The daily gazette., 1876-10-04
THE DANGER AND DUCY THE
DAY.
From the n Y. World.


When Senator Bayard led the way
in manly and earnest condemnation of
the opinion of Judge Taft by an inter-
view with representative of the |
World which he has since resolutely
followed by the speeches in Brooklyn
and this city, the managers of the
Hayes campaign, who speak mainly
through the Times in this city. in
stantly rushed forward to wave the
"bloody shirt in his face. 1t was the
only answer they could make to his
indisputable proposition of constitu-
tional law that there is in this broad
land no voters created by Federal
power. all voters having their life and
being as such from the several States.
Thus speaks the Times:
"a "Citizenship as he defines, it has
nothing whatever to do with the
State. a voter resident in New York
votes not as a citizen of the United
States; but as II citizen OF New York.
The National Govcrnmenth has nothing
to do with him, and-4c :ording to Mr..
Bayard-he must not took to it for
privileges or prO,,c ioH. The soul OF
liberty intAis country is. in Mr..
BayGlG's opi9i1n, cncascd ia state
laws, aAd Interference on the pert OF
tie Fedela) power to protect the indi>
yi1ugl voters from fraud or violence,
would bc fatal to our form Of govern
mout.'
Aud then, through column and a
] haif OF "b.oody.shirL" rhetoric, The
! Times went On to denouuce Alr.
| Bayard as an arrant rebel for uttcring
( such Il sentiment.
! \ ct what else did the Supreme Court
say in its recent opinion, which in eff
feet decided Judge Taft's recent law
to be no law, and the Presidents order
to be unconstitutional We give the
words of thenCourt:
"We have decided that the Consttu-
tion of the United States has not con-
ferred the right suffrage upon any one,
and that the United States have no
voters of their own creation in the
States"
We confront the rhetoric of the
Hayes managers with this solemn lan-
guage OF the Court not to vindicate
the World or Mr.. Bayard as against
the Times, nor to show how Ignorant
that journal is of the first rudimentary
elements of our system of duel gov.
ernments, nor even to demonstrate how
indefensible is the conduct of Grant,
Taft and Cameron in this business, but
to make our Democratic friends aud
conservative men of all parties fee,
how much depends ON the coming
election, 1t is not against the Demo-
cratic party OF all it is against thu
framework OF political system ant
th3 Constitution Of the United State,
that the Hayes compGiga is con
Quoted.
Look a. the facts The Saprem
Court has decided thai the Fedora
Government cannot perform p'ltc.
duty inside Il Safe, and yet il is jus
that pol.cy duty which the Prcsiuen
directs the army TO perform. ard T.
perform without an application from
unv State.
The Supreme Court has decided tha
> under no existing law, can the Presi-
dent protect either negroes or white
mems or men of any color. inside ;
State, fom intimidation, whether thi
latter be applied to prevent eithe
from registering or voting or doing
= anything else and yet Judge Taft
under orders from Zlch Chandler
advises the President exactly in tht
teeth Of the highest tribunal in The
land To what must this directly ant
inevitably lead
To,tlay there is now law Tor such in
tcrfercnce with the States; but give
the Radical party power aJ the mex
election, either in Congress or in til,
White House, and there will be law,
passed authorizing such invasion o
; the States.
DO conservative men reply that thest
laws, though passed, will be, neverthe
less, unconstitutional? Ofc0ursc they
viii be, and SO the present t5uprem'
= Court has plainly said! What OF that
4 RoGlcal Congress can, and Will an
thgrize an increase of Judges, as 1t die
, in 1868, whereby the next year, i.
, 1870 bradley and Strong assembled th'
bench 10 overthrow the solemn judg-
ment which had pronounced the Lega
Tender law unconstitutional. Tnt
denunCiatious heaped on Mr.. Bayar(
by the Times as the Hayes organ
: clearly and Enthusiastically betokcl
what the Hayes leaders mean to do j
!. they can get power in all department
: of the Government-EXecutive, Leg
islative, and Judicial!
We ask all conservative men, and il
r particular all sincere Democrat
, throughout this city and State, t.
ponder these thing.
!. Not the South only, but all th
u States, with Democratic House il
@ Washington or DemocraticExecutiv
: will be safe from this threatened in
yasion and the financial prosperity o
the North will be secure from the tur
= bulence and anxiety which such an in
vasion would cause Not the Sout
only, but all the States, with Repub
lican House or a Republican Executiv
will be in imminent deadly peril @
such an invasion. Is 1t tolerable tha
serious men should stand trifling owe
Tammany and Anti Tammany, cans
and anti canal over personal or politi
cal grievances of any kind. in the fac
). of this absolute certainty that if til
backbone of this Radical party is nc
broken in this canvass, its next fos