The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-03-11
HAS THE STATE "a REPUBLICAN
FORM OF GOVERNMENT
Question Submitted to the Press and the
Taxpayers Of Mississippi.


j are dangerously blended in the Execu
!, tive. Under the Constitution, he ap
: points the Chancelors and the Circui
and Supreme Judges That instrumen
d requires that the Senate shall parlicipat,
= in the selection Of these officers; and i
. also provides that they shall not be re
moved except by action of the Legisla
5 ture. But the precedent established BIZ
n the present Governor and consented Il
by the Legislature has virtually abro-
gated these saving clauses. Within this
u brief term, judges have been both ap-
, pointed and removed by the Governor
e without consulting the Legislative de
partnent. The majority of the Senate
o have slavishly acquiesced in the Governor
: DEGREES and surrendered the trust con-
f fided to that body by the Constitution.
Ames has never denied, and it can be
proved if he should deny, the charge Of
C having corrupuy endeavored to control
: the judiciary. When rebuked for his
e conduct, he has put in the pitiful plea
+ that ne was emo lawyer" or in other
words, that he was ignorant OF the sacred
character Of the judiciary 1t might
have been answered that he ought not to
have been ignorant Of the Constitution,
which he bad taken an oath to support,
and which declares that the powers Of
the Government shall be divided into
three distinct departments, and that no
person being one of these departments
shall exercise any power properly belong
ine to either Of the others
These pretensions Of the Executive, the
Legislature, by It's failure to notice,
has practically endorsed and approved;
and under this construction the division
Of powers esse ntial 70 the preservation of
liberty and Republican government no
longe. exists.
The Standing Army bill places the
sword in the hands of the Executive. |
The entire military system which it will
bring into activity is to be the creature
of his will. OF this Army, two regiments
Of infantry and a company of artillery,
armed with Gatlin guns, are to lie held
ready for service at a moments call.
With the principle recognized that the
Executive shall be the master of the Ju-
dietary, and with the latter subject to his ,
appointment and removal at will; with !
an Army selected with reference to its {
race and partisan affiliations, ready to t
obey his DEGREES, nothing was needed to
the overthrow of the ''repub-
llcan form" guaranteed by the constitu-
ton except the transfer of the purse to
the same control. This has been done
by the bill taking from the several coun-
ties the election of tax collectors and :.
7esting the appointment in the Governor. :,
At this point it becomes the solemn
iuty Of the people to call a HALT There .
5 no obligation resting upon them to pay
cent Of taxes for the maintenance of -
hese usurpations. 1t has become a Sc ~
ious question with the taxpayers wheth- y,
T the time has not come-n0t for dis
Of the peace or violent resistan ce
a any form-bot jon cutting off The sap p
hes What say the press which repre- Pi
ent the paying interests of the We
tate What say the tax-paying PEG L"
LIE? Its
The foregoing appeared in THE DAILY 'H'
LARToN Of the 9th inst. The Vicks- We
arg Herald, speaking for the largest tax ue'
lying county in the State, seconds the ma
III saying: a
The people of Mississippi pay millions yo'
taxes annually, only to see thieves ed
uander the amount in profigacy and eye
eruption. While the taxpayers grow haC
'"rer every year, Ames and his robbers r
oW richer every day. As this thing
ust stop somewhere, as it must come atr
an end before whole population are hav
g9ared and turned homeless upon the had
'rld, we second THE CLARIoN's call IN !
T \ HALT. Let us halt here and nor,
It the word be passed along the whole was
e, let every county in the State cry lea
lalt to the tax gatherer. Let the and
lrdy men of north Mississippi, those arIe
ing on the borders of the State that
$ the home, and is the grave of An Pa
ew Jackson, clasp hands with their decs
eh1i> ana brothers VINO OWeII by the Win
my shores Of the Gulf of Mexico. its {
the men of the great east, the dwell voar
on the prairies, and the denizens of
rich valleys of central Mississippi.
ch elbows with their friends by the
TX Of the great river, and in one de- O.
mined phalanx refuse to pay any tax r. ab
r. rob rs and who ,( me-, rnr "ilo iG.e lish
II ill-gotton wealth, mock at the mis- befol
unes and poverty of the people they was {
nder. The Herald, speaking for. and hone
he interest Of the largest taxpaying r,,a,
MY In the State, CRIES HALT : and - an,
Id TO Heaven we could make the cry tue !
rd and needed by every man, woman not I,
child in Mississippi ing
.et ether representative journals of that
tax payers, speak out on this subject. ten c
II opinions are invoked, not silent ac- ampl,
scence. Ames has caused to this il
assed a law taking from the tax pay the i
md vesting in himself the selection the &C
X collectors; and now let the tax O,,
rs show him that if they are not to tbat
uSted any longer with the choice of ror T
own agents, they are not the people tho :
: saddled any longer with the bur hands
u '"J us' any. I.-Is .'ini"'e taAauon' sum, /:
aIer BENNETT and the Taxi Rob. COMM
beers Bill. effort
to witt
e have published IL this paper a card have I