Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-03-11

NANAAH HANA mp ~ 80 49, 1881
THE breech between Sumner and
the Radical party is now deep, wide
and impossible. It can never be
bridged over. The antagOnism is now
so great that Sumner viii, for the fu-
ture, vote with the Democratic party,
not that he espouses Democracy, but
because he hates Grant more. With
the aid Of Sumner, Democrats will
present a formidable array in the Sen
ate. They have Thurman, Blair, Cas-
serly, Bayard, Stevenson, Garrett
Davis, Hamilton, Vickers, Salisbury,
II. G. Davis, Kelley, Cooper, Stock
ton, GOldthwait and Hill. There are
vacancies from Virginia and Geor-
gia, one of which will certainly be
filed by a Democrat. The last State
will also elect Democrat in November
next. In North Carolina Governor
Vance has been chosen, and it is part
" certain that his disabilities will not
be removed for ia year at least. If he
resigns, as the Democrats in Congress
would prefer him to do under the cir
cumstances, his place viii be filled
by a Democrat. This would make
eighteen Democrats and C0nserva-
tives. The Washington letter writers
set down the following Republicans
as altogether too independent for
the administration to count On:
Ferry, Logan, Schurz, Spencer, Fen
ton, Sprague, and Hitchcock, making
eight in all. Messrs. Morrill,, Of Yer
mont, Buckingham, Of Connecticut,
Scott, Of Pennsylvania, Patterson, Of
New Hampshire, and probably other
Republicans are opposed to the San
Domingo job, so that the probability
of ratiiying the treaty is very re-
mote. In the House the Demo-
Ocrats have received a large Access
sion with the new Congress. The
Radicals. have lost their twO-thirds
majority, and as the Democrats have
the talent Of that body, the Admins
tration will be utterly annihilated be-
fore the next Presidential election.
The recent passage of the enforce
ment act, placing the ballOt-bOX Of
the nation in the hands Of the Presi-
dents minions, who will use it to
p~erpetuste their power, has aroused
the people. So rapid and so alarm
ing have been the strides of Radical
usurpations, over the PROSTATE Con-
stitution, .sospalpable the abuses, and
SO deadly the thrusts which have
been committed under the cloak Of
powers intended only as a shield to
the public liberty, that a thoughtful
people begin to pause. They have
learned by the experience which the
present administration has furnished,
that more danger is always to be ap
pretended from accumUlating en-
crOachments, from the illegal exercise
of power, than from the quantum
granted. The d~ictatOrial power, when
legally conferred and legally exercised,
proved no detriment to the liberties
OF Rome. But when Caesar passed
the Rubic0n with a victorious army,
in open and successful. defiance Of pos
tive law, the viii Of one man became
superior to the law, and the Republic
was changed to N imperial throne The.
reason is obvious. When power, how
ever great, is conferred by law, checks
and limitations may be interpOsed
t5 render it innOxious; but when
power canTsuccessfully trenscend a
constitutional or legal restraint, even
10 q matter apparently important,
who will besable to mterpOse check
to the successful progress of usurpa-
ton, when the enslavement of the
people may be the consequence, and
a crown the prize? Ambition, the
love OF power, the desire to perpetu-
ate it in every age and every country,
have been the bane Of liberty. 1t is
that power in the State which pos
sesses an activity which never slum-
bers. Its never-ceasing tendency is
to increase the sphere Of its'oWn ac-
ton, and to swell the number of its
vOtarie5. The dignities1 and emOlu-
men1s which it commands are adj
dressed to the strongest passions that
can sway the human breast. Its op-
eratiOns are unseen, its movements
unielt, its impulses unknown, until
we behold their effects upon the free
dom Of a country, and lind its liberties
writhing beneath,their influence, and
expiring In the agOnies of death. The
deadly potion which they administer
will be often repeated with a winning
smile. So long as confined within its
legitimate sphere, the power Of the
President contains within itself an
impelling force, which scarcely any
free government is able to resist; but
if it ever enters upon unconstitutional
action to prOlong its power, the people
are undOne unless they rise in their
strength and hurl from power the
usurpers. RadicaIism must be checked
in its wild and headlong career. The
people must crush out everything in
consistent with republican freedom, OF.
prepare for subjugation. All his
tory proves that power is
stated; usurpation never stops.
If the Constitution and the public
will are not respected, the President
a despot superior to the Con
stitution aud the law. The Demo
Gratis in their war with despotism and
for the Constitution and public lib
erty, must stand firm. They see that
the gradual yielding Of everything
asked Of them for the sake Of peace,
is an incentive to require more. Work
and wait is the battle cry Of Demo
eracy.
The social life of every norton oil