The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-06-13

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Coroliary Jfrst.--Ik follQ HAT If. job
Smith gets drunk ~ an eled iDs MORT
Carolina and punches. q me- y head. b
Immediately, BY .Preaideptia{ lc. become
the State Of North CsroliuS Sod;ed !,
the flesh, and he, or il, discss;j1l ~ arains
the said negro within che "a d Of thi
Constitution CO. ST aaSo and ,hes aesssss sslIes
c6roaary sec .eeo.dl.-@a.tf Il s. 4ssss g "a, =:
whose head Is punched by Il Smbodiesd;
State John; Smith Nort& A & s i. u !
discrimination all the same, provided che
said white man was about to vote or had
voted the Republican ticket, that being the
true meaning and Interpretation of the
words trace, color or previous condition of
servitude."
CoroUary Mird.-It follows necessarily
that it a New York repeater vote the Demo.
cratic ticket five times in one day he be-.
comes Likewise the great State of New York
(includinS the Sen&tor), or, o conUcrso, Die
great State of New York becomes the re.
peater, and by SO xating he discriminates
(the Lord knows h9s) against the right of
somebody 0he Lord knows sho) to vote
on account of race, color or previous coudi.
ton of servitude; and the only avenue
opened up by which this guarantee can be
enforced is to send in the army and johnny
Davenport. Laughter.1
iSchoiium The ''previous condition" re-
ferred to in the foregoing is that of Repub.
canism, and implies also present condition
that is, being Republican.
Schohum second.-Enforcing the right
to vote by soldiers is not an '.intcrference
with elections"
Scholar hird.-This doctrine of eds
crimination" does not apply to the State of
Rhode Island where white mans right
to vote may be freely abridged on account
of his present condition of impccuniosity.
Proposition third Theorem-"Thc
practice of tacking to appropriation bills
measures not pertinent to such bills did not
prevail until more that forty years after
the adoption of the constitution. 1t has
become common practice. All parties
when in power have adopted it. The
public welfare will be promoted in many
ways by return to the early practice Of
the government and the true principles of
Legislation. The President.
Hence the practice of tacking legisla
ton to appropriation bills having been
practiccd by all parties for more than fifty
years, it should be Immediately abandoned
when disagreeable to tho President or in.
venient to the party, its antiquity not be-.
ing sufficient to justify it, Though greater
than the period of its on-use.
Corollay .frst.-It follows, therefore,
that the practice of using troops at the polls.
which did not prevail for more than seventy.
five years after the adoption of the consti-
tuition, should now become of general and
indispensable use fourteen years being
amply sufficient time to legalize it, and it
being now absolutely necessary for the pre-.
servaton of the Republican party.
iScholium-For the purposes of the next
Presidential election fourteen years Of mill.
tary interference are equal tO seventy five
years OF Tree and unrestrained elections, on
the well-established principle "that cir.
cumstances alter cases." (The Lawyers
Bull Os. Farmers OK Webster's El
Spell.)
N. Bit is said oD high authority that
the Secretary of War and the Secretary of
State once held this problem unsound, but
were coerced into asserting to it by party
necessity. But guien saJe! Laughter. |
So much for the absurd deductions
which may To logically drawn from the
premises contained in the veto messages and
the arguments Of Senators.
Now, Mr. President, why should not the
peace at the polls and the purity of cleo.
tions be intrusted to the authority, the vir-
tue and the patriotism of the States, where
alone our fathers placed i.2 Ia is iooau.-
the States are unable with their civil ma.
chinery to pr.scrv the peace? They have
invariably proven able< in the past, except
in cases Of such unusual violence as is con
templated in the constitution-article 4, sec
ton 4. Are they upwilling? Surely they
are willing to preserve their autonomy
and perpctuate their own existence. Are
they corrupt? Surely, if their inhabitants
as citizens Of the States, arc too corrupt fo
selEgovernmcnt, it is not possible that thei
virtue should be improved and their cor
ruptions cease the moment they are invested
with authority by the United States. o.
the contrary, there is always found less o
responsibility and more of corruption il
aggregated than is separate communities
How can corrapt State officer become al
incorruptible Federal officer?
To suppose that the States are eithe
unable, unwilling or too corrupt to hol
J peaceful and honest elections is to dc
clare unmistakably that the people there
Of are capable selfgovernment. ole
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