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THE DAILY SUN.
OfUce Corner of Broad and Alabama St’n
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Alexander H. Stenhm*,
Archibald M. Speights,
J, Heuly Smith,
Alexander H. Stephens, Political Editor.
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...July 19. a<
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We have had on our table for seve
ral clays, a copy of the paper which
heads this article, in which is an ed
itorial pointedly directed to the Polit
ical Editor of Tiie Sun. This will
be found in full in another column
of our issue to-day.
We have taken such time to re
spond to the World’s overture in this
instance, as we thduglit the great
gravity and high import of the sub
jects required. We now reply in that
tone and spirit in which the World
indicates a disposition to discuss the
questions involved.
In the first place, then, we must
say, that we are not aware that Ave
have heretofore been either “misty”
or “vague” at all in our marking out
the line which properly separates, in
pur opinion, the “dead” from the “liv
ing issues,” in the great civic struggle
which is to come off in this country
in 1872—those which should he “laid
away in the hortus siccus,” and those
which shonld be held up for public
consideration, and proper approval or
condemnation at the polls.
On tliis point we .thought wo had
been exceedingly “precise” and “ex
plicit.” It may be that the World
lias not seen what we have heretofore
said on that subject, and we, there
fore, now briefly repeat our views up
on it in language so plain that there
can be, as it seems to us, no misun
derstanding in regard to them on the
part of any one of ordinary intellec
tual comprehension.
Our position thus suecintly, but
clearly stated is: that all questions
and matters pertaining to the war,
growing out of secession—its causes,
conduct, and actual results—from its
commencement to its close; from the
firing on Fort Sumter to the, sur
render of the last Confederate armed
squad; from the secession of South
Carolina to the restoration of the
Union, by the resumption of their
obligations to it under the Constitu
tion on the part of the States which
these questions and
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NIOIIT 1‘ASSENUEU TRAIN—OUTWARD.
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DAY PASSENGER TRAIN—INWARD.
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Arrives at Atlanta.... 2:20 pm
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(.Vo Day Train oh Sunday.)
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Day Passenger Train arrives 6:20 p. in
Day Passenger Train leaves’. 7:10 *• m
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MACON AND WESTERN RAILTOAD.
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Night Passenger Train leaves 3:28 p. m
Day Passenger Train arrives 2:10 p. in
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ATLANTA AND WEST 1*0INL RAILROAD.
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ATLANTA AND RICHMOND AIR-LINK RAILROAD.
IL gnUr Passenger Train arrives....4210 p. m
Regular Passenger Train leaves.... it 7.30 a. m
Western Railroad of 'Alabama.
LEAVE MONTGOMERY 7:00 A. M
ARRIVE AT WEST POINT 11 :J3
ARRIVE AT COLUMBUS 12:30 P. M.
LEAVE WEST POINT 12:20
ARRIVE AT MONTGOMERY 5.45
LEAVE SELMA 4:10 A. M,
ARRIVE AT MONTGOMERY 45:40 “
LEAVE COLUMBUS 11:40 ' A M
ARRIVE AT ICOLUMBUS. 4:15 ••
Macon . & Augusta Railroad.
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN D ILY, SUNDAYS EXPECTED.
Leavo Augusta at .....12 00 II.
LeaveMaconat 6 00 A. 11
Arrive at Macon at ' 7 40 P. M.
Arrive at Augusta at 1 45 P. M.
«j*_ The day passenger train arriving at Macon at
7:40 P. M., and makes close connections with trains
of counccling roads at Macon. Passengers leaving
Macon at C A. M., will make doso connection at C»-
mak with np day passenger train for Atlanta, Athens,
Washington and all points on tho Georgia road, and
will connect at Atlanta with trains for tho West.
mar20 S. K. JOHNSON, Superintend nat
heretofore ex-
c tomb, never to be alluded to
i as entering, in any way, into
the practical living issues of Federal
politics.
Among these actual results of the
war—whether one of its legitimate
results or not—we include all ques
tions relating to negro slavery or
servitude, as it previously existed iu
some of the States of the Union, be
cause in point of fact, all these ques
tions were disposed of within the
limits of the period so distinctly de
fined.
The 13tli Amendment to the Con
stitution of the United States, by
which the previously existing rela
tion between the white and black
races in some of the States was for
ever abolished and prohibited, we
therefore consider no longer a living
issue. It was adopted within the
period stated. All the States of the
Union had a hearing upon it, and an
equal voice upon it on its adoption
through Constitutional constituen
cies. We, therefore, regard it as
valid; for however reluctantly it may
have lieen’ratified by the States which
had attempted to secede, yet it was
ratified by competent authority on
the part of each of them—by a con
stituency in cacli of them recognized
by the Constitution of the United
States ; and was so ratified in good
faith by them without the slightest
disposition on their part to disturb
it. It is therefore, in our opinion,
properly, classed among the “dead
issues;” not because an attempt to
disturb it would “kindle the whole
country into a. conflagration,” hnt be
cause those affected by it have- no de
sire or wish to unsettle what they
have agreed to, “ingoodfaith,”s£ one
of the actual results of the war.
whether a' legitimate one or not.—
These are our reasons for considering
the 13th Amendment both valid and
not to be reversed.
So much then for the “dead issues.”
Now as to those of a living char
ter. ' *
IIow is it with tho 14tli and 15th
Amendments, so-called? If we un
derstand the position of the World,
it is that these should be classed in
the same category as the ‘ 13tli; and
considered’ among the actual results
of the war, whether legitimately or
rightfully so or hot; and that con
sistency in reasoning oil our part re
quires that we should so accept them.
To this we say,: by no means; They
are not rqsult&of tjie war, eitlierle-
gitimate or actual. They are in no
way connectedrwith the,wiu;or- ite^de
clared objects. They are the results
of open, palpable and; avowed usurpa
tions of power by a majority . Fac
tion in Congress since the war—since
the Proclamation of peace—since the
restoration of the Union by the re
sumption of their obligations under
the Constitution on the part of all the
States which attempted to withdraw
—and after the full accomplishment
of every object for which the wary
from its beginning to its end, was
avowedly waged by the Federal au
thorities. There caii be no rightful
result of any war beyond the
attainment of the end for which it is
waged, according to all authorities on
the subject, from Aristotle and Cic
ero to Grotius Yattel .and Wheaton.
These 14th and 15th Amendments
can, in no proper sense, be considered
ifi^any way as either legitimate, right
ful or actual results of the war. They
constitute a prominent part in anoth
er and & new war upon the Constitu-
tution, after the ends of the other
were attained, and rest entirely upon
most flagrant usurpations of power,
infinitely more dangerous to the lib
erties of the country than the “Re
bellion” itself, so-called; for secession
after all that may be said against its
rightfulness or policy, left the great
and inestimable right of local self-
government o#'the part ofUlie Peo
ples of the 'several States of the
Union, entirely intact and unim
paired, while this ncio war, of which
these Amendments are some of the
results, thus fiu*, was commenced, and
is being still waged, against the very
foundation principles updn which all
American free institutions are foun
ded. ; -
Had the seceding States been per
mitted to “depart in peace,” and not
compelled to return, as they were,, all
the other States, as well as themselves,
would unquestionably have been quite
as well off as they were at the time
the Union was formed. There would
have beeii no loss to them, or either
of them, of any of the essential prin
ciples of liberty. The only possible
loss, in this particular, would have
been the greater security for the
maintenance of those principles and
rights, which it was one of the lead-
pulsion of ten States from the Fed-1 the whole, which strikes at the very
oral Councils, but extended to the
complete revolution of all their State
Governments, respectively, by force
of arms. These Amendments were
never submitted for ratification, as
the Constitution provides, to any con
stituency in those States known to
the Constitution of the United States;
and the ratifications by which they
arc now claimed to he part of the or
ganic law, Were carried, as is .noto
riously. known, by military force, and
hot by the voluntary action of even
these creatures of the Revolutions so
affected. . These ratifications were
not the acts of these States, hut the
acts of a majority Faction in Con
gress. And unless the monstrous
doctrine be accepted, that Congress
can mould and shape, change and
modify the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, as well as the Constitu
tions of the several States, as they
please, these Amendments, so pro
posed and so carried, can never be
considered valid by any man or peo
ple having any regard for the princi
ples bf Public law or Public liberty.
But, says the World, the usurpa
tion!, monstrous as they were, on
which these Amendments rest, are all
obsolete—they are defunct—can
not he repealed, for they no longer
have any force—they have done their
work. *
But is their work defunct? Are
these stupendous frauds, known as
the 14th and 15th Amendments, obso
lete? Are not these infamous acts
boldly claimed as actual results of the
new war now being waged against the
Constitution, the rights of the States,
and the liberties of the people ? They
are, and they, together with the dar
ing usurpations upon which they rest,
constitute living questions, as we
maintain, for public consideration,
and popular condemnation. Can the
fundamental law of the Union be
changed by such acts of violence,
perfidy and wrong ? We say it can
not be. Thc-World, in a late article,
admitted that it ought not to be.
Tlidn wliynot call upon the people
in their majesty and controlling
power at the polls to declare that it
shall not be ? -
The World seems to think—we re
gret to see—that these Amendments—
the results of these usurpations—
after all, do not amount to much;
they only secure civil rights, in
cluding suffrage, to the black race;
and as we have no disposition to dis
turb these rights without a fair trial
in our own State, or in any other
State where the people are willing to
award them, why not—it asks—let
these Amendments, with all the usur
pations upon which they rest, pass
without censure or condemnation ?
Why quarrel with the “ form” when
the “substance” is accepted ? Why
“ waste time over the husks of a ques-
ingobjects of the Union to establish, tion after accepting the kernel?”
The usurpations, however; upon
which these Amendments rest, and
which marked the beginning of this
new war, were thoroughly revolution-
(U K y in their character—boldly, dar
ingly; and confessedly revolutionary
—in the fundamental principles upon
which the whole fabric of our free,
institutions was based. This was tile
object of these Amendments, and the
usurpations .of which they are the
offspring. In order to carry out the
object, ten States of the Union were
stricken from the roll of Common
wealths, at the very time the object
of the war against secession was ac
complished, in having them restored
to their “practical relations to the
Union.” Tlieir entire populations of
over seven millions of people, with
life, liberty, and property, were sub
jected to absolute military rule, with
out legal protection or even the recog
nition of any one single civil right
whatever. These ten States were all
then claiming their equal rights in the
Federal Councils, to which they were
unquestionably entitled, but the right
to he heard upon these Amendments
was denied them by the majority
Faction in Congress, in the face and
very teeth of the .Constitution, which
declares, that “each State shall have
at least one .’Repfeseiitative” in the
House, “and that ^io State, without
its consent, shall bo deprived of its
equal suffrage in the Senate.” Nay
more;, these usurpations marking the
beginning of this new upon-the
Constitution j ended, nbtrm the ar-
Why not join what it is pleased to
call the Progressive Democracy in a
ccepting and sanctioning the whole ?
This is the tenor of the argument,
Now does the World really think
that “negro suffrage” is the "kemeV*
of the 15th Amendment ? Much
better would it be for the liberties of
this country if that view was correct.
We however look upon this as hardly
constituting the “ husks.” The “ker
nel” is in depriving the States of the
power of regulating this, as other
local questions, each for itself and as
it pleases. This Amendment in its
kernel” strikes at the very foun
dation on Avliieh all our institutions
rest. Its. object was, and effect will
he, if it shall ever become an “accmn-
plished fact,” to remove the only bar
rier heretofore existing against the
Federal Government becoming a cen
tralized Despotism
What right can any State be said
to have, if it is deprived of its power
over suffrage ? This is the vital prin
ciple of all State Rights and State
Powers. It is the removal of this
harrier and the destruction of this
principle, aimed at. by. the ^kernel”
of . the 15 th Amendment, which are to
lead to the reduction of the States of
this Union, according to the idea of
Mr. AttpmeyrGiehbriil 'Akerinan, to
mere corporations or municipalities,
which shall depend, even for their-ex
istence, upon the will of an Imperial
Dynasty. This is the " kernel” of
the frnit of this worse than Upas
ex- tree. It is the concentrated poison of
heart and every vital fibre of our
whole system of local self-govern
ments. This, as we view it, is far
from being “nothing but ordaining
negro suffrage.”
Again, is it true that the “sub
stance” of the 14th Amendment is
nothing but the security of their
civil rights to the black race ? Is the
World in earnest? Is it serious
in thus speaking of this most iniqui
tous usurpation ? Wliat! Is a “Bill
of Attainder” in the face of the Con-
titution, and without a hearing,
against at least one hundred and fifty
thousand white citizens, including
nearly every one in ten States avIio
Avasever honored Avith the public con
fidence, from the office of Chief Mag
istrate down to that of Justice of the
Peace, by which they are declared
“disabled” and “disqualified” from
ever hereafter holding any place of
public trust, either in the State or
Federal Government, “nothing but
securing civil rights to the black race!”
Is the declaration that no
one laboring under these “disa
bilities” except by the gra
cious permission of the usurpers,
shall ever be qualified to represent
the people in Congress, or serve the
people of their States in any public
capacity, nothing but securing civil
rights to negroes? Has not the
Constitution declared and fixed the
qualifications of members of Con
gress ? Hoav, then, in the face and
tcetli of these provisions, does the
14th Amendment assume to add to
these qualifications ? We maintain
that the attempt to do so by “Bills of
Attainder,” acts of “disabilities,” or
“test oaths,” are as flagitiously crim
inal against the organic laAv and the
public liberties of the country, as to
add to or take from the sacred text,
would be impiously wicked against
the mandates of the Most High ?
Are not these hoav living practical
facts ? Are Ave moving in “the aerial
region and cloudland of vague decla
mation/' iii thus characterizing some
of the hideous features of this so-
called 14th Amendment ? Are these
monstrous acts nothing but sliadoAVS?
Are they not, in fact, and in truth,
most sad and pernicious realities to be
met, considered and condemned by
the people, if the. liberties of this
country are to be preserved ? We as
sure the World, in all earnestness, that
we so consider them. Not only so, but
Ave look upon them as among the
most, practical and live issues uoav to
be presented to the people of the
United States.
Nor are Ave, in assailing them, engag
ed in any such ridiculous adventure as
Don Quixote in his charge upon the
wind-mills, unless the people of these
States are ripe for Despotism. Nor
are Ave engaged in any such fantastic
political comedy as that of calling
upon the people to repeal the uncon
stitutional Reconstruction Acts, or
anything founded upon them. Un
constitutional acts, and everything
that rests upon them, are not laws.—
They are nothing but nullities. So
Mr. Jefferson and the Democracy in
1800 declared the Alien and Sedition
Acts to be.
They set out upon no snch ^ridicu
lous Avind-mill” contest as seeking to
have nullities repealed. They, only
called upon the people to declare
them nullities by popular vote at the
polls, and to put in power men who
Would so declare them to be in their
respective official positions. In this
Avay the Alien and Sedition Acts of
usurpation Avere gotten rid of, not
by repeal, but by electing irien
to office wlio held them to be' as they
were/ not valid laivs, but miUities.—
These Acts >still remain upon the
statute book as a monument and re
cord of the iniquity of their authors,
and as a beacon to guide posterity for
all time to come, hoav to get rid of
all like usurpations.
If the Editors of the World wish to
know hciiv we propose to deal Avith
these fraudulent Amendments, we
say to them that we propose to deal
Avith them just as Mr. Jefferson and
the Democracy of 1800 dealt with the
Alien and Sedition Acts. •
Let the people everywhere he arous
ed to a proper sense of the danger
Avhich uoav threatens the overthrew
of their institutions, and called upon
to vote for no man for any office,
from the Chief Magistracy down,
Avho Avill give I his sanction
of validity to any mea&irc
based upon such usurpations as these
so-called Amendments arc k^ioivn to
be. Is not this an easy, peaceful, and
effective mode by AvhicLthe complete
rectification of all tliese ivrongs can
be secured ?
We assure the ‘ World that it is our
object, above every other earthly con
sideration, to save the institutions of
this country, if possible, as they were
established by our ancestors. We be
lieve this depends entirely upon the
Democracy. To succeed, avc know
harmony and concert of action me
essential.
We have thus given fully and
frankly, and clearly, avc trust, our
vieAVS of that line of policy which, if
adopted, will most surely lead them
to success in the comiug conflict; but
if these vieAvs should not meet the ap
proval of the majority, then we shall
have' one thing to ask, (this avc shall
ask in the name of everything that
is sacred), and that is, that the mass
es of the* party, in arraigning tlieir
opponents for their misdeeds, shall
not by any platform or promt nciamcn-
to, be committed to a sanction of tho
validity or policy of any measure
which is based entirely upon “ usur
pation, fraud and perfidy.”
A.H.S.
► ♦ M
CONFLAGRATION AT UNION
SPRINGS, ALA.
Loss $40,000—$15,000, to $20,-
Insuraucc—Tliree Stores Burnt.
Passengers by the Mobile and Gi
rard train, yesterday, bring us the in
formation of a disastrous fire, Avliieh
occurred at Union Springs, Ala., on
Wednesday, about midnight. Three
Avobden stores Avith large stocks of
groceries and dry goods Avere burned.
The flames are reported to have origi
nated in the cellar of the corner
store, qpst side of Perry street, OAvned*
by Mrs. McRae and occupied by
Freshman & Wise, dealers in grocer
ies and dry goods. There was a par
tial insurance on both the stock and
building—about half their value.
The fire then spread to the wooden
store adjoining on the north, occu
pied by C. L. Croft, with a mixed
stock of groceries and dry goods.
The building belonged to Mrs. Waugh.
Here, too, the loss Avas heavy, about
half of which Avas covered by insu
rance. r
AAVOoden store in the rear and
east of the above; occupied also by C.
L. Croft, Avas burned. The house be
longing to Mrs. McRae, Avas filled
with goods. The engine saved King
& Branscon’s store, on the north, by
hard work. .
Few goods Avere saved from the
burning buildings. The heaviest loss
falls on C.L. Croft.
The total loss is reported between,
§30,000 and §40,000 on the buildings
and stock; about §15,000 to $20,000
is covered by insurance. The lateness
of the hour prevented anything from
being saved.—Columbus Sun, July 14.
Operations of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Southward.
The circulars addressed by the
President of the Raleigh and Gaston
(N. C.) Railroad, conveying a propo
sition made by Major Sutherlin, of
Danville, a Director in the Richmond
and Danville Railroad, to purchase on
or before July 6th, 7,500 shares (one-
half the capital stock) of the Raleigh
and Gaston Company, has called forth
a reply in the form of a circular, also
addressed to the stockholders, and
signed by thirteen stockholders resi
dent in Raleigh. This reply set forth
the assets of the road, showing that it
could not he built and placed in its
present condition for less than $2,500,-
000; that its franchise has been valued
and assessed at §800,000 'additional;
that tlie prospects of a rapidly in
creasing business are of an assured
character ; while the price now of
fered, §437,000, for the control of this
entire property and its future admin
istration is inadequate and below the
present cash value on any fair esti
mate of the shares. The stockhold
ers issuing this circular understand
that the present offer is made iii the
interest of the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad, or of the parties controlling
it, and they suggest that if the pro
posed purchase be consummated, tlie
North Carolina Railroad (Avliieh tho
Pennsylvanians failed to get control
of from the last Legislature) will then
be at tlieir mercy. Finally, they urge
that if stockholders are desirous of
realizing upon their stock, they may
expect to receive a much better bid
than the present, and ought therefore
to reject it.
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It has been ascertained that Colonel
Fisk’s wound was occasioned by some ono
stepping upon the corn on his right foot.
The “Darwinian theory” dates the in-
cipiency of man about the time “the
baboon married the monkey’s sisters.”
The thermometer at Pittsburg marked
105 in tho shade last Friday. No won
der the papers there claim the final “h”
in spelling the name of the city,R3 itis cer
tainly an h— of a place.
The Poston traveller says Colonel
Fisk “goes on record as a brave nnd gen
erous soldier,” and it might havo added,
“as ono who Avas remarkably successful
in getting out of tho way of danger.”
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