The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-03-05
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.


~ washington, proposed two amend
meniS TO the Constitution Of this STATE
ono To- strike out the word "male.'
and the other 10 strike out the word
white" The Legislature Of ISL,
however. refused to concur in these
amendments. and hence they have
been nipped like carly buds by un-
timely rros,s. To the party of progress
and treat moral ideas, these evidences
ol returning reason and sober second
thought are not cheering signs
for their future political ascend
eucv. as they portend a reaction
which, when once fully inaugurated.
will carry the nation back TO the prin-
ciples on which the Government was
originally founded. All the lessons
Of the past teach that revolutionary
parties must go forward continually
with new changes to stimulate, charm
aud attract the minimizing multitude
who do the bidding of their ambitious
leaders, or else they fall into ruins
and dissolve into nothingness. Not
only in the state OF Nevada has the
revolutionary party spent is force, hut
the signs of the times in the East bring
cheering evidences that there too a
change has comG upon the hearts of
the people; that the ebb tide or public
opinion i drifting into more healthy
channels; that the time is rapidly APP
preaching when the sober Judgment
of the people will not only condemn
with an awful judgment the high
carnival of political crimes into which
the nation has been driven 10y a recl.-
less. graspingand unscrupulous party.
but they viii cry aloud with an earn
est voice that all The revolutionary
acts born of the chaos into which the
nation was plunged shall be undone.
The leaders Of the Republican party,
seemingly conscious of the storm of
popIlarindiguation which awaits them
should the States succeed in recovering
their lost rights, now seek To rivet the
chains they have fastened upon the
people by false constructions of the
powers granted To the Federal GOV
ernmCnt 10y the States, and for that
purpose have enacted elaborate Fed
eral statutes for the enforcement OF
Constitutional amendments which lind
no warrant in hat instrument by anv
reasonable or fair construction OF its
provisions.
- FAR as striking the word "white"
from our organic law is concerned. of
coarse 1t amounts 10 nothing at pres
ent. as 1t ha, been subordinated 10 and
rendered imperative by the provisions
Of the Federal Constitution, but a. the
Democratic party throughout the
length aud breadth OF the nation.
>icrnly deny that any amendment can
be made To tina; instrument taking
from the states aay OF their reserved
rights without their consent, We are
pleased TO know that the word ..white"
- still in our State Constitution. Al
though, for the time being, inopera-
tive. The Democratic doctrine un the
subject of constitutional amendments
i chat the granting Of 4 new and indie
pendent right, separate and distinct
from the subjects embraced in the orig
inal grant OF powers by the States 10
h Federal Government, can only Inc
accomplished by the same means re
sorted TO in the beginning for the
surrender of the rights OF the States
anu that i the voluntary concurrence
81 each individual State in the SIR
render. so long as the Radical Marty
continues to dominate the nation. of
course no decision OF the Supreme
Court Of the United States could he ex-
pected affirming this construction of
the fundamental law, but i'm calmer
times when the great conservative
party of the country shall rule the land
we confidently believe that the States
will be restored 10 all the fundamental
rights which they have not roluntari.
~ surrendered. Under the specious
doctrine of the party in power, three
iauFths of the states By constitutional
amendment. might strip the other
fourth OF every right, and convert
them into municipal corporations
ruled by a central Government with
an Emperor at its head. and the me-
fourth dissenting would he held In
have given their lawful assent thereto
II a State can be stripped OF one re-
served right without its consent. then
there is no limit 10 the process or
ethascuiation, and an empire could be
erected by three-fourths OF the states
which would be binding on the whole
Having no faith in this doctrine nor /,
the party that advocates it, We con.
fidently look forward to the time wba,
Nevada will speak for itself on this
important question.
A MEASURE TO SUSTAIN TIE
CREDIT OF THE STATE.