The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-12-30
nAvENNA. THURSDAY. DEG. 80, 1859.

The Consumnation of tho Georgia outrage.
A State Kicked out of the Uninon by
the Radical Rump,
Congress, previous to its adjourn
ment for a holiday 'bum,' filled the
measure of its infamy by passing the
"Georgia Bill" which has been sign
ed by his royal highness, Ulysses the
first, and that State has been remand
ed TO Provisional Government and
placed under the rule of that g trian-
gular piece of steel, called bayonet,"
that. highest Radical idea of a Gre
publican form of government" This
is one of the most infamous acts ever
perpetratcd by the Radical Rump. 1t
is but about year since Georgia was
reconstructed in strict accordance with
the Radical formula, but because her
Legislature, in the exercise of its con-
stitutional privilege of determining
the question of the election and quail
fication of its own members, just as
every other state has done since the or
ganization of the Feeeral Government,
rejected the negroes from that body,
and because her Legislature refused
to obey the tyrannical dictation of the
Jacobins by ratifying the fifteenth
amendment swindle, she is now kick
ed out of the Union by the Radical
Rump and graciously told that she
must remain out until she has accept
ed negro equality for herself and be-
come instrumental in depriving other
States of rights they expressly reserv-
ed to themselves respectively when the
Federal Union was formed, and fore
ing that nefarious measure upon them
against their. known will. AS CO.
temporary well remarks, " If the fede-
raj constitution were of any practical
and positive force over Congress, of
course no one of that body would
talk about remanding States back to
provisional governments; but the will
of the majority in Congress is the only.
limit to its authority ;-and that will
is restrained and governed simply by
the party's needs. Such, then, is the
lamentable and shifting character of
the American government. To-day it
is one thing; tomorrow, it is another
and perhaps directly the opposite
thing y f,4as .s .sglneai il. e
These Radical members of Congress
have taken an Doth to support the con-
stitution of the United States, and yet
they openly violate that instrument
by oyerthrowing the government of a
State and placing her people under
the .tyrannical rule of military despot-
ism-a State that had free and inde-
pendent government before the Fede-
raj Union was organized or had a
name among the nations of the earth.
This act is crime unparalleled even
in the black record of the Radical par
ty during the. last eight years. 1t is
one the consequences of which are
not confined to the limits of the
State that has been thus deprived of
her ancient rights and privileges and
thrust out of the Union, but it threat
ems the freedom and independence OF
all the States and places the perpetuity
of the Union at the tender mercy OF
set of men who exhibit reckless
disregard of their obligations to main:
tain the constitution, by virtue OF
which alone the Union has an exist
ence. -
What was Congress designed to be /!
In general terms, a legislature for all
the States; chosen by the States to dc
their will. But what has it become
The master of the States; wherein
three sections will combine against
one, and thirty States against seven
Now the West, the East and the NORTH
unite against the South, to build uI
those sections the expense of tht
latter. At some future time, othel
combinations may be, and probabl!
will be, formed against some othel
section very likely New England
may be the next victim of Congress
sional usurpation and manipulation
Then, after that some other; and thu
continual warning will be kept up un
til either the Union is really destroyed
or until one section shall become NOR
powerful than all the others and shal
then successfully bid them defiance.
But what an insane system of gov
ernment is that which is subject to tn
control of sectional selfshness an
sectional revenges. 1t is not a system
and no government can long exist un
der such circumstances; for they vii
destroy all unity of feeling, of interesr
and of purpose, and though there ma
be an outward semblance of unior
the first attack upon the structure wi
demonstrate its weakness and expos
the discord its elements. 10
These things are all in the hands c
the people. With them rest the cor
sequences and the future of this coul
try. They are free-will agents, an
they can either remand the Feder'
Government back to the fold of I'll
constitution and the customs of thos
who framed it, or they can permit th'
government to be overthrown an
some irresponsible and shifting wi
of majority to be the sole basis of
our governmental authority.
Bingham and the Georgia Bill.
When any measure of the Jacobil
is of such character as to receive Il
dissent of John a. Bingham it mu
be indeed odious. Here is what
said of the bill to again remand Geo
gia to provisional government al
place her under the mild rule of mi
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