The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1868-01-30
TAs ReYolatIcn.

<OA6'Sss eA@ a1fenenb hoPiuy w snS
inal consumnation Of their treason.
rhither oil their steps have tended since
he putting desa of the rebellion removed
very hindrahss bpt thsnselyes to re.
stored Union. They have taken no steps
backward. a
. They began hy denying to the people Of
'en States the ut to be represented in
he Government Nsxt they elected from
their seats IN .cosgress Northern represen.
.asivss ssSash = = stheta y Esx6.ibirds
majority for overriding every veto which
might block their path topowar. Having
made themselves a Rump, they proceeded
to make the Rump supreme.
They passed a bill stripping the Execu-
tive of his power 70 remove civil subordi.
mates whose faithless discharge Of their
trusts might ineapaciiats him, through
them, to execute the lsws. They stripped
him even ofthe power 20 choose his conf.
Dental advisers, and they have restored to
his scat in the Cabinet land their tool
obeys their mandate) q minister who had
pronounced the law unconstitutional by
which he holds bis place and to-day, hsv.
ing erected . military Government in ten
States, thes are stripping the Commander
ie- Chief CT an control ofhh subordinates in
the army ofthe United States.
Thus not merely do they leave naked O
all his rightful authority and power An
drew johnson, the transient choice of th'
people of the United States as the execu
tor of their laws, but they are destroying
one equal and coordinate branch Of TN
Government as it was established in 1888
and to the people themselves remains, on
Of the whole body of executive power theI
assigned aud distributed to their servants
nothing but ths privilege to participate ii
q packed election, from which ten out Q
thirty.seven States are excluded, for
Chief Magistrate reduced to importance
and Commander-in-C Chief whom they ar
instructing hisarmy to disobey.
| Congress il ts-dsy the Executive. III
chair, the dsty, o. suthofity which ono
were Washingsons and Jelierson's Mad
sons and Jaekson's Adams Harrison's an
4 Taylor's, this Rurnp usnrps.
| For the spotless ermine which Jay, Ma
shall, and Taney have worn, though no
resting chiefly upon the shoulders Of me
of their choice, they reserve no better fat
The judicial power vested by the people
one Supreme Court like the executi'
power vested III the President, STAN
equally in their way, and blocks their pa
to unbalanced, uncontrolled supremac
The judgment of that high tribunal in L
Milligan case; their unanimous judgme
that where the authority Of the Unit
States was unopposed and its courts we
open, a military commission had no jur
diction TO try citizen who was neither
prisoner of war nor in the military 81
vice; the Judgment ofa majority that &c
gress could not have given military co
! mission jurisdiction, left the usurpers
! the Rump without hope that the juds
would become their tools. If clear-ey
justice did not hesitate to pronounce !
!. less the deeds which had a state of war
d their excuse, they could not hope it wol
0 spare their usurpations ventured in til
Of peace. Wherefore 70 secure themsel
in their asarpsfions Of executive pow
2 and to iutfench themselves against
q bolt which sooner Or later wss to be de-
q cred from she sovereign seat Of justice, I
to shatter the right arm Of their siren
u and the Military Governments of
IN South, which we're their citadels, the Ru
ID taking 20 steps backward, adsanoss 70
audacious usnrpanon Of the authority
1. the Supreme Court ofthe United Sta
i Congress j. 70 day The Judiciary.
- Constitution which gave Congress
= right to be, the laws heretofore enacted
:" pursuance herewith, the authoritative
cisions oF=snoble line Of justices IN
Ell. peached for their probity and who b
Id judged the people righteously--these
IA. all these the Rump make less Of than
vote of Q majority Of its caucus these
their authority the RumP usurps- Il
: Thus the Legislative power " shs ~
4 Of ten States, and the Executive power
I, Judiciary power Of the the people Of Z q
'r' seven States, is usurped BY = Ramp
ing itself National Legislature
are making itself supreme.
ion These men ere traitors, and this is
ba. olution. q
The men Of the Ruhp are traitors
with arms seeking to secede from one
the Government in order I'd establish ans
no. like the first they are tsaitors to Fspr'
as tative government itseli, 70 the iaEsitu
ate which alone in modern times have
Ind shrined civil liberty. They are traito
the freedom Of freemen.