The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-03-04
en- the royal prerogative should be en-
acfo6 ia dnomod fO nQsa awaV

en- the royal prerogative should be en-
acted, is doomed to pass away.
The Times sympatfizes with the
melancholy Jasper, and with all the
loyal souls that arc urging this meas
ure to strengthen the royal prerogati' .
Their touching appeals to loyal hearts
revive in its memory the history of
the long and desperate struggle of the
British monarch and his Tory coun-
.sellors against the steady, persistent,
and inexorable, but Internally disloy-
al, encroachment of the people upon
the royal prerogative, thallowed in
monarchical minds by the traditions
of ages. The history ofthe American
colonies, from the revolution of 16SS
to that of 1776, was an important part
of the history of that struggle between
the dying system of government by.
royal prerogative and the rising sys
tenn of government by popular assem-
bly,, or parliament. And more espec-
tally that portion of our history which
began with the accession of George
III. and ended with the military affair
at Yorktown, Ct 3!; se.s rl.H
The claim of the crown in that long
contest between Toryisln and .Whig-
ism was that in the government of the
colonies it had q constitutional pre-
rogative to prescribe and enforce GER
tain undamental conditions;" said
conditions being that the colonies
should submit to be governed by loyal
persons of His Majesty's approval,
under laws of His Maiesty's dictation.
His Majesty claimed that it was part
of the prerogative to suspend the writ
of habeas corpus in any colony, to abb
rogate the colonial perliaments, TO
take possession by his creatures of all
the functions of the local governments
Having Tory majority in the parlia-
ment of England, he sought and OBJ
tanned divers enactments to strengthen
and aid him in the execution of pre-
rogative government in the colonies.
The colonies, on the contrary, and
their few Whig friends in the English
parliament, asserted as their constitu-
tional right the local self-government
which they had prscticed without in.
terruption for 8 century, and with a
single Interruption for q century and
q half. They asserted the right of
making their own special laws, and
laying their own taxes, in represena-
tive assemblies of their own local or
,ganization, as a fundamental doctrine
and principle OF Euglish liberty. This
was the contest of the American revo-
luton, the actual beginning of which
was in the year 1853, when iservile
Tory cabinet, under the dictation of.
the most narrow minded and pig head
ed of all English Kings: determined
upon the policy of taxing and govern
ing the colonies under the royal pre-
rogative. 'ift'' o.
What is this so called political bill"
which that lugubrious Tory, our lu-
minous Jasper, holds essential to the
life of the prerogative party? 1t pro-
poses, say 8 the Tory organ, ''to hold
Ithe reconstructed States in the man
agement of their local affairs, to what
are called certain fundamental con-
ditions' of admission" 1t proposes
to do this, in the words of the same
Tory organ, by authorizing the presi-
dent- king, Gin his discretion to suspend
:the writ of hnbeus corpus in any
8 State, and of course, to take military
6 possession of such State. and at his
pleasure to make and depose State
. governments" 1t is the project of
King George III. and his Tory parlia-
mentor of James II. and his Tory
privy council-leproduced by King
Ulysses 1. and his Tory Congress, to
facilitate and strengthen the suprema-
cy of royal prerogative over the con-
stitutional right of popular self-gov-
ernment. . -@.
"The Southern States are in state
of practical rebellion," cries the loyal
Tory, Statesman Ward. "The colonies
are ripe for rebellion" wrote the Tory
governor of New York. "The tenn
per of the southern whites is as dis
loyal as it was at the outbreak of the
: rebellion" proclaims the Tory states
man of the Thirteenth ward. =" de-
clare to you that there is, not one
'loyal man in all New England" said
the Tory emissary of the last century.
These Tory declarations are not more
unlike in sentiment than they are in
the occasion which inspired them
The one of the colonial period was
the cry of zealons blower and striker
for the party of government by royal
prcrogative. The one of the present
period is the cry of a Jealous blower
and striker for the party of govern
ment by royal prerogative. History
repeats itself-Chicago Times. h.
THE beau monde of Syracuse ware
surprised recently at seeing richly
dressed young lady wheeling wheel
barrow, in which was a bundle OF
clothiug, through the streets. On in
quiry the reason for such queer oe-