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

What nexts The Rump revolutionists
leave us in no doubt, No steps back.
ward. They tread straightforwardIy the
path down which other nations have been
led BY other traitors to the rights, the lib.
critics, and improvements Of other people.
The key to all those arsenals of govern.
mental power, from which they are eject
ing the lawful custodians, they propose to |
surrender to General Grant. He is named |
by his Office in the. latest reconstruction
bill. Him they load with their plumber,
and their stolen badges of authority.
What should now hinder the House Of
Representative from dissolving the Sen.
ate Or what hereafter should hinder Gen.
eral Grant from dispensing both. Not the
supreme law, for they may as well abdi-
cate the power the possess, as usurp those
with which they were never endowed; and
he may as well profit by his own usurpa-
tons as consent to profit by theirs. 1t is
not more fragrant violation of the su-
preme law to abolish branch OF the Leg
islature than to take into the custody of
both branches powers elsewhere deposited
to be the check and balance upon theirs.
And when General Grant accepts at the
hands Of the reyolutionists Of the Rump
these powers usurped from the Executive
and usurped from the Judiciary, he will
have deprived the country and Congress
itself Of the only guarantee which it is
possible for him to give, that he will not
E refuse to lay them down, that he will not
attempt theirs also.
II What next? The people next Novem.
!. Der viii answer that. They will neither
have Q Rump Congress supreme over them
J or Military Dictatorship in the person
Of General Grant. Ten times more than
/ the founders of our Government dreaded
i from the open or secret monarchists o.
!, l78s, these revolutionists have actually
, accomplished by affirmative Legislation
f towards breaking down the safeguards o
a Republican selfgovernment But the at
J, tempts which were frustrated then have
e less prospects Of 6nal success now. Gen
Grafton after generation has enjoyed th'
q blessings Of liberty, learned to use an'
u prize them, and transmitted them 70 thei
!. children. The people Of 1888 have com
d into that great inheritance, and will nc
long be dispossessed oft. Nor viii thos
r who have left their native lands to share
W with us whom sharing does not impovreisl
IN consent to the the sacrifice Of their rigf
e. and our birthright.
y The people of the y nited States, be
= known to these revolutionists of the RUM
10 regard the form Of their Government an
Va the natural three,fold division of its gran
y. ed powers, as the chief security of the
NC laws and liberties, next to their own dete
~ mined will. They conceive that that e
- gagement and solemn compact of the pc
- pie, the Constitution, obliges the constit
10 ent parts of the nation to hold their publ
faith with each other, the Legislative wi
Ut the Executive and the Judiciary, obhg
~ each to maintain the others dutifully in |
NJ undiminished function and authority.
u The people Of the United States, be
800 known to these usurpers of the Rump,
gu it known to all wouldbe military dictator
aw a look upon President johnson with all J
'oi faults and whatever his errors, if errc
i'u there have been, as their lawful and chos
me Chief Magistrate; upon the Justices oft
YES Supreme Court as the highest expounde
er' Of their laws and sovereign will upon :
.ns ' powers lodged with them and him as t
~ pledge and not the peril of their liberti
'nu Him and them in all their rightfal a
g'h granted authority they will uphold, s,
tne port and defend, whosesoever bodies {
mp carried to jail, whosesoeyer necks
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