New-York tribune., 1877-01-04

his wife, by voluntary disposition TO strangers o
all claim on his estate after his DEATH and thus add
beggary TO widowhood. l am sure this cannot seem
right any farmindcd Neither Is 1t strange tat
OF country stung by the iipustlce Vi
the law toward their sex, should be demanding as
mode of redress part n the making OF anbooS enough
In our own sex to right this obvious wrong 10 WHICH
therefore recommend that the law this subject be
rcc9s that in all marriages hereafter contracteu e
sona services not rendered her husband or minor chill
drcn, as sole and separate estate WIN aosoio ipMun
Of disposition In her own nanc ana that tne surviving
VIE shall have by law, tine same measure oi , ev ~
the property Of the deceased husband as me surviving
husband shall bc allowed 10 have III the property OF MS
deceased wife, THIS will reduce their property relations
10 principle OF equality and; in my judgment. is , de
equity Those who not satisfied with this can make
different law for themselves by ane-nuptlal
unmin dful that the husband alone IL liable IN
the hrs instance for the support OF tue family put ,ni
Is much IN OTG tan rlr fe T. soSn m the tosome and
unpaid servi of the household, and that the whole
and generous nature rs toward the husbands pockets, IN
spite of ali the guards of the law and every consdera
ton OF prudence
THE STATE FINANCES.
[On the subject of the State finances the report
gives figures only for the eight months intervening
between March, the close of the old fiscal year, and
November, the beginning of the new. The receipts
were $3.50, 1889 81, and the expenditures II ,2ol,-
6Sj 81 while the amount remaining in the Treas
ury was S77,415 60-a reduction of Tll9,423 VI
caused the report says, by act of the last Assem-
bly, postpOning the annual payment OF large body
of taxes from October until January. The amount
of the funded debt is $5.014,5 300, of which SlOH-
900 is redeemabe at the pleasure of the state. AL
uding to the increase of the annual State eXpendi-
lures, the Governor recommends that measures
be set foot looking to economic reforms IN all
the departments of the State government" lie
thinks commission should be appointed " to exam
inc and scr1ltinize the whole system of public ex-
hot hp
enjons upon the Legislature the duty of keeping
vigilant watch over savings banks insurance cOmpa-
MES, and railroads
MILITARY INTERFERENCE IN THE STATES.
should be unfaithfu to my best conviction of duty
TO close this communication without calling your
attention another subject Let me speak freely ana
without ocnse. Nothing which concerns any one OF the
States in its relations to the Federal Government can be
matter of indifference to any OTHER STATE Tor tc riShs
OF all are bound up in one.
Power is naturally aggressive, and tends to abuse ana
centrazation especially if it have control of standing
armies. The sovereign prerogatives reserved 10 'he
States especially of home government; were in
tended under our political system ioi the polectoh W
the peoples liberties against the usuipi.lons oi
the central and war-nlaking power And as ne the 6el-
rc Of popular suffrage and as suffrage has no existence
under Federal law, but is the product OF aide law aoh
| know of more dangerous encroachuent thih tHdi
which should undertake to fill the states III an cecl"ra
campaign with Fedclal agents armed with ~ quvers oi
warrants to arrest and surround tie ballot boxes on
wIch the liberties and cxstcuce the state depcnd,
with Federal sold cry hnoW o no l,5o & ria' , xch
should presume to enter The Legislature oI Sd.te y
members opposed To the administration whose seats were
dispute and eject them by hlcs OF sodlcry win n&eu
bayOnets; that which should assume to lend te army
TO an outgoing State Executive. himself Il
candidate for his own succession. for use IN
a contested election; take midnight possession OF
the halls of le iSlation, and bar out by armed
sentincls he political adversaries OF the admstIa-
ton whose seats were i'll dispute, bnt whose Wt"d Iac
right had been adiudcatod by the supreme judicial
tribunal of the STATE; ostrucI th process o t, S'ate
officers of the state w nuliiying orders OF FEDERAL
circuit Judge aud thusan effect suppress The STATE and
pack its Legislature with the ponticl followers cl
party An administration pc united To exclcse these
political ambition of STATE Executive the TetcXt
for their exercise is master OF tiie peope; ana
elect Con- ressi0nai representatives, ana mus eoi
troll the nations purse; Presidential electors, ana
lures. and through them senators in Cogless,
and thus disarm tie power OF lml"a hmen' II lhGceu
that power has not already been silenccd no not
power from the National Government, Dni not III case oi
domestic violence merely, and only III case OF actual IN
surrecion against the state beyond the power Of the
state control, nor even then when tne LcSaluc oi
the State he convened, nor III any case Whatever cA
cent the EXTREMIST emergency Of seidiense The bor
rover is servant Of the cuder ANA the ruer OF STATE
and thus stine Tie domestic authority oi his own state
wi find excuse for neither borrower nor lr except III
the strict case provided lOr 10y law ana III Tie last heces
sites, not of himself OF OF party canvass Dut oi the
State. -..-..
II is in vain to eay even if it tue that the mill
tarv interference Of the Govermcnt-wnch has been
confined not 10 single state the call Of its Executive
but has practced whenever and Wherever the Adj
minstratiOn has fit, III the heat OF political can
yass to order its bataOnS-has wrought 10 harl, or
that the troops have acted with moderation and forbc
ance Such Observation-Disclosures are unfit to he used in
free country, even by good ruler much less by bad
one for, unfortunately, the use by the one becomes
urcccdcut for the other standing army AT the polls
il in the nature OF things ana on the unVrrs t""l
monv of history, Incompatible Win nee sulId@c'
Its irespuce there is poisonous. The liberties of the
people before il. Ucversal suffrage ana stand
ing army To control IL, are modern invention" i"f
the attain en absolute power. These Ntnols nav
twice within tue present century bF"ehi III nleiahni
in France. hatred of military politics Is h,reul.aTy
with the sturdy from which we slhanG' A century
and Il half ago the Commons OF Engand anIUhted ny
the spectacle 0I arms az the erection ponlS Ui ~
ser resolved "tat the presence OF guar body oi
soldiers at an election OF lhember 10 SER III raI H
mont is high infringement OF lhc Ip5I,ieS " ] ~. SD
lect a manifest violation OF the Freedom Ul cectonS,
and open defiance OF the laws and constitution o. r lms
Kingdom" These truths are old out not obsolete ln!
are vital STILL vital as liberty ltse ana hceu chlolcc
mrnt if | mistake not, line upon line.
subordinate generals does not puTIe 'he oiehse. one W5
something worse. TO dsclan the offcse ana possess lis
effects, and repeat both III one short tcrin without
censuIe to any One savors Oh something WorSe 'h"n
If the people of the Southern States unfit for self
government, be<er-if it were pOssiblc-cIcae ilere
dictator who, heing dependent on no party wonld nave
no party to serve; accept an equally aWeSs alicfud
dependence and attempt another experiment oi recon-
struction, than TO tolerate usgs and me- 0ds whc are
fatal to all the traditions Liberty, and which, II con
tnued cannot fail the eud 10 destroy Ou whole sys-
TEN of free gov -Inment for bad examples are con
r. pos and the military cugneIy which is trained on
State to-day at the caprice Of single man may DC
trained on another tomorrow.
am unwilling 10 admit that the peoples ballots and
the night of local seligOvclnmcnt are at the mercy OF
Federal artillery; and therefore, as The Executive oI
state whose election is dependent III one event on the
Legislature and i'll all others on legislative declaration
of the peoples choice, feel bound u protest against any
and ali manner of Federal interference, claim even Of
Interference in determining either the peoples choice or