Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-08-05

nth can vote tor Sey-
Cam. and Blair after reading this speech, we
vote understand how he can justify such a
his MS conscience or his sense of duty to
the all honest Democrats to consider
as OF the Democratic doctrines,
Tho rounded by these southern fire caters.
sou,k now no state governments in the
TIL accept those organized by Congress
orr, Sident, hostile as he is to these gov
Ats' has been obliged to recognize them,
!, 40 10 allow them to be maintained bv
'iie military forces of which he is ~--"mander-
In-chief- The goyern--.ss organized by
Mr. johnson have been as eHectualIy put |
aside. as were the rebel governments ~~hiel.
preceded them, and the governments recog-
nized by Congress are the only ones WHICH,
under the constitution, can be recognized as
-alid by the other departments OF the federal
government. On this point we copy part of
an irticle which appeared in the editorial
columns of the n. Y. World, the leading
organ Of the Democrats in the country no |
longe- ago than the 18th of last June:
. Still another object which the RepubI- |
cans will accomplish by the admission of
those states, is to secure the federal guaranty
Tor the new state governments. The pro-
vision OF the constitution respecting guaran-
ties, is this: The United States shall
guaranty 10 every state in the Union Re
Pupllcan form of government and shall
project each OF them against INVASION and
on APPLICATION of the legislature or of the er-
tenioe, 'rhen The legislature cannot be conuened,
against domestic riolence' Bv the admission
are pTse states, their existing governments
clause OF this gu;iI the operation of the last
the act of 1T95, passed to carst section of
guaranty. is in these terms: In case OF lie
saSUrTecfioH IN Hny state against the oorern-
nleHt Hereof, it shall be lawful for the Pres;-
dent OF the nited States, on application of
the legislature of such state or of tho
executive when the legislature cannot he
convened, to call forth such number of the
militia as he may judge sufficient
u suppress such Insurrection- The act of |
lS07 authorizes him to the army and |
navy for the same purpose. In the Dorr
it was decided by the Supreme Court.
Chief-Justice fancy delivering the opinion.
that ne STATE government entitled TO this pro
tecfi0a IS the enc lrhich is recognized bv Com
ZTeSS M The admission of senator's and
represeafatices chosen under H. The guaranty
Of the Constitution, the laws for enforcing
1t. the decision OF the Supreme Court. and
the fact Of the admission of senators and
representatives chosen under the new gov
ernments. make complete chain of leqai {
obligations, blHding the federal authority 10 I
sustain the mar governments against any
attempts 10 change them lrith0W their consent
We should be glad TO this argument re-
iuted, but do mol 5eaere that 1t can BE-. If
not. an further opposition 10 those governments a
srzH n, Iale o4a HuIGf0rY. and can have no !
o 9TH. ette@' than to prevent the Democratic
par y getting control OF them by success in
the southern elections. As we cannot an
initiate obstacles by closing our eyes we
may a. we'll take their full measure and
consult how we may flank what we cannot
surmOunt.' =
The object of the World in thus presenting
this unanswerable argument for the validity
OF such state governments might be recog
nIzed by Congress, to induce its party
II possible, to accept the inevitable and make
the fight the coming fall upon living rather |
than dead issues. The party, however, has |
chosen different ground Wade Hampton |
desired to have the convention declare that |
all state governments since 1865 were invalid,
and not to be recognized by Democratic adj
mInistration- Northern Democrats told him
. they 1rere irihfng 10 gre him everything he
desired, but it wouldn't be policy to say
quite that in the platform but they would
say, and did say-which was certainly salts
factory to Hampton and his friends that
the reconstruction acts are revolutionary
unconstitutional and void The :. immense
cheering = which greeted this announcement
in Charleston, ). c., shows how rebels under
stand the Democratic position and the ar
Sument which we have copied from the World
shows how revolutionary the Democratic
platform is.
We have already had occasion to comment
upon Blair's threat of executive interference
against the present state governments We
get also from Washington, and from Demo-
cratic sources, hints of what this Democratic
scheme of revolution contemplates even in
advance of the Inauguration of Democratic
PRESIDENT such unhappy event should
ever occur. 1t is said President johnson,
encouraged by the declarations of the Demo-
cratic platform, is already considering wheth-
er he will in any way recognize the present
state governments. In his message vetoingi
the electoral college bill, he declared that in 1
his opinion these organizations were Illegal s
and that his own governments-dead and
I..ri~I .I~y ...v-wcre the only ones I'M s
der which electors for president and vice S
president could be lawfully chosen 1t is a
SAID he Is about Withdrawing the troops
wholly. or nearly so, from these states, thus y
leaving no security for the maintenance of | i
the authority of the new governments. excent 0
those governments themselves If Wade U
Hampton and his friends should think host .
u STIR mp domestic instruction against tho a
authorities in South Carolina, under cover of O
the names of the state officers displaced bv
congressional reconstruction, johnson and :
the Democrats would at once recognize the Il
Instruction the lawful government and Il
and the revolutionary movement with federal u
troops, 1T called upon. This would be antic- =
Ipating Blair's method, or rather it would | S
be doing what Blair would do if he were now a
in Johnson's place d
We advise our readers that the Democracy 81
ana the renels are conspiring to break the a
peace-oi the country. If the new rebellion u
IS met IN any tImid or temporizing spirit. it n
VIII get strength and plot treason as earn b
estiy as did the old rebellion in 1860. IL has OF
johnson whom it hopes to use. as it then re
hoped TO use, and did use Buchanan. Jt q
raises ITS old battle cry, and rehearses its old m
1t eulogizes the dead rebelIior oh
and teaches Its children to lisp the names of
the most conspicuous traitors 1t brings l,
back from Democratic conventions tidinps ne