The New York herald., 1876-10-14

and u was plain TO these alarmiss bat the soun hsd
tho power, II they had the will. 10 rebel again.
Not man in the country accepted the constitutional
amendments more cordially than the speaker, and
he Was . Southern man (chsers), aud he spoke for
every conspicuous in the South, IRON Delaware
70 Louisiana and neither Mr. Conkling nor Mr. Butler
than their Southern brethren viii Mr.. Mcians
entreated his hearers not 10 be disturbed by
talk aboa. the solid South" Why. u there
were not . "soid South" they ought to
despse the South II 1t could permit itself 10 be ruled
during these last eleven and not unite with the
unworthy Of American ctzenshp. tAppia1se)
1t was not TO be supposed that the feel
of .Ss south The speaker Knew that
blacks Of that section fully disdaned the re-
publican party as did the whites AZ matter OF TACT
more than one-third Of the black In Louisiana,
than one-haf OF those IN Alabama, ons-haf Of
those in Georgia one-quarter OF those in South Caro-
lina onefourth Of those In Virginia and one-ha OF
those West Virginia supported the democratic
party
criminal conduct OF tho in its adminisra
ton Of law The democratic party at St Louis, when
il declared itself for honest governments and honest
and the civil There was in addition those
three elements fourth. and that was
sOS SS law appa Passing over the issaon
which followed the war, the speaker did not refer 10
Ku Klux laws enforcement laws Of the thousand
others which had reference TO the reconstruction OF
tho Southern States-laws that passed in great
exigencies In order that the dominant party might
'maintan peace tho Southern country" as puts
country The speaker said It was done
for the purpose OF making the southern people vote
the republican Ticket aud denounced u In elegant and
vigorous language Mr. Secretary Cameron and Mr.
Attorney General TAFT had just issued instructions TO
the effect that the marshas or the United States and
their deputies and the deputies OF the deputies shall
use the army and navy OF tho United
sa.s States rh.. wss tho instruction + was simple.
all could understand il The marshal was told tha, he
could use the army to maintain lain peace in -" state
Union. What was the law Two aspects OF the case
presented themselves The Supreme Cour OF the
United States had ruled that tho federal
Congress should not interfere in maintaining
the peace in any State OF the United States. They
ruled that upon law which is generally called the
enforcement act. 1t was unnecessary TO state that
what they ruled upon law was rood applied 10
all other laws and ,hsrsi0rs M % when Secretary Tar
time and place for holding elections, he knew very
we'll that the marshall could not do, under
under the enforcement law. He knew as u matter Of
fact that tho law l have SAID that the ruling
clearly meant that The United States could not
fully maintain the peace IN State. That was the func
ton tho State aud therefore whom he told the mar
shals that IL could do so, he was knowingly,
unlawfully and corruptiy violating tho law, and ne
deserves impeachment The violation OF the common
law was still greater. The common law was
that q sheriff summon posse comitatus, and in
that soldier or . sailor, as an individual can be
sSso"sy .ha the Whole posso is under .ss
command OF the sheriff, and II soldier
fires shot under his own onlcer... beng
knows very wol that the crime would be murder II he
killed any one (Applause.) What did Taft and
send the army tho South and Cameron ordered Gen.
eral Sherman to send 1t there. General Sherman IN
sending put INTO me orae. ina. every ocsr must oe
upon hts own responsibility he thought It necessary
and right
democratic party II placed in power would reform the
curroucy and the revenue. would give tho people
public money 10 corrupt purposes
HON. CHARLES 8. FAIRcHILD
was next introduced, who said id:Feow citizens, the
different parts OF the country doing their duty
in the grand campaign for reform Our friends OF tho
Southern States have done theirs WELL and friends
West Virginia and Of Ohio have nobly done
theirs II now remains for US OF the East, or
Now York New Jersey Jersey Az and e,Ss co1nscsious ~ to
nercely hero viii be the brunt Of the battle until
the final and decisive struggle In November Such be-
ing the case. want TO call attention 10 our State
politics and TO tho measures OF reform inauguratcd
and to be iuauguratsd IN our midst. desire nrst
Is stgmstzed by the republican press, ana
by your Ex-Governor General Dix, a. q sham reform
Of Governor rilden's. Iw,ll shown few words that
IL is not sham reform, but the only good change
troduced In our canal system In twenty-five years
In the year 1851 there great scandal about
concerning the distribution Of 81, 600. 900 worth
OF contracts Il charged that the contracts
unfairly TO the members OF this same couveutlon
OF contractors So much indignation manifested itself
upon the subject that an amendment Was made TO tho
constitution requiring that contracts shouid be gwen
the lowest bidder. This however, proved neectua
OF political influence accepted con-
tracts at lower rates than would pay Tor
the labor, and then asked tho Legislature
TO grant them additional compensation. In 1874 the
people adopted another amendment, to tho effect that
no extra compensation should be allowed as il was
In pervcrsion OF the Staie constitution requiring
tracts to be allowed TO the lowest biddsrs Al the
time had great faith in the efficacy OF this enact
Attorney General, who was not ffai officer, but
man OF uust and honesty. aIlude to
Ex-ArToRNxY GENERAL BARLOW.
Some time before tho adoption OF the constitutional
amsndment TO stop extra allowances Attorney General
Barlow had brought action against certain con-
who received extra compensation, upon the
ground that contrary to the law or IetlSg the
contracts lowest bidders Pending the decision of
this action Republican State assembled
In 1873 at Utica Mr.. William N. Evarts and mum.
Der OF others joined in requesting Mr. Barlow TO accept
another torn OF office He accepted with reluctance
because The time Occupied thus by him might be more
probably employed at his private business Yet when
that republican Convention met at Utica they
declined 10 nominate Mr.. Barlow, though he had done
more than anybody else in New York State to help
bring about honest management Of the canal aairs
Notwithstanding his well known efforts In the
Of reform they him on; but they nominated other
officials who have since disgraced their party.
Such being the case Barlow wont Out OF office Janu
ary 1874 the suit he had brought the strength OF
the constitutional amendment was adversely decided
by the Court OF Appeas do not know II. but possi-
bly, the minds OF OF the judges OF that court may
have been Influenced by the action OF the
Utica Republican Convention in rejecting Barlow for
h,ch oueha the voters of The Stato had
refused to indorsc Mr.. Barl0w's denomination. Some
other suits Mr. Barlow brought at the end Of bis term
OF Office which proceeded slowly along during
the year until upon the LIST day OF Janu-
ary, 1875, Samuel ). Tilden into the Gov
ernorshrp. He had not been two months in ofIlco
before his brought to these canal frauds
through the application OF some boatmen employed
the canal asking for reduction oil impost When
Governor Tlden had given the subject his notice he
ouEd another new dnnger-viz, the system of un-
balanced bids. higher and some lower with tho
power OF contracting for any amount OF
work. He called the attention OF the
people do IT, and his efforts eventually resulted in dis
covering all the abuses which and forever
stopped. (Applauscl certain suit In court,
one which contends Tor 5000 ooO and which we have
brought TO great question. II we successful
we shall collect
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS,
and stop forever the violations Of the law governing
the canals We preferred not to bring this suit until
the Board OF Engineers was reorganlzed In January
last for had reason to believe that the old
the pay Of the jobbcrs. After that strict