Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-01-13


ztraot from Governor Garry's Messago
- WAsHISoToN, January 5.-Extract from
s aov, Oearys message: "Iho employment Of
Fnitcd States troops Mt un election without
hc consent Of the local and State Govern
he nts, has recently received considerable
ttcntion and rcprchonsiohs tits rcgifdedn6
"a, interference With the sovereign rights Of
he Suites which VAS not Contemplated by tho
Of tEe General Government, and il
Ebcrsistcd III must lead to results disastrous TO
Ebeace and huru,ony The practice is one sc.
99iious in its churncter, and SO Injurious in its
Tendencies as to merit prompt consideration
I and decisive action, not only by the General
SAssembly, but by Congress. One of tho
complaints Of the colonists against the Brit.
Ssh King was the oppression growing OFT eft
Che assumption Of this power. They said he
has kept among US in times af peace standing
! armies, without the consent of our I.egislu.
E.Jtnrc, and what is especially pertinent to the
case in point 'hc hns affected to render the
military independent Of and superior to their
civil power The alleged authority for tho
i,sc CT roors ut tho State Elections is drawn
from thrten,h 50 ction Of an Act of Congress,
erProvcd May the 3lst, 1868, entitled als Act
to erthrcc tho right of citizens of the United
+ States to vote iM Che several Stutcs of the
inini and '"r other p,frnnScs, which author
I iZts tjEitcd States masshnll3 to cali ~ their
assist nee such portion of the lard aud naval
forces Of the Uuited States, or of tlic militia,
as may be necessary to the performance of the
duty with which they nre charged and to
insulc faithful Observance of the fifteenth
hmendmcnt to the Constitution Of the United
States But it must he II forced construction
of this law that will justify the presence of
srmed natioual forces ut our places "f election
when no necessity exists therefor, aud when
their presence is calculated to provoke col
lision With u good President. the exercise
of the power referred tn Nigh. have no in
jurious results, hut in thc hands ct bad nlan,
- g">erued by personal ambition. 10 might psnve
exceedingly cnla,nitnua. Uncnnscicniiusiy
good President might he induced to employ
1t wf"netuly "a tad one would tie nI,nts {
certain to use it fur his own advancement
U'!der any circumstances. it my opiuinm. it
IS unsafe mud nntnguniSfic fn che principles
that should govern nlr RYpnnlicnn institn
tlOnS. At the last Octnttr ci"ctiun United
Suites trnpS stationed ru Philadelphia
fur the nvOwrd purpose of c1tfrrcing The cleo
tion laws This was slune wifnat tlrn con
sent even tn. k,,"wcdgr ct The civil nu.
tGoritics OF either the city or The State and
without any expressed desire mt clio part Of
the citzrns, and as far can hc "sccrt,il-tI,
without existing Necessity. Frn'h a th,isci
cntinns conviction "f its Importance, have
called your ntrit"u to this subject a nrg
ct t" have done 80 might have hrcn con
strurd as an endorsement of n measure TINT
nrcts my unqn,lilird d$rrovnl The civil
authorities IF pen"s,lvania lave always been
ard nrestiI competent to protect IT'S citizens
IN the exercise OF their elective franchise. and
tl,r proper and only time f,r the United States
military forces to Intervene will he when the
pnwrr Of the Cn,i.,,. o., Wcnlt is exhausted and
tl!eir uid is lawfully rtFnircd."
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