The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-01-23
Tke Connecticut Democratic
state Convention O1 The Stia OE
January, at sEar.[OFd-Spe
OF Hon. James Brooks.

! Kindness and warmth of his reception. feel.
! ing ure that ii was not due to such an
/ humble indi, id1al as himself but to the
! position in which he was placed in the rx-
/ isting Congress, because fcaresSy. on all
| occasions, in the very presence of arbitrary
| power. he had vrn'pred to proclaim unwel-
come truths, for which be had been ex-
| pelicd from the House of representatives.
/ Ills constituents, as had been suggested.
| had sent i'm back by numerical majority
! Of six thousand. which could not be counted
! ont hereafter. He had come among the
I Democracy Of Connecticut, not as a teacher
or as a preacher but to ningle with the
! friends Of true Democracy around the
common alter of patriotism, and there light
his humble torch aud carry it among his
+ friends to lnylgoratc them to a continued
/ action. He came to the State Of the Char
ter Oak, if not among its branches and
leaves, to vindicate the principles of those
men who laid the foundations of liberty
under the Charter Oak, and who, by the
blessing Of God. meant TO beqaeath it to
their children. We were living in troublous
in perilOus. aye, in revolutionary times II
Though war 40 longer existed, though the
rear Of the cannon no longer was head,
though peace existed through the country
from the Rio Grande to the PassamaquodJy,
we were in the midst of revolution, a revo-
luton more perilous than that which pro
voked the war, revolution to destroy and
sunvert the very foundation Of our Govern
ment, and concentrate and consolidate all
the power in the hands Of few, and to rob
the people Of their rights. 1t was necessary
in times like these to recur to the discus
sion Of first principles, to redaopt and re-
proclaim the fundamental principles of our
Government, that which no wiser, no better
ever existed on earth and which, if not
framed by Heaven itself, was framed by
men breathing in the very inspiration Of
Heaven All, all was now threatened with
subversien, not in the time of war, when,
as it had been said, the life of the country
was in danger, but in time Of peace when
war existed no more. All the beautiful
forms Of the family government. the local
municipalities, the town, county and State
Governments, all brought home directly to
the hands and eyes and ears Of our whcle
people, all these there was an attempt to
destroy and concentrate in Washington in
central consolidated government Hence
he reproclaimed the necessity, now in the
time Of peace, ofyeeurring to first principles |
and thoroughly understanding the tounda
tions and structure Of the Government, in
order to maintain it against those men who
would overthrow it. 10 overthrow these
interests what has been called a 'Rump |
Congress" has teen assembled in Wash
ington. He meant to speak of this Rump |
Congress with all possible and due respect
He recognized it as excluding ten States of
the Union, and attempting to govern them
by ii majority small IN some of the States,
~ Al
States. That Congress had so organized
itself by the expulsion Of members from its
Senate and House of Representatives, that
it might have the power to ovcrshad0w the +
veto of the President Of the United States
The framerssof our Government intended
the Executive to be check upon Congress,
and Congress upon the Executive, and the
Supreme Court of the United States
cheek and authority over all. Two thirds of
this Rump Congress now had arbitrary and
uncontrolled power in Washington. The
President Of the United States, not of our
creation or selection, but who had been in
spired with wisdom to maintain the institu-
tions of the country, stood in the way OF
Congress. And the Supreme Court Of the
United States also stood in their way. Two
institutions of our country were now to be
overthrow, and these in?titutions were
the Executive and the Supreme Court
of the United States. The pur3e of the
had been seized by them under
lretense Of necessity, and gold and silver
had been ban shed from this part Of the
and our banks destroyed, for the
purpose of flooding the country with an ire
deemable paper currency. No greater ca
lamty could be inflicted upon a laborjng
people, and no curse whatsoever was so
great to the great body Of the people Of all
cla ses as the issue of an irredeemable paper
money made legal tender by the Govern
mtnt of the United States The whole
over of the military had also been seized by
this Congress for the overthrow of the Gov
and so hy the Union of the purse
and the sword, this Rump Congress had
created itself into an obsolute qespotic pow
er over the county, an worse than all this,
it laid PROSTATE the State Courts. The
Supreme Court Of our State, and all the
Courts of our State Tor years past, have
been ut ely suEo d,nate to the diclation Of
CongIes. An far as III powAr elit ts
now to appeal cases from the 5 ate Courts,
and have cases tried respecting lie, liberty
and property, which, hitherto, belonged to
the State jurisdiction, it has been impossi-
Die to have them tried; but Provost mar
shals have been substi uted. The lite, lib
erty and properly OF the people Of this coun-
try he'd been submitted to the iulisdition of
men in epauletts, who know little of law,
and he'd little Of common sense. The Su-
preme Court, IN a recent decision, In the
case Of Nilligan, had declared all these
cases to be unconstitutional, and violent and
Subversiyo OF the liberties of the country, as
in your excellont resolutions.
The Supreme Count OF the United Stat s,
the highest tribunal Of the land, the majori-
ty of WI ose Judges were appointed by Mr..
Lincoln Zone Of whom only was from the
Southern States, Judge Wayne and he
sided with the minority, had declared that
the action of the Provost Marshals in
the arrest made, and the incarts ration
of prisoners in Fort Lafayette and Fort
Warren, the arrests Of unhappy newsboys,
&c, las in Bridgeport, in this State), were
wrong; aud they bad declared in the strong.
est terms that the Democracy of this coun-
try, in their outcry against these military
arr ests, were right, and the Republicans {
were wrong. No noble vindication than
that had been given to a loyal PEOPLE
Hnc DemocI acy had been loyal people, loyal
to tn laws and loyal to the Go Etiiution,
and - Republicans had been dis!oyal to
the very Govcrnwent under which they
had lived. and history would so record -
The Supreme Court, the last refuge of lib
euy, was now if poss BILE, to be over h own.
Let men who uphold such plinciped be-
ware. Let them now SOW seeds of rebellion
among the Democracy of this country. =
We are educated ri. ht now in sound prin- ,,
,lpes, and adhere to principles and prece-
DENTS We have the bone and muscle of
he country, three to one, against the Radi-
,al Democracy, and if the attempt to sub
vert the authority Of the supreme tribunal, !
woe. woe be to them.
The President Of the United States, too
stands in the way of Congress, and the Ex-
.cutive OF the United States is TO be ousted.
Ii, an,,. nnw. for hinh crimes and ,nissan |