The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-07-18

mark and say az once that they are
! in favor of abandoning the tariff poll
! / cy altogether, or Of adheriDg 20 IL.
/ The Republican party stands where il
I has always stood in reference 10 this
question. 1t declares in the platform
: of 1872 for commercial legislation tC
such an extent as will best promote
the interests and general welfare OF
= the people Of the United States. IL
2 declares for import duties, and for OBJ
tanning revenues chiefly from thai
T source, to carry on this Government.
: I believe in relieving the people as
! faI as possible from internal or di-
rect taxation as was the custom before
the rebellion, and it believes IN 50
adjusting these duties as to promote
the greatest possible good TO the great
est possible number. l heard the
Democratic champions Of free trade
on the floor Of at the last session, de-
clare that every dollar Of duty laid on
articles of foreign production, which
came in competition with articles oil
home production is unconstitutional
and robbery. If right in the premis-
es, they are logically right in the
conclusion. 1 deny their premises,
1
point to the result OF the American
system. / adhere 10 the ancient ways
OF our fathers. / propose to protect
American interests against all Euro
pean interests. / propose to protect
the agricultural interest, the manu-
featuring interest and the CONNER
cial interest of America, by American
laws, and work out in the future, as
/ =. "a
industrial classes in this country as
have never been realized in any 9TH
er country. L am for America, being
an American, against the world lap
plause and SO is the Republican
organization. In every State of this
Union it utters the same words.
There are other questions, nay fel-
low-eitizens, of great moment and i'm
port involved in this contest. The
/ Democracy take care to say, L see, in
their platform, that theyrepudiate rep
udiation. Agreed. But they do not
tell US what they mean by ''repudia-
tion." They informed us before, and
they have not taken it back, that they
do not con slider it reputation to tax
the obligations Of this Government
out of existence. They put it into
their platform and inscribed it upon
their banners that they demand equal
taxation upon every species of fprOper.
/ ty, including Government bonds and
other public securities. They do not
call that reputation, l do, and the
American people do. This little de-
vice, put in the Democratic platform
of 1872, is only intended to mislead
the people. The party opposes repu-
diation as it understands it; but do its
leaders tell you that they oppose their
watchWord of last year, which was
heard in every hamlet in the State of
| Ohio, that the bonds of the United
States in the hands OF its creditors
should be paid in the currency which
| the creditor loaned the government?
Do they not insist that all duties shall
be paid in gal-terders. or bank notes;
and have not the representatives Of
| the party voted to have them paid in
bank notes? Do they not know that
| it was part of the original contract
of this Nation with its creditors at
| large, that the duties on imports should
! be collected in coin and that the whole
amount thereof shedld be employed
| in paving the interest of the debt and
and in creating sinking-fund for the
redemption of the principal ? What
| becomes of the pledged faith of the
Nation if you take away the means
| by which you require the coin to car
~ out your express contract for the
payment first OF the interest and after
ward OF the principal of your debt ?
Why the Democratic proposition last
year was to pay off the bonds of the
United States by issuing legal-tender
notes and redeeming the legai-tender
notes by issuing per cent. bonds, and
redeeming the per cent. bonds by
paying legal-tender notes for them.
That is what they mean by their pro-
test to-day against reputation.
My feliOw-citizens, l have no pa
thence to argue these questions further.
have said enough to show the rela-
tive positions of the two parties. 1
have said enough to remind you of
that which you know-that all the
legislation of the past ten years upon
of the Republican party.
THE WRIT OF IABEAs CORPUS.
These gentlemen talk about the
privileges of the writ OfthdbeQs corpus
being wrongfully withheld. 1 have
but word to say On that subject. 1t
is provided in the Constitution of the
United States that the privileges Of
| the writ of hd6eds corpus shall not be
suspended except when, in times of
insurrection or invasion, the public
safety may require it. Who is to be
the judge? The Congress of the Uni
ted States, and the Executive acting
under and by the authority of Con-
gress it has always been so under the
early Administrations of our Govern
ment; and, until the evil times came
upon US, the authority Of the Con-
gress of the United States so to legis-
late, and of the President so to act
was never questioned. I know that
some of these little pettifoggers think
| that the mistake made was that Con-
gress did not decide just exactly the
time when the privileges of the writ
of hd6eGs cOrpHs should be suspended.
That never was contemplated. The
power was conferred upon the Exec
utive of the United States by the act
of 1898, for example, to determine
what Government was the lawful,
Constitutional government ofa State,
and, in the event OF a conflict, 10 en-
plOy the Army and Navy of the Uni
ted States, upon his own judgment,
to maintain the Government in favor
of which he decided, and to crush the
| Government against which he had
decided. So it was ruled long ago by
Chief Justice Taney, in the Supreme
Court of the United States. 1 re-
member very well also the words OF
] Chief Justice Marshall in another
case to the same effect. I have 40
idea of arguing special question of
/ law before the people, yet l have
some disposition to meet and answer
the demagogue cry about the VIOLA
/ tiOns of the Constitution. When
Congress expressly defines by the law
/ that certain acts, combinations,
and conspiracies in State shall con-
stitute the cOnspiracies therein, or in
any portion thereOf,and that the Pres
ident shall be authorized and requir-
ed, for the suppression thereof, to sus-
pend the privileges of the writ of hd-
6eGs corpus, it his duty to do so. Yet
gentlemen undertake to defame
Congress for discharging its duty I'M
der the Constitution. L ask them
why have not some of the Courts
pronounced this legislation uncOnsti-
tutional? There has been no viola,
tion of the Constitution on the premi-
ses. They told US us we were viola
lating the Constitution when we
passed laws authorizing the President
to call out the citizens of the United
States and enroll them as soldiere
and march them beyond the limits of
the State to suppress the rebellion,
and as a party they voted as a unit
against it. When the Golfers of the
Treasury were empty, when your
commerce had perished upon the seas,
when you had no returns from reve-
nue. internal or external, and it be-
came necessary to make a forced loan
in the form of legal tender notes, the
same party cried out that it was un-
constitutional. Their standard-bear-
er, Horace Greeley, took occasion to
record that the passage of the legal
tender act saved the Nations life. At
ter the war was oyer, and eleven
States of this Union were disorganiZ-
ed without constitutional govern !
ment, and there was protection there |
in for neither person or property, |
these defamers of Congress denied |
the riOht of the Government of the |