The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-05-11
The New Government OF tho So-called
United sStntes, and Its Firat cdict.L.kl

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f. 1t is grave and. startling thing to know
that the present Government of the United
States Is one unknown to the Constitution.
and never designed by the people It is a
Government created during aud since the
war by the radical leaders. 1t consists sub
stantially of closed caucus, controlled by
those leaders. It is, consequently, real
| oligarchy.
| The so-called President of this new con-
Germ, by signing the tenure Of Office Act, the
result of conspiracy between the two
Houses of Congress to test his fealty to
them, has virtually abandoned the Office
described in the Constitution as a co-ordi-
nate and independent department of the
Government of the United States, and sur.
rendered to the oligarchs tho executive
powers lodged in lis hands by the people.
| And the Supreme Court, by disthissing
tho appeal in the McArdle case, has also
subsequently placed itself at the feet of
! the usurpers. 1t cannot be denied that
| this Court, the chief tribunal of the Judi
ciary Department, heretofore always sup
posed to be q separate, distinct and co-or-
dinate department of the Government. has
hagtiously surrendered it's independent
powers On question of jurisdiction to the
''thirty tyrants."
From these facts we repeat that the Go.
vernment of the country is now without
| constitutional limitations or meaning, and
| is only an arbitrary exposition of the whims.
passions and mercenary impulses of certain
men, standing as an oligarchy in control of
affairs
The people, TINS betrayed by the Presi
dent and the Supreme Court, seem inca
pable of reacting from the verge of perils
that threaten the determination of all their
liberties. Demoralized by the follies and
FATALITIES into which they have been Sc
duced, tainted with corruption, mad with
mammon- worship, and accustomed 10 hur-
ran = at the polls, and to imagine they were
really controlling and governing, when, in
fact, they were the merest tools of those
conspiring against their best interests and
most precious rights, they appear ut length
| utterly unable to take the necessary steps
Tor their future protection and safety Tie
people themselves have become cowardly
and conscence-stricken, and are afraid to
resort to their physical force to rescue their
rights and liberties, preferrng to calculate
the price of liberty in dollars aud cents,
and preferring to sell it for the pleasures of
peace, sensuality, and the TEMPORARY pos
session of bestial enjoyments
Under these circumstances, the so.called
United States are fast becoming moral
spectacle for the dersion of the world, and
are gradually drifting to the ruin and de-
gradation which have heretofore ovcrtaken
SO many other nations in the midst of their
| ignorance, depravity, and blasphemous con-
| ccit
| We affirm that the new Government of
the so-called United States is false pre-
tense; that it is equally fraud and a ty-
] ranny.
The deluded people imagine they have q
PRESIDENT, administering certain affairs sup
posed to be entrusted to him by the require
| ments OF the fundamental laws before their
subversiOn. Instead of this executive Of
ficer, as thus imagined, there is n poor
creature wearing upon his neck in the
White House the collar Of the radical oil
garchs in Congress, and the uniform of the
thirty tyrants."
The deluded people also have m impress
sion that there is an independent judiciary.
But here they are equally mastaken through
their imaginative natures The Supreme
Court, instead of constituting necessary
part OF our once grand political system, has
become political courtier, n Congressional
Jester, the instrument of the oligarchy, q
mere exponent OF petty matters of con-
| tract
After the first spasmodic demons tration
made by our so-called President and Chief
Magistrate and Commander in- Chief against
his radical masters in the Congress, and its lu-
dicrous denOuement, having excited the con-
uons wonder of the oligarchs, and like some
tempt truculent school-boy perceiving no es-
cape from the masters birch, except by fawn-
Ing, ho hastened to make amends, and, as evil
denoe of his complete submission, he pro-
ceeded to appoint to Office the basest and
most offensive men and women, and to sign
away his rights as President, to iguore aud
fasify his commission as Chief Magistrate,
and to abuse the trust of his country as its
executive officer, by affixing his signature to
letter OF abdication in the shape of the
tenure Of Office bill Having thus fully sub
mitted and delivered mp to their opponents
that faction in the radical party he especial
y represented, he was graclously informed
that the oligarchs were now prepared to al