Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-07-25

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their Judgment Improperly took the
oath. And record evidence is not to
be required, but parole evidence shall
be sufficient The evidence of any me-
gro or mulatto against any white cit
izen will deprive him Of bis right to
vote. In all these doings those two
thousand boards Of registry, white,
black and yellow, are mot to be bound
or governed in their action by any
opinion of any officer Of the United
States Government :" for such are the
words of the act.
What a government and registration
you are thus crcatiag IN the Southern
States Over two Thousand boards
with different laws, different exposi-
ton of the laws, different construc-
tions TO be given to them throughout,
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande I;
and however diverse or adverse shall
be that construction, no opinion of any
officer of the government is binding
upon them, and there is to be no uni
formity OF construction. Why, one
of the very blessings of Government
is uniformity of action and of law I;
but there you enact that there shall
be two thousand different laws of reg
istration, with no Federal officer or
any other power 10 create uniformity.
The white man is given up to the ne
gro, where negro registers predomin-
ate, or rice DerSa, if you please, and
premium is thus created to start q war
of races.
The fourth section of this act not
only annihilates all State Courts
what you have done bcfore-but il
goes yet further, takes one new step,
and for the first time, strikes at the
Government of the United States by
declaring
"Thai no civil court in the United siAies sr Of
any State shall have Jurisdiction Of any proceed-
ing. civil or criminal, against any such district
commander, or any officer or person acting ~ his
authority for or on accouni Of the discharge of the
duties imposed upon him by this act"
AT first you were but bold enough
10 strike out of existence the State
courts; but now you are bold enough
TO strike out of existence the courts Of
the United States-to destroy them
al at one blow Your ban is general
against courts and judges in any form.
You seem TO have a horror of the wig
or the gown, and to trust only in ep-
aulettes as fit governments for the peo-
pie of ton States.
The fifth section declares
"Thai no district commander shall be relieved
from the command assigned 10 him under the afnre-
said acts uniess the Senate shall have rsi advised
and consented theEcio. o. unless b sentence Of
court martial he shall be cashiered OF dismissed
from the Army, unless be shall consent to be 90
relieved"
Sir, know not what the President
of the United States may do; / know
not what he may feel il his duty 10 do;
know that he is the Executive Of
ficer of the United States, pronounced
at one time 10 be the Government Of
the United States, against whom il
was disloyal to utter even a word Of
censure. / know that be was the
Brobdingnag Of this Government. But
he has suffered himself 10 be bound bv
set of miserable LiIliputians, and
there in the cords with which they
have bound him, he struggles, but
now struggles in vain to free himself
Thus having bound him, YOU now pro-
pose TO re-viOlato the Constitution ar
ticle two, section two) and to take
from him the command of thu Army
Of the United States. You forbid him
TO exercise his constitutional authori-
ty TO post his generals whore he thinks
the public interest demands. Sir, if l
were President of the United States.
before i put a veto on this highland.
ed act, / would send Sheridan to gov
ern the States of Massachusetts, and
Maine, TO make or unmalke their gov
orn0rs, their judges, their police, what
their Representative seem TO rejoice
in when practiced upon others while
] would send Sickles TO Walrussia to
educate the Esquimaux, or to be odu-
Gated by them in the principles Of civil
and constitutional liberty But Won
tell me you would then impeaoh the
President. Sir, there are worse con-
ditions in life than being impoaohed
by a muiilated Congress of these Unit
ed States, and one of them is being
used TO destroy the Constitution and
Government of these United States.
/ tell the President the only chance
he now has OF being reelected Presi-
dent of the United States is in being
impeached by a Rump House, and
turned out by Rump Senate, aud the
Presiding Officer of that Senate being
forced into his place. Sir, If the rev
olution ends thus, the historical end
OF all ruch revolutions as we arc pass
ing through, and il we make Presi-
dent that gentleman who with Sena-
tors has been swinging round the cir
Gle" in Nebraska, Missouri, and Kan
sas, there making, rs reported, agra
rian speeches, a Ia Prudhomme OF the
French Revolution, then, when we
come to his divisions OF property, be-
ginning here in this House, say, with
the Representative from Boston, or,
the Representative from the Taunton
district and ending with him from
Lynn, then, say, such viii be the
common revelry that in the intoxics-
ton of our JOY we may re-elect the
President Of the United States. By
the Constitution, the higher law, the
supreme law. the President is made
commander of the Army and Navy;
and he is faithless 10 that Constitu-
ton If in theapprchension of impcach.
ment he suffers that power 10 depart
from him, as you propose in the nth
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