Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-10-20

This city Is just now experiencing quite
revival interest in the temperance cause,
and there is scarcely a night in which there
is not an interesting meeting held in some
portion OF the city by one or more Of the
different organizations existing here. On
Sundays large public meetings are held at
which prominent speakers in the cause, as
well as some Of our ablest clergymen par
ticipate, and the result has already been
qlite marked. and large aeeessians have
been maze to the Order of the Sons of TEN
pcrance, the Joaaiabs, Rechabites and sim
liar organizations.
At the Soldiers Home, where the inmates
have nothing special to occupy their time,
much interest has been maifested of late.
and the meetings held in their chapel on
Sabbath afternoons have been highly inter
esting and among the mast successful of
the series. A division Of the Order of the
Sens Of Temperance is sooa to be instituted
at the Home.
The committee of arrangements, of
hich Admiral D. D. Porter is Chairman,
is making great and extensive preparations
for the meeting Of the Society of the Army
of the Tennessee, which takes place here,
on tbs 18th and 10Th instant, at which
time the statue erected to the memory of
Gen. Mcpherson viii be unveiled. The
citizens generally are taking a great deal
OF interest in the matter and are deyising
all kinds Of schemes for the entertainment
OF those who may assemble here on that
occasion. The President has invited them
to a pabIic reception at the Waite House,
On the evening Of the 18th, assuring them
of the pleasure it viii afford him to grasp
by the hand2aH his former comrades of the
old army; and the invitation has been ac-
cepted.
A trip to Mount Vernon has also been
for them, and the president of the
Inland anI SeabOard Coasting Company
has placed ore of his finest steamers at the
disposal of the Chairman of the committee
for that purpose. After they return from
Mount Vernon, the President of the Socie-
ty, Gen, Sherman, viii give them a recep-
tion. Other receptions and entertainments
re in course Of progress for their enjoy
ment, but have not yet been completed.
The exercises of unveiling the statue will
take place fEon two. til four o'clock on the
18th inst, Ez-GoFenaF Qennison Of Ohio
will deliver tho address Of welcome on the
morning of the first named dav. Gen.
Fair will deliver an oraiion in the evening
at Lincoln Hall, where all the business ex-
ercises will take place. Gen. Logan and
Others viii deliver s.GtiIe.ses at the unvei-
ing, a poem will be delivered, grand pa
rade and march will take place, and alto
gether the reunion here viii be the
pleasant S!ea and enjoyable of any that IL;
yet taken place. ghe entire expenses for
the entertainments here viii be borpe by
the citizens.
There are many now living who will re-
member the excitement which existed in
this country during the administration Of
General jackson, growing out of the heat
ed controversy in Congress between North
ern and Southern statesmen, relative to the
constitutional right of q 6tate to ngllify a
law of Congress- This discussion cnlmiHa=
ted in overt acts, on the part of South Caro-
lima, to set aside and refuse to recognize
the revenue laws. Antecedent to the open
attempt to ignore the law, the most remark
eal9 oceurHpee was the debate in the Sen
ate Of the United States, in the month Of
January, 1880, between Mr.. Hayne, a Sen
ator from South earolina, and Daniel
Webster, a Senator from Massachusetts.
The mooted point was as to the suprema-
cy Of the National or State Government,
Mr.. Hayne holding that Estates may law
fully decide foE them selves, and each
State for itself, whether in q given case
the act of the General Governments trans
tends its power" Dir. Webster held the
opposite doctrine, aYerripg that the people
have wisely provided, in the Constitution
itself, a tribunal for settling questions OF.
law, by declaring that ''the
and laws of the United States
made in pursuance thereof, shall be the
supreme law Of the land, anything in the
Constitution or laws of any State to the
contrary notwithstanding" In cases of
alleged interference or conflict of the Con-
and Laws of State with the
and Laws of the United States,
the eloquent Massachusetts Senator argued
that the last appeal was to the Supreme
CoqFt, the Constitution providing ''that
the Judicial power shall extend to all cases
arising under the Constitution and Laws
Of the United States,
The controversy between Haynes and
Webster embraces tho very question now
pending between the Republican and Demo-
CRATIC parties. Elect Tilden by the vote of
s..'solid South, aided by q few electors from
Northern States, and the doctrine ob npllis
icatiou would be revived and sustained,
State Governments would become supreme.
The judicial power would be ignored. Even
tbe executive power would be rendered sub
seryient to thar Of a particular State. We
would cease to be a Nation, the right of sey
cession would ha recognized and this Union
could only be preserved by thp yielding of
tile North to the imperious demands Of the
Fire-Eaters Of the South or be again left to
the arbitrament of arms. The decision of
the people at the polls next month will set
tie this momentous question.
We have looked over the third edition, of
the Congressional Directory, CORRECTED Aug.
18th, 1870, and find that forty-seYen mems
bers of The present House state distinctly
and cmphatically that they were either in
The Confederate Army or held some civil
office in the Cp1federacy, during the war,
all but . few having served in the Army.
This does not embrace the whole number,
as tits known that some have considered
il to be prudent to leave that portion Of
their reeogd Riank.
In contradiction TO this truthful data,
furnished by Southern members, we have a
CONSPICUOUS instance of Northern Demo