The daily gazette., 1876-09-25

QultteQ Dy tne interference OF fresl'
dent Grant, by such Senators as Ferry !
and Morton. The speaker then referred
to the invasion by the, administration |
of the powers of local self government |
and contended by way of illustration |
that France was brought to humilia'
tion in the late war with Germany by |
''centralization," power had become
so centralized under Napoleon's pater-
nal government that no man leaned |
on his neighbor and village had to
depend upon Paris even for the per-
mission to lay curbstone. When this
Capitalization scheme was removed
though there were 1900, 900 of men in
France capable of bearing arms-the
people found themselves without lead
ers, without the.teaching that home rule
would have given them. This should
be
A WARNING TO THE PEOPLE.
of the United States, and they should
look TO it that they were not drawn in
TO the same danger that poor tFrance
suffered from. He said that the States
were created for the preservation of the
Union, and that the Union only exists
for the safety and protection of the
States. He wss impelled to sound the
note Of warning he had, he said, be-
cause of the insolent, unprecedented
attempt to make Grants Attorney Gen.
eral and his Secretary of War. backed
even by the General Of the army-to
to his shame be it said-to take an uH
lawful liberty with the rights of the
people of one section of tie country.
lie then showed that the United States
had no voters of their own. That the
United States Supreme Court
had decided over and over
gain. They had no voters who
had rights which the United States
had to protect. The States existed be
fore the United States, the right to
vote was given by the State, controlled
| by the State, defined by the State,
speaking through her own particular
laws. The fifteenth amendment was
the only part of the federal constitu
ltion that touched upon the voters
| rights. and that only guaranteed that
no man should, on account of his race
or color or previous condition, be de
lprived of his right to vote. Under the
circumstances, then he said, if even
the laws decided by the United States
supreme Court Invalid should be
pleaded in the courts against anyman
they would be pushed aside by the
sword of justice, for no man had the
right 10 execute the invalid warrant
of void law. lie said that some news
lpapers and men who pretended to give
. instruction to the public from the
platform had :arraigned ihim as o
man of a rebel turn of mind because
, of the stand he had taken in this par.
ticular matter. While such idle talk
would not intimidate him from doing
his duty, he would say that he was
always for the law, always bowed his
head to the law. for law was liberty.
Liberty must live and move
IN THE HARNESS OF THE LAW,
and he who broke the law under pre-.
tence OF doing good to his country
committed q crime. There was no
safe hire when he could depart from
the line of the law. Mr.. Bayard next
spoke Of the national debt, and hoped
that the "tradition of obligation" to
honorably pay what had been incurred
by the nation should be adhered to by
those who would come after US, and
pointed out that if the Southern States
were 80 crippled that they would be
: unable to pay their share of the debt
the Northern States would naturally
J have greater weight to bear. 1t was
folly, then for sane men to follow in
; the steps of those who would do all
: they could to makethe Southern States
SO poor they could not pay their share.
| IN oid hio 10 Onnofnx
: Boutwell, and said that gentleman did
not seem to remember when he was
talking about remanding Virginia back
10 Territorial form of government
that last year she paid three times more
revenue tax to to the general govern.
ment than the five New England States
put together; that Kentucky had paid
J nearly four times more; that "bordel
ruffian" Missouri had paid nearly five
times more. The speaker also, much
to the amusement of the audience
J pointed out the blunders of Mr., Bout
well as financier when he was Secre,
of the Treasury. He referred in scath
: tary ing terms to the "moiety" system
!. which prevailed under Mr.. Boutwell's g
! term Of office. His recital of the scene.
that took place before the Senate In
vestigatin Committe when it came to
this city couple of years ago, when
merchants told how they had been des
Ipoiled by the Treasury agents, created
, quite sensation and evidently mad'
. strong impression upon the audience
: He then, in speaking of the South. de
clared that cecession died and wa
, buried on the field at Appomattox
never to rise again. What the Soutf
! wanted was honest men to rule tbt
' country, to rule their own States
New York was as much interested IL
|, that as the South, which desired to ge
q men in authority as raedy to fight cor
q Iruption as Governor Tilden was in thi
e State. They were unit for that OBJ
n ieet, He:contended that he wante,
# no united North, no united South, n
n united East, as against the other. Fl
/, delcared that he would train with n
+ party that did not feet as he did in thi
4 respect. and that he would march t
i no music whose notes did not ech
q from one endof the Union to the othel
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