The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-06-13

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;, DIR. LIEBER ON CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS.
OF tho many former friends and students OF
DR.. L. there may be some who, mindful only OF
the pleasant relations that subsisted between
them and their learned preceptor, in the golden
days Of their Sophomoreship, are willing to
bridge over the past seven years, and still
take an affectionate interest in the tough old
Teuton pedagogue. For their information,
then, We pen these paragraphs. DR.. L. it ap-
pears, although nearly septuagenarIan, is
still in the land of the living; still dogmatizes
on penology, and still has his weakness OF
writing about civil liberty. 1t will be re-
membered how delighted, how supremely fat-
tered the Doctor was when he learned through
newspaper correspondent, that his two VOL
umes on Civil Liberty and Self Government
were among the books of LOUIS PHILIPPE, sold
by the auotioneer. True, it was whispered,
that the Doctor himself had sent them to his
MAJESTY of Orleans, "with compliments of tho
author;" but this was probably mere slander,
begat of envy.
DR.. L1EBER has written much and leotured
more on civil liberty, and on the constitution,
since he left US; and he had no little trouble in
the first place, to unlearn all he had said and
taught for many years, while Professor Of His
tory and Political Economy in the South
Carolina College, in defence Of slavery, and
in advocacy o.. Of the doctrine Of States
Rights and State Sovereignty and in the
second place, it was no small job for man Of
DR.. LIS years, to follow the fate of the Ameri-
can Constitution, through all the tOrtuous sim
uositias Of Congressional legislation. The
Doctors marvellous memory, trained snd ex-
ercised, through years Of laborious study,
might perhaps have accomplished the task Of
keeping abreast with the various constitutional
amendments proposed or passed But this fac
ulty would be of little service to him in the
more arluous undertaking, upon which, as an
ultra-loyal e. 6. RsdicaD man, he would feel it
incumbent to enter, of adapting his projections
to the new system Of constitutional hermeneu-
tics, promulgated in Washington within the
last two years. The Paadects and the In'titutes
are fixed; SAT-, ELBERr SMITH and LOCKE,
HUME, RICARDO and M.Lyaus, MILL and BAs-
r1Ar, are all entities, and, however enigmati-
cal sometimes, yet not past the analytical probe
of our learned Nestor. But it 10 otherwise
with the new hermeneutics They, we should
say, afford an uncertain foothold, shifting as
tho sands laved by the briny wave. The Con-
gressional Globe is the new Textbook, and
FoRsEY's Chronicle to be read as collateral"
The Union League Club, in New York, has
just issued pamphlet Of fifty pages, contain
ing Dr. L1sBER's suggestions for amendments,
which he thinks should be made to the New
York State Constitution, now on its trial be-
fore the Convention at Albany; and as We
shall soon be sat sea'' ourselves, constitution
ally speaking, some of his suggestions may,
perhaps, merit our attention. We therefore
append the following synopsis Of his views,
some Of which, it will be seen, are the result
Of the new system Of constitutional interpre-
ton: II 1a',z-si .=..'. s.a '
o Dr.. L1EBRn thinks the pardoning power
should be continued to the Governor, but
and ciroumscribed as the Legislature
may direct by law" and that "the Constitution
ought to establish that no pardon induces per-
fsct recuperation Of political or civil rights,
unless the pardon mentions this fact according
to the law which the Legislature may estab-
lish." He desires also q Board Of Pardons.
Also, 60 provision to oblige every court to pro-
nounce sentence within the term in which the
case has been tried.
He advises the abolition Of the elective judi
ciary, and "the appointment of judges during
good behavior, to which it would be wise to
add the removal Of judges by the concurrent
vote Of both houses Of the Legislature, two
thirds of the members present concurring, and
the cause of removal being entered in the jour-
nal Of each house; or by separate two-thirds
vote of each house." He adds; GA place ought
to be left open in the new Constitution for the
possible introduction Of the system of courts of
peace"
He would 'give oil State appointments, and
those more local Offices which the Legislature
may point out by law, to the Governor, with the
consent of the Senate, and which lays down the
period of years for which such appointments
shall hold-say, for instance, six years-unless
the Legislature assigns a shorter or longer
term to any specific Office by a two-thirds
vote"
As to suffrage, he says: at would appear
advisable that no property qualification being
adopted in general, 1t ought also to be omitted
with reference to persons Of color" Also,
''that the Convention, 1t is to be hoped, will
not yield to the entreaties which will doubtless
be made in spirit which happens to be
fashionable Just now In our restless period.
Female suffrage ought not to be established"
Al to representation he says: "The con-
vention ought to remember that three hundred
rather less than more-is the number of
which experience has suggest
ID to us - the most PRACTICAL that election dis
riots ought to have sufficient extent for
liberal action, and that full freedom ought to
be- left to the constituents to elect any citizen
of the State, wherever he may reside"
He says ''it would seem advisable that the
word sovereign be omitted In the revised Con-
,titution, ss unnecessary, deceptive indeter-
inmate and mischievous, capable Of variety
Of interpretations, and hastering to puDy
vanity"
As to the government Of cities he says: "a
provision Of the Constitution should establish
for cities containing population above GER