Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-01-23

and we ask for it a calm and careful
perusal;
The Rump Revolution.
The Revolutionists Of the Rump
Congress are advancing rapidly to the
final consummation of their treason.
Thither all their steps have tended
since the putting down of the rebellion
removed every hindrance but them
selves to restored Union. They
have taken no steps backward.
They began by denying to the peo-
pie Of ten States their right to be
represented in the government. Next
they elected from their seats in Con-
gress Northern representatives enough
to give them two-thirds majority for
overriding every veto which might
block their path to power. Having
made themselves a Rump, they pro
ceeded TO make the Rump supreme.
They passed o bill stripping the
Executive of his power to remove civil
subordinates whose faithless discharge
of their trusts might incapacitate him,
through them, to execute the laws.
They stripped him even of the power
to choose his confidential advisers,
and they have restored to his seat in
the Cabinet (and their tool obeys the
mandate) a minister who had pro
nounced the law unconstitutional by
which he holds his place; and, to-day,
having erected military government
in ten States, they are stripping the
Commander-in-Chie of all control OF
his subordinates in the army of the
United States.
Thus not merely do they leave naked
of all his righ.ful authority and power
Andrew Johnson, the transient choice
of the people of the United States as
the executor of their laws, but they
are destroying one equal and co-ordi-
nate branch OF the government as il
was established in 1889; and to the
people themselves remains, out Of the
whole body of executive power then
assigned and distributed to their ser.
wants, nothing but the privilege to
participate in a packed election, from
which ten out of thirty-seven States
are excluded, for Chief Magistrate
reduced to impotence, and Com,
mander-in.Chief whom they are in.
structing his army to disobey.
Congress is to day the Executive.
The chair, the duty, the authority
which once were Washington's and
Jefferson's, Madison's and Jackson's s
Adams, Harrison's and Taylor's, this
Rump usurps.
For the spotless ermine which Jay,
Marshal, ,and Taney have worn, though
now resting chiefly upon the shoulder.
ofmen OF their own choice, they reserve
no better fate. The judicial power
vested by the people in one Supreme
Court, like the executive power vested
in the President, stands equally in
their way, and blocks their path to
unbalanced, uncontrolled supremacy
The judgment of that high tribunal in
the Milligan case; their unanimous
Judgment that where the authority oi
the United States was unopposed and
its courts we're open, n military com.
mission had no jurisdiction to try q
citizen who was neither a prisoner Of
war nor in the military service; the
judgment of a majority that Congress
could not have given q military com
mission jurisdiction, left the usurper:
of the Rump without hope that the
Judges would become their tools. Il
clear.eyed justice did not hesitate tc
pronounce lawless the deeds which
had state of war for their excuse
they could not hope it would spare
their usurpations ventured in time oi
peace. Wherefore to secure them
selves in their usurpations Of executive
power, and to intrench themselves
against the bolt which sooner or later
was to be delivered from the sovereign
scat of justice, and to shatter the right
arm of their strength and the military
governments of the South, which were
their citadels, the Rump, taking nc
steps backward, advances to the au
dacious usurpation OF the authority oI
the Supreme Court Of the United
States.
Congress is to-day the Judiciary.
The Constitution which gave Con.
crosses the right to be, the laws here.
tofore enacted in pursuance Herewith
the authoritative decisions of a noble
line of justices unimpeached for their
probity and who have judged the peo.
pie righteously-these and all these
the Rump makes less of than the vote
of majority Of its caucus; these and
their authority the Rump usurps.
Thus the legislative power of the
people of ten States, and the executive
power and Judiciary power of the peo.
pie Of thirty-sevcn States, is usurped
by Rump calling itself National
Legislature and making itselfsupreme.
These men are traitors, and this is
Revolution.
The men Of the Rump are traitors
NOT with arms seeking to secede
from one free government in order to
establish another like the first-they
are traitors TO representative govern
mont itself, to the institutions which
alone in modern times have enshrined
civil liberty. They are traitors to the
freedom Of freemen.
What nexty
The Rump Revolutionists leave us
in no doubt. No steps backward.
They tread straightforwardly the path
down which other nations have been
led by other traitors TO the rights, the
liberties, and the governments ofother
peoples The key to all those arsonals
of governmental power, from which