The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-01-19

pass laws pnnishing criminally State
officials for refusing to receive negrb
votes at State elections. Tho case
grows out of a decision OF Judge Bal
lnrd on the Enforcement ACT. The
Attorney General took the most ex-
treme ground, alleging that under tho
fifteenth amendment of tho Constitu-
ton. Congress could adopt any lrgislu-
tion it thought appropriate to secure
the negroes in what he called the great
right OF rights-the right to vote. He
scoffed at Stuts rights. and said that If
the war had settled anything, it had
settled the question of State rights
lie even went 30 fur ls to deny that
the Supreme Court had any right to
consider whether the legislation adopt
I'd by Congress WAS appropriate 10
accomplish the purpose intend. d. He
strenunusly Insisted that Congress was
the exclusive judge of what WIS appro.
pirate. He told the COURT with ex
treme earnestness that if it would go
as far in supporting the fifteenth
amendment al the judiciary on the
same bench had gone in supporting
slavery, there was no doubt but what
the Act OF Congress- in question would
be sustained. He stated unquaIihedly
that such we're the prejudiues of the
Southern people against the legal
equity of the negroes, that the lie
groes South would be disfrauchsed
unless Congress interposed in the most
emphatio mahner to prevent this
wrong. In short, Mr.. Williums spoke
with snch violence Of sentiment, aud
promulgated such exclusive doctrines,
| hal II fad l.
the Conrt seemed to participate. He
warned the Court that it Was serious
thing to pronounce an Act of Con-
gress unconstitutionaI, and that
thonHh numerous cases had raised
such Questions rs to Acts OF Congress,
yet i'll ouly five cuses had the Court
ever held Acts of Congress uncons,ltu.
tional. 1t was remarked by lawyers In
attendance that Air. Williams argu.
ment, in it's extreme claim Of power
for the Federal Government, was the
most remarkable ever made in the Sn.
prerne Court. According to Mr.. Will
liams. the States have no rights, aud
the Federal Government is govern
ment Of unlimited powers.
THE SHOCKING MURDER IN MIss1s-
sIpPI. - he telegraph hus already an
nonuced the butchery of an entire
family near Shannon, Mississippi.
Later Developments prove that a gen.
tleman named Borum, his wife, two
little children aud negro boy were
first murdered in the house aud the
building then fired in half dozen
places. On Saturday week, Borum,
who had just received S7OO. was in the
store of Mr.. Whitesides, at Shannon.
md being asked by him for loan of
$500, told Whitesides he would bring
him the money on Monday, and start
ed for home, his house being a mile
and half West of Shannon, his near
est neighbor being half a mile from
him. The next heard of Borum and
his family was that they had been
murdered and their bodies burned by
negro robbers. Borum's remains were
found few feet from the doorway, Il
part of his heart and liver in one mass.
some bruins in the back part of the
skull, together with one or two molten
bullets. and by these a pistol. which
had been discharged. and Borum g
knife open in corner OF the room
where bed stood. The remains of
Mrs. Bornm were found with those of
h1T Jou6se6; Child. aged nriuorn Two
and three years. clasped in her arms.
and few feet distant were the bones
IF the eldest child. aged five years.
Near the Fireplace were found the re-
mains of q negro boy. It is pre-.
snmed that the perpetrators of the foul
d'ed made some pretext on Sunday
night to induce Borum to open his
door, when they rushed in upon and
shot him; that he fired at them without
effect and then defended himself with
his knife, but was shot and killed, and
that after eutraging Mrs. Bornm. she
and the children, with the negro boy,
were butohered in cold blood. At
latest advises, the perpetrators of the
shocking crime had not been appre-
hended.
WHAT 1T CosTs TO KEEP WHITE
HoUsE.-A Washington correspondent
of the Boston Globe writes:
"a large proportion of the expenses
OF running the White House il borne
by the Government. The entire appro-
priation for this purpose for the pre-.
sent fiscal year is Sl2S.2O0. This in.
cludes tue Presidents salary, the sala-
ries of his secretaries, clerks. messen-
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