The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-03-12
FRIDAY, MARCH u. 1869.

tufueQ Wltu Gl6 executives reasons 10
Withholding bis signature, It ought to b,
immediately certified to the Supfem,
j Court of the United States for its decis
son, fits constitutionality shall be de
lclared by that tribunal, it should ther
become a law; but If the decision j
otherwise, it should fail without powe
in Congress to Fe-enact it. In cases il
which the vote rests upon hasty and in
I considerate legislation, and in which n,
constitutional question is involved,
would not change the fundamental law
for in such cases no permanent evil car
be incorporated in the federal system
1t is obvious that without such al
amendment the government as it exis
ted under the constitution prior to tht
rebellion, may be wholly subverted snC
lloYerthrown by atwotbirds majority II
Congress. 1t is not, therefore, Difficult
to see how easily and rapidly the peo
pie may lose-shall I not say, hay,
lost-their liberties by an unchecked
and uncomfortable majority in the Law
making power, and whenever deprived
of their rights how poWerless they are
to regain them.
Let Us turn for a moment to the his
tory of the majority in Congress which
has acted in such utter disregard Of the
leonstitution. While public attention
has been carefully and constantly turn
ed to the past and expiated sins of the
South, the servants Of the people in
high places have boldly outraged their
trust, broken their oaths of Obedience,
and undermined the very foundations
oflberty, justice, and good government
When the rebellion was being suppress
sed by the volunteered services Of pat
triot soldiers, amid the dangers Of the
battle field, these men crept without
lquestion into place and power in the
national councils. After all danger had
passed, when no armed foe remained,
when a penitent people bowed their
heads to the flag and renewed their al
llegiance to the government of the
United States; then it was that pretend
ed patriots appeared before the nation
and began to pirate about the thousands
of lives and millions of treasure sacri-
feed in the suppression of the rebellion.
They have since persistently sought to
infame the prejudice engendered be-
tween the sections to retard the restora-
ton Of peace and harmony, and by every
means to keep open and exposed to the
poisonous breath of party passion the
terrible wounds Of a four years war
They have prevented the return of peace
and the restoration of the Union in
every way; rendered delusive the pur-
poses, promises, and pledges by which
the army was marshalled, treason re-
buked, and rebellion crushed and made
the liberties of the people and the rights
and powers of the President objects of
constant attack. They have wrested
from the President his constitutional
power Of the supreme command of the
army and navy. They have destroyed
the strength of the executive depart
ment by making subordinate officers
independent of and able to defy their
chief magistrate. They have attempted
to place the President under the power
of a bold, defiant, and trsacherous cab
met officer. They have robbed the ex-
eeutive Of the prerogative of pardon;
rendered null and void acts Of clemency
granted to thousands of persons under
the provisions Of the constitution; and
committed gross usurpstion by legisla-
tive attempts to exercise this power in
favor of party sdherauts. They have
ccuspired to change the system of our
by prefering charges
against the President in the form of ar
iicles Of impeachment and contemplate
ing before hearing or trial that he should |
be placed under arrest held in durance,
md, when it became their pleasure to
pronounce his sentence, driven from
place and power in disgrace. They
nave in time of peace increased the
rational debt by a reckless expenditure
# public moneys, and thus added TO
he burdens which already weigh upon
he people. They have permitted the
lation to suffer the evils of deranged /
to the enhancement in price I
f all the neeessaries of life. They have
maintained large standing army for
he enforcement of their measures of
oppression. They have engaged in
lass legislation; built and encouraged
nonopolies that the few might be en-
lehed at the expense of the many /
hey have failed to act upon important
thereby endangering our peace L
al relations with foreign powers. Il
Their course of usurpation has not |
cen limited to inrods upon the execu- &
We department. By unconstitutional e
nd oppressive enactments the people Ie
ten States Of the Union have been '
sduced to condition more intolerable 6
ian that from which the patriots of the 1t
evolution rebelled. Millions of Amer. S
an citizens can now say of their op- il
ressors, with more truth than our t
thers did Of British tyrants, that they q
ave forbidden the governments to c
ass laws of immediate and pressing e
lportance unless suspended until their Il
sent should be obtained )" that they [
ave ''refused to pass other laws for the 81
eommodstinn of large districts of peo= 81
g unless those people would relinquish "a
e right Of representation 10 the Leg Al
ature, right inestimsble to them and n
rmidable to tyrants only" that they IA
ave made judges dependent on their le
il alone for their tenure of officers and dl
9 amaqnt and payment of their sala- OF
Isl" that they have "erected a multi CO
de Of new offices, and sent hitheF Vi
arms of officers to harsss our people ar
d eat out their subsistence" that ca
sy have "afected to render the mill ru
y independent aud superior to the co
Il powers, combined with others to frC
1ject US to a Jurisdiction foreign to ca
r constitution, and unscknowledged ial
our laws; quartered large bodies of tiy
ned troops among US; protected them fgl
q mock trial from punishment for tel
2 murder which they should COM ceI
on the inhabitants; imposed taxes sio
IN us without our consentI deprived er,
IN many cases of trial by jury; tax sh,
away our charters; excited domes- to
direction among US; abolished our the
st valuable laws; altered fundamen- bes
the forms Of our government ! sus- bel
ded our own legislatures, and de- she
ed themselves invested with power to
egislste for US in all cases whatso- the