The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-09-14

abolish that body entirely. Il would be a use
nothing else One can easily see that if the
Executive is moi in his sphere to bc anything
more than the mere servant Of the Legislature;
if he is to he deprived of the powers with
which he is invested by the Constitution,
sheriff s deputy would fill the oihce equally as
we'll, and at far less cost. One will readily ac-
knowledge, if he will take the pains to weigh
the matter atienively. that the Supreme Court
is not TO exercise truthfully, conscientiously
and honestly, the powers granted TO ii by the
Constitution, it can serve no other purpose
than that Of being the alder and abettor OF
tyranny.
If the doctrines of the Radical party III
Pennsylvania are the doctrines OF the hadlcal
party of the country, and this cannot be de-
MED, then it follows, as thing of course 'hat
the views of the party with regard TO the local
courts, are the views of the entire party with
regard to the Supreme Court of the United
States If those views pr evail, faith Is de-
stroyed, Justice is trampled in the dust by
party turbulence; liberty is dead. Red Repnh-
lcanism will run riot in the land, to be follow
ed by-let history say what. There Is no sad
der page in the worlds history than Is afforded
by the record of the evil results OF the un-
guarded passions of people PASSIONS when
properly checked, are the motives Tor great
and noble excrtions. When unrestralned, they
are the parents of license.
North and South we are all standing to-day
On n volcano which may swallow us up, and
the South is powerless. Our only means oil
escape is through the North. To the practical
sober sense Of her people we must LOOK lo'
escape To her we must look for the re)ec'l0i
Of theories which will blight the prospects Of
this fair land, destroy her prosperity IN 'hs
present, and render her prosperity IN 'h'
future totally impossible. Self-interest Is
powerful lever, and self-interest requires ina
the North should protect her liberty and ours
by rejecting these theories which, 1t adopted
would destroy The principles Of our Govern
ment and the genius of our institutions Ih'
party in power has destroyed the liberty o.
the South, and it is now attempting TO destroy
liberty in the North, by carrying out the same
theories that have reduced the South to ITS
present condition. The preservation of liberty
at the North demands the overthrow of those
theories, and the restoration Of constitutional
liberty to the entire country. Let the NORTH
remember-and we feel confident that ITS OWL
sense of its own danger will soon bring 1t te
remember-that the rule of safety, as well a:
the rule of high morality, is to do unto other'
as YOU would be done unto. Let the Nortf
arouse itself to its own danger from kadica
teachings, before it is bound hand and loot
Let Il remember in the words of WASHINGTON
Inaugural Address, that "there is no truth
more thoroughly established than that there
exists, in the economy and course OF nature
an indissoluble union between virtue and hap
piness, between duty and advantage between
the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanl-
nous policy and the solid rewards of public
prosperity and felicity" Let them, also, re-
member in his words, 'that the preservation OF
the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny Of
the Republican model of government, are just
ly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally,
staked on the experiment entrusted to the
hands of the American people" Let them re-
member these things, and all will be well. Let
them but remember these things, and they will
rise in their might at the ballot box, and crush
out now and forever, theories fatal to the e1-
! istence Of liberty.