Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-06-01
Eaton, Thursday, June 1st,, 1871
Will the People Ponder and
Then Act.

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Alexander made that of Mace
don. Caesar Of Rome, Frederick
the Great that Of Prussia, ant
Bonaparte that of France ant
Europe. Republics have theil
histories made by great parties
as individuals are merely the reL
resentatives of constituencies
either of the people at large, o,
of divisions of the people
In view of these facts how
significant is the history of the
Republican party? In 1868, Of
the Republican convention that
held its meeting in Chicago de-
elared that the question OF suf-
frage inhered exclusively with
the States, and must not be dis
turbed.
When it became essentially
necessary in 1869, i'll furtherance
of party ambition, that the Fiji
tenth Amendant should be en-
grated upon the Constitution,
the very men who resolved at
Chicago in 1868 that the States
alone had the right to pass npcn
suffrage, changed front aud de-
clared that Congress possessed
the right to interfere so far as to
secure the right of the elective
franchise to all parties, but could
no further go. But in 1871, they
announced that all elections and
registration are within the scope
of Congressional prerogative, and
holding such power, they have
the right of delegating it to a CO.
ordinate branch of the Govern
ment, whereupon they armed the
President of the United States
with full control by the Enforce
ment bill, over the voting polls
of every State of the Union. The
sovereignty of the States fell be-
fore the arbitrary sovereignty of
Congress and the President.
And, more than this, a Repub.-
lican Congress, not, content With
thus going counter to the mani.
festo of the Convention that die.
tated its electioneering policy ir
1869, has SO ordered that ever
the last resort of Justice, the Su.
breme Court, shall have no pow
er to reverse its demonstrations
enactments, and leaves Genera
Grant unimpeached for the bench
of that tribunal with Judges pre-
pledged to carry out his wishes
an act which if done by a Dis
trict Attorney in the arrange
ment of a jury, would subjec
him to condemnation. And
more crime has emanated from
this party so fatally elevated tt
power in the mad storm of sec
tional hatred, for at this momen
the last step toward centraliza
ton and supreme individual pow
er has been taken, and the maj
who should be simply the Presi
dent of the United States, is by
the act of his fellow conspirator:
in Congress, turned into a des
pot.
The sovereign States that were
recognized even by King George
when in pain and tribulation, he
accepted the fact of their aggre'
gate and separate independence
are crushed out by a man who
so weak within himself at one
peri cd of his career that he had
to call in the aid of a quarter O.
of million men to subdue Gener
al Lee with only fifty Thousand
under his command. And viii
the people be less ready than Lee
to cope with this upstart and pit
full x usurper? Will thirteen
million of free people submit t.
the tyranny of such a shadow o
a hero, such a mockery of o usur
per?
If they do, then will we be cal
led upon to look on Robert E
Lee as the greatest of the mod
ern world, for daring to stand be
tween the gates Of the temple o
liberty and a drunken, ignoran
boor accidentally in power.
Now this same radical part,
since its advent to power In tn
nation, has
committed atrocious acts. 1t
record would exhibit a dark cata
Iogue of crimes against law ant
against liberty, Of encroachment
upon tho manifest rights o
states aud of the people, and o
bold, willful and wicked usurpa
tions of power utterly unparllele'
in the history ofthe political par
ties in any age or nation; 1t
history up to the time OF tn
meeting of the present Congress
was sufficiently infamous. Th'
devil himself, whose instinct
are all supposed to be bad, ant
whose chief ambition is to az
mischief, even he might eXult o
YER such a record If he furnished
the hellish inspiration that slim
Mated the radical leaders in theil
,ohIo assaults UDOn The