The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-10-28

GARRETT DAVIS, of Kentucky, a
blatherskltc Of considerable ability
and the long-windedest man in
the world, has been enlight-
ening the country at Louisville.
The speech-Garrett does all his en-
tightening work bv speeches-fills ton
columns of the Courier Journal and is
set in small type. To read it carefully,
excluding the time consumed by the
maps that would necessarily interrupt
the perusal, a rapid reader would be
compelled to waste five hours at least
1t is immense, and may be accepted
literally as an exhaustive statement of
the position Of bourbonic democracy
aud it is as able as exhaustive. Itplaces
before the public, in the most forcible
manner, all the arguments of our polit.
ical incorrigibles. Beginning with
dissertation on the object Of govern
ment, the wordy orator drops upon the
subject of the growth of the American
system, and then gldes gently into a
number of remarks on "the states"
"the people," despotisms," "Roman
liberty" " state rights the powers
Of government" the history of the
rebellion" "ilegality of the amend
ments, and thousand other subjects.
On the subject of the new departure A"
he fingers and goes in. The amend
e ments, he says-thirteenth, fourteenth
. and ffteenth-all of them-the last
> mothers son of them-have made q
!" ruin Of the constitution. Then he goes
r on
u l would make no forcible resistance I,
CT these amendments. i would obey then
as valid when that or active forcible on
~ position were the alternatives but woui
have an expressed, standing and unchane
able protest against their righi
Tvs iui oolIBhliohi ana l woul
bo announce ms often us ther
ne was probability that such course woul
Of produce any effect upon public opinion,
would have every Governor of a Stat
vi who held that they were invalid. to declar
VS. That position In his annual message ever
loo Legislature that accorded with the Cove,
nor, to pass resolutions condemnatory q
go, Them every court of any grade of iuri.
of diction whenever there was a case befor
:, it in which the validity of those amend
It's ments fairly came up, to rule them to b
vas spurious and invalid, and to adhere to ths
ruiihg IN each and every case, until It wa
ere revised ana reversed by a superior coul
al ~ tue identical case; every executive O
ncer VINO was required TO do any act I,
TX. ward their direct enforcement to refa
itb until he was constrained by msndamus {
:. other proper proceeding; every nation
~ convention, the judgment of which W,
90 that those amendments were not pronos,
and ratified in conformi,
no to the requirements of the constit
ger ton, to pass resolutions stating that nos
adj. non, and denouncing them US fraudulen
unauthorized, null and void every cand
net, aAte Tor any office, who makes publ
sem- p'eene. 70 the people, and whose positic
~ 10 81 ,hat these amendments are the produ
o,ss Irregular and invalid action of Co
rs to ana sr ama consequently void, should sta
sveru s;,;' position in all his add reese
tall: Gov ,Sa VINO writes, OF speaks.
taixs LOT 'he instruction of the 80,
Vhen and who repudiates these na,.r; e poop
ipon forth his reasons AMMUNITION or sss. should
aud The friends of liberty and cons,i.ns;a,
tho Government should allow them nv no
'"' or resting place in the United. States;
til they are expunged forever, our peo
udps VIII be but the slaves of the like ana a