The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-10-05

was over Hon. George E. Hoar, one
OF the United States Senators from
that State, delivered carefully pre-
pared speech, from which we ex.
tract his utterances in regard to the
.President's southern policy and civ
IL service reform:
The mode IN Whicir President
Hayes has dealt with the southern
problem, as 1t il called, during the
first ak months or his term of Office,
excites, as is natural, deep solicitude
and earnest discussion. 1t is his
great good fortune that to q degree
almost withoutexample both frIends
aud opponents accord to him the
praise of perfect honesty of puF-
pose. BY solemn declaration ne
has put Il out of his power TO, be q
candidate for reelection. lie can
have no other ambition lhan TO earn
the appreciation ofshls countrgmen
by the purest and highest public
service. He has made no other
complete -statemenk-Of-ihe prIucfS
Piles which willtg0vernh his admins
tratiOn than that contained in the
platform adopted at Cincinnati and
his letter OF acceptance, both OF
which are we'll known and satisIae-
tory to those who voted for him!
No man is more thoroughly pledg-
ed than President Hayes to uphold
the constitutional, ,rights aud the
constitutional equality of all citi-
zens OF the United States. To this
his record of. civi and military SER
vice and his official pledges alike
bind him fast. In all his public ut
terances since he came into Office he
has insisted on this fundamenIals
Indeed, that every voter In The
country. shall be protected in the
rights conferred by the thirteenth,
fourteenth, and fifteenth amend
ments, by every exertion Of nation
al power necessary to that end is
not matter of executives discretion
or legislative discretion. 1t is q.
constitutional duty which neither
President or legislature, sworn to
support the constitution, can right
fully disregard. The executive ac-
d ton OF the President has been the
subject Of severe criticism in those
particulars. He has refused to use
the military forces to maintain the
government of Cham berlain in
South Carolina and Packard In
Louisiana. He han appointed a
southern Democrat, formerly q high
officer In the Confederate army, to
q seat In the cabinet. He has mani
tested in, his personal and official
bearing atempeF and spiFit Of friend
lineas and Fconfdeuce toward the
southern white. The refusal to use
the military, forces ofrthe United
States to keep In power the govern
ments Of Chamberlain and Packard
seens to me to have been q constI-
tutional necessity. The constitu-
ton provides that T'no, apPropria-
ton OF money for the use of the
army be- for q longer period than
two years." It WAS Intended by this
language to enable Congress to de-
termine the uses to which the mil
itary forces of the country should |
be put, by an opportunity to act
upon the question of their support
at least once in the term of every
House Of Representatives, and the
statute authority TO the President to
call out the militia and employ the
land and naval forces must be inter-
preted in the light of that prOvis-
ion. The late House of Represen-
tatives had refused appropriations
for the army unless the bill should
contain an express prohibition of
such exertion of military force, to
which the Senate refusing, it's con-
SENT the supplies for the army were
withheld altogether. A new House
of Representatives had been chosen
who, as every JweIl-informed man
knows, would adhere to the action
Of sits Predecessor The duty Of-de-
terminipg what policy shall ,peEma-
nently contror the use OF the mil
itary forces of the United States |
rests with Congress-. The duty of
deciding who shall be recognized |
as the true government OF State
under the decision. of the Supreme
Court rests also with Congress.l
The President might, Indeed, for g |
few weeks have lawfully maintain-
ed the governments Of South Car
olinapa aud Louisiana in the state |
houses to.whlrh they were confined
but whenever his right to use the |
army or his lawful resources for its
supply sended, sthOse governmental
must have fallen. But the Presi- |
dents action does not find its vindi- |
cation In necessity alone. He has |
done something more and quite diff |
ferent from the abandonment of |
force simply because force became |
for the lime Impossible. He has
sought to meet in q spirit of conf |
dence and friendship the assurances
of prominent southern men of q |
desire ON their part 20 support In |
good faith hereafter, the results oil
the war and the whole amended
constitution. Those who find fault
with this policy overlook, IL seems
to me, the consideration how mar
row are the limits in which mere
force, or lew speaking only through
it's punishmeAts,&ha lis domain.
The offenses of individuals having
no public sentiment In their support
and not stimulated by seetionals or
party spirit are easily suppressed,
But at the end of q great civil war,
where the education and habits of
thought of generations, where the
pride OF State and race, aud the spir-
IL of the party inflame the evil pas
sione, other instrumentallties must
effect the cure" 49,
Regarding the civil service policy
the Senator spoke IS follows: az
Certainly, no Republican aspiring
to purity in government can be in.
sensible to the dishonor of using
the powers conferred by the people,
and intended only for their aivafi.
taRe, to purchase or to repay pri-
vate benefits, or for the promotion
OF personal ambitions principle
only surpassed in baseness by that
which would use the same powers |
for the qualification of personal rel
venRe. Under THE eystsm, which I |
have described but fnperfectly, the |
honorable service Of the Republic.
which should be the noblest of hu.
man aYocAtions, becomes degraded |
to an Infamous bargain. The sepa=
ration between the executive and
Legislative departments, on which |
the Conatitutfon of OR own Uon-
monweaith lays such stress, to the |
end that 1t may be government of |
lava and not OF men, is overtime wn.
The s4ecntiVet power which the