The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-09-07

ity Of construction. Why, one of the very
blessings Of Government is uniformity Of
action and of law but there you enact
that there shall be two thousand different
laws Of registration, with no Federal officer
or any other power to create uniformity.
Tho white man is given up TO tho fIegto,
where negro registers predominant, or
Uicc versa, If you please, and q premium
is thus created to start war Of races,
The fourth section of this act not oily
annihilated all State COurts--What you
have done before--but 1t goes yet further,
takes one new step, and for the first time,
strikes at the Government of the United
States by declaring
"That no civil court Of the United
States or any State shall have jurisdiction
Of any proceeding, civil or criminal,
against any such district commander, or
any officer or person acting by his author
ity for or on account Of the discharge
Of the duties imposed upon him by this
act"
At first you were but bold enough TO
1 :
but now you are bold enough TO strike
out of existence the courts of the United
States--to destroy them at one fell blow.
Your ban il general against courts and
judges in any form. You seem TO have a
horror of the wig or the gown, and to
trust only in epaulettes as fit governments
for the people Of ten States.
The first section declares
"That no district commander shall be
relieved from the command assigned to
him under the aforesaid acts, unless the
Senate shall have first advised and con-
sented thereto, or unless by sentence OF
court martial he shall be cashiered or dis.
missed from the army, or unless he shall
consent TO be 80 relieved"
Sir. know not what the President oi
the United States may do; / know not
what he may feel it his duty to do; ]
know that he, the Executive Officer oi
the United States, pronounced at one time
to be the Government Of the United
States, against whom it was disloyal TO
utper even a word Of censure. know
that be was the great power, the Brob.
dignag Of this Government. But he has
suffered himself 10 be bound by set oi
LiIliputians, and there in the cords with
which they have bound him. he struggles
but now struggles in vain TO freehimself
Thus having bound him, you now pro-
pose to re-violate the Constitution (arti-
Gle two, section two), and to take from
him the command Of abe Army of the
| United States You forbid him to exer-
else his constitutional authority to post his
generals where he thinks the public in
terest demands. Sir, If | were President
Of the United States, before | would put
veto on this high-handed act, / would
send Sheridan to govern the States OF
Massachusetts, and Maine, to make or un-
make their governors, their judges, their
police. what their Representatives seem
to rejoice in when practiced upon others
while would send Sickles to Walrussia
to educate the Esquimaux, or to be edu.
Gated BY them in the principles of civil
and constitutional liberty. But you tel
me you would then impeach the President
Sir, there arc worse conditions IN life thar
being impeached by mutilated Congress
Of these United States. and one of then
is being used to destroy the Constitution
aud Government of these United States
/ tell the President the only chance h
now has Of being reelected President o
; theUnited States is in being impeacheS
by Rump House, and turned out By
Rump Senate, and the Presiding Office
of that Senate being forced into his place
Sir, if the revolution ends thus, the histo
rical end of all such revolutions as We ar
passing through, and If We make Presi
dent that gentleman who with Senator
has been Swinging round the circle" ii
Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas, Their
making, as reported, agrarian speeches |
la Prudhomme of the French Revolution
then, when we come to his divisions O
property, beginning here in this House
say, with the Representative from Bos
ton, or, the Representative from the Taun
ton district, and ending with him frou
Lynn, then, say, such viii be the com
mon revelry that in the intoxicatiou Q
our JOY we may re.elect the present Pres
ident of the United States. By the Con
stitution. the higher law, the suprem
law, the President is made commander G
the army and navy; and he is faithless {
, that Constitution if, in the apprchensio
of impeachment, he suffers that power I
depart from him, as you propose In tn
fifth section Of this BILL
And now, as if this bin was not ba
: enough, gentlemen after gentlemen prC
: pose to make it fiercer, to add to its IL
rocities. The honorable gentleman frol
Ohio Mr.. Ashley )amends the bill by o.
dering all State, county and municili
y officers to take the test oath, in order
y concentrate all local representation in th
G military order. Another honorable ger
tleman from Iowa, Mr.. Wilson, frol
, whom | expected better things, propose
9 to punish any person who attempts to pr
Q vent or obstruct the execution of thes
i acts by fine of SIS, 900, to be levied b
the military commander, or imprisonmer
g of one year, or both the $4,000 fine an
y Jail, as the military commander may viii
J. Another gentleman, from Missouri, On
y Benjamin, proposes to bo less mereifl
d than his Maker, which is to allow no Pre-
: idential pardon to avail an unhapp
J. southerner, but to keep him forever e,
% cluded from his citizenship-his right
# vote. There seems to be "a competitio
> among gentlemen on tho other side
o out-bid each other in the arts of cruelt
% and all the devices of degradation an
(. punishment; and we are indebted to Il
|. tender mercies, it seems, of the gentl,