The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-11-14

to the State tribunals to proceed Under
such q sy,tem The hberlies Of the pet PIE
could not be long maintained.
As already ked, free government
can be preserved only by keeping the over
near the people, to be exercised through
local agencies. Under this new system,
State and local authority would not At once
disappear. For son time they would 20 !,
test jurisdiction with the Federal Govern
ment, but he inevitable and constantly in
creesing tendency would be for the control
Of DOMESTIC affairs, to steal away from the
people, the State and municipal bodies. and
centralze and concentrate in the hands of
the Federal Government, and as paTty
conflicts intensified, and party victories
alternated, the power would be more and
more inexorably used by the dominant
party to punish its enemies, reward its
friends, and strengthen and perpetuate its
hold upon the power and patrona of the
Government. BE assured, if this new pro-
visions be engrafed in the Constitution, it
will in time, change the entire texture and
structure of our Government, and sweep
AWAY all the guarantees of safety devised
and provided by our patriotic sires of the
revolution. 1t is impossible to maintain
our wise and happy form OF government
without preserving the independence and
sover ,ignty of the States within their ap-
propriate and constitutional spores. They
arc of primary and vital Importance. The
States may exist and perform al their
functions without tn, Union or the Federal
Government. The Union and Federal
Government cannot exist without the
States, and they must be States Of equality
equal in dignity equal in rights, equal in
power, equal in the control, absolute and
unconditional If all things pertaining to
to their internal and local policy and ill.,
terestS Another blow which the propose d
amendments aims at the Cove nment which
our fathers founded, is in the change of the
basis OF repr, Scntnton. This be of very
pcrnicious effect. Aggregate population is
the tue laSis Of representation No mat
ter how the elective franchise be disposed of
whether exercised by the few or many, all
classes of the community a represented.
The interests of all classes of people in the
same community are so interviewer and
comningled that they cannot be separated,
and whoever Yields the representative pow
er must do it for the good or i'll of all, per-
haps not precisely in.the same degree. but
he cannot use t so as largely to benefit one
class without to some extent benefiting alb,
or to injure aud Cypress one class without to
greater or less extent injuring and OPP
pressing ALL ....
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en''mLou, ca lug. nu"'ors , .LJ w no. 'o.e a.
c. e, "n'r d hn'n ,,'nio,s hn;n"' az .a,e
;or' anu "i'"Fe "un'pe's' ooans computed
A. Wv , if,nnJnt;ons of tho no'ronn,n "a" atn'
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&C. = ,ba rat;n ~ of rsrrosnnt,,;nn2 Tbov
n~"s ~. '"u anowaS ~ rote LocanSo ,bov oro
a.. n, snsoJ nOs ~ bo snffc;en,I~ ;nstrnctod IN
nw o;,ionI ,"pcn couonv ~ and sovnr1mental afTa;rs
ri'';", a;"t,s,aJ rr S;tb tbs elnc,;ve w irancb;sa
~ a"n,,ui.d IN fs;nr tbo ra,;o ho.
nes We ,h, u',a n 'rt of ,ha 'a,ne r co, r"W
ou.' .L h.o 9 [ aiu fL 10 ro,o Lov;na ;ntoros.s ~
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nh, oon'h."', -. Wv" e -; .hannm I ,bn iaws hr ~
"IGa1 EGh =, ,Io;r m r;nbts Of ,;fs Ihortv and nron ~
VIM n,'' ,"tr' 70 ha Jotnrn,;noj. and althonnl,
.t'y .t Az d nnt W. r"to w tha;r mfnenro is fir and
~! w ,nra,t n nrs n,rod for n,ec;sn,v he,
.nei '',o,'.,' ,hor oro not counted IN fy;na tbo
."uG s",nt,,n Wv" wo;abt of tbn commun;t;ts r.
lo'c'i,o ,,, 'i.r !, tho lon;.l,,;,., ,.So,',
wien Ivy nf ,n;ooS ,Eo ar.. nnt d;roo.I,.
p'os :"" 1'sa, ,n,;,,;,n n,Lo .boll ronros,, -,
1ea'u l" u.'o''.e ,.,,e oonstaa,L, II
mem ~. =. 70 ,Uo tbo .ala,;~e m stre, "tb ~ .ha
eteu' ,h;l ,h:. ,moro IN rohol;on ,y;ll h. ~.
states w'lIi' "e.o H. af af ,La ,. ~ - :, W. ~,
creaseu Nv t''e lesu,ta -. W.. ""i - wy? "'I
row ai,o"'T % ,eeseo ,sn. rot;o nf ~ ro,rasan.a na'
c"1".''S ,:,"l ino phvh h,, .hn oons,,s o+ IeG0 ave,
.lon Is IaJuSeu S mill at,or tho oou oous" any ~
Ga'' Ia1n IT. m, I'hs,G .h"t , % ,hnrofors tlo roo
loO. ll ,i'if ,ie, ,hn rnrai Stntos s"1 f 'e,"
''Ne sl'e,,s.n . % W.. ,ron;s saj,, H. aa w"a
counIy n'uSs o. isnF nfiHsh hG hGsr tho oon""s was
un1er ,- WV ce'ious =, i1 Ia ,"o ..k Unsu
i5IV; .,n l"s's.,v' a,o a"u Taaa ano suenttn -
on Oh 'le o9u,hIln oaa,1' ;i ~ y. aHu ''ic
hiec'oral ooltse Mmi "bin I, e i.; u,,I,'';shea,
eVtn II 1ne nInt to'nh "Io Ieep pov'a'o L eei pe
incluoeq III .hetoae'TI, m arooi '"leehi'ns Cih
"i m the olach p"pu,a'TTTh ~ " ,no ooT',erl, e ,e-m
STATES "e'' w IL - ~ VI ,?'"
piacR popuia'lcn 10 pe leIs ."ah .ll.ee nuns ~
OF 1850. ~ NOR Is u true M .na' yo.e N .he
SCUM VIII ou!weipn .".e ~ :ne Horth'
r. IA
ciuded III the ras's oi i,pieseh.a.ioh; Ii
the proposed amendment pe auppteo' an the
non.yo'lng bacS pnpnuIatln" OF the ocutil
VIII he excluded, Wnlle all % ,ne noh'votlhg u,
9nha'uraiizeo ~, ioIeIg" ,E,p EE,pp"la'lon oI the
North VIII pe coun.ea' % Inc great preponl-
derance. OF unnaturaliAeo' ana, consequently
non voting foreigners is W m the Northern
and northwestern otates' Ihey ana thelr
families. numoer hundreds OF thousand, per,
haps millions, ana YET they are all counted
IN liking the rate OF representation' 1hls
srIght; do not onect TO II; 1hey are
part OF the community. They help to
make, up the strength ana productive
wealth OF the state, ana ,! ought to be CON,
puted in fixing Its political power But il
it is right to count non-votln,g population
in one State, It ls equally right to count II
in another and It counted IN one and not in