The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-05-02

l. "We are hostile TO Eaton and detest
| him. 10 KNOWS soothing but tie
old State s6v ffeignty blathef. That his
beeHEthe affe0tation of his life. He blew
off bis old fpolishness sbout the sacred
sovereignty of the Statex the hrst chance
the national flag of Rhode Island before
she ratified the Constitution. If he is
right, the war was the most woful blum
der ever committed, and we must put
the. Southern Confederacy atop, paying
| for slaves, redeem the Confederate cur
rency, satisfy all Southern war claims
pension Confederate soldiers, double
the national debt, and recognize the na-
tional flag of Rhode Island, Delaware,
Nevada or Oregon, If either of the soye-
reigns hoist it. Eaton il that much of
an ass. We do not think Cockrcll is
The sovereign States that attempted to
places. They are nailed to Che nation
like coon-skins on a barn door. ANY
others that try the experiment of sove-
| reignty will be spiked to the wall in tho
same way. We want peaceful nation,
| not scrambling swarm of snarling
States, infected with the delusion that q
province is greater than nm empire"
There is as much malice and misinfor-
nation in this paragraph as could we'll
be condensed in the same space. It
evinces the blindness as well as the
| venom of the Northern viper. 1t comes
from the representative of certain un-
| informed class in the North who have
never read the history of their country,
and have never understood its Constitu-
ton. The relation of the States to the
Federal Government is q subject which
they have never gmsped, and the litera-
| tnra TINT hooYu M ~ 10 fO than,
incognito which they have never explored.
The consequence is, that when they un-
dertake discussion of it, they strike out
blindly, over-turn some of the clearest
provisions of our organic law, under
mine their own positions, topple over
their own riokety stools and play the
devil generally. They are so-called in
dependents, but they rush into the
worst extremes of partisanship-the par
tisanship of On incohcrent but pcrnicious
set of ideas.
| And this is one Of the two great classes
of the country. It is class that cuts
itself loose from every precedent or rule
by which the Constitution has hitherto
every essential feature of that much
abused instrument, and pushes it's tenets
to the extreme of imperialism. The
other class plants itself upon the fundn-
mental law, keeps within its limits and
accepts that construction which the high
est tribunal in the land puts upon it.
The one scorns the restraints of consti-
tuition, the other recognizes their exist
ence az essential to good government,
and are obedient to them in word as we'll
as act. The Commercial we will take as
representative of the former, and Mr.
Eaton as the representative of the latter.
| When MIR. Eaton maintained that the
States existed before the Union; that
Rhode Island had national flag of her
own before she entered the confedcracy
that she with other States formed the
Federal Government; that by the terms
of the Constitution the Federal Govern
ment possesses only those powers that
were expressly delegated to it, and that
all other powers belong to the States
forming the Union. he merely stated
what every intelligent person knows to
be historically true, and what the Su-
preme Court has on,an proper occasions
declared TO be incontToyertible. And
| this 10 the head and front of his Offend
ing. To thiA complexion, then, have VIC
come at last It L. reproach if not IL
crime for a Senator TO rise in his seat and
recall historical daetaconnected with his
country and repeat what the highest ju-
| oiClaA tk1UuuuI IN tne lana mas TIME anu
again declared to be true
We have certainly reached pitiful
pass when misdirected malice becomes
30 aggressive and rampant, for it no
longer Turks tinidly behind the subtle
ties of the casuist; It no longer acts on
the defensive, but comes out boldly in
the Light of day, and wages wrnthful
war of persecutionnppon the culture and
Intelligence. of public men. It seems
strange that such spirit could be posi-
BILE in civilized country and m en-
lightened age. 1t seems strlngc that ii
can show its nudacious front among II
law-abiding and patriotic people; but Sc
bitter are the prejudiceS of inrge class
in the North that it not only lives but
prospers.
The Commercial overturns it's own posi-
ton when it maintains that if Mr..
Eaton's view is right '.we must put the
Southern Confedemcy atop, paying for
slaves, redeem the Confederate currency,
satisfy all Southern war claims, pension
Confederate soldiers, double the national
debt, and recognize the national flag OF
Rhode Ielnnd, Delaware, Nevada OF
Oregon, if either Of the sovereigns hoist
it," and it simply shows itself much
moro of San ass" than Mr.. Eaton does
when it reaches such conclusion.
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