The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1871-06-10
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Leslie ard Mock, The Domoersti
= candidates FOG Governors in Ker
e. iueky and Ohio, are rclrrtsnt
leave the Democratic household
If They have not yet commence,
{ shaking hands preparatory to ihei
departure on the long voyage il
search ofloyaliy aud success. The,
5 remind us Of tie condemned murder
: err upon the gallows delaying hi,
departure" by sending messages
and tokens TO distant friends. Tx.
) perienee and reading has satisfied
! them that one departure makes
room for another, just as the COM
; initial Of one sin leads to another F.;
!, that a party strong in faith, honesty
and strength never takes a "depart-
ure" unless there is something rot
ten in its creed, and among the adj
~yoeates and these old Democrats still
refuse to depart. Leslie is the nom
inee of the Democracy for Governor
in Kentucky. lie is making an
able and vigorous campaign. In
stead accepting the situation" and
pratling about accomplished facts"
he repudiates the Constitutional
Amendments in regular Appeal
style. In his last speech, reported
for the Louisville papers, he said:
But now a few remarks in regard
to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments. Fam OPP
posed to these Amendments out and
out. Icare not WHOM Indiana, Ohio
or elsewhere, fayors them. They
were engrafted upon us against our
viii, and we intend to exert eyory
lawful effort for their repeal. 1.-THE
people ofthe United States refuse to
repeal them, they, 0 fcourse, will ex-
list as parcels of the constitution,
We propose no violence or revolu-
ton on their account. The great
objection to the Fourteenth Amend
mant, Is, that, as construed by its
authors, it gives Congress the pow
or to oblite!ate State governments;
to pass the force bill and Ku-Klux
bill to take away from the people
of the States every Constitutional
right; to legislate for the people of
the State, and to centralize the whole
power of The Government. They
claim that the Fourteenth Amend
mcnt gives Congress the power to
pass the ku-I>luX bill which General
Harlan himself says is unconstitu-
tional. lfConglcss posses this pow
or, .hen liberty is gone, free govern
mont is at an end, end all power is
in tic hands Of the President. This
view of the question, in my mind,
far above all considerations
touching tl.o negro, his freedom or
enfranchiscmcnt. IF you grant Con-
cress tie power which its authors
claim is conferred by this amend
mcnt, it will tear down your State
wipe out State lnstitu-
and teach us to look to Con-
gross for such legislation as we nnad
we wantit repealed. Ifthere
was nothing else in it but the rcgro
problem, it would be comparative !
y small affair. These amendments I
we're procured by fraud. They were {
not legally adopted, and it is right !
the people to complain in a peace !
way and when | do this I
must not be understood to be a dis
'rganizer-trylng to break up the
Government. Whenever any law is r
it is the right of citizens to J
that law, and, if possible, to c
'epeal it, and that is all we propose c
o do. We propose to show the a
PEOPLE the enormitics placed upon \
hem by the Fourteenth amendment.
The Ku-Klux bill was prepared in
Congress by General Butler, with a
providing that if any individ- Il
lal, should go into your county and CO
respass upon any individual, he |,
night bring suit against the whole 2,
and it is passed the United il
States Senate with that provision in B
Can you favor anything of that ST
ort? But it is not IN there now, y y
nd you are indebted to the Demo- ca
rats in Congress for its not being \ \
here, 1t did pass the Senate, and a
vould have passed the House but !"
the action of the brave Democrats g
tho stood against it, and with the in
id Of few conscientious Republi- y,
ans defeated that provision.-Mem- Ii
has ADpedl, Fl.