Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1871-03-11

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strongest hope u his sas0sss, Ills late
sils1siug Of the baiIsTy u u, Y, MeHsh,
the leader VI lh. Administrators fTisHis
in the Senate, wili add snSihsT bright
star 10 bis srosR Of civic virtues aud
raise hin yet higher 10 lhs esteem u al
true friesd, Of goEsTnusni BY aud for
the peoples RsPublie ih fact On the
10th Of February, ulIino, 10 the sshsis Of
the United States, that bsdy having under
consideration the jOiAt resolution Of the
Legislators Of Indiana Withdrawing ito
assent 10 the ratification Of the hhssnth
article Of amendments 10 the COhsIlIu'leu,
Mr., Hair sAidi
Now, sir, do not know q single
northern State outside Of New Eng,
land In which the people, wheney-
er tho question has been submitted
to them, have not rejected tho pro,
position to allow negro suffrage
aud yet these gentlemen hurried
the matter through without II con,
s,itutional quorum IN tho State Of
I the Senator from Indiana and in
my State, after the people had con-
demncd il by thirty thousand ma
jority six months previous, tn,
Radical Legislature adopted one
half of it on II telegram, not waiting
to receive AN official aud authonti,
copy, such was their haste TO show
contempt for the popular will ofth'
State.
Then the question is raised by
tho State of Indiana in these reso,
lutions in reference to the ratifca
ton of Virginia, Mississippi, Texa'
and Georgia, without tho ratitica,
ton of which States the amend
mcnt was not adopted. adopted
at all, we have seen that it wa:
adopted against the remonstranc'
of all the people of the North, and
simply by coercion in the States O.
the South and yet that amend
ment is now to be considered as one
Of those sacred things upon which
no man must lay his hands. Be
cause the periidious representa-,
tivcs ofthe people have betrayed
their trust and fixed q yoke upon
their nccks, they are not to vince
when they are CALLED and if some
States, by fraud obtaining the
signatures of the presiding officers
Of the two Houses, enact into law
that which they had no right to en-
act, and contrary to the forms or
duined in their own constitution
we have no right to examine it, OF
hold to proper accountability those
who have committed tho fraud and
perverted the forms of law to give
effect to their crime.
Sir, if constitutional amendments
can be adopted in that way We
might well have constitutional
amendments hero that would create
what tho gentleman prctends st
much to apprehend. If constitu
tional amendments can be adopted
in this mode, against the remon
STRANGE of tho entire body Of thu
people, as indicated by the fact, tt
which have referred, and which
are not contradicted in the Senate
and cannot be contradicted, VIII,
may we not soon have one declared
adopted which provides for Presi
dent and Senate for life, and why
may not other aristocratic anc
monarchical institutions BIO fxet
upon us by coercing these carpet
bag States, or in the congressional
slang requiring them to adopt ano
Their fundamental condition, and BY
disappearing and defying thu
will Of tho people in the State ofth'
North? And then we shall be told
in the language of the Senator
that we have no right to say ;
word we have no right even to ex
pose the perfdy by which the peo
pie have been betrayed; and W.
shall be denounced rs revoltionist
if we do.
This is no idle apprehension
Each day ushers in some new ant
monstrous usurpation of power OF
tho part of the dominant party
One aggression is but the stepping
stone ofanothcr. The indignation
excited by each successive infringe
mcnt of the rights of the people il
n pretext for still further encroach
ments. The plea of political ne
ccssity," by which the Senator JUS
titios the adoption of tho fifteenth
amendment, IS always ready, and
has become the law ofthe existenc,
of that party which, having forfeit
cd the confidence of the people, ii
now compelled to retain power by
fraud and force. Hence the bill tt
employ tho Army to enforce the fiji
tenth amendment, which has grown
out of that measure, and the bill
now pending in the other House en-
larging the powers of the Presiden
for the same purpose. 1t is the fun
gus growth from u rotten system
more poisonous than that which
produced it.
These are words of truth and sobsrness
extracted from the best speech made in th
United States Senate for years. This grss
speech is having a good effect. And W
endorse the words Of the New York Day
Book, which, under head Of "a white Maj
in the Senate, eIclaims: AT last thank