The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-11-08
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President fully approved it, and
desired it to be made public, with the
understanding that it fully represented
his present position.
Our columns are so pressed just
now that we cannot make room fol-
this interesting statesman.like paper,
land must content ourselves with
giving the readers of the Clarion q
concise review of it. After express
ing some doubts about our ability to
save the Government, Mr.. Browning
goes on to say "the legislative is
much the strongest of the depart
ments, and the most aggressive, be-
cause its members are responsible to
no power but the will of the dominan
party for acts of usurpation. 1t is
the only department from the en-
eroachments of which any serious
danger to our institutions is to be ap-
pretended" And without at all i'm
pugning the motives of Legislators,
he ventures to say that =" if the present
Congress were not restrained by posi-
tive and emphatic provisions of the
Constitution, they would greatly
abridge, if they did not altogether
annihilate, the power Of appointment
to and removal from office, now con-
fined to the Executives, and the salu-
tary restraint which he holds over
legislation through the veto power
"A danger which is present in all
times of high party excitement,
can only be checked by keeping
each department within bounds. He
thinks if the proposed amendments of
the Constitution be adopted, new and
enormous powers will he claimed and
exercised by Congress as warranted by
such amendments, and the whole
structure of our Government will per
haps gradually, but yet surely, be
revolutionized And so with the
judiciary; if the proposed amend
ments be adopted, they may, and GER
tainly will, be used substantially to
annihilate the State judiciaries.
Then he takes hold of the amend
ment declaring that no State shall
deprive any person of life, liberty and
without due process Of law,
the object of which is to subordinate
the State judiciaries, in all things, to |
Federal supervision and control-to
totally annihilate the independence
and sovereignty Of State judiciaries in
the administration of State laws, and
the authority and control of the
States over matters of purely domes-
tic and local concern. II the State |
iudieiaries are subordinated, all the
departments of the State governments
will be equally subordinated, for all |
State laws, let them relate to what de-
partment or government they may or
% what domestic or local interest,
will be equally open to criticism, inter
oretation, and adjudication by the
Federal tribunals, whose judgments
md DEGREES will be supreme, and will
override the decisions of the State
courts, and leave them utterly power
system under which the liber-
les of the people could not be long
maintained, as free governments can
Ne preserved only by keeping the
,ower near the people, to be exercised
through local agencies. If this new
is engrafted in the Constitu-
ion, it will in time change the entire
tructure and texture Of our govern
nent, and sweep away all the guaran-
ees ofsafety devised and provided by
'ur patriotic sires Of the revolution.
t is impossible to maintain our wise
nd happy form Of government with
nut preserving the independence and
ovreignty of the States within their
and constitutional spheres.
hey are Of primary and vital impor-
nee.
Then Mr.. Browning passes to the
low which the proposed amendment
inns at the Government, which our
lthers framed by changing the basis
Z representation.
The proposed change Of the base 9
{ representation" SAYS Mr. Brown
lg, "would have a very pernieious
feet No matter how the elective
'anchise be disposed Of, whether ex- q
rcised by few or many, all classes of
re community are represented. "
hen he very properly holds: /.
ggregate population is the true !
Of representation No matter $
elective franchise be disposed \
exercised by few or many, !,
he community are 50 in
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