The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-07-11
INELIGIBLE ELECTORS RECOGNIZED.

brewster, ineligible eIector in louisiana
Keep in MUD that their defined duty was TO
decide who were duly appointed, ana what
votes were provided for by the Constitu-
ton, and think how they performed it IN
this part of the case. Brewster was not
only defeated ar the polls like the rest; he
was besides a Federal otticeholder, and the
Constitution eX nreSSly declares that no
such person shall be appointed an elector.
But for the purpose of electing Mr.. Hayes
his vote was worth as much as all the 9TH
ers. To get that vote for their candidate
they were required to go further than they
went for any of the rest, aud so they held :
/. That the certificate of the Returning
Board was pr0pri0 rigore an appointment. ?.
That it was a due appointment. though cor
rupt and dishonest. 3. That this was a vote
provided for by the Constitution, though the
Constitution in plain words provided against
( it.
TIE FULL EXTENT OF THE OUTRAGE.
After all, there was but one question be-
for the commission Had the American
people a right to choose their own Chief
+ MAGISTRATE? They had the right. Their
+ ancestors struggled for it long fought for it
often, and won it fairly Being embedded
in their Constitution. it cannot he destroyed
( except by force strong enough to Over
throw the organic structure of the Govern
] meut itself Legislative enactments or ju-
/ dicia decisions are pOweriess either to
/ strengthen or impair it. The leg9rdemain
I of law craft, the catches of special plead
( ing, the snapperadoe> of practice, do not
/ help Us to decide a matter like this. a
great nation must not he impalpd upon j
nin'S point. Preeedents which might bind
Court of Quarter Sessions determining the
settlement of pauper cannot tie up the
hands of the supreme legislature defending
"A fundamental right OF the whole people
When Grenville, III 1866, cited The authority
of divers cases to show that America mi ghl
be taxed without representation, Pitt answer
ed (: Il come not here armed at all points
with the statute book doubled down in dog
ears 10 defend the cause of liberty. | car
! acknowledge no venerati0n for any prOCe
, dure. law. or ordinance, that is repugnant Il
reason aud the first principles of our Con
stItutjon. | rejoice that America has re
sisted" So spoke the defiant friend of GU
race in the presence of a hostile Parliam en-
, ten years before the Declaration of lnde
: pendence. And now, after this long inter
val of time. we behold our greatest right
the right on which all other rights depend
success sfullE aSsailed In our own Congress
with the same SIN III weapons that Grenvill
used If brute force had crushed il out, W
ght have borne the calamity with fortu
, tude: but to see it circumvented by knave
: ~ aud pettfogged to death, is 700 niue
: to be endured with any show of patience.
If the majority of that comm ission coul
f but have realized their responsibility t
= God and man, if they could only have I'll
3 derstood that in a free country liberty an
| law are lu>tpdfdolc- tHVS Nodld nav . o1C
enrolled among our greatest benefactor
| for they would have added strength an
| grandeur to our institutions. But the
5. could not come up to the height of tha grei
! subject. Party passion so henum bed the
: faculties that a fundamental right SCENE
u nothing to them when it came in contlit
:. with some argument supported by artifcii
y reasoning, and drawn from the suppose
= analogies of technical procedure. The Cor
: stitution was, in their Judgment outweigh
al nv action Il
y rupt Returning Board.
= = Let these things be rem EN- bered by OF
y children's children and if the friends of FRI
! government shall ever again have such
= contest, let them take care how they lea'
: the decision of it to a tribunal like tn:
y which, betrayed the nation by enthronin
, | the Great Fraud of 1876.
: J. 8 BLACK,