The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-10-04
JAMES STOCKDALE, PreS'r.
TALL SLoUGH, Secretary.
Sept l3, 1865. 4wi9


Hon. Joseph C, Stewart has been
nominated for Congress by the Union
lists of the Third District of Maryland.
He closed a recent speech to his con
stituents in the following language: =
II do not wish to be an alarmist, nor
to put myself in tho category OF po-
litical prophets, but every thing i'm
presses me with the belief that the
President seriously contemp.atcs that
gross act Of usurpation indicated by
Blairs speech at Reading, before him
by Garrett Davis in the Senate, and
re-echoed by the rebel and Copper
head press throughout the land. He
is only waiting ior public opinion to
harden sufficiently, as Mr. Seward puts
it. 1t is said that Mr.. Seward has re,
peatedly declared that the adjourned
Congress should not meet again, His
tory furnishes parallels which it is
sometimes worth our while TO consid
er. Considering the more than i'm
perial power possessed by the Presi-
dent OF The United States, and the
manner in which the present incum
bent has welded it, his evident disro-
gard of the constitution and all forms
Of law, and his reliance upon public
opinion, unanimous in the South, and
which he hopes to make formidable in
the North; considering, moreover, that
men'in high positions do not usually
use meaningless words, and that Tho
wish to be Dictator may have been ia
ther to the thought he uttered, W,
shall not go very far out of the way tt
show him kings example.
In July, 1889, after Nocker's dis
mission as Minister of Finance, Loui,
XVI attempted to awe and dissolve the
nationa! representation, whose place
of meeting at Versailles was surround
ed by a tremendous park of artillery
and thirty thousand soldiers, thu
greatest part of them foreign regi
ments. The Marquis de Breze, Crane
Master Of Ceremonies, was sent as thu
Kings missioner to the hall wher,
met the members of the Tiers Btdt, t
order them to separate until his Maj
esty's pleasure should be signiiied tt
them. To which insolent order from
the valet of despotism the great Mira
beau made this ever memorable an
swer: "Go and tell your master tha
we are mere by the power of the peo
pie, and that we shall retire but by tn
power Of the bayonet.' [Trcmcndou
applause
"Thunder struck, were the Cour
when its valet returned with this he
roic answer, and when, q few momcnt
after, they learned that the member
of the Commons had retired to the Je
de Pomne, a tennis court under th
, Presidency of the venerable astronc
, mer Bailly, and there had taken thu
, famous tennis court oath, not to sepG
rate even if compelled. by an arme
soldiory, King, Queen and Court wer
ali Ike seized with panic. st. s-
i lit was at the same session thi
/, Bailly, with Spartan energy, answere
the valet of despotism, surrounded b
soldiers-'The nation assembled hi
= . no orders to receive from any bod
: whatever! Enthusiastic appAuse]
. "Nobody can claim that tho Pres
3 dent has any right TO interfere wit
Q Congress. Applause: BY the Col
o stitution tits the judge IT the qualities
o tions of its own members by IL
. Constitution it is tho law-making pov
Q er of the land, and the President
g the executive officer whose duties r
% quire him to carry out the laws passC
% by Congress. lie has attempted 4
J. ooerce tho representatives of the pc
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