The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-09
Facts to be Remembered.

We deem it our duty to again admonish the poo
pie of Virginia that they have nothing, either OF
speedy or OF permanent relief to hope for from the
Supreme Court.
protect negro suffrage, sustained by the bayonet,
will have been forced upon us. In this city in the
month Of April lext, and in the State at large in
May, the atrocous bill Of Sherman requires the
military to protect the negro Mt the ballot box.
Twice, then, before we can hope for relief, this.
outrage will have, been perpetrated in Virginia,
unlsss the military officer whose will is the law,
may consent to postpone the city and State cleo
tions.
IL The utter contempt with which the recent
show how powerless that august body is when it
opposes reason to the mad passions of The mob.
Congress and the subordinate Federal judiciary
delight i'll hundred ways to express their con-
tempt Of the five Conservative judges of that ele-
waited tribunal
III. Unless the people of the South can hope to
select successor to President Johnson as con-
seryative as that eminent patriot, any relief which
they may hope for from tho Supreme Court would
be Of very little practical and Of no permanent
value. II viii be competent for tho next President
and Congress-, acting in conjunction, to so frame o.
and change the Supreme Court as to saturato that
body with the Raaicalism Of Congress.
". It has been forcibly said that, so fur as the
servative advantage in that court is hold by the
slender thread of single life. There are five Con
servative and four Radical judges. And of the
Conservative judges, it is doubtful whether ono
will ever take his seat again, and almost certain
that he will not live twelve months. "Ihe loss OF
one conservative judge will make o he and no law
| can be declared Unconstitutional but by clear
majority. President Johnson cannot replace 2
Conservative judge by new appointment because
Congress, at it's last session, passed law reduc-
ing the number Of judges to seven, forbidding any
new appointment until, by the occurrence OF ya-
cancies, that limit is reached" The Conservative
Judges are the old and most feeble members OF the
| court and will probably be the first to die.
| v. When the constitutionality Of the Sherman
law is tested, our success depends upon the frail
tenure of life, which no one believes will last six
| months. Under the most favorable circumstances,
| eminent practitioners in the Supreme Court in-
form us that decision of the Supreme Court can
not be expected before the Winter of the present
year or the Spring of 1868.
| vi. In less than three months the Sherman law
will have inflicted the insult Of negro suffrage
twice upon the people Of Richmond, even If We are
the creatures of military despotism, and no Con-
| vention is called.
VII. If the Supreme Court twelve months hence,
shall declare the Sherman law unconstitutional,
that decision does not restore us to representation
| in Congress-. Not bit Of it. It will simply throw
us back into the clutches Of the Fortieth Congress
a Congress forty times more malignant and mer-
ciless than that which is now in the articles OF
death. In the next Congress tho Radicals have q
clear majority in the House OF Representatives, OF
one hundred and twenty-seven.
| Richmond Times.