The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1867-04-25
IL Military Monarchy COnstitu.
tional.
From the N. Y. Expressly

tional.
From the N. Y. Expressly
The Five Monarchy Bill, which ere.
ates five Military Kings for ten Of the
United States, 10 PELr and KNOWN to be
unconstitutional. The commonest and
most Ignorant man alive feels and
knows, that such " government is re-
pugnant, not only to the Constitution
Of the United States, but to every ,prin-
ciple of British liberty engraftcd upon
our Constitution from Magma CAarta
We arc told, however,-North and
South,-there Is no remedy for it. We.
must submit. W. are in the hands OF.
the Tigers, and they will devour Us, IT
wc stir! Now, we do not believe a word
of all this, rs fact. or, as principle, and
only slaves, or men fit for slaves, can
preach such submission. The fact is,
Connecticut demonstrates that the PEG.
pie Of the North are against such Mill.
tary Monarchies, and the principle is all
against submission. There is no rem
edy, however, it Is added. Before the
Courts can act upon the Five-Men.
achy Bill, the negroes oftle South will
get control Of the States, and be repre-.
sented as States in Congress. Now,
we do not bell ave q word Of Ill this
We do not believe, that the Courts can
not redress unconstitutional wrongs.
We do not believe that the Supreme
Court of the United States is so pow
erless, that it can be thus overridden
by a Rump Legislature and if this be
so,-the guards and projection we
thought we had from ithc Constitution
do not amount to much.
An injunction, 1t is said, against the
President of the United States, and the
Five Military Monarcy Sodth, is not
the remedy, nor, quo w~arranto. This
may be so, ornot so,-but good law
yers, and some of the best ofthem, say
they are. And yet, if there is no i'm,
mediate remedy, there must be some
early remedy. The Courts are good
for but little. if they cannot help main
tain the Constitution.
We are sorry to see among many Of
the white men of the South land we
may say this, now the Connecticut
election demonstrates that the North
ern People q stand by them that they
act as crushed out subjects, no longer
citizens, and are scarcely quite up to
an equality in spirit with their old slaves.
! Liberty, just now, is more CT erished
among the old slaves, than among the
old masters. Now, all this is q surren.
: der into slavery without a struggle. 1t
: is wonderful that men, such heroes as
! they we're in war, have become cravens
in peace! The Northern Democrats
. and Conservatives are alive, and abhor
this Five Monarchy Bill more than it is
, abhorred South. 1t docs not reach us
=, directly, but the Tyrants that infict il
upon them, would intict it upon US, il
; they dared, and if VIC did not resist
land by resistance we mean, not the re-
sistanSe Of force,-but resistance in,
and under the Law. .
The Five Monarchy Bill, South, is a
curse to the South, not alone because
it is a despotism, but because, it de.
stroys the South,-makes uninhabita-
BILE the South, stops all emigration in
to the South, and all investment of cap
ital there. Any Northern business
man, now, would as soon send a dollar
for investment to Hayo or Jamaica, or
I Costa RIGA, as into the South. The
) threatened amalgama.ion ofraccs there
is destructive of all life, liberty, safety
) and property. Hence, death itself il
) even preferable to submission to such
a state Of things,-and therefore il
should be resisted in every Constitu.
%tional, legal way, as long as life is lef,
for such resistance.
Hence, VIC hope to see tho case he.
fore the Supreme Court of the United
States, prosecuted to its fullest extent
and with all possible ability. The tide
has turned North, and every Northern
State hereafter will show gains for the
: Democracy and the Conservatives
Hero is the Battle to be f%ought,-bu
Z we do not want t fight even mere fol-
craven submissiOnists, who submit with
5 out a struggle to being stripped of CIV
I cry legal and Constitutional Right thcil
r Fathers bequeathed them, and of almos'
$ every Right, God breathed into mai
i when he created him.