The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-08-20
Great Republican Meeting.

astic meetings ever held in the city of
| Chicago, took place on Thursday evening
of last week. 1t is estimated 10000
persons were present Hon. Matt II.
Carpenter Of this States was one of the
| speakers on the occasion, and delivered g
most mastery address The Chicago
Post condenses the chief points of Mr..
Carpenters address as follows:
ut is evident, from the slightest exam
nation, that none of the powers granted
to the President include that of organizing
State governments AS COMMANDMENTS
i Chief, the President may damolish
governments making war on the Union;
but when the war ends the President can
do nothing towards constructing govern
ment for the conquered, except it may be
to execute some law of Congress. When
war ends the war power slumbers. After
this war ended the President had no more
power over the people of Georgia than
'over the people of New York. In either
State he could execute any law Of Congress
affecting the people of such State, and in
neither could he do any more. But this
point need not be argued further, for the
Democrats concede that the President has
no such authority. 1t remains to inquire
whether Congress has suchpower. There
are several grounds upon which the
power Of Congress over this subject may
safely be rested.
Il. 1t is clear that if this power exists
in the Government of the United States
at all, and is not by express words con-
ferred upon the President or the courts,
or some other officer, then it is vested in
Congress; for the constitution provides
that Congress shall have power to make
all laws which shall be necessary and
proper for carrying into execution the
foregoing powers that is the powers
specifically granted TO Congressl and all
other powers vested by this Constitution
III the Government OF the United States,
or in any department or officer thereof
''2 1t is the undoubted province OF
Congress to admit States to the Union.
Congress having the power to admit
new State Governments, has by fair ira
plication the power to organize new State
Governments to be admitted 1t is uni
yersally admitted by statesmen, and has
been over and over again decided by the
Supreme Court, that the grant of par
ticular power in express words, carries with
it, by implication, the powers to do what
ever is necessary to execute the power ex-
pressly granted. For instance the Consti-
tuition empowers Congress to establish
Post Offices and Post roads, From this
is implied the right of monopoly in mail
carrying; the right to establish and main
tain the complicated postal system now
existing, end to pass laws for that pur
pose. The Constitution is mere chart
of government not code of procedure. |
1t indicates the powers which may be ex-
ercised; not the manner of their exercise. |
"There is a strong disposition in our day
to maintain that Congress has no power
to do anything it never has done, or to ex-
ercise given conceded power in any diff
ferent manner from that in which it has
been exercised; in other words to define
and limit the powers Of the Government,
not by the Constitution, but by what has
been the practice under the Constitution.
If Congress, in the first instance of Ter
ritory which had reached the condition to
be admitted as State, had framed Con-
stitution, and submitted the question to
the people to determine whether they de.
sired to be admitted with such Constitu-
ton, and if decided in the affirmative
Congress had admitted her as State, and
If such had continued to be the practice
of the Government would it have been
subject to any constitutional objection
And it is evident that if such proceeding
would have been constitutional In the
first instance, it would be equally so now.
The course adopted and hitherto pursued,
was such as Congress, in the exercise OF
It's discretion, deemed most advisable
under the circumstances; but if, for any
reason, it is now thought advisable to
vary the practice, it is perfectly constitu I
tional to do SO,
9. Suppose we concede for the purpose
of the argument that the power to admit |
new States, that is,new State governments, |
does not apply to Georgia; and that she
has always been State of the Union. It
is clear that she was a State without
government of any kind, if she wasa State
at all, at the close of the war. Now the
Constitution provides, Article Assertion 4:
'sThe United States shall guarantee
every State in this Union a republican
form of government, and shall protect
each OF them against invasion; and on
application of the Legislature, or of the
Executive, (when the Legislature cannot
be convened, against domestic violence
"And again, Art 1, Sec. 8: That
Congress shall have the power TO make
all Jaws which shall be necessary and
proper for carrying into execution *
all powers vested by this constitution is
in the Government of the United States,
or in any department or Office thereof
"if, as have shown, Georgia, at the
close OF the war, had no civil government
whatever, then it is certain she had not
"a republican form OF Government, and it
was the undoubted right and duty of
Congress to pass laws for the purpose of
pattlRR sssh ReTs<R2sRt there"