratification. The Legislature of ludiana never
legally acted ujrui it st all, less than a constitutional
quorum being present when it was voted upon, Yet,
when ber Legislature subsequently protested against
the unconstitutional and unauthorized act of a revo
lutionary fragment of her former General Assembly
being taken as the voice of her people, their remon-
FAilAJ.ua OASES.
_ jw, suppose that theec amendment* had beeu re
jected by the New Lugland States, and that Cnogrera
had thereupon declared thorn mere military depend-
Government*, limited the right of suffrage to e par
ticular cla*H of its own selection, and compelled that
class, through revolutionary mssemblioa, to give its
assent to tlioni under pain of being deprived of every
vestigo of free government until it should ( do so,
would it be contented for a single reomentthat a rati
fication procured in such a manner Would have mode
them valid or binding on any one? It would not;
but why ? Because the Constitutiou no where confers
upon Congroe* auy such power. Bat where, let
ask, does it get any moro authority to throttle South
Carolina, and compel herttrobey its unconstitutional
and revolutionary behests, than it has to treat Massa-
"w;1b!TuUf tfcf £
sounded more than South Carolina? Write them to
gether, Booth Carolina is as fair a name; sound them,
it doth become the mouth m well; woigh them, It is
as heavy; conjure with them. South Oarollua will
■tart a spirit as soon as Massachusetts.” (Laughter,
Again 1 ask you: 8upposo Congress had gathered
up on Pennsylvania avcuuo a motley crowd of igno
rant negroes, vagrant carpot-baggers, aud contempt
ible scalawag*, called it the legislature of Virginia,
and compelled it to ratify In that name those pre
tended} amendments, would ypu protend, for § soli
tary in*taut, that such a ratification would have made
thorn valid or binding upon any body not compelled
to submit to them by mere brute force? You would
not Tho most ultra Radical between tho oceans
would not and why? Yon answar again, because
there is no such power delegated to Congress In the
CoiistHtution. Bnt where, toll me, is tb* provision
in tlmt instrument which either expressly or by any
kind of implication confors npon Congress anar more
authority to ovorturn the government of Virginia,
disfranchise her white voters, and put negroes In
their places, by arbitrary odlcte onforood by military
powor, than It has to confer all tho sovereign po
of that Commonwealth upon any hundred vagal
negroes it might see proper to solcct in the ah
or the city of Washington ?
DZMOcaaTic faith.
thougl
shall think, until my mental aud moral
are eutirely changed, that Congress has no power nbt
delegated to it in the eotihtituuon. That whatever it
outside of or in contravention to the proviskm*
vast Isesmblagu and adopt a platform, declar
ing It a “Axed fleet," and declaring any oue who
would questiou its validity a resurrectionist of “
“dead
surrecilonl
iHHuca,” It would nevertheless be still as utterly null
and void, with no bind lug effect upon any oue either
legally or morally. If 1 am mistaken in thla, how
ever; if amendment* can be mads to the coast!tu-
tion iu thiH way. proposed by a fragment of Congress
while keeping whole delegation* ont of their seats by
forco, ratiflsd by mere organized mobs whoa Con
gress may boo proper to call Stales, and made “fixed
frets" by tho Democracy's simply "departing" from
lta ancient faith—“foidiug its tents «nd stealing
quietly away,**—thou wo are under a consolidated
government with no limitations upon its powers be
yond its own discretion ; our Federal system is a
miserable sham, and the Btates mere subordinate
municipalities to be made aad unmade whenever It
may suit the revolutionary design* of any frution
who may get two-thlrda of each House of Congress
to place them under tho crushing heel of a military
despotism.
SAUIUO I HI NO*.
Yet it may l>o so, for wo are told that these amend
ments are sacred things, which no uuliallowed baud
must touch. To taste the “shewbreed’
a (he
■tautaneous death. But the sanctity of all these oom-
entire Democratic party is commanded to fall down
and worship in abject humility. [Laughter sad ap
plause.) Tho w retch who would suggest their re
moval from tho exalted pedestal upon which they
haro been placed, Is dooniod to a political damnation
beyond the utmost reach of pardoning grace. [Great
laughter.] I hey ore “fixed facte," as immutable
lie firm foundations of the everlasting universe.
••The cloud-copped towers.
The solemn temples, the
Yea. all which It inherits t
And, like an insutatantlot
Leave not a rack behind."
safe
usurpation of power by the dominant party la this
government, aadihave soon each ia turn made the
precedent, the pfffiext. the affmpiagerap. to
er still more sliming ; and 1 warn you now iol-
eunity ami deUtiemtolr, that if the American puoph
shall acquiesce either tacitly ot (xprenefy iu the man
ner in which it has hagg afferapted to engraft these
amendment* upon th# coggtttutioii; If they shall
suffer tliomoelree/o beoojafaosuuiitted to cut each
modes of tinkerttfr with toe organ!* of their
government by tyfeg supffiffiy upon flMtr hw Asiu
supreme apathy end ludifihreaee to the usurpations,
outrages end wrongs in such revolutionary proceed
ings. it will not be long before they will haves coa-
*oiidated despotism erected upon the ruin* of their
federal republic. Ngy, if they admit that the man
ner In which these amendment* were proposed and
ratified renders them valid and binding, Attorney
General Akennan was right. The States are mere
dependencies upon the central power, aud may lie
blotted out of cristenre end placed under a military
despotism whenever tt suite the sovi relgu will of
that power to order it to be done. What boots tlfo
*ham |MvU'iif«* tlmt won Un* teller of the law |ku*
U i'll complied with in their cnee Invent, v*huu its
spirit is cnutUsd to death ? Augusta* wo* Kdiie,
Augur, Pontiff, tribune of Urn people. Consul. Em
peror, despot, all at the same tune, and afl iu pur-
' “ ‘ ~ COUNtitUtlOU,
But tlieae amendments are frr from being ’ the
harmless th tug* that aomo pretend. I warn you that
a are full of danger. Iheyare nercksrgud with
to your system of government aud tho libcrth f
ilch yon are entitled under it Not simply be
cause the negro is declared to be e citizen; not be
cause he goes to th* polls and votes; uot beseuuo it
is declared that no State shall deprive auy citizen of
life, liberty, or property without doe process of law; i
fur although the central government haa done so in
repeated Instanced, even in Unicsof profound peace,
and has amumod unlimited power to do so now, no
one supposes ths Hteten would, or even could, do
HUtli a thing with impunity; not that the basis of
renresettfauou tssought to be changed; not because
ofttoe infamous bill of attainder, which *usj>eud* the
sword of Damocles over the beads of thousands of
tho purest men in our land—because I believe an im
partial and enlightened judiciary would wipe that
foul and damning blot from our escutcheon soy way;
uot because It sock* to enshrine the interacts of tbs
bondholder forever beyond the reach of the labor
ing tax-payer—fur 1 have never doubted tlie integrity
of the people, or Uut they would discharge the last
cent of tbeir honest obligations if let alone, anyway;
nor yet because of thejshiunuful attempt to repudiate
the million* of doDars Justly due the people of my
uati\ o gioic. lor I thank God they can live without it
[applause]; but because there Is not aa encroachment
upou Btate authority, there la uot on outrage upon
State right*, there is not a single stretch of usurpa
tion of any kind, however monstrous or dangerous
it may be, Uut may not, and will uot be perpetrated
and justified by an unscrupulous faction, uuder the
pretext of enforcing them, if they are to be accepted
aud retained as a part of the Fodcral constitution.
One by oq<? (he States will be stripped of their local
municipal powers. Every tew upon which you de
pend for LIa«_ y.rr«fretimes yoar life, liberty, or prop-
erty will bo bupcoiMid, altered, or annulled, an may
suit tho will or subserve the Durpo*es of the central
power. The tenure ot every local office will be uudo
to depond upon the pleasure ot the consolidated gov
ernment, whose hordes of oommieaianera, marshals,
coiuiuumtj Stmv suv u^a auu
ing liko maggot* upon the n
members of the body-politic.
Republican liberty will be ewe
The last bulwark
Republican liberty will be swept away. In the fierce
clash of contending factious, or the vain struggle to
recover the corse of murdered freedom, internecine
strife will drench your land in blood. A Marius, a
Bylte, a Pompey, a Cesar, aye, parchance, a Brutus,
will again appear in the evcr-Hliifling, over repeating
drama of hiatory. and, at last, the aspiring baud of
soma Octavius will seize the imperial diadem and
wave hla iron acoptro over tlio debauched and ener
vated fragment* of a ouoo proud and powerful peo
ple.
chimorM of a diseased imagination, the insubstantial
exhalations of a disordered brain? Do you tell mo
tha} we really have none of theso things to frar?
Look what has already been dono. You have
tlonal jurisdiction of his person, or of the offense of
which he has been charged, and oondemned to im
prisonment or death for the violation of no law that
Congress ever passed or ever had the power to pass.
You have seen Information after Information lodged
in the Federal Court to inquire by what authority
your attorney general, your judges, your sheriffs,
your clerks, and perhaps your legislator*, presume
to dfscliarae top function* of the offices to which
tbpy have been regularly chosen by tho people. You
have Been your judges indicted like malefactors in
the district court for the faithful and conecienUoue
discharge of their sacced duties, according te their
official oaths. And yoii'havo asked in terror and
amassment, why all those strange and alarming pro
ceedings? By wuat authority i* tho province of tho
State thus invaded? Ah, my frionda, the Federal au
thorities have simply been carrying out tho provis
ions of an act to enforce the provisions of tho Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Federal
constitution. Wait till your next Congrowional elec
tion, and you will see them enforce the supplement
al provisions of the samo act. You see your morn
ing papers teeming with toise aud forcible denunci
ation* of
pud RsTqoastrCue-provisions denouncod in the fer
vid tones of indignant eloquence by orators and
statesmen, the late he t of whose shoes I am uot wor
thy to unloose. Your curiosity become* excited, and
you turn to the hill itself, and your blood ebbs beck,
chilled and curdled to its vital centra, when you dis
cover that the lifo, liberty, and fortune of every ‘
w-z-t, •».- oomiuv.i.Mrai mu#
auy moment become mihjcct to the irreipoBi
ble fiat of a single will, that the whole machinery of
your Htato government may be stopped in an lustant,
yoar constitution suspended, your laws superceded,
aud tho benign goodness of J— * * “
grim, misshaped, hell-born <
You see the shimmer of tlio bayonet through every
paragraph. You catch the fierce bright gleam of too
sword-blade In ovory sentence. You hear the sharp
click Of Urn trigger in every line. You look abroad
over the Btato, and in almost every town you behold
detachments of Federal troops In atern battalion,
with fixed bayonet* and ahotte*'
forgo its fierce provision a to tho
ttMFMk . I _
bill, my Mend*. Don't you seeitiz * bill to enforce
the provisions of the fourteenth amondmont to too
constitution ? Will you toll mo now, In fall view of
all these thlugs, when you have calmly contemplated
them aa I have endeavored to do, in all their bear
ings, and traced them a!l to thoir ultimate and logi
cal consequences, that I am laboring under a tempo
rary aberation when I tell yoa these amendments are
fraught with dauger to our form of government aud
the rights and liberties it was designed to protect ?—
"I am not mad, most noble Fcstu*, bnt speak forth
th* words of truth end soberness.” I tell you it is
as true as yon sun In the heavens that your govern
ment may be destroyed through the inbtrqmeatality
of thee* bill* alono. Yet I would say to those gen
tlemen who are day after day inveighing against
them with all the fervor of eloquence and au the
power of logic, while arduously maintaining the vs-
Udlty and sanctity of tho foul source from wlioncc
thoy sprung, that they are ouly holding the auu-s-
thetic to the patient's nostril while, perhaps unwit
tingly, they aggravate the disuosu that is sapping the
foundation of his life. 1 would my to those who are
expending all the iceouroes of their gouius in en
deavoring to arouse the people to a eense of their
dsnges by vivid aud startling portrayals of tho fright-
fal features of those fearful measures, they bad far
better tear aside the \ e(l at onco, and expose to the
affrighted gaze oi their fellow-citizens all the hhleou*
deformity of the monsten which gave them birth,
aud whose prolific wombs are yettocmlna with atroc
ities still more meustrous. I tell them they had as
Mrs, the gorgeous palaces,
>e great globe itself;
s shall dissolve.
not mrosTAicx or bssknuno the cohstittoox.
It has beta nU, howvrar, that those amend
have eceomptiahed thsir ends and gust their
that thoy at“- m *
for several year* pool to wafich th* program of pub
lic went*, sad I hers done ao otossly and vigilantly.
Iter after day It*** assn sornsnswatol startling
lues sun more monstrous, i toil tnem tboy had as
well attempt to turn beck too resistless tide of tho
Niagara with a straw, as to think of arresting too
remain. WhyhowlongwiUitbobeforoMr.BuQi-
uor's famous bill shall become a law, enforcing, un
der heavy penalties, the abaotut* social level as weU
as the political equality of the races ? How long bo-
fore your school house* will bo foreed open, the
bteak aad ths white ehUd sooted on tho some form,
and your common school fund divided b«twceu
them, uniter th* pretext of soourlng equal immuni-
ttea to all the citizens of the Commonwealth uuder
tha 14th amendment to the constitution ? How long
will It be before ever/ voting place throughout the
Htate will bristle with Federal bayonets under the
pretext of enforcing the 16th amendment to the con
stitution ? Aad then how long will it be bofora toe
central power will have absolute control of every
thing through the faroe of an election conducted un
der such auenicea ? And dually, toll me how loug
evea th* eenibUnoe of your present form of govern
ment will exist ? Y*t we are told we must acquiesce;
that all other provision* of th* constitution may be
changed at pleasure, but theso mutt never be moles
ted. The man whose impious tongue presume* to
suggest the thought is guilt/ of a deadlier crime
than tho fearful sin of blasphemy against the Holy
Ghost We must not even allude to them ssvo "in a
bondsman'» key with bated breath and whlspcriug
"the fruit
Of that forbidden tree, w hooo mortal taste
Brought death into tho world and all our woe. 1
Let one of them be touched and some infallible
Of the Democratic conscience waves in kingly
y his Imperial truncheon, "Off with hi* huadl"
tha unhappy varlet, whose impious baud dared
*be Flounce Stain a Alochinr
aybody forgotten that the
•-.I*' feaut'irc ia oil its ‘KLwrai.cu* ou tli*t
•n waa the I 'Rowing :
"We do de-laro taid resolve. Uut <
• the
crown tho privilege aud trust of sutfruge
have belonged to the ac \cr*l Btates, aud have been
granted, regulated, nnd eootruled exclusively by toe
political power of each Hlate ro*i«ctivel¥. aud that
any attempt by Congress, on any pretext whotevt ' I
deprive auy Btate of thi* right, or iuterfert wlih Its
exercise, is a flagrant usurpation of power, whteh
~ w*rra«t iu tho constitution, aud, If sanc
tioned by the people, will subvert our form of gov-
lateure of tbc’ State# will be- entirely absorbed, aud
qualified despotism be established in place of a
Federal Union of eo equal State**."
This single miragrafili couUins the gist of riy * u-
tli4 angmu^'C It date* my imiutee* pteiul) au l
pefap *
iilm*
ud 1 pr
hi-oittly by
tUiu
tnysrif I know I »*c«m** ie*iti<M»riy belie*id tin: op
mu uttered ill tin-* re* •Intioii to l»c correct iu ev«
I«i licular su I do that I have to d
ud
ry
iize this alittto.
tuictly state in IHOm. that too right or q
lating and controlling tig privilege
party di»
iitiiq?. regu-.
o Qrui/# iu
Utattla—suit}, of raorM, that includes the i**»j .s.>uih-
belougori exclneively to thorn- SUte* re a
psetivoly, and toot auy attempt by Coiigre** to de
prive them of that right, er iutorfero with ite exer
cise on any pretext, or in any ninw r whatever is a
flagrant iiion-patinu of i>owur without any warrant
ititution
thin statement wo*
admitting that
capacity U.
Hth.
Now can we admit that
? We cannot withoi
did uo^ h vc Birtli.-.lent
troth, or enough sincerity to
en, what iu* occurr* d to
ivint-ipli- m :id
ill it. Util H it'
make It any the li
uiitted to 1»«* true ««w, how can »c admit ih.it
grays had toe right to Uirotlio tho«- ten Htates ck it
dul for no other purpoao tt an te compel litum to ret-
ify these amendment* ? Ur ir we say thulConpre** had
no right thu* to overthrow tooee Utant*, how ran wo
conteud that their act, committed without authority,
i* valid or binding on anybody except under too du
ress of superior physical forco? Again, the Demo
cratic party aay* iu this resolution, Boleainly end de
liberately, Uut if tote usurpation shall bo ranetioued
by tho people, it will subvert onr form of govs
ment, destroy the Btste*. aud establish 0“
troy toe
of the Republic a cousoiidafed det>poti*ui. la a word,
ttion thorough sad
that
te Rein
it will bring about a revolution thorough
iplcte. Are we to admit that wc ore revolution-
? That we not ouly sanction and acquiesce
it, but pledge ourselves to assist iu bringing it about
by sustaining the very cause that is to produce it?
* to say that we will not only aoquiesco in
to bo erected on the ruins of too Republic, but
test against any thing being done to prevent it Nay
more, that we will actually assist in carrying on the
great work by enforcing those amendments as a part
of the fundamental law of the land. Yet we must
admit all this, or we must admit the resolution I
have read to be faluo, both in premiss and conclu
sion. Yot we are told there will be no inconsistency
in all this; uu departure from principle; none what-
Then, by all means, let us do it, aud if t
■latency is a jewel, as some bay, why we will be in
possession of a gem which it would bankrupt tho
exchequer of every crowned head in Europe to pnr-
cha so. [Laughter.] I may be mistaken, but to my
mind it really looks like a “departure,” though they
iy It is uot in feet, however niuct it may resemble
tie in th* eye of a strict construction Dereoorxt-
ioU WIIAT VOUTlCAl KVFOcT t
But suppose we do depart, what aro we to gain
by it? Do yon think any member of the Radical
party will have any more respect for us, or confi
dence in us if wc do ? Will thoy Join our party any
minded, patriotic gentlemen in the Radical ranks :
ever breathed the vital air of heaven ; mtu of uohle,
generous impulses, but men who have hitherto acted
from mistaken impressions of fact. I knew many (J
that character evuu among their representative u
Congress. Men who desire too perpetuity of (
Federal system as much as you or I do. Those u
joined the Radical party perhaps when it professed
i doctrino, it promulgated iu I860, in ito platform
which Lincoln was elected, the same doctrine that
too Democratic party has ever maintained, namely,
"that the maintainance inviolate of the right* of thu
State* wa* essential to the balance of power on which
too perpetuity and endurance of our political system
depends." Thoso men havo soon, and aro Login
ning to eeo moro clearly ev ery day, that tkelr party
has long ninco abandoned this great cardinal priu.ii-
plo, and arc moving right on *teodily and surely to
the foarful nin-lstruiu ol' centralization aud despot
ism, and liavo consequently been flocking to the
Democratic standard by thousands, because they
have been tlie grand old party Btand by and main
tain un auciout faith as firmly and manfully in tho
dark hour of defc at as it did in the Hooutide of sue-
cess. And they will contiuuo to do so os long o
give them reason to bclisvo us to bo housst, <
ost, consistent men, who believe what wc pr
and dare assert what wt» believe.
Is this not so? 1 appeal to the facts. When I c
terod tho Fortieth Congress the entire Democratic
delegation consisted of a forlorn hopo of a little over
forty members. In tlio Forty-first we had, I bellovo,
ovor seventy, at any rate, I know wo have in too
present Congress 1U8, with a certainty of a farther
inercaso. With tho samo ratio of gain the next
Congress, as well as tho electerial college, will be .
ours, aud there is no reason why wc should not havo
it if wa will only bo truo to ourselves. Where, tocr,
1h tho necessity of our departing a single hair's
breadth from nur tIm/\.hnTww«A r*’ i, “-tidn*. fnrtiftoJ
as llicy are by the highest impulses of patriotic
manhood, even if party success is so desirable os to
attain it ? Why, then, should wo sound .
minions retreat, or tamely surrender onr standi
justwheu victory is holding out her glittering chap-
It may be s
so—deop, pre T
exauder or Hannibal, <
ad strategy to do
a political pen
Aon. [Great laughter. ]
these iviqttrrm?
toe body of the ornate law. But gractfag this to Uuhousofod, disappointed, untueled
’ rrdi - ot *■“ ^ u
vuiciIds purpose at every patriot, to have them eu-
tbaritaUVsly annulled, if for no other reason toon as
sofoma and oasphaUc condemnation of tbs iniqui
tous manner ui which the/ havo beeu forced U]
toe country, a rthnfifaf memorial,
pledge of the stern detaouinatton of an
people never to submit te any sush *
tbeir ornate law and system of gov
fare, lb# error of te-day i* the precedent for to
morrow. That in lta turn will become ths prolific
parent of ether* perhaps moro daiweron*. Admit
that these amendments are valid and binding; admit
that aherattoas may b* mafic In the organic law, la
the manner in which they lave bssa attempted to be
mode, aad tsD me how long it win be until you have
other* of a sUU more alarming cAaracter fastened
upon you in th* rna* way ? How long will it be be
for* yoa her* your ff*tta*| elected for III*, mod the
Chief Magistracy mod* hereditary iu eome large and
raepectabl* family, life* that of your Uluatriou*Chief
opiate*,
th* highset respect for the purity of motive and p*-
trtutte intention of any gentleman who may differ
with me o« thi* propomtkm. can tha Democratic
party with any reasonable degree of self-respect, or
auy plausible show of consistency, ogres not ouly to
a quirt acquiescence in there aoMadmoffte but pledge
thrtr absolute eafiecreaemrt threaffh afi time
? Baying nothing of th* great cardinal prin
ciple tn K* political creed, the preservation of toe
right* of th* Htates a* the Kurort bulwark Against
anti republican tsffdnnds*. and the ouly_ safeguard
to individual liberty, flaying nothing af this great
pteffeipte whteh ha* b**a Ms pater tear for over
seventy yrere. guiding It aUk*
must illumi n* it* pathway ia th* "usi
1* new invited to fobs ; tearing that
son oat of view entirely, con U afford, bow, to ig
nore Ite own record apaa there wary amandin ruts ?
Nobody ha* forgotten, or is likely to forget that only
thre* year* th«re wa* erne at the l*nra*t conven
tion* of the party Ited ho* cv*r saacmblod, psrhH".
But I may bo asked what I propose that tho Dom
ocratic iiarty should do ? Should it resist too
frauchlscuicnt by forco ? By uo nioaus, nor do I
suppose that auy sano man inside or outside of
party entertains auy such ides, hut 1 do supp
tost any one wlio is familiar with too platform of
tho Kentucky Democracy ought to kuow what it has
proposod to do without auy suggestion from me
whatever. It taid in plaiu, emphatic aud unmis
takable language that it wan "ready to join iu all
lawful and just measures to ravorso the tyrauical
acts of tho party in powor, whoroby it sought to
strip tho States of their rights and concon'rato all
the powers ol the Government in a grout centralized
despotism." That language is plaiu enough, I sup
pose, for the compre hension ofanylo ly; and I sup
pose, moreover, that anybody who knows anything
about too sterling uiauhood, the integrity, sincerity
and houesly of the groat mass of tho Democracy of
Kentucky, will admit that they n eu just what thoy
M} - [Applause, | But I have heard it suggested that
the language 1 ha>o just read is revolutionary. But
had it uot been for the very high opinion I entertain
of the intellect of some who have douo so, 1 should
suggestion as 1
o level of ordinary nonsense.
THE MXMJCVV.
hold by for wiser men than 1
re legal ability than 1 evor hopo to possess,
that upon a proper rose made, the invalidity of thc*o
amendmouts cau be settled by ths Federal Judiciary.
White, on the otoor hand, I have hoard it denied that
too courts had cither the powor or the integrity to
do so; that the political departments of the govern
ment having recognized tho oarpct-bag governments
of the Southern States, ths courts of too oouutry
estopped from questioning their right to ratify
araendmont to too constitution, and that if they «
uot they would uot do so. liow that uiay bo I _
not now attempt to argue, but U is ccriaiu that the
quo*tion can only bo settled when the experiment Is
tried, and oertaiuly uo r —
either uulawfal, unjust, __ __
But, waiving too consideration of all other motoodi*
by which it might be done, it cau uot be denied that
these tyrauical and revolutionary procoodlnga cau
bo reversed aud auuulled through too same agencies
down mipinely and never try it. it may, aud
doubtless will, require long, persistent, determined,
and continued effort to accomplish toe rovorzol of
these measures iu thi* manner, but are wo fat that
reason to sit down nnpinoly, fold our hands ia de
spair, aud look quietly on ? Nay. assist in ths de
struction of our government, aud too overthrow of
our own Ubertioo without making an effort for ths
proserxation of either because it Will require perhaps
‘ dish It? It *
.- ,— — : party topret
the constitutiou, th* rights of too States, and tot
ertles of the peoplo iu all their original integrity, and
ita highest purpose now ia to restore our toru and
mangled government to its pristine health aud vigor,
if indeed the gangrene haa net so frr fastened ita
fangs upon its vital ccutcre as to place it beyond all
surgery ; and when it shall abandon that purpose,
and loud ft* aid, if it ever should, to aggravate the
wouuda tt should heed ; when it shall become tlie
more comp follower of a faction which is waging a
crusade against the life of the constitution aud all
the liberties of the people under it, its destiny will
b* flan*, it* glory will be departed, and “Iclmbod’
written upon its door-posts. IU chances of success
even a* a party orgonisation. and for the privilege o|
distributing party spoils, which some msy think too
paramount object of lta existence, will be gone for-
Ia this not truo ?
TIIE BEST rOUCT.
1 appeal to the student of history to point to a sin
gle iustanco in tho annals of tho hunmu family
where a people, or a political party ovor areas to
powar or achieved success save by a fixed, dctsrmin.
ed, persistent adherence to some great purpose*
Majorities fall to pieces iu wrangles over the driLsfan
of party booty. Minorities aro held together and
lire into power upon *ome greet principle. When
that ia abandoned thoy care* to *>l*t. Why then
should.wc despair? why depart from the faith ot
onr fa than and tho political cnart of onr whole lives ?
Did Urn Senate despair when Hannibal was thunder
ing at Ui* gates of Rome ? No, they voted a resolu
tion of thanks to toe battle scarred fragment of
; i. .a
icnly n treated from tho disastrous field* ot raauun.
And where was Carthago wheu those eagles perched
upon toe bleak lilils'of Oalcdouia. or ncxQrd amid the
ruin* «>f anctest Baltyten, with an eraiur* bawe» n
upon the Idesk litlls'bf (Caledonia, o
ruin* of oncicrt Boltyteu, with an _
them? I Applause., Even should aU other* dcaert
thorn, let tho gallant Democracy of my native Htate
the rtoffdord-bearcfu tn lMd, still keep it proudly
aloft u good men. brave aud true, sad a host will
yet rally around it cuffirtent to re*cw* our govern
ment from tho vandal tc horde that menaces its exist-
ence. Let it go down Without another rinuKlo •«
sustain it, and ““*• ** — J
never to
It, and with it will go
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