The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-03-14
ultimately decide the issue in our

ultimately decide the issue in our
favor
The futillty of the Supreme Court
reliance IS strongly presented in these
paragraphs from the Richmond (Va.)
Times:
1 Long before that tribunal can
interpose to protect US, negro sDgrage,
sustained by the bayonet, will have
been forced upon Us In this city IN
the month of April next, and in the
State at large in May, the atrocious
bin Of Sherman requires the military
TO protect the negro at the ballot box
Tieioe then, before IRE can hope for relief,
this oatraqe ,-iH hare Jsen perFetrGtsa ~
Virqinia, unless he military officer, lehoSs
lciU is the lar m>y consent to posLponesthe
citl and .State eLections.
H. The utter contempt with WAlcA
! the recent decisions OF the Supreme
( Court have been treated, shows no"
powerless that august body Is when II
/ opposes reason to the mad passions OF
the mob Congress and the subCfdl-
nate Federal judiciary delight IN 4 nun
/ bred WAYS to express their contempt
( Of the five Conservative judges OF that
elevated tribunal.
III. Unless the people Of the South
I can hope to select successor TO Ffes-
/ idcnt johnson Is conservative as thal
eminent patriot, any relief which they
NAV hope for from the Supreme Court
] would be Of very little practical and q
no permanent value. 1t will be com
/ petent for the next President and Con
J gress, acting in conjunction, TO SO
/ frame aud change the Supreme Court
as TO saturate that body with the
Radicalism of Congress.
". 1t has been forcibly said that
so far as the Supreme Court Is con
cerned, the present conservative ad
vantage in that Court is held by the
slender thread Of a single life. There
/ are five conservative and four Radical
( indoes.it is doubtless whether one viii
/ ever take his seat again, and almost
certain that he will not live twelve
months The loss Of one COnserya
/ tive iudgewill make tie, and no law cal
/ be declared unconstitutional but by
clear majority. President johnson
cannot replace conservative judge BY
new appointment, because Congress
/ ut its last session, passed 4 law reuuc
/ inc the number of judges to seven, Tor
I bidding any new appointment until, oy
| the occurrence of vacancies, that hlnl
| is reached" The conservative judges
are the old and more feeble member:
Of the Court, and viii probably be The
/ first to die.
V. When the constitutionality o
Che Sherman law is tested, our success
depends upon the frail tenure Of q life
which no one believes will last sin
months. Under the most favorable
/ circumstances, eminent practitioners
in the Supreme Court inform rs that ;
decision Of the Supreme Court canno
/ he expected before the winter of tn
present year or the Spring of 1868.
VI In less than three months tn
Sherman law will have inflicted the in
suit of negro suffrage twice upon th
people of Richmond, even if we are til
creatures of a military depCtism, al,
no Convention is called.
VII. If the Supreme Court tweIv
months hence, shall declare the Shel
/ man law unconstitutional, that decisiO
does not restore us to representatio
in Congress. Not bit Of it. Itwi
simply throw us back into the clutche
of the Fortieth Congress- Congress
forty times more malignant and mere
less than that which is now in tn
articles of death. In the next Cor
gress the Radicals have clear major
ity in the House of Representatives, {
!, one hundred and twenty seven.