The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1868-10-17
NO.l5..
Frank BTatr GaIIanlIy Meets
Ehe Issue.

Among the charges the rad calls
bring against General Frank 7. BlaN
is that Of being revolutionst ID
recent speech he thus gala udy
meets it;
We'll, now, my follow citizens, ]
have been charged by the oratioa Of
this radical party, large and snat ], Of
every grade, Senator'S, ex-Sena tors,
and ex Secretaries Of the Departments,
| have been charged with being cApa,
Bile ol renewing the rebellion with
being a revolutioust. hayea WORD
to say upon that subject. The alleo
cation to which / allude, my friends,
made by the radicals, and to hicb
claim your atteBtion has OrE-isen
from letter written by me anterior,
! to the meeting of the New York Con
vcntion, in which | declared that re-
construction acts passed by the Erag,
ment Of Congress at Washing ton,
latter the exclusion Of one-third Of the
States out of the Union, are IN con,
stitutional null and void, and that
their acts have been so decidedly the
Supreme Court Of the United Sti4tos
! wrote the letter with a full con,
sciousness ofits meaning, ! Ireiterate
lit now, that those acts are not aonly
null and void that they have Eoecn
'sodecided by the Supreme CourE Of
Ithe United States but it is also, ID
my opinion, the duty of tho Prcsi tcut
Of the United States in confor unity
with his oath Of Office, to mantaiR the
Constitution tits his duty, after such
a deeisian by the Supreme Court, to
see that the laws are not uted
The President would violate his
oath Of office if he should exert the
authority Of the Presidential oiHczs for
the execution Of laws decided to be
unconstitutional by the Supreme sout
aud also by the people Of the Uaited
States.
"But my fellow>citizens, those Of
us that hold these opinions and do,
bounced as revolutionists, bee ause
we say that. Congress can not oyer,
throw the Constitution; because We
say that the judgement Of the Supreme
Court ought to be executed bee au@
We hold that the President of the
United States ought to comply with
his oath Of office, and support the
! Constitution OF the United States,
and because we say, tellow.citizens,
that the will Of the people Of the
United States ought and shall be
executed. The whole county says
that these men have violated tho Con-
stitu ion in these reconstruction acts
The Constitution of the United States
provides that the military authority
shall always be subordinate to the
civil authority, and yet, in defiance of
ofthis plain dec aration Of the gou,
Istitution, this Rump Congress has
subycrted civil governments in ten
States, an sappanted them with
military dospotism. Is that con.
stitutionul or not Is that nota sub
version of the Constitution, when the
Constitution requires that the military
shall be subordinate to the civil
authority? But Rump 0oO8ress
have setup into a government the
earpet,baggefs ofthe South. Do you
mean to say that the decision Of the
Supreme Court and the will of the
people are to be maintained? Why
then are you revolutionist You
set yourselfup against the aotioE1 Of
the Immaculate Congress to say that
their Judgement can be broush in
question anywhere, or that the poo,
pie shall have any authority to op.
pose what they have DONE"