The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-08-23
RADICAL USURPATION.
Soathinp Review of one Feature
Of the Administration.

resentative of the Ashland district, il
making a thorough canvass of Ken
lucky. His speeches are character
lied by great power, and in their ex-
posure of the probable results of Rad
ical policy they will do much good
From a speech he had made at Ow.
ensboro on the 9th, we make an ex.
tract illustrative of the usurpations
contemplated by the infamous Ku.
Klux bill of the last session of Con
gress, and will follow it, as we have
space, with other extracts from the
speech referring to the national finan.
ces and Radical plundering. Said
Mr.. Beck in regard to the Ku-Klu
law:
1t is marvellous how men can sus-
tain, endorse, or wink at such usurpa-
tions as those in the Ku-Klux bill.
haze no time to analyze its provisions.
Many of you have seen it It puts
lite, liberty and property every where
at the mercy of the President. 1t gives
him powers which no monarch in Eu-
rope. unless it be the Gear of Russia
or the Sultan of Turkey, would dare
to usurp. Queen Victoria's head
would be forfeited in week if she as
sumed to exercise any such royal pre-
and William of Prussia
would be shot by his owu soldiers if
they even suspected tina. he would
seek to obtain authority to use such
tyrannical power. Under this bill we
have a mere personal government; all
constitutional checks and balances are
destroyed. No man, not even Wash
ington himself, could be safely intrust-
ed with such authority. No people,
fit to be free, will consent to such usur
patton; and the Radical leaders, who
have so basely surrendered to the Pres
ident all the attributes of sovereignty,
which of right belong to the people,
whose trustees they are, will be spurn
ed and denounced by the indignant
and outraged people, unless they, for
getting their manhood, are willing to
become slaves, and bow, in humble
md abject submission, at the feet of
heir master
GPANT AND HIS PARTY.
It is no answer to say that General
Grant is patriot and will not wrong
ully exercise the delegated authority;
md it is still more silly to say he has
lot sense enough to carry out such
schemes if he wanted to, which some
lines hear. He has as much capacity
IS any man of his party; and has
more courage, more will, more ambi-
ion and more averice than almost any
nan I know of He will retain pow
n by every possible means, and he
lare do anything. He cares nothing
or the politicians of his own party,
except so far as he can use them;
when Sumner Schurz or anybody op
poses him he cuts off the heads of
heir friends as promptly and remorse-
y as if they were Democrats, and
when Longstreet, Ackerman and men
# that stripe fawn upon him he re-
Yards them as promptly as if they
lad been truly loyal. He is deter
mined to have Grant men in power;
lie cares nothing about constitutional
estraints. His ideas of government
2 military and personal. "Let us
lave peace" means, let us have obe-
lience, and he can enforce that better
through Sherman and Porter, with
he army and navy, than through the
machinery OF the States,
With courts, juries. writs of habeas cor
,us and the old trumpery of the Mag
Ia Charta" and the Constitution. A
lrum head court martial obeys orders
md makes quick disposition of trouble
ome opponents, but it is the piece of
he empire, the order which reigned
n Warsaw, the cringing submission
If the slave which comes up to his
6ea of peace. Has ne ever failed to
train every law vesting him with pow
r to its utmost limit and by his con-
luct in the past you can determine
lis action in the future. Did he not,
8 general of the army, bring the mil
tary satraps of the South to Chicago
o secure his nomination for President?
Did he not, when Georgia voted for
seymour against him, recommend to
Congress her reconstruction n? And
7hen Congress refused, giving him
My authority to aid the Governor in !
.eeping the peace, did he not put Gen
raj Terry there as to absolute dicta-
or, investing him with authority over
he Governor and the Legislature, so
s to bring the empire State of the
'outh In suppliance at his feet? Did |
e not, without shadow of law or
retense of constitutional authority,
surp the war making power in order
D force the annexation of Dominica,
q such a bold and fragrant manner
hat even Radical Senators had to de-
ounce him before the world as a
supper? Somebody may deny this
therefore quote briet extracts from
he speeches of Mr.. Sumner and Mr..
churz on that subject, and only wish
had time to read the orders to Gen
raj Terry in the Georgia case, which
have before me. Mr.. Sumner said
TESTIMONY.
"And all this has been done by
ingly prerogative alone, without the
uthority Of an act of Congress. lfI
lch a transaction many headed in
rong, can escape Judgment, it is diff
nit to see what securities remaln.-
7 hat other sacred rule Of interna-
onal law may not be violated? ? What
ther foreign nation may not be struck
{? What other belligerent menace
lay not be hurled? What other king
, prerogative may not be seized ?"
He goes no farther to say, and / in.
ore the statement:
"But it is difficult to see how we