The Portland daily press., 1879-08-22
Cape Elizabeth.
GRAND REPUBLICAN RALLY.
Earnest and Eloquent Speech by hon
Galusha A. Grow.

GaluSla A. GrOW.
Last evening the Hon. Galusha A. Grow Oh
Pennsylvania addressed the Republicans OF
Cane Elizabeth at the town hall. About ooo
persons, mostly voters, were present, among
whom were j. S. Pickett, Cyrus Cole, +. II
Hartford C. E. Jordan, E. N. Perry, Clement
Staples, Captain William Studley, E. n 1or-
dan John Parrott. E. C. Robinson and JOIN
A. Milliken, all prominent workers III the
Republican party of Care Elizabeth. "liiialn
E. Gould, Esq, j. w. Robinson, Esq, ana
James Bailey, Esq, of this city, were aiso
present The Portland Band was IN attend
ance. ..,.o
Joseph S. Pickett, Esq, presided ana il'ro-
duced the distinguished speaker, who spoke
as follows:
SPEECH OF THE HON. c. A. GROW.
jL. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: s-----
Resumption of specie payment brings Win Will II
revived industries, and in place OF the c tIo
tiles foreboded by the prophets OF eVii; 'ae e1
comes employment for idle labor, VIII syn wi
greater reimbursement and brighter hopes, ior
the future. What the teachers OF new p1ill!!-
cal economy declared year ago to be pnysl-
cal impossibility is to-day an accomplished 1act'
LAWS OF TRADE AND COMMERCE.
There are certain great laws of trade, and
commerce which the rantlngs OF p0Iticai
demaooolieS and time servers cannot change.
OF which the most essential, in order to secure
successful and staple industries in all times OF
peace is that the money used in the tfalisac-
ton of business should itself be real Value,
or for convenience a representative convert
ible, at the will of the holder, into real value;
and that the standard of that real value should
be recognized as of the same value by all who
deal in it, Or iii the commodities for which " Is
exchanged. Otherwise somebody must OF
necessity be the loser by its use.
DEPRECATED CURRENCY
A deprecated or worthless currency, is a
representative of the destruction OF value, OF
loss not gain The laborer who receives,
real dollar for his days work holds in it the
representative of the value of days work
But if he receives a worthless dollar it repre-
sents loss to the amount of the value of days
work: SO Of deprecated money of all kinds to
the extent of the depreciation. The loss by
defective standard of value, like worthless
money falls in the end most heavily upon
those who earn their daily bread by their daily
toll.
MULTIPLICATION AND SECESSION.
While the question of currency and kindred
measures which affect most directly the I'M
dustrial interests of the country, are still
unsettled in its legislation, new political
issue is forced upon the country in the attempt
tion and secession and thus the people are
called upon to settle at the ballot-box and IN
the forum questions which everybody had
right to suppose were finally settled in the
field.
Is there to be no end of controversy? Is
nothing ever to be regarded as finally settled!
Did the ballot-box in eighteen hundred and
sixty after fifty years OF heated discussion,
settle nothing? Did the sword in one OF the
most gigantic wars of history settle nothing,
no n c1Otba the VanOulSled with
power and authority to make their own terms
of surrender and to fix the conditions upon
which the victors may enjoy the government
saved by their valOr?
LOGIC OF WARS.
The logic of wars, especially of civil wars, if
they have any logic at all, is that the victors at
the close Of the contest have the right to nix the
terms of surrender for the vanquished and to
settle the policy of administration winch they
believe will best promote the welfare OF the
country. And the vanquished have certainly
no cause of complaint if the policy so fixed APP
plies, as in our case, to the victors themselves
the same as to the vanquished.
Unless the sword in four years of bloody con-
fiict settled forever that this is nation, and
that notification or secession in any form is
not to be resorted to by any portion of the
American people as remedy for political Ills,
then indeed was it useless massacre OF brave
men.
HOW LAWS BECOME IMPERATIVE.
There are only two constitutional methods
by which laws once enacted can be rendered
imperative, the one by repeal, the other by
the proper court declaring them void. So long
as they remain valid enactments, the claim
that either law-maker, citizen or state can
rightfully nullify them by Withholding sup.
port is but revival OF the old doctrine OF
South Carolina notification.
DUTY OF LAWMAKERS.
While a law remains valid enactment, it is
as much a diregard of duty and constitutional
obligation for the law-maker to refuse the nee
essary appropriations of money to make 1t Ell
fective, as it is for the private citizen to DISC
hey it. The act in both cases is the same and
differs only in the remedy. In the case OF
the private citizen the remedy is in the courts;
and in the case of the law-maker it is in the
ballot-box, by the reputation at the polls OF
faithless public servant and of the party that
sustains his acts.
DEMOCRATIC POLICY.
The advent of the Democratic party to power
| in one branch Of Congress, after sixteen years
exclusion, was signaliZed by their refusing all
| appropriations of money for the support OF the
| army
AS soon as they have a majority in both
branches of Congress it is claimed that the law
| makers may of right refuse to apply the money
collected from the people to the support OF
| their government, on the plea that certain laws
are unwise if not unconstitutional. This is a
mode of repeating laws not provided for in the
tive of all forms of government. .go.jLll rs.
This party begins in power in 1879, Just
where it ended in 1861. 1t ended, then in an
| opposition to the army and refusal to acqui-
| esce in the constitutional forms of the govern
ment. 1t comes back to the legislative power
| and begins by refusing the necessary support
for the army and by making war upon the con-
stitutional forms of the government. Thus the
war of ideas goes on.
A NATION NOT CONFEDERATION.
The people of the United States, in order to
form a more perfect Union. establish justice
and secure the blessings of liberty for them
selves and their posterity, did, in March, 1889,
establish the Constitution of the United States,
as the form of government which they believ-
ed would best secure these ends. That there
might be no mistake as to the authority and
character of the government which they es-
tablished, they declared, in the seventh arti-
Gle, that ''this Constitution and all of the laws
of the United States which shall be made in
pursuance thereof, and all treaties made which
Shall be made under the authority of the
United States, shall be the supreme law of the
land: and the judges in every State shall be
bound thereby, anything in the Constitution
or laws of any State to the contrary notwith-
standingp
Constitution to determine whether the laws
are made in pursuance thereof was the SUI
preme Court of the United States.
Among the powers conferred upon Congress
to execute the laws of the Union', and. each
and every state is expressly prohibited from
''entering into any treaty, alliance or confed-
Grafton" or ''into any agreement or compact
with another state or with a foreign power"
The Constitution OF the United States is,
therefore, in express terms and provisions,
made for a nation and not for a confederation.
ORIGIN OF MULTIPLICATION.
How, then, did the idea ever obtain that any
local community could judge for itselfias to
the constitutionality of the laws OF the govern
ment of the Union, and at will nullify such as
it did not approve?
The devotees of slavery, while it lasted, con-
stantly seeking greater security and more eff
fective safeguards for its perpetuity, began by
magnifying the power of the states, SOFAS to
place them as bulwark, behind which hui
man bondage could entrench itself against any
possible action of the government of the I'm
ion. In the increase and growth of the coun-
try they foresaw that the time was not far dis
tant when the representatives in Congress
from the non-slaveholding states would out
number those from the slaveholding, and then
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