The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1866-03-22
speech Of Hon. s. S. Cox.

At the great Washington meeting in
support of the President, that distinguish
ed Democratic statesman, S. S. Cox, form
erly of Ohio, delivered the following speech.
1t presents in the most succinct manner,
the great issues now before the country,
and the position Of the Northern Democ-
racy:
Mr.. Cox said that the Hon. Mr. Stevens,
whose age and brains entitled him to re-
spect, incidentally remarked the other day
in his seat that there were " Earthquakes
about !" Laughter In the volcanic re.
gions these terrible phenomena are pre-
coded by strange rumblings and eruptions
of fire, ashes, and smoke daughter
The worst crime enacted on this star was
accompanied with violent quakings of the
earth. st. Matthew tells us Z" the vail OF
the temple was rent in twain from top to
bottom, and the earth did quake, and the
rocks were rent, and the graves were open.
ed, and many bodies Of saints which slept
arose and came out OF their graves after
the resurrection, and went into the holy
city and appeared unto many" Without
wishing to arrogate any saintship, it seems
cheerful to see so many brother Demo
cratic saints coming forth from their
graves and appearing unto many this day I!
Laughter Salvation, We learn, came
out of the very agonics of nature. Cheers.
If our cfucified land shall see salvation, it
will be through the rending of party walls
and party rocks [cheersl the separation
of the good from the bad, the conservative
from the revolutionary. The signs in the
sky, after the strange commotion, bcioken
united, peaceful and happy land again
(Cheers
What has done all this ? Simply tle
attempts of the President to see that the
Saws be executed" He would execute
the supreme law, the Constitution. lie
has exercised the power given him in the
Constitution, aud as part of the Legis-
lature disupprovCd of one Of its revolution,
airy measures. This veto power was placed
in the Constitution for wise purposes 1t
is check from the President Of the peo-
pie upon the representatives Of the States
and people. He was bound as an honest
officer to veto what he thought was incon
siderate and hasty, unwise and unconsti-
tutional. Ii he has done this with respect
to one of the least Objectionable measures
of the Radicals, what will he do, and what
sort of quakes will follow the future We
toes?' @ If this be done in the green tree
what will be done in t. C dry 7"
The Radicals would seem to have been
little negligent in this matter of amend
ments to the Constitution. They have only
proposed some thirty seven but notwith-
standing all the premonitory symptoms of
veto no one proposed to abolish that
Wonderful thought of sagaciy Terrible
lack of forethought 1t remains, and while
it remains, and johnson lives, there will
be hope Let the quaking go on-frail
tenements tremble we ghosts of departed
Democracy now come forth and appear unto
many, and while we pay our taxes are
privileged to speak. Laughter and cheers
The country is in the path to peace and
Union 1t seems 10 me that the very sky
is bluer, the air more bithe the flowers
and grass are shaking off their winter
lethargy and peeping above the earth to
greet the shine OF the spring dawn The
veto which jackson used Tor one class of
malconteDts and mischiei-makers. his
heroic successor has used for another
Even Nature rejoices 1t is not that | re-
joice with nature in the coming of this
better and brighter day because he has
vetoed this Bill about the black charities.
In the hands of just Executive it might
not have been so bad. however unconstItu.
tional and impolitic. But it is because, in
his message, he has drawn the line of sep
aration between himself and the disunion
ists-not in the question of black benevo
lence, but of white liberty and State ex-
istence and equality. [Cheers
MIR. Raymond, in his paper of the 2lst,
refers to the "cxultation OF faction who
see in the veto the establishment of an ir
reparable breach between the President
and the Union party" He says they will
be disappointed, as some measure on this
freedmens business will yet be coddled up
upon which the President and Congress
may agree. am one of the exultants in
this breach, and l hope no such coddlng