The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-08-04
RADIO AL. SOPHISTRY.


The Radicals of Idaho have made "big
strike" in buying from Pat Malone the print
ing material which Democrats contributed to
buy for him, and procuring another African
lied Democrat to lend his name for consid-
Grafton as editor, to paper which they have
started. The editorials are marked by all
the zeal which alike characterizes new con-
verts and betrays hypocrisy. They have
learned to utter the current Radical clap!
trap and sophistry with as great facility as !.
volunteer army chaplain learns profanity and
ribaldry. In speaking of a speech of Gov.
.Weiler, the paper says: ..I9 S aael
ssThe assertions of such mon to an intelligent
audience that the Constitution is the supreme law
Of the land and it must be obeyed. and in the next
breath advocating State Rights and State Sover-
eighty presents paridoxical appearance. Either
the United States Government is the sovereign
power and entitled to the allegiance Of the rti-
zens orelse the State Government is. Both can
not be admitted to possess this power in an equal
degree at the same time, and each be entitled to
the allegiance of the citizens. There is a, dis
tinction. and the old generals and captains and
corporals of the. old Democratic party always af-
frmed in favor of the General Government"
There is an old document still extant,
though repudiated by the Radicals, called the
Constitution ofthe Quilted States, which liter
Governor Weller and every other Democrat
upon this question That document, which
was once considered binding alike upon the
citizens, the States, and the Federal Govern
ment, says: 1.-The enumeration in the Con-
stitution of certain rights shall not be con-
Strued to deny or disparage others retained
by the people )" and again: /" The powers not
delegated to the United States by the Consti-
tuition, nor prohibited by it to the States, are
reserved to the States respectively, or to the
people," The Constitution is the paramount
law of the land to the extent of the powers
specifically enunciated therein, and no fur
Their the State is paramount and supreme
over all powers not delegated, including the
control of the life, liberty and property of the
citizen. These several powers are distinctly
defined and limited, each sovereign and SUI
preme in its sphere. This relation is only
paradoxical when the agent or delegate as
sumes primary sovereignty over its principal !;
when the creature dominates its creator 1t
leads to no conflict but by departure from the
letter of the law 1t is paradoxical only by
confusion OF ideas as, for instance, Mr..
Woods the Radical candidate for Governor of
Oregon, said in public speech, in treating
OF the right Of suffrage: ssCongfess specially
delegated to the States the right to regulate
Suffrage" TO comment upon such a stupid
peryersion or ignorance Of our system Of
government would only be waste of words.
When we elect men to administer the Gov
eminent who are ignorant of the source from
which the powers of government are derived,
and reverse the maxim that all just powers
are derived from the consent of the governed"
wemust expect some confusion, ifnot anarchy
= Oregon Herald.