The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-12-30

41sAs 1870 va
REPRESENTATIVES,.
il J.6srapa xls't -, he should havs
ed, that = Ansui4an President 10 poor
crSss betwsnn Democratic ruler and Poltah
King. JoAn Adaas and the Fsdsraliss With
their liverrss aud eoachss- and sour tFisd -
make him he Poiish King: JsGsrson tried
70 make hin denocrsh0 rnlsr.
Ia the master Of granting pafdons the 70.
lin King part Of the American President -
set4s itself.
There ID IN imperative necessity that tho,
pAsdoning power should, b. amending the
Constitution, be transferred from the Presi-
dent TO Congress. In note to Chitty's
Hlackstons it ID seid Of the power to grant
psrdons I'm ~ United States il u the
puerosativscf the President" Webster Aysl
the word ..Prerogavs, Is fused generally
o. an official and bel edsary right which msy
be asserted without usEioa, and for the ex-
e.cise Of which thti . j, no responsibility e
a:countahility q 70 the fact snd manner Of.
ito exseifsAs sN1t W. an1Anefissn Pres
idens unless he BE- Polish King should have
sach An irresponsible and Unlimited right,
saelpt y euf lind, DO nsds SaeisitdGily
iSae6hN 1Esa 5EAEs1 l44g
Blackstone says All offences are either
against the Kings peace. or his crown AID
dignity; and bro q Laid in svesy Indictment,
Forthough in their consequences they general
y seem, Except in the case oftreason and .
very few oahArs,) TO be rather offences
against tho Kingdom than the King. Yet -
this public, which 10 Al. invisible body, has
delegated oil ita power and rights with regard
70 the execution Of the laws to one visibles
magistrate ell afronts Of that power, and
bAa6ASs IF those rights, are Immediately
offences against him to whom they ore 90
AsiSo1 ~ public. He b, therefore,
the proper person to prosecute for oil public
ssGsnese ~ hreschea III ~ peaO, bsins
the person injured in the eye of the law. =
II Asd hence also Arises another
branch Of the (King'D prerosasive-that Of
.yfsbnisg q6eaces; for i i reasonable that
IL only rho L injured should hare tie Socer
.ef Jorgirtng." Notice the exception Black
Itone makes 81 treason, for that, ~ he shows
elsewhere, i an offense solely against the
K1n03 nUs syAiast the public.
Now is that tho theory Of this Govern
aniuea u treason An ofenss asssiast he
President, or against tho peoplef Was
sAadfsw Johnson who Va solely injured BY
the treason Of JEFF. Davis and his confede-
saBea nd sho ghas hence reasonably the
right to forgive? or was it the people Of the
Listed States. Who wrote the history Of those
four years in blood in order 10 put down that
treason? Treason is an offence against the
sovereignty; is it Andrew johnson or the
peopls Inst il sovereign
De Lolme, in his treatise on the English
'Cohstitatiou says that 'sths reason the King
is deemed to be directly concerned in ell
public offences, Involving the right TO par
don those ofencep,) and therefore that pros
ecutions for them are to be carried on in his
same, arises from the circumstance Of the
Kios's being considered tho universal pros
prietor ofthe Kingdom"
: 1sTMs President Me proprietor of tbs
United 6tstess
The Constitutional provision il that ths
President ashall have power to grant re-
prievsa and psrdons for offences against the
United States, except in cases Of imped0h.
meat" In The Fsdssal Convention y Ap-
pears from the journal Of the proceedings
s'1t Was moved aud seconded to insert the
words after conv,ction,' after tho words
'reprieyes and psrdons' " in the above arti.
Gle, but the motion was withdrawn, on what
grounds is not sisted.
Every pardon = rays Bowler ia his Law
Dictionary, granted TO the guilty is IN dero-
sstion Of the law; if the pardon be equitable,
III Law 10 bsd; fos whore legislation and the
administration Of the lsw are perfect, par
dons must be violation Of the law"
To Blaskstoae it appeared thst--''in de-
mocraciss thispoint Of pardon can nevdr
subsist" This was inconsequential logic:
It should exist in every nation but in de-
mozAy i SHOULD rest entirely With the leg
islatdre asshe direct representatives of tho
people whose, sovereignty is offended BY
Z drii3s. afI9ff;H
II vas prerogative Of the English Kings
tpdispezss Miik hws and grant pardons.
Tho arbitrary and dangerous assertion Of
) those preroxatives endangered the tenure Of
many British sovereigns, and lead to the Rev
olation OF 1888, according TO Hallam.
!. An underlined pardoning power il given the
President BY the Constitution. The gin is
nnsafe and dangerous because of ito inde6-
niteness, because Of its liability to perverted
uss By N internal President like Andrew
johnson, bseanse such prerogative in the
Executive 10 not democratic, because since
trpAaon Affects The peoples sovereignty, the
pasdoa II Il shodld rest exclusively with the
legislatsp - Ne peoples direct representa-
tive; and because some future democratic
President Of whom Andrew johnson may Be
taken = : semIsA may = himself in ! trea>
scSa19 and Ins1ea ba sonfeds-
!. r3ss 16sh bsfore and after he offence.
As long q there is possibility Of having :
President Who was educated in the school Of
tbs S1tanic Democracy, il Isn't safe 70 have
the pardoning power Is preroeative Of the
Presidens. II would be constantly used q
an actof6saeste dsmscrAsic trsAsons. Be-
aides such .. prerogative % vested, doesn't
bs6t free government
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y 096g9b MrIN NJ tomiofs Of auditors 10
concerned. "You are frozen in Winter and
roasted in summer" says one indignant aud.
itot. Tksu fAvoritsism u shown il the dis
.ribution Of seats, under the feeling system.
the "pit-stalls" and private boxes. Even
5 these ere Occasionally pervsdsd By On or.
! der suggestive cfmice, and I'm soine cases
not unacquainted With predatory tribes. Of
heas. NJ In s.ah parts Of the house discomfort
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