Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-10-08

the son-in-law of the lladical Magnus Apollo,
no effort is made to enlIauchise the 5000
foreign voters who are cut of by the qualifica>
ton requiring a real estate free. hold amOunt-
ing to one hundred and thirty four dollars
When the Irishmau or German votes this fall
on the Constitutional Amendment extending
suffrage to the negroes, he should recOllect
the boast of a certain Radical Cincinnati poll
tician who was whipping in certain restive
members of the Legislature with the argu-
ment that it was easier aud cheaper to vote
down the ID Foreigners by shipping
negroes over from Kentuckey, than in any
other way. Let, then, your border counties
look out for an invasion bf the striped article
this fall to s,eeor itselft4rough.
President johnson las at last struck
decisive blow by the. Eemoval of Stanton,
Sheridan aud Sick(eS, 10 chief Instruments
in the plot to subject the country to military
despotism to establish partisan rule. Sickles
even dared to oppose by armed force the
execution of judgements from the court of
Chief Justice Chase, and yet the Radicals in
their blindness applaud the usurpation, forget
ting that at some day the poisoned chalice
may be returned to their own lips.
The issue has to be met whether Congress,
under the forms of law, can UsURP to itself
all the other powers of the ca. ordinate branches
of the Government. If the attempt succeeds,
everything hereafter will be regulated in this
country by the argument of force instead of
law, and military chicftains will, in Mexican
fashion, issue pronunciamentos in the name of
God and Liberty" declaring the will of the
people to override everything which stands
in the way of the cdcts of arbitrary power.
Are American citizens prepared tamely to
submit to this sort of government? The war
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be no separation of the destiny of the Anglo
Saxon race on this continent, and history may
raise the question whether if Jackson had
been President, he would not have saved much
blood and treasure by the summary seizure
and execution of the secession leaders at the
Capitol before an opportunity was given them
to carry their reasonable projects into effect.
Congress has no more right to upturn our
constitutional form of Government, than the
States, and the overt act when committed is
the Inauguration of a revolution, which leaves
those opposed to it, free, to resist by the most
0CGiIdLie means. Constitutions are framed
for the protection of minUrities aud when
they cease practically to do so. the other par.
ty must be fGuyhI by bitter cxperien ce brou hit
h"me TO them, that there is point beyond
which ''torbearauce ceases to be a vivtue."-
1t may be very pleasant for orators Of the
Wade stripe to dcnOunce 200, 600 of their fell
low citizens as traitors having no rights that
he is bound to respect, but the practical APP
pIcation Of such theory to political differ.
ences of opinion as to the mode of administer
ing our common Government might have very
serious consequence. The Military dcspotism
now existing m rhe South will for partv pur.
posos-be ex6eaded ~ o. erytho couutTy-, be
fore the next Presidential election. unless the
Radical leaders are given clearly to understand
that force, will be met by forcs, and
that revolutionary overthrow by them
of Executive and Judicial departments
OF the Government and the Inauguration
of bogus President will release every
one OF the two millions Of voters in the
North and West, opposed to their schemes.
from the payment of any taxes to support such
a UsuRPATIoN, and they may find the task
of collecting the revenue under such circum-
stances as difficult az the Stuarts did shin
money. 1t is evident that the people of the
late Rebel States regard this as a question to
be seHfeH amongst the people of the adhering
States, and if they tame!y submit to the sub
veTtion Of all Constitutional government
amongst themselves, then they deserve to be
made slaves
Men Of Ohio, grid yourselves for the np-
IroachIng struggle; organize in every yJossi-
Cfe form to meet the coming issue. You have
reason and argument on your side, and can.
didates who possess brains. Let YOUR op
ponents know you are not to be put down by
torcc. and you will find many who have not
heretofore acted together politically. joining
hands to resist the black surge of Revolution
which now threatens to overwhelm our coun-
try.
An ONO REPUBLICAN FROM THE START
-OPPosED TO NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
NEWPORT, Il. l., August 3Ist, 1867.