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an . n °t clearly delegated by the States in the f of that instrument. I The Court overruled the point. They
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OLD KENTUCKY’S -BOAR.
LESLIE RECEIVES THE LARGEST DEliOC
VOTE EVER LOLLED IN TEE STATE.
HIS MAJORITY WILL REACH 50,000.
harlan's votes all come prom the ne
groes.
HEAVY DEFECTION OF WHITE MEN FROM THE
RADICAL PARTY.
[Special Dispatch to the Patriot.]
Locisvhae, Rt.. August 10* *1371.—Official returns
received at the Lcti-jcr office from thirty-niue coun
ties, show that Leslie ia receiving not only the
lnr.'cst Democratic vote ever polled in Kentucky,
but absolutely the largest vote ever notled for any
mm: of any party in the State. HoTvcte in those,
counties exceeds by SOI the'vote ckst for Seymour
in the same counties in 1SC8, and exceeds the vote
east for Stevenson tlir.t year in the same counties by
‘J.13J. The* vote cast for the Democratic Congres
sional ticket in those counties iast November, when
the negro vote was'first polled at a general election,'
was only 35,705. For Leslie, at the late election,
these counties gave 35,881 votes—a gaiacf 17.G73.—
The aggregate .Democratic majority la 1870 v.-as
32;211. Leslie’s majority in thlrty-rane counties ex
ceeds Uioeo of 1870 by 4,-101. His majority will roach
.U- 00.
Unofficial reports from about one-half the counties
of the State show that while Harlan has polled a
heavy negro vote, there has been a heavy defection
of Y/hitu men from the Radical party, and if the
whole Democratic vote had been polled, it would
have reached at least 130,000.
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Is be who conducts the Washington P«l-
riot pleased with“OLD Kentucky’s Roar,”
thus heralded through his columns? If so,
doe.-i he not perceive that it is the ‘‘old
Kentucky boar” of 1798 ? It is a “roar”
against uswpers, and all their Jiiqh crimes
ns well as small ones. It is no mockgroid
against the Ku-Klux, and Enforcement
acts—as farcical as the gentle moan of
him in the play—who notifies his audi
ence, not to be alarmed, for though he acts
the part of a lion, yet he is only “one
snug, the joiner ! ”
In these utterances from Kentucky,
does not our cotemporary recognize the
“roar” of a sure enough lion—an enraged
people thoroughly aroused to a sense of
their wroDgs, in hot pursuit of the viola
tors of their rights, and determined
neither to approve or sanction usurpa
tion, but at thej)olls, “in the manner at\d
by the mode Constitutionally appointed,” to
rid themselves, not only of those who
have so wickedly abused their trusts, but
of all their mischievous measures ?
In this “roar,” does he not catch the
key note of the canvass of 1872, if Dem
ocratic success on Democratic principles
is what he wants ?
£.— —i ' n'nn -id I at. Aim -fill] Tlcmo-
cratic Banner of 17dS, now floats most
triumphantly in Kentucky, where “ii has
been borne highest and boldest in this con-
id ? ” ■: A. H. S.
absolute judgment upon the valid;!:, of :
what purports to be an amendment to the !
Constitution, except in cues J ailing with
in the separate and exclusive jurisdiction
J°* Jtbeir Houses respectively; in other
iatic ! 3vonIs, that Congress; has no power tc
pass a judgment upc what is u-is not
a valid, constitutional am.ndmrut which
shah, in any way,'be binding ca the oth
er co-equal'departments of the Govei-n-
ment, or preclude those from the proper
exercise of their official functions upon
the same subject- paz.1 • r; und further,
* ’that neither House of Congress, nor both
together, having any such power them
selves, they can not confer it upon any
other person or body whatever.
If Congress, therefore, did by this aet
of ISIS, intend to confer this power upon
the'Secretary of State, and in this-way
did attempt to “preclude” all inquiries by
the Courts into matters touching the
validity of amendments to the Constitu
tion, and to estop all Judicial investiga
tion as to-the fads touching the “mode
and manner” of their proposal and adop
tion, then the act is simply null and void,
and will be so treated by every Court
which understands its powers and duties,
and has the integrity faithfully to exer
cise and discharge them. -i ..
Our view of this act of 181S is this—
It was intended only to make it the duty
of the Secretary of State to give public
notice of the official proceedings of the
several States upon the Constitutional
amendments as they appeared of file in
his office. This was highly proper; and
when from the returns so filed, it ap
peccred that three-fourths of the States had
duly ratified an-amendment, it was to be
published by him, leaving, of course, all
questions touching its validity, just as all
questions touching the constitutionality
of acts of Congress published in the
same way, and certified to under, the
same “great seal,” are leftjjor Judicial
investigation and determination
States—was proper 1 in 1S03, and adopt
ed by tLree-fourtl.s of tlie States as early
as the month of Sc >r‘mber, 1804.
Mr. Jefferson wa
and when official in
ed in his office of t-
site number of Str.
directed the then So
dent was not necessary to a Resolution of
this character, and that tlie Amendment
was not invalid on the grounds alleged.
If the counsel on the other side did not
v< his time President: j object to the Court’s taking jurisdiction
mation was receiv- of the question, it was, perhaps, because
action of therequi- they thought as wo do, that such a posi
es ratifying it, he tion would be utterly untenable.
iry of State to j But the great fact which we wish now
tertaiued a question of fact as to
whether an amendment to the Con
stitution was constitutionally ratified.
In that case the point was not made
denying the right of the Court to go
into the inquiry.
But if the Supreme Court is com
petent to pass upon the validity of
amendments duly declared and ailop-
and can by its decision strike
them out of the Constitution, there is
less excuse for the revolutionary pro
cess of treating them as nullities by
President or Congress. If the Su
preme Court has jurisdiction in the
ease, then, it is a judicial question,
and that is the proper tribunal to re
sort to, to nullify the Constitution,
or any part of it.—Av.gusta Constitu
tionalist, Aug.11.
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CONTENTS
‘•ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN, 55
FOa THE WEEKjENDING
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16TH, 1871.
Page I—TheRatriot ‘-Is it a Judicial Question?'*
Now Orleans Correspondence, etc.
Page »—Public Sentiment at the North. Politics
in New Hampshire.BPolitics in Arkansas. Ken
tucky Triumphantly Democratic. Supreme Court
Decisions, etc.
Page 3—Democracy of Texas. Platform of the
Democracy of Texas. A H. Stephens and the
'* New Departure.” Indiana Politics. Politics in
Tennessee. Politics in Arkansas. State Agricul-
, tural Convention. Tennessee. Duel with Broad
swords, etc.
Pwgc 4—Another Letter from New York. Coming
Back. Speech of J. Proctor Knott. Alexander
H. Stephens on Study of the Law. The Live Old
Party. Eatonton. Our Subscription List. Im
portant Case before 'the Supreme Court. Sun
strokes. Surveyof the Georgia Western Railroad
Telegrams. Stats Agricultursl Convention. Mya-
torious Affair. Georgia News.
Piagc 5—Public Sentiment Elsewhere. What the
New Departure Means. Speech of Hon. J. Proc
tor Knott on the New Departure. A Rattlesnake.
Etc.
Plage O—Editorials. A Pungent Letter. Georgia
News. StatoTgricuItural Convention, etc.
Page 7—Sun-Strokes. District Court. Sentence
of tho Misccgenationisis. Humors of the Cam
paign. Telegrams. A Gay and Festive Crowd, etc.
Page 8—Tho Great State Road Plunderings—Rail
road Rings—Tragedy in Macon County—Atlanta
Car Shed—Telegrams, etc.
44 Is it a Jndiciai Question T?
Novel Railroad {Suit.
The residents of Livonia, feeling ag
grieved at the overcharge of fare on the
Buffalo, New York and Erie road since it
has been in the possession of the Erie
Railway Company, have commenced
seven suits to recover penalties, amount
ing to $40,000, for violation of an “Act
to prevent extortion by railroad compa
nies,” passed in 1857.
In the issue of The Sun to-day will be
found an article under the above heading,
from the Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist
of the 11th instant.
Our cotemporary seems not to under-
stand what we denied, and what we join
ed issue with him upon, in our notice of
his first article upon the subject of the Ju
dicial power over questions connected with
Constitutional amendments. This misap
prehension on his part clearlyappears from
his second article referred to, and which,
as stated, we give our readers in full to
day. We did not deny that the Secreta
ry of State had any authority to issue
a proclamation upon the subject of Con
stitutional Amendments; but we did deny
his rightful authority to determine by
proclamation, even with the great seal of
State attached to it, what is and what is
not part of the Constitution; and this
denial we repeat, notwithstanding the act
of Congress of 1818, arrayed against us
with so much seeming confidence by onr
cotemporary. That act of Congress we
were well aware of when we penned what
we did on this point, and hence we con
fined onr language to the denial of any
rightful authority (underscoring the word)
on his part, in this way, to pass final
judgment on the validity of amendments
to the Constitution, or by bis attachment
of the great seal of State to such procla
mations, to “preclude” the Courts from
going behind this great seal so attached,
and inquiring into the real facts of the
case. We utterly deny the rightful pow
er of Congress to confer any such ** au
thority” upon the Secretary of State, or
upon any officer under the Government;
nor do we believe that any such intention
existed at the time of the passage of the
act of 1818. But whether it did or not,
nothing is clearer than that under the
Constitution of the United States, Con
gress had no poicer to pass an act with
such intention or with such effect.
So the question between ns and our
cotemporary, on this point, is not one to
be settled by the adduction of the act of
ISIS. If offered with this view, we assail
it upon the same grounds we assail the
whole doctrines of our cotemporary upon
this entire subject.
We need not, we trust, elaborate truths
By. the act the Secretary is to certify
to the apparent validity of the amend
ment from the official Documents and
returns in his office ; stating particularly
the States which have ratified it—just as
the Governors of States certify, and also,
sometimes, attach the “'great seal” of
their respective States to the returns of
the election of members of Congress,
Senators and Representatives, as appear
from official documents'in their respec
UVC omees. riu stun i.naM.Kr.— B • ;i1 ^
them nothing but prirfia facie- eviclenc
of the truth of the/aefc to which they re
late, They do not preclude, nor are they
intended to preclude an overhauling of the
Records in a case made before, and by a
proper tribunal.
These views of ours as to the intention
of the act of ISIS are confirmed by
looking to the antecedent action of
the Government upon the subject of
Constitutional Amendments.
The frst ten Amendments were adopt
ed soon after the Government went into
operation under the Constitution of 1787.
The fact of the ratification of these, by
the several States acting upon them, was
communicated by General Washington,
the President, in messages to Congress,
accompanied by the official Documents
from the States respectively, as they
reached him. When it appeared from
these documents that three-fourths of the
States had duly ratified these ten amend
ments, and no one controverted the fact,
they were all by general consent accepted
and acted upon as valid parts of the Or
ganic Law—there was no proclamation or
public announcement of the fact what
ever. In all subsequent editions of the
Constitution they were published as parts
of the same; and so regarded by the
other Departments of onr Goverment, as
well as the people elsewhere; because
there was no more question as to the va
lidity of their proposal and ratification
than* there was as to the Constitution
itself.
Re public notice of tu: .same in the news- to call special attention to is that .the
papers. This was important information Supreme Court of the’ United States’ has
for the people of all the States to have at taken jurisdiction of the question and 'pro-
that time, as the choice of electors for nounced' judgment upon it in .at least one
President and Vice President for another case.' '
vim vas io com.: jjff that ml!. This i This fact alone is;a sufficient answer to
Itbiic newspaj -r - - . of the ratification j our cotemporary’s position, until that
of this amendment iris given by the See-1 tribunal shall reverse the principles of its
retary of State on the 25th September, action, and abjure that jurisdiction for
1804. I the future which it has heretofore exer-
No one question:, .i the validity .of ithe Joiaed. We have a great deal more to say
amendment in any - av. This is a sue- j upon tins subjeet, but must eoneludo this,
dnet review of tho^a matters up to ISIS. J article by saying to our cotcmporray that
At that time other amendments had the riilidity of those most fraudulent so-
b< en proposed; r.v. ;he object of the act called Amendments, tliel ith and 15th, is,
of ISIS seems cleary to have been sim- I iuour judgment, not only dieial Ques-
piy, by law, to direct the Secretary of tion. but.#, .Question, an Ia-
Stato to give p iblic i iih\ eof the fact, when oeutivc Question, and also a great popular
it should appear from official returns in question. There is, in our judgment; no
his Department that any new amendment shelter .Or hidihg place for such monstrous
had been ratified by the requisite num- iniquities in any corner or nook of
ber of States, jus* as Mr. Jefferson had i country, nor in .any .branch or
directed him to do In 1801 of his own department' of the Government—tho
accord, and xriOmif any late. This Is the only hope they have. Read Hon. J.
whole of it. One thing is certain,, and [Proctor. Knott’s ' masterly and grand
that is, no prodem. dipn oi Mr. Secretary speech lipon them published in our issue
Seward or Mr. Secretary Fish, with “the on Saturday—but we must close for the
great seal of State” attached to it,;under present, - w AatU.yC :
the act of ISIS, can estop inquiry into | A. H. S.
the validl‘>i of the 14th and 15th amend 1 !
ments, so-called, nov preclude judicial in- s * tl ** Q UvS l0n
vestigations concerning them, any more!' !' i n reference to the power of the
than thepullic nerspaper notice of Mr. j Supreme Court to pass upon the v:i-
Secretary Madison, given upon the bare lidity of- amendments to the Consti-
instractions of Mr. Jefferson, could have tution, we recently stated the propo-
cslopped or precluded like inquiry or inves-1 sitioii and took the negative side, in
tigation concerning the validity'of the lithe following language :
12th amendment. “Tins is, that the validity of tlie
.. , . , amendments is a judicial question—that
Now,- the question between us and our ifc is incompe t e nt for the Supreme Court
cotemporary of Augusta, Ga., is whether G f the United States upon a case made to
the courts of the country can eyer, in any j pass upon the fact, whether the ainond-
investigation, go behind this public no- dul ? P ro P osec J au< J duly rati-
.. - , ’ , „ . c , , „ 0 , , fied by the requisite number of States ac-
tice or certificate of a Secretary of State, corclin J g to the organic law of the land.-
setting forth barely what appears .from Wo hold that the courts are precluded
returns in his office. „ from inquiring into the matter. They
„ , , . lTTT ... are precluded by the very nature of the
Our cotemporary says: e mam.am p rocee <ii n g f rom going behind the Great
“that tho Supreme Court is precluded Seal of State which gave sanction to the
“ from going behind the certificate, and proclamation of Secretary Seward, that
“ discussing whether the amendment so j amendments were constitutionally
* * certified is valid. It is bound to accept j [ t :, K)n tliig The Atlanta Sun
“ the same as valid. -; r G takes issue. It goes further, and de-
This.is thejd a-: and distinct position nies tlie authority of tlie Secretary of
or<mr;cstom r '5j-^ Ours, on the con- State to issue a proclamation on tlie
tniry. is equally clear ft ml destine’, th.it
States, nor any other Court in the landf j “To this we have barely to say m
Letter from Ivauboe.
The eleventh amendment, that which
prohibits the bringing of suits against a
State by citizens of other States of the
Union or of Foreign States, was pro
posed in 1794.
Quite a number of States, it was
known, had ratified it between its propo
sal and the dose of the year 1797; bnt
which ones and what number was not
exactly known in the country generally.
Congress, therefore, by Resolution, called
upon the President for the official infor
mation in his office of the proceedings of
the States which had passed upon it. In
reply to this Resolution Mr. Adams, who
was then President, stated in a message
dated the 30th of December, 1797, that
from official documents in the office of
the Secretary of State it appeared that-
this Amendment had been duly ratified
by three-fourths of the States.
No other proclamation was made about
it. No one in Congress questioned its
validity on any gronads whatever, and it,
either State or Federal, high or *Tow, 1 tlie Supreme Court is not pre
. j7 . . .. -. , , . , eluded from going behind the great seal
is thus prec. uded from going^ Behind any 0 £ attached to any proclamation of
such certificate and inquiring whether Mr. Secretary Seward concerning matters
the amendment so certified to is in. truth over vyhich he was clothed with no proper
and fad valid or not. All courts in this l )0Wer or authority to issue a_ proclama-
, . , . , . . , , tion: • The great seal of State is respocted
countryai-e judges of what is and wliat L. v rtll0 Su ? )reme Courfcj or ai j y other
is not constitutional in Legislation. The | court, only when attached by the proper
Judicial Department of our Governments, officer to such papers and documents as
both State and Federal, was instituted kohas due authority to attach it to. Of
, . .. ‘ j „ 1 the nature of the paper, as well as the
for the purpose of opening the door, cons ti tu tional authority to attach the
and opening it wide, too, for just such sea i 0 f State to it, by the person so at-
inquities and investigations, however tachirig it, the Court must judge and de-
ihterminable they may be.” ^
“Suppose a Secretary or President
All courts were instituted to make in- should attach the great seal of State to a
vestigations into frauds and wrongs of warrant for the arrest or imprisonment
all sprta proper* eom tae before them ae ” f SleTcSSr.t
interminably as thejunjust perpetra- jg the Supreme Court, or any court,
tors of them shall render it-necessary. \ precluded from going behind it, and in-
It seems a little strange to us that our TuMng and deciding whether lie had any
“ , / , , , proper authority for putting it there or
cotemporary, after Ins broad andunquali- not ? w e say no!—and woe be to the
fied denial of our position, should have, people of this country if such doctrines
in the very next sentence, admitted shall ever be entertained and sanctioned
enough to upset the entire fabric of his & the people! We say the Secretary of
, , B , * v, . , State has no more rightful authority to
declamatory assertions; for _ argument it attacll the great seal of State to a procla
cannot be called. The admission we re-1 mation declaring what is and what is not
fer to is in these words : “Wehave met a part of the Constitution of the United
with but one case reported where the Su- States than he has to a warrant for
„ , , f ,. J the arrest or execution of any person
preme Court entertained a question of eitlier be fore or after trial. It is no part
“ fact as to whether an amendment to the of bis duty; and no court, understanding
“ Constitution was constitutionally rati- its duties, with integrity and firmness to
“fied.” discharge them, will ever pay any more
attention to it in the one case than in the
Well, if the Supreme Court of the other. “A. H. S,
United States has in one case entertained As this.is a matter of fact, and not
a question of fact, as to whether an of argument^ we simply quote in re-
amendment to the Constitution was prop- pty the statute of 18.18, prescribing
erly ratified or not, why may they not in duties of the Secretary of State:
another! How can it bo qffirmathd« , “Whenever official notice shall have
and broadly answered in aMn ol a**“"*"*»* Department, of
.. .. rax » State that an amendment has been
qmsbon b«ng preaented to them. aaopW> ae Secretary of State shall
that they will not m another. How can caege th e amendment to be published
it be so unqualifiedly asserted that they j a the newspapers authorized to pro-
are “precluded” from entertaining the mulgate the laws, with his certificate
question ? specifying the States by which the
But says onr cotemporary: “Lithat same may have been adopted, and that
A. . the same has become valid as a part
raaethepomtwaa not made denying ofthe Constitution.’’ *
“the nglit °(the Court to go into the We maintain that the Supreme
inquiry. Court is precluded from going behind
Now, we suppose that the case here re- the certificate, and discussing wheth-
ferred to is the case of Hollingsworth el er the amendment so certified to is
al. vs. Virginia, 3, Dallas 378. valid. It is hound to accept the same
mi fort as valid. If the door is to be opened
, , for investigations before the Supreme
New Orleans, Aug. 8,1871.
New Orleans to-day is iu a complete
ferment. The grand Convention
which is to decide the Radical policy
of tlie State of Louisiana, during the %
next Presidential canvass, is to come *
off to-morrow.- The first light as to
the immensely important posit,
whether the Convention should liold^
its session' at the Mechanics’ Institute,
or at Uncle Sam’s Custom House,
terminated in favor of the latter,
which is' regarded as a triumph of
the Dunnite .over the Warmouth par
ty, the Governor having determined
that the- Convention, should hold its
poio-wow at the Mechanics’ Institute.
It is, at the present moment, some
what doubtful which of these factions
will prevail. Both have .encourag
ing prospects. Warmouth will be sus
tained by a numerous body of ‘.State
officials, whose continuance in their
places is dependent on his will;, buff
opposed to him, stands a powerful
phalanx of Federal officers, the Col
lector of the Port, the Postmaster 1 of
New Orleans, and other well kncnVn
wire-workers, backed, it is said, *>y
President Grant himself.
The Convention will be a very,
checkered body, composed, in a large
degree, of tlie colored element. A
good deal of-sport is. anticipated, and
I sliall take an early opportunity to
give you any intelligence in respect
to the action of this .extraordinary
assemblage,, winch I think may either
directly or indirectly bear cii the po
litical issues’ of the day. If War-
moutli fails iii maintaining and con
solidating his ascendancy, you need
not.be surprised, should you find him
occupying, ere long, an entirely new
platform. He has been sometime past
endeavoring to kick'from under him
the underpinning by which he rose to
power—I mean the negroes, and to
affiliate himself respectably with the
Caucasian race. lie is ambitious of
Federal distinctions. If he can
not: get the next United States Sena-
tqrShip from this State that is vacant,
he will wait patiently for tlie next
that offers. In the meantime, he will
n.n.1—jo vhc Governorship, if ho
can, ancl prooam^,..-^ vyhite
man’s party as against tho coiotcu
race, with which he has ceased to fra
ternize as vehemently as formerly.
I suppose you have seen the Tunes’
arraignment of your Political Editor '
ttv vfo iooiia aP loaf Srm/lo.ir Tf. IQ
in its issue of last Sunday. It is
queer what blunders the Times com
mits. IVANHOE.
SUN-STROKES.
New York manages to get along
with 100,000 baskets of peaches a day.
Says Fleas., “I know
. “What I’m about!”
Says Grant to Pleas.:
“Oh, you git out 1”
In that case, at any rate, a
touching the validity of the eleventh \
Court a3 to the validity of parts of
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Amendment did come up or was raised- the Constitution, and how they came
the point made was that the Joint Reso- to be adopted, all ideas on this sub-
lution of the two Houses of Congress ject become unsettled. Such investi-
proposing this Amendment to the States, j gations might be interminable.
so indisputable as these: that Congress loo, was afterwards published as part of
had not been presented to the President
and had not received his approval; and
We have met with but one case re
ported where the Supreme Court en-
“Butler is disposed to crow over his
prospects for the gubernatorial nomina
tion.” Certainly he has a right to >crow
since he has a coek in his eye.
8®* A Cincinnati man has written a
history of the Cass family and signs him
self Jack Cass. Pogue says he don’t C
the name.
JSriV*’ The Republican party must be
prospering. It has two organizations in
almost every State in the Union, and
they claw each other with all the felinity
of several pairs of Kilkenny cats.
The latest social sensation is the
Buffenbarger poisoning case, at London,
Ohio. The points are about as follows:
Buffenbarger, seventy-odd years old, and
worth a million, like many another man
has done, turned fool and married a wo
man of twenty. Bridal trip to Cincin
nati. Het Colburn. Colburn thinks
she’s the old man’s daughter. He makes
eyes at her. She tells the old man the
fanny mistake. Old man laughs and
makes the acquaintance of Colburn and
invites him to visit him. Good. Col
burn make a visit—one, two, three, many
of them—just to keep up a pleasant ac
quaintance. Two children are bom. Old
man dies at the age of seventy-six.—
“Sleeps with his fathers.” Wife mourns
a reasonable time and then marries Col
burn. Happy all. Some more time pas
ses. Buffenbarger’s friends intimate
that the old man was helped off. They
accuse the lady of feeding him on arsenic
gruel. She is arrested. Corpse exhumed.
Post mortem. Arsenic in liver and other
parts of body. Who put it there ? Late
widow awaits trial.
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