Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-04-18
The Constitution of the Confederate
 States

Even the Black Republican papers ofthe North are forced to acknowledge the mer- its of the improvement made by the South ern Coniederacy upon the constitution of the United States. The following high tribute is from a Black Republican sheet. From the New York World, Black Republican
 Tho new Constitution over which the Montgomery Congress has been for several weeks in secret incubation has at length clipped the she'll Our telegraphic dis patches of yesterday morning furnishes an outline of it; and truth constrains us to say that 1t contains some excellent features. It's framers have an intelligent appreciation of the defects which have been disclosed in the working of our government in the seven ty years 1t has been in operation, and the provisions for remedying these defects com mend themselves to the consideration ofin- teligent minds in every part of the country. It ie probable that our existing troubles will reach their ultimate adjustments through general convention of the States for revising the Constitution; and, when such convention shall be called, it will be proper for 1t to make other wise amend ments, as well as devise basis of snttle- ment for our protracted sectional quarrel. That national convention will be called some time within the ensuing four yeals we have no doubt. Mir Seward intimated his opinion of it's necessity both in his Astor house remarks and in his more elab- crate speech in the Senate. President l.in- coln, in his inaugural, seems to favor 1t. Even the radical wing of the Republican party-at least the press that represents it-is not averse to such convention. Talk ing it for granted, then, that we are soon to have general revision of the federal Constitution, it is proper that the country should study the subject in advance, and be prepared to take advantage of the occasion and secure all the amedment5 which time and experience have shown to be necessary. Now, regardless of the source from which they emanate, there are several things Tn the new Southern Constitution which might be incorporated, with advantage, into the Constitution of the United States.
 Among these the most important, in its practical consequences, is the provision which makes only the great officers, such as the heads of departments and the chief foreign ministers removable at the will ot the President, but the tenure of all subordl- nate officers independent of executive pleas ure. The great source of dem oralization in our politics is the clean sweep made through all the ramihcations of the execu- tive department of the government on the accession of a new party to power 1hls is the Pandora's box whence flows great portion of our evil It debases the govern ment into a grand agent of corruption. It exaggerates the importance of all our political issues; it distorts the truth and willfully deceives the people; it inhames party spirit, exasperates sectional passions, introduces corruption into the elections, and surrounds the president, when elected, with infinite swarms of clamorous cormolants, who allow him no quiet day nor night, and tug at every piece of patronage, pulling in opposite directions, like the pack of hungry CUTS in Homer over the fragment of hide. The practice of turning out all the office holders at the beginning of a new admins tration, and thus setting the whole country by the cars in mighty struggle between the ins and the outs at every presidential l election, is contrary to the early usage of the government, and was never in the con- l temptation of the founders of the constitu- tion. This infamous spells system has done more than all other causes combined to bring the country into its present de. plorable condition, and constitutional provision which would cut it up by the roots is consummation devoutly' to be wished.
 Other provisions of the southern consti- tuition which deserve unqualified appro- bation are those intended to guard the pub lie treasury and prevent fraudulent legisla- lion. Congress caphot, except by two- third vote of hoth,A houses, make any appro- priations not asked for by the head of some department or the president; no exta com pensation- can be allowed to any officer, contractor, or agent, after contracts are made, or sorvIoe rendered; and every law must relate to one subject, which must be designated in its title. Provisions similar to these, in our national constitution, would operate as powerful check on legislative corruption. Improvident and dishonest appropriations, and after allowances. are foisted into other bills, and covered ul under their titles, in the hurry and pell-mell in which congressional business commonly gets involved near the close of session.
 NASHVILLE, April l6, 1861.
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