Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-10-11

to New York's two votes but also
twelve Electoral votes to the two which
New York has by virtue Of her Senate
rial representation.
Moreover, il the Electoral Colleges
fail to elect, the President is elected By
the States, in the House of Representa-
tives, each State having = single vote /;
and the President is elected by the States
In the Senate.
And the President, however elected,
appoints, by and with the advice and
consent Of the Senate, the Judges Of the
Supreme and inferior courts.
The Constitution places all the Execu-
tive power In The hands Of the President,
and this power. far greater than that pos
sessed by the Kings Of England, is
above the reach Of the Legislative De
partmeut, unless it violates the Consii-
tuition.
Nor does the Constitution guarantee
to the States a Democratic form Of
government; but only a Repu5ljeoa one.
A Constitutional Republic is governed
by fixed, firm, stable and well considered
laws, administered by its magistrates, in
whose persons the law and the Consti-
tuition are r~everenced. A Democracy is
governed BY its Chiefs, according to their
own arbitrary will OF the tickle and
changing csprices Of the populace' In
the one there is freedom Of the people
in the other, the license Of the mob
One NAV endure; the other is short
lived. degenerates into anarchy and Is
relieved by imperial despotism. One is
the best government in the world the
other the worst, and so intolerable that
the CESAR is hailed as q Saviour, and
&" the Empire is peace"
In a Democracy, the power Of the
majority has DO limits and the Repre-
~sentatives Of the people become revolu-
| rionsry bodies, and the administration OF
affairs only a succession Of revolutions,
too often violent and bloody, always de-
structive and exhausting. In a Repub-
lie the rights Of the weaker States and
| Of minorities are secured and guaranteed
by 3 permanent charter, based on 8 COM
pact which fraud and force only can
violate and which ought 20 stand ike a
lighthouse in the ocean, against which
| the tumuItuOus waves beat in vain, e1-
haustiug their fury against its impregna-
bic sides, even when their foam dashes
over its summit. In g Democracy, the
| institutions Of the country's government,
however excellent in theory, soon go to
pieces. like . vessel on a coral reef, and
that they once existed is only known by
I their fragments thrown by the sullen
waters upon the sandy beaches Of the
sea.
The Name OF the great party that is to
| reconstruct the shattered Union Of the
! states, should be significant Of its pur-
poses and its creed. l. proposes to re-
establish the Constitution, as the SUI
preme law not only ia peace but in war,
aud to deny 10 each department Of the
| Government any powers whatever " out
! side Of that Constitution" It proposes
to unite in the prosecution Of this great
| entergrize all conservative men Of all
/ former parties; and that these shall for
! get that they we're once called I" Wings"
or Democrats" or Republicans. %
When the Constitution has been rescued
from the hands of its v~i0Iators and sssas-
sins, and not until then, ought former
differences OF opinion, if not wholly
I obsolete, 20 be revived.
This fusion is indispensable. The vic
! tories over Radicalism In the Northern
States are not nearly so much due, as
the returns win show, 20 the increase Of
Democratic votes, as to the decrease Of
those Of Radicaiism. Il is not apathy
that has caused this decrease. There are
tens Of thousands of honest snd patriotic
men, once Wings and afterwards Re
p~uJIicans, who can no longer eonseien-
tiously act with the Radical faction, who
cannot and will not assist in inficting
the immense curse Of negro suffrage upon
the country. But they cannot and win
not enroll themselves in the ranks of the
Democratic party. They refrain from
voting at all. They are not prepared to
adopt the old Democratic creed. They
are prepared to maintain the ]sauctity OF
t. Constitution, and 6 Republican form
yefnmeut. They have a right to
insist on r4tsiniUg their 0wu se~lErespect,
and that the Conservative party shall be
organized with such 8 platform and
name that they may enter it without
spostacy and loss OF that se~lt-respect.
We claim that for 0urselE Tie country
demands it, and only SO can is bleeding
wounds be healed.
There can be no difference Of opinion
as TO the essential principles OF THE Con-
sTITUTIONAL REPUBLICAN PATTY. Let
all minor questions lay upon the table.
They can afford to wait. The object
now is to rescue and a Y the Constitu-
ton to put an end to delegated military
despotism and to negro supremacy; to
rescue the Union ia reality, and not
merely in pretence and appearance; to
put al end to the present organized sys-
tenn Of plumber and corruption. Let US
call around the great flag Of the Consti
tuition and the Union as they were, all
ms0, Of al former creeds, who have
these great purposes at heart, and bury
ont OF sight sl former political distinc-
tons and differences. Then give Us
great men, good men, and wise states
men for candidates, snd the age Of gold
Of the Republic msy return again, and
she may rise, tried, purified and refined
by the sdversities Of the past and present,
10 a new and even a nobler life.