The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-12-09

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is made for the exclusive benefit
and enjoyment Of white people, as
Judge Buskirk affirms, it is not in
harmony with the Constitution of
the United States, which unques-
tionably includes black as well as
white citizens in its provisions,
with no privileges or immunities
that are not equally shared. The
issue between the State of Indiana
and the United States should be
made at once. It is time the ques-
ton which is the supreme law of
the land were settled.-Cincinnati
Commercial.
Daniels family name is Buskirk;
residence Indiana, and he has
heard from the elections; he has
rendered a decision in the case of
Carter and others against Corey;
and while one judicial eye has been
pinned tight on the legal author
tiles of the case, the other eye has
wandered over the roll of Demo
cratic victories, and between them
the learned Judge has been EN-
boldened to breathe more freely,
and to proclaim in trumpet tones
the glorious truth that the govern
ment of tho State of Indisna is
white mans government, and that
the rights of citizens of the United
States are dependent on the pro
visions of the State constitutions.
We may have to ask the
people of the United States in two
years from now whether they &C.
cept such construction of their
actions or not, but until they are
repudiated and thrown out of court
by higher authority, the State of
Indiana stands on record as declar-
ing that within her limits the
amendments are null, the war has
been in vain, and the negro has no
rights which white men are bound
to respect.-St. Louis Globe.
Thus we have a revival upon the
heels of the first Democratic victory,
of the old Democratic doctrine of
Estates Rights" and that in its
worst form. Evidently the judges
of that court have been taking a
Rip Van Wrinkle sleep, and are not
aware of the fact that the rights of
every citizen to equal privileges
has been guaranteed in the Ma
tional Constitution. It at least
needs no other evidence that the
judges of the court are Bourbon
Democrats, and believe in the
"Constitution as it was"
This, however, is codsistent Demo
cratic doctrine, and when the De-
mocracy get into power they will
speedily find way to avoid the
constitutional amendments and
reduce the negro to what Demo
Gratis believe to be his true status.
Republicans, who helped the
Democrats into power this year,
how do you like the first fruits of
your acts!-Bloomington, Illinois,
Leader.
tits a beggarly piece of sophistry,
| for as the negroes have since been
made citizens by the National Con
stitution, they are of course COM
pretended under the term "citizen'
in the State Constitution. But
even if they were not. this last
clause of the Fourteenth Amend
inent proves how completely the
Indiana Judges have departed
from the law to suit the Democratic
majority: "No State shall make
or enforce any laws which shall
abridge the privileges or immuni
ties of citizens OF the United
States. "-Cincinnati Times.
This places the State above tn,
Nation. It makes the Constitution
nullify the provisions of the Nation
al Constitution, and is a decisive
illustration of the tendency of tn
Democratic party to place itsel
upon strict State rights platform
Calhoun never claimed more TO
his State than this in the days o
notification, and we may as wei
make up our minds to the fact tina
we have got to fight over the OLE
battle of State rights and nullifi
cation. Leaving out of view alto
gether the immediate occasion o
this decision, the doctrine that
State Constitution is above an,
superior to the National Constitu
ton and annuls it, is simply mon
strous. But it is Democratic, an,
it is the doctrine that will prevail
wherever Democracy prevails
Pittsburg Commercial.
The decision is in harmony wit
the Bourbon reaction that cain
upon the country in tho fall elet
tons. It is one of the last kick
of the dying spirit of caste, tina
should have expired with SLAYER,
It is the legal establishment of a
aristocracy of color, for whic
there is now as little authority i
the supreme law of the land as fo
an aristocracy of red headed mel
or of roman nosed men.-Ter,
Haute Express.