The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-03-18

to pronounce his sentence, driven from
place and power in disgrace. They have
in time of peace increased the national
debt BY reckless expenditure of the public
moneys, and thus added to the burdens
which already weigh upon the people.
They have permitted the nation to suffer
the evils of q deranged currency, to The
enhancement in price Of all the necesea-
ries oflifo. They have maintained large
standing army for the enforcement oftheir
measures of oppression. They have en-
gagged in class legislation, and built up and
encouraged mopopolies, that the few might
be enriched at the expense of the many.
TAey have failed to act upon important
treaties, thereby endangering our present
peaceful relations with foreign powers.
Their course of usurpatien has not been
limited to inroads upon the Executive De.
partment
By unconstitutional and oppressive
enactments, the people Of ten States OF
the Union have been reduced to a. condi-
ton more intolerable than that from
which the patriots of the Revolution re-
belled. Millions of American citizens can
now say of their oppressors, with more
truth than our fathers did of British ty-
rants, that they have forbidden the gov
ern0rs to pass laws of immediate and
pressing Importance, unless suspended un-
Ill their assent should be obtaihed;" that
they have "refuscd to pass other laws for
the accommodation of large districts ofpeo-
nile unless those people would relinquish
the right of representation in the Legis.
latare-ss right inestimable to them, and
formidable to tyrants only;" that they
have "made judges dependent upon their
will alone for their Offices, and the amount
and payment OF their salaries" that they
have "erected multitude of new offices,
and sent hither swarms of officers to
harass our people and eat out their sub
stance y that they have affected to rem
der the military Independent of and su-
perior TO tho civil power" omblned with
others to subject US to Jurisdiction
foreign to our Constitution, and unac-
knowledged by our laws ,'"quartered large
bodies of armed troops among us," pro
tccted them by mock trial from punish
mcnt for any murders which they should
commit on the Inhabitants of these
States" imposed stakes upon US without
our consent" "deprived US IN many cases
of tho benefit Of trial by jury" "takcn
away our charters, excited domestic in
surrection amongst us, abolished our most
valuable laws, altered fundamentally the
forms of our Government, suspended our
own Legislatures, and declared them
selves invested with power to leglslate tor
US i'm all cases whatsoever"
This catalogue OF. crimes, long as it Is,
is not yet complete. The constitution
vests the judicial power of the United
States ''in one Supreme Court" whose ju-
ris,liction "shall extend to all cases aris-
ing under. this Constitution" and "ths
laws of tho United States" Encouraged
by this promise of refuge from tyranny,
citizen Of the United States who, by
the order OF military commander given,
under the sanction ot' u cruel and deliber.
ate edict of Congress, had been denied
the constitutional rights of liberty of con-
science, freedom of the press and ofspecch,
personal freedom from military arrest of
being held to answer for crime only upon
presentmcrt and Indictment, OF trial by
Jury. of the writ of ha beas corpus, and
the protection OF civil and constitutional
governments citizen, thus deeply wrong"
ed, appeals to the Supreme Court for the
protection guaranteed 10 him by tho or
ganic law Of the land. At once fierce
and excited majority, by. the ruthless
hand of legislative power, stripped the
ermine from the judges, transferred the
sword Of justice to tho General, and re-
manded the oppressed citizen to degra-
dation and bondage worse than death.
1t Will also be recorded as one Of the
marvels of the times, that party claim
ing for itself monopoly Of consistency
and patriotism, and boasling, too, Of its
unlimited sway, endeavorcd, by costly
and deliberate trial, to impeach one who
defended tho Constitution and the Union
not only throughout the war Of the re-
bellion, but during his whole term of
Office as Chief Magistrate; but at tho same
time could find no warrant or means ut
their command to bring to trial even the
chief of the rebellion. Indeed, the re-
markable failures in his case were SO OIL
ten repeated that for propriety's sake, if
for no other reason, it became at last nee
essary to extend TO him an unconditional
pardon. What more plainly than this IL
iustrates the extremity of party manage
ment and Inconsistency on the one hand,
and Of faction, vindictivencss and intoler7
ance ON the other? Patriotism will hardly
be. encouraged when. in such record, it
sees that it's instant reward may be the
most viralent party abuse and obloquy, it
not attempted disgrace. Instead ofseek-
ing ITO make treason odious,' it would in
truth seem TO have been their purpose
rather to make the defence of tho Consti-
tuition and the Union . crime, and to
punish fidelity to an oath ofoffice, If coun-
ter to marty dictation. by all the mcans at