The daily gazette., 1875-12-23
From the New York world. b
BAYARD AND MORTON.

There are here and there despairing
Democrats who insist il Is one OF the
popular delusions of the day to think
that the people of the several States
have the benefit and protection OF q writ
| ten Federal Constitution, whose linita-
tions and restraints on national power
are definite and complete.
Such as they are found contending with
| ever-iRcressing earnestuess that tne
habit of respectful obedience to the let
ter and spirit of our Federal Constitu-
tion is from this generation clean gone
forever, and that the holders or seekers
of Federal power amongst us are not as
much restrained by the forms OF our
written instrument as Parliament is by
the unvritten traditions, customs and
| precedents which make up what IS
spoken OF in England as its Constltu-
| ton. =,
These argue that fifteen years OF civil
war and its incidents have obliterated or
deadened the instincts Of community IN,
dependence and the. passion for local
self-government which were everywhere.
both with free-seilers and slave-soilers.
dominant in $780,.
They point to what they think is Dem-
ocatic apathy over proposition to give
| to the Federal Government control OF
State religion or irreligion, of our
schools, of our churches and church edi.
fees, as evidence OF general want OF
appreciation of what kind OF an lnstru-
ment every department of the govern
| ment- judicial, legislative and execu-
tive-up to 1850. said our Federal Con-
stitution was.
They deny that it would excite general
alarm If proposition were plumply
made to take away from the States and
give to Congress authority over the re;
| lations Of parent and child, husband and
| wife, guardian and ward. master and
| servant, and the disposition of ones
property after DEATH.
They concede there are few publlc
men, scattered here and there over the
country, who are alive to the Importance
| to these vital issues and the steady oblit-
| Grafton of State lines, but deny that any:
thing like a majority have any fixed
standard or measure by which they de-
| eide what is permitted or forbidden to
Congress, other than standard or mea-
sure of expediency.
Our despairing Democrats eau find q
general warrant for their apprehensions
in the constant doings of Senator Nor
ton, and q special warrant in his partcu-
| lar doines about the recent election in
l Mississippi. But they will probably ad-
public man Of different type.
These two Senators are the. complete
antipodes Of each other in their opinions
of the true relation of the General Gov
eminent to the several States. Morton
assert for Congress jurisdiction Large
enough for anything he or his party
J seeks; Bayard will yield to Congress
nothing which fair construction OF the
granted powers in the Constitution does
not compel him TO yield. In cases o.
doubt, Morton takes every presumptlol
= in favor Of Congressional power, Whli'
e Bayard contends for the several States
Morton dwarfs the States on every pos
. sible opportunity and expands Congress
4 Bayard upholds and vindicates, on everl
q proper occasion, for the States tha
which they have not surrendered TO Con
gress. Morton viciously exploits thu
C worst theories of Alexander Hamilton
: and John Adams, while Bayard is
, faithful student and follower Of Jeffer
son.
We are led to these remarks by read
ing the resolution introduced into tn
! Senate by Morton, on the subject OF tn
late Mississippi election, whereby IA
Il proposes that body shall undertake t
= investigate the Circumstance OF that elec
L ton. He charges fraud, bribery. iintimi
4 QablOQ, ana q MuOle NOCAuulaIy Va Vbho
improper things. Nobody presents him
:. self to the Senate in Washington fron
G Mississippi as the outcome OF the eiec
q ton. Nobody can present himself til
March, 1877, and the Senate has nothinl
to do with the elections of members o
y the lower House. But yet Morton pro
e poses to investigate. Bayard asks unl
der what clause or clauses of the Consti
tuition, and Morton is silent. Mortol
II points to precedents, but Bayard an
z Thurman demonstrate their inapplca
a bility. Morton argues that voters ar
deprived of their rights; and Bayar
replies that is the business of prose
II cutting officers and courts, not OF Sena
II tors, unless there be eontesting Sens
e tor before them. Morton insists iliega
|. ballots were cast, and Bayard bids hir
take the evidence before the prope
Grand Jury in Mississippi. But at las
!, accounts Morton was resolutely stun
:. bling on with his bastard imperialism
waving necessarily the bloody and no
very dirty and badly smelling shir
L which is the "gonfalon" Of Republican
n ism in the South.
To SUFFERING LADIEs.-"Dr. Rogerson