Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-01-28

in the future be his duty and his pleas
ure to answer every just and rightful
call from California for aid. The mu-
tual interests of California and Nevada
were so closely blended that the speaker
scarcely knew where the boundary line
n He recollected distinctly where, q
few a ago, he wanted 1t to run, but
California would not let him have his
own way in that particular. The battle
| of liberty was like the Christian warfare
"a perpetual contest. Until quite re-
Gently It was thought that the treachery
of the President was the only obstacle
in the way Of progress. Recently a new
danger had threatened. The old sePul-
chral Supreme Court had concluded to
try to do something. The Judges all
wore black silk gowns and wigs, and
like Taney-who had spent the last
years of his life in singing praises to
Buchanan-they had enlisted on the
side of slavery in its contest with lib
erty. But little trouble, however, need
be feared from the Supreme Court.
Happily that Court could be recon-
structed.
The people of the nation had not been
robbed of their rights by organized
armies or the sword of the conqueror,
the cobweb decision of Supreme Courts
could not accomplish that object.
Thanks to the trainers of the Constitu-
ton, the Organization of the Supreme
Court was placed in the hands Of Con-
gress, and the number of itsJudges will
probably be increased or decreased be-
fore any serious damage is done. Cali
fornia, the speaker believed, had fur
nished the fifth Judge who united in the
late infamous decisions. He was salts
fed, however, that Californians generI
ally believed that the test oath was con-
stitutional. It would not do to rely up
on the osths Of sec%essionists. The
| speaker had seen both Breckenridge and
jeff. Davis swear to support the Consti-
tuition of the United States. They had
afterwards sworn to support the Consti-
| tuition of the Southern Confederacy.
| They had broken their oaths in both
cases. As to the speaker, his tongue
should cleayo to the roof Of his mouth
and his right hand forget its cunning,
before he would ever vote for the ad-
mission Of red-handed rebel to a seat
in the Congress of the nation. Forum
ately, under the Constitution, each
house of Congress decides upon the
| qualifications of its wi members. Per-
haps the Supreme Court will render an
other decision and pronounce that clause
of the Constitution unconstitutional.
| Perhaps the Judges will issue a man
damus and poke them into their seats,
without regard to the action Of either
house. If they do they will certainly
meet with a dammus of some kind or
other to counteract the movement. The
Judges of the Supreme Court move in
perfect order-like the President in
swinging round the circle-and they
hold no communication with the people
who placed them in power. But they
cannot disregard the interests Of the
people or trample upon their rights.
fancy rendered the bred Scott decision
in which he enunciated the doctrine
that a negro has no rights which q white
nan is bound to respect. In six or
eight years thereafter the shackles fell
from the limbs of every slave in the
land. The efforts of the present Court
in behalf of despotism would prove as
fruitless as those Of their predecessors
In the opinion of the speaker the Court
should be reconstructed, and about
four Judges, he thought, could transact
all tho business required at their hands
The speaker concluded his address by
again thanking the audience for their
kindly greeting and expressions Of ap.
probation. Throughout the delivery Of
the address the speaker was frequently
applauded by his hearers, and on the
utterance of some of his most radical
views, the demonstration reached a de-
gree of enthusiasm which VIC have rare.
ly aeen surpassed. He w~illloave the city
to-day for San Francisco.