The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-09-06
A RADICAL REBELLION.

The platform Of principles adopted
by the Republican State Convention
held at Little Rock, Arkansas, on the
22nd ult., declares: That the State has
the right to enforce its own laws,
which disfranchise every participant
in the late rebellion, and also the rela-
tives of such to about the fortieth de-
gree of proximity; and bids defiance
to the late Amnesty bill passed by the
last session of Congress, removing
such disabilities and opening the bal
lot box to nearly all the law abiding
citizens of the United States. The Pc
culiar circumstances under which this
bill passed Congress were such that
the friends of the Administration were
forced TO approve its passage, to court
favor with the masses OF the people
who were demanding amnesty and re-
form, and showing unmistakabe evil
dences OF their intention to secure it.
This action OF Congress has been very
justly claimed as the first fruits of the
Cincinnati Convention, and the people
took new courage in their hope that
the nation might soon become recon-
ciled and restored to peace and unity.
But it seems that the Administration
party were only "playing postum"
on the people to saw the depletion of
their ranks, so sure to follow the Gin
cinnati Convention. Knowing that
they have the ballot box of the South
in their hands, and that their grasp is
securely guarded by an army at their
command, they propose to quietly re
pudiate the national law which their
own hands have made, so far as it
effects the Southern States, and fall
back upon the provisions of the con-
stitutions of those States which were
adopted by the people, deposited at
the point of the %bayonet, and claim
the thunder of the old Democratic
doctrine of State Rights. Upon the
question as to which law most nearly
represents the wishes of the people,
we would say that one was passed by
Congress, in which each State had its
quota of representation, nearly all Of
whom voted for the Amnesty bill,
while the other was forced upon them
by a military ballot, where no one
o,s oouaJ ~ yoto wbo u-opfd vOte
against it. These two sets of laws are
very convenient for the present Ad
ministration. At one time, to attain
the desired end, it can enforce 'one
code of laws, aud again to accomplish
a different purpose and perpetuate its
own power it can enforce the other.
"Oh consistency, thou art a jewell"
If Grant should carry the Southern
States under this in~dia-rubber system
of laws enforced at the point of the
bayonet, his claim to their electoral
vote would, of course, be contested;
but if such contested votes should hold
the balance of power, Grant would re-
iifafE III Office tntfi tic cOiiteSt cOuiu
be decided by the Supreme Court.
This, by sharp practice and the influ-
ence of a fast repeating "greenback'
press, might easily consume the en-
tire four years of the anything to
beat Greeley next presidential term.
This is the kind of good faith by which
Grant proposes to administer justice
to the nation during the next four
years, if he can get the people to elect
him. ain the future as in the past y
you will remember are his words.
He promises no change. As the past
has been only used to continue his
power, we may reasonably conclude
that similar efforts will be his aim in
future. "Let us have peace" with
Greeley and Brown. l $50"