The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-09

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that they bad good reason for % sup
posing irrespective Of the words Of tn,
Treaty. And when he found that, /
perseyered 10. the Treaty would be ,
failure, his ridiculous laundering In his
effort to avert 1t, eliminating In thai
most ridiculous and absurd OF all hi
having the ArbitratOrs Informed thai
|. he never expected any Pecuniary com.
, peDsati0n, but only wanted tine claim
passed upon by them, when, II he and
his advisors had not been utterly stu
pid, they would have known that the
Board had no authority to make any
award in favor of the United States ex'
cept an award for money-thus accom-
4 plisbipg his object. the safety Of the
Treaty, by beiDg told by, the Arbitra.
tors that his claim ~ thus explained
was not within the Treaty or within
their jurisdiction. It Is unfortunately
but too true that his conduct in this
respect, from the moment that the difi-
Guilty presented itself to the period
when II was removed in the way just
stated, has but served to impair our
character abroad and nlOrtify US at
home in making the world, at one
time, believe that we were nation Of
sharpers, ard st another, nation OF
block
TO-. His conduct, and the conduct of
the party, in Congress and out Of it, by
whom he Is supported, In extending
the powers of the General Government
beyond those delegated, in direct antag-
Onism to rights aud powers not only in
herent in the States and the people of
the States, but expressly reserved to
them by the Constitution itself. This
may be said with absolute confidence ::
that the prevailing, il not unanimous
opinion of every member OF the Con
ventiOn by which the Constitution was
framed, copcurred In the absolute ue-
cessity, il freedom was to be preserved
and the happiness VI the people 10 be
promoted, that the State should have
all powers except such as from their
nature they would not be capable to
execute, so as to accomplish the safety
| and prosperity of the whole.
Tj;is was illustrated in all the debates
| in the Convention. The occasion will
not justify . reference to more than to
enc of them. -a.i'
Oliver Ellsworth, second Chief JUS
tice of the United States, q member Of
! OF the Convention, correctly stated
"that without the cooperation Of the
States, it would be impossibletO sup
port q Republican government over
SO great an extent of country; an
army could scarcely render it practica-
be-" And upon another day he sad,
'.What he wanted was domestic hap
piness. The National Government
could not descend to the local ObjecIs
\ of q general nature He turned his
eyes, therefore, for the preservation Of
| their rights, To the State Governments"
III. Madison papers, p. 10l4.
Tn. course of the President and his
party leads to the reverse Of all this.
1t necessarily results in centralizing al
powers in the General G0verDnout, aud
thereby making Ii not . federal, but
consolidated government. Not only
was this alleged ia the Convention to
| Is the result which could not be pro-
duced II the powers OF the General Gov
I eminent were not over stepped, but in
every one of the State Conventions by
which the Constitution was ratified
| this opinion was almost universally en-
tertaincd. Some member, however,
in several Of the Stats Conventions,
expressed apprehension on the point.
This was especially the case in the Vir-
ginia Convention, and amongst others
these apprehensions were entertained
by Patrick Henry. Mr.. Madison, who
was . member of that Con vention, con-
sidered them rs unwArranted. But to
quiet all fears, he ard Others agreed
that certain amendments should be
proposed by the first Congress, and this
was done ON the 25th Of September,
1859, by proposition to the States that
they should adopt certain amendm nts
twelve in number. Ten were adopted.
Two of these are:
1. "The enumeration In the Consti-
tuition OF certain rights shall not be con-
strued to deny or disparage others re-
tanned by the people.
9 "The powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution, nor
prolibited by IL to the States, are reserv-
ed to the States respectively, or to the
people"
IL is impossible to reconcile the con-
duct Of the President and his support
ers with these limitations.
r In this expectation, large majority
of the people who voted for him, L be
lieve, are conscious of their disappOint-
ment, and are unwilling to renew the
same tiust i'm him. This has been
pretty well established by the proceed
iDgs at the Cincinnati Convention,
and by the apparent approval of the
nomination of Mr.. Greeley, made there
in May last, aud approved by the
Democratic Convention i'm this city on
the 9Th and 10th inst.
Iproc.ed now to submit 20 yOu some
observations i'm relation to MIR. Greeley.
In the first place, his love of country
cannot be doubted. His ability dis
played i'm the arduous position OF an
editor of leading journal for very |
many years, the thousands and hun |
dreds of Thousands who have been his |
constant readers will readily admit.
That he has, at times, iuculcated doc !
trines which many good and able men |
have thought uns0und, IL no doubt |
true. But what statesman has not?
On the contrary, they have been di- |
recttv violated, and these violations |
would continue beyond the period OF
the next Presidential election If the |
good sense aud patriotism of the De-
moerats i'm Congress and of many OF
the Republicans had not prevented it.
In this enumeration of the objections |
to the election Of General Grant, / do |
not design 10 impugn his motives.
am willing to concede that they are |
good, and that Inc believes them TO be |
patriotic but my conviction il, and If
L am capable of judging, the facts |
which / have stated demonstrate its |
soundness, that cOnceding his motives |
to be good, he does not know what the |
Constitution ia, and is entirely ignorant |
of the principles which should govern |
a Republic like ours.
His election to the Presidency In '6S |
was owing to q grateful sense OF his
military services during the war, and
to the confidence which the people |
then had right to feel, that, with the
aid of an able Cabinet, which it was
not doubted he would call around him.
he would discharge the important /
duties of the Office with ability, and in
strict subordipation to the Constitution
His opinion OH the doctrine OF pro-
lection is now cont-sted by many men /
of ability and patriotism. Whether
his policy is sound or not IL point
upon which even able men differ. But
this is certain, that when Mr.. Greeley !
adopted it he had the support Of some |
of the ablest of our statesman, having |
at their head Henry Clay, a name
never mentioned in the hearing Of
Americans without admiration and |
gratitude. II Mr. Greeley has erred. it |
shos,ld he held TO he some extenuaiiOn