Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-05-06
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ITO be loyal, means To be obedient
60 the Constitution OF the, United States,
and the laws made in pursuance thereof,
we should like to, have the Radical
leaders prove their loyalty by this test.
The Conservatives throughout the coun-
try, North and South, are loyal to the
Constitution. The Radicals, OH the
contrary, declare that the Constitution
does not exist in theory Of practice, in
this Union, although old Thad says
ssome fragments OF it stick in the giz-
yards of a few men, Although they
have sworn to support it, they never
hesitate to violate it.'whenever party
interests require them to do so. They.
are constantly icgislating Outside OF
it.n and in order to smother even the
vain remonstrances of the Executive,
they are now proceeding to depose the
President. They have also, as Schenck
says, eclipped the wings ofthe Supreme
Court lest that tribunal should by its
decisions encourage the people to resist
ance. The Radicals laugh at the Con-
stitution, and don't know what it is to
be loyal. They have been true to their
passions, true tostheir interests, but new
er true to the Constitution They are
smart enough to know that in the pres
ent condition of the country, the pos
session of the Army and Treasury is
worth more. to them than thousand
such musty parchments. Abfief glance
at its record win show how false they
have been to everything but partisan
interests. In 1853 they had possession
ef the State Governments and they
magnifed State Rights. They endorsed
the resolutions Of '9S, and exalted the
idea of confederation as against unity.
Chase, vino was then Governor of OHIO,
asserted-"We have rights which the
Federal Government must not invade;
rights superior to its power, on which
? cur sovereignty depends, and we mean
to assert these rights against all the
tyrannical assumption OF authority
The present Governor of Ohio, and the
Radicals generally, now assert that the
States have hardly any rights whatever.
In 1864 they asserted that the President
had the power to emancipate four mill,
ION slaves. They now deny that he
has even the power to remove mem
Der Of the Cabinet In 1868, when they
exercised no authority in the Southern
States, they said the Union was unbrok'
en-, and admitted Radical members ol
congress from several OF them Now,
whea they possess every foot of them,
they insist that the Union was dissolv-
cd and refuse them the benefit of con
-stitutional government. In 1862 they
desired to create West Virginia, and il
order to get the consent of the old State
to It's ACKNOWLEDGMENT, they set up
Pierpoint's bogus Legislature in Alex
andria.. Now they establish Auxiliary
government over Pierpoint on the
ground that, priorto his election, seees
sion had destroyed the State. In 1861
they made war to maintain the Consti
tuition ard the Union. Now they are
destroying both in order to maintain
their power. Yet this party, violating
the rights of the people at every STEP
in its. progress, is constantly prating
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