The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-10-12

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laid down by Judge Doolittle, what
would be the effect of it if the Democratic
party again came into power?
The Democrats now say that they &C.
cept the situation, and will recognize the
existence of these amendments. Ofcourse
they will.
| THE devil was sick, the devil a monk would
be.
The devil was well, the devil monk was he.,
They want no more talk about the
past. They dislike to talk about what
they call dead issues [ am not sur
| prised at that, nor do 1 blame them for
it. Were | Democrat, / think that /
would pray morning, noon and night, to
| have the people forget that [ had any
existence for the past ten years. It is
the hardest science to forget" and it is
not likely that the people will soon learn
it. When the Democratic party shsh
array itself fairly and squarely on Che
platform of justice and equal right, it
may be forgiven, but its services in the
cause Of treason, oppression and injustice
can never be forgotten while "the earth
bears plant or the sea rolls q wave"
What the Democratic party want is
power. To secure that, they are willing
co promise anything, and willing to
accept anything, but when once obtained,
what then? Judge Doolittle does not
come forward and say that the Four
,eenth and Fifteenth Amendments are
right, and are to be maintained as a part
of the fundamental law because they are
right; not he, He only accepts because,
be says, that they cannot overthrow
them. I intend to show you that they
can overthrow them if they obtain power,
and that they will do so.
Suppose, when they obtain power,
(Which, thank God, there is very little
I prospect of their doing while any of the
present generation surviveJ, they should
pass JOINT resolution declaring, as my
riend has go often before declared, that
these amendments are fraudulent, null
and void? What would be the effect OF
1T I let Judge Doolittle answer He
says that the supreme court will follow
the direction Of the political power,
congress and the executive, and declare
them null and void IF the Democratic
party should, under its pretence of q
change OF heart obtain power, would they
declare these amendments null and void?
answer, yes they must do so, or stultify
themselves entirely. July II, 1870,
every Democrat in the house of repre-
sentatives voted that these amendments
we're invalid, null and void, and there
ls no reason to believe that they have
changed SINCE then But supposIng that
the supreme court should not follow them
and declare these amendments null and
void, there is still another Way by which
they can be practically abrogated, and
that we know the Democracy will resort
to. The fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments are as so much waste paper with
out appropriate legislation to carry them
into effect. All the legislation that has
been had to give them validity has been
resoluteIy opposed at every stage by the
Democracy, and there can be no earthly
doubt that, If they once had the power,
the first thing they DO will be to repeal
all that legislation.
I charge that as their intention, and
my friend here won't dare to deny it.
ask him here TO say whether he is in
favor of these amendments remaining 8
part of the constitution, and of the nee
essary legislation to enforce them? viii
you if the Democracy ever come into
power while you live, oppose repeal Of
these laws and an abr0gation of these
AIN 1IsSWCA W 1hCNO
lions will show what y0W mean, at least.
am we'll aware that there are some
Democrats who are able to rise above
the dead party level, and declare that
those amendments are right, and that the
Republican party was perfectly Justlfl-
able in insisting upon them. The Hon.
Mr. Groesbeck, of Ohio, one OF the
ablest and best Democrats In the country,
in a speech recently delivered by him
says:
! "The results of successful war are always
declared in some binding form. If 1t be
a war between nations, the results appear
in the final treaty; if 1t be civil war
they usually appear In some modification
of the fundamental law, conforming it to
the new conditions Of the government.
Such is our case. The recent constitu-
tional amendments stand for the final
treaty of our civil war;"
After having thus shown our right to
insist upon change of the fundamental
law to accord with the new condition Of
things, Mr.. Groesbeck goes on to defend
the amendments in the following lam
guage. Please take notice that Mr..
lGroesbeck is now the highest Democratic
authority in Ohio, and / see by the
papers that he is coming to speak here.
He said in his recent Steubenville speech:
The changes of the constitution, stated
In the fewest words are these: "No per-
son shall be slave, and all born or nat
uralzed here shall be citizens with equal
civil and political rights. When but g.
mere handful of orr colored population
was free and great mass of them IN
slavery, the question of their CIVIL ana
political rights was not before us. Such