The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-02-24

atIcduy tnFeateHeu war upon UcDcral
Grant if he should not succumb to
their measures and men.
1t is doubtless to this combination
that General Grant rcfers. EIo can
refer to no other.
But in the face of this, no aflirms,
CT will be governed by my own ideas
of the fitness of tho men for the work
they will have to perform"
General Grant certainly has spoken
right TO the point. He has aunounc-
ed in plain language, both to Con-
gress, and tho country, not only to
the fact that he is President, but the
manner in which he intends to dis
charge it's duties.
The Richmond Dispatch, says: eff
General Grant means what he says,
and he has not been in the habit of
saying what he does not mean, his
speech indicates great deal. 1t has
all the iron of jackson. There is
certainly soon to be man in the
Presidential chair. His verbal mes
sage of Saturday to Congress will fall
like a bomb in that body. They will
understand that he means, if he can,
to meet that necessity Of revolution
that the hero of it shall bring order
out of the chaos which revolution pro-
duces."
The best evidence of it's effect is
that at the conclusion of his remarks,
Mr.. Pruyn, tho Democratic member
of the Committee, advanced and said,
that although he and his party had
opposed General Grant for the Presi-
dcncy, h, could count upon their sup
port in carrying out the policy which
had just been announced. Charles-
ton Courier.
CoNsrITUrioNAL AENDMENT.-It
was in a discussion on the proposed
constitutional amendment, on the floor
of the Senate, that Mr.. Drake made
his remarkable avowal.
We present brief extract af the
debate:
"Mr. Doolittle said it was essential
to the continued existence Of our Gov
ernment that the rights of States
should be recognized as we'll as the
rights of the Federal Government. In
the course of his remarks he expressed
the opinion that if the Supreme Court
had, decided, in the McArdle case,
that the military by which he (NIc~
Ardle) was tried was unconstitution-
al, the Chief Justice would have been
nominated at New York for Presi-
dent, and would have been elected.
"Mr. Drake asked him whether, if
the Court had declared the Acts of
Congress unconstitutional, that deci-
would have been of any force.
"NIr. Doolittlo thought it would,
and would have been acquiesced in
by all departments of tho Govern
! nlent.
Mr.. Drake denied that the Supreme
; Court had a constitutional right, under
any circumstances, to pronounce any
act of Congress unconstitutional.
Mr.. Whyte, of Maryland, asked him
whether, if the Supreme Court could
decide that the legal-tender act was
unconstitutional, the decision ought
/ to be respected.
"Mr. Drake replied, not at all and
he would be found standing to his po-
sition. and both Houses of Congress
| would have to come to that position
at last, or else sweep from the bench
of the Supreme Court the men who
dare attempt to cripple, by their judi
cial decisions, the law-making power
/ Of the country"
Mr.. brakes position is clearly un-
tenable. His language is not that of
! o statesman. It is the utterranoe of
a partisan spirit. 1t is the bold, un-
Unstable appeal to revolution and
anarchy.