The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1877-07-12
NO. 8.
THE NEW POLICY.
BY THE EDITOR.

fable of the mountain which was in labor.
After dire groanings and signs OF internal
agony the child of the mountain came
into the world, and behold, it was only
mousel
will now proceed in my usual way, to
speak directly to the writer. Your refer
ence to the constitution in order to show
where Hayes got authority to send that
commission to Louisiana. shows the
weakness of your case. That commits
sion was not sent there to get informa-
ton which was to be laid before Con-
gress, as the letter OF instruction by Sec
retary Evarts, clearly shows 1t was sent
there to destroy the Republican govern
rnent Of the State. which object it effect
ed, mainly by bribing members of the
legal Legislature to 60 over to the rebel
concern. If the President desired in.
formation about Louisiana, the proper
place to get it was from the investigating
committees of the two Houses of Con-
gress, who had recently been there, and
fully investigated the whole case.
You pretend to think that am very
| ignorant Of the Constitution. The old
slave power claimed that the Constitu-
lion protected them in all the barbarity
of slavery. The rebels and copperheads
during the war declared that everything
done to save the Nation was a violation
of the Constitution, and an interference
with the sacred rights Of sovereign and
independent States but you 60 much
further than rebels and copperheads
ever went Mexico is a sovereignty. IL
Mississippi-can it be, anything more
sovereign and independent Yet you
admit that the United States army can
lawfully be ordered to punish outlaws
from Mexico who come across the line to
steal cattle in Texas, but there is no
mower to order the army to go into
Mississippi to punish men who murder
Republicans for the express purpose of
preventing them from voting and thus
wipe out Republican form of govern
ment in that State. No wonder that
there were fewer spread eagle speeches
made the present 4th of July than were
made on any 4th during the past hun
dred years. Sensible men are heartily
ashamed OF such a government.
1t seems to me that you have never
read the constitution of the United
States, and | will here give few pas
sages from that instrument, as a text for
what have to say in the balance of this
article. 1--WE, the people of the United
States. in order to form a more perfect
Union, establish justice. insure domestic
tranquility. provide for the common de-
Tense, promote the general welfare. and
secure the blessings of liberty to our
selves and our posterity, do ordain and
establish this Constitution for the United
States of America" That is the pream-
BILE, telling for what purpose it was made.
In article l, section 8, in defining the
duties OF Congress, it is said it shall have
power ITO make all laws which shall be
necessary and proper for carrying into
execution the foregoing powers, and all
other powers vested by this Constitution
in the Government OF the United States,
or in any department or officer thereof. "
In article 2, section 3. speaking Of the
duties of the President it says: "He
shall take care that the laws be faithfully
executed"
In article 4. section A. it is provided
"The United States shall guarantee To
every State in the Union a republican
form of government"
In article it is provided This Con.
stitution, and the laws of the United
States, which shall be made in pursuance
thereof, and all treaties made, or which
shall be made, under the authority oi
the United States, shall be the supreme
law of the land"
The 18th amendment TO the Constitu
ton says: "The right of citizens Of the
United States to vote shall not be denied
or abridged by the United States, or by
any State, on account of race. color, or
previous condition Of servitude."
Very well. The 18th amendment says
negroes shall not be prevented from vot.
ing. By the provision of the Constitu
ton above quoted, this is the supreme
law of the land. The President is sworn
to see that the laws land this is one-the
supreme law) shall be faithfully executed;
and yet tens Of thousands of negroes are
prevented by open violence and murder
from voting. and the President says it is
all right-he cannot prevent it, and he
turns over to the murderers the fruits OF
their violation of the Constitution, and
South Carolina and Louisiana are to-day
in the hands Of the rebels and murderers,
in consequence of the failure of the Pres
ident to enforce the laws.
must be permitted to reproduce the
following, from your article:
The Journal on June Sth called atten-
ton to the fact that if any State in the
South were to deliberately declare its in
tention to murder out the vote of any
class, and the miscreanis were to be care
| ful not to trespass upon the Federal laws,
the President would be powerless to pre-
vent it, That the Standard does not ap-
pear to know this, will serve as one ex
| planation of its course upon the PTesi
dents policy; it evidently knows no
better.
In charity for you, in your ignorance
will say thot l believe that you are an
Englishman, born and reared under
monarchal form of government, and that
you have not the most distant idea what
is republican form of government"
for you say in another place:
If the Standard will stop the stupid
raving begotten Of ignorance. rather than
intelligence. and point out how the Pres
dent can constitutionally interfere to