The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-10-02

either of those doctrines; they never
believed in the right of notification
or of secession. Whatever may have
been the opinions of the Southern peo-
pie before the war, no candid man can
deny, no honest man will deny, that
the Southern people have abandoned
the doctrines of notification and Sc
cession now and forever. They have
accepted the result of the war as de.
termining that no State has right to
nullify the valid laws of Congress and
no State has right to secede from the
Union. 1t is therefore the baldest
Hypocrisy or the most deplorable ig-
norance to pretend that there is any
danger of the revival of the doctrine
of secession.
There is not q man in this audience
who has held an office in Ohio who has
not sworn to support that constitution
which says that "all powers not dele
gated by the constitution to the United
States nor prohibited by it to the States
are reserved to the States respectively
or to the people," refer to this be-
cause in every Republican platform
there is a plank undermining local
self Government.
Under what law do you inherit the
land you have inherited? Not under
an act of Congress but under State
law.
You hold land under the statute
laws of the sovereign State of Ohio.
Under what law do you get redress
for injuries suffered2 Not under Ma
ti0nal but under the laws of Ohio.
Kill q man redress is obtained not
under an act of Congress, but under
the laws of Ohio.
Your children enjoy the blessing of
education not under an act of Con-
gress but under the law of Ohio.
might go on for an hour illustrat-
ing for you the manner in which our
domestic relations are governed by
State law. .t5tjif -'st
Now suppose these powers are an
initiated and they would be if Con-
gress could 60 on in its course. Your
laws would then be made by Con-
gress. Your affairs would be con.
trolled not by your own chosen rep.
resentatives in your own midst, but
by Congress in which the six New
England States would have six times
az much pewer, in the Senate, in
framing law relating to the domes-
tic affairs of our State, as Ohio her.
self would have. Let no one, my
friends, Imagine that such q state of
things can meyer come to pass. my
self do not believe that it will come to
pass but the reason of my belief is
my faith in the power Of the princi-
Piles of the Democracy to prevent it.
Were 1t not for the Democratic oppo-
sition, 1t might come to pass. The
forms of State Government might re-
main. Your legislature might sit
from year to year, passing laws and
levying taxes, but their legislation
would be met and controlled at al
most every step by the legislation of
the Congress of the United States.
The worst enemy of the United
States Government is the man who as
sails our State Government. refer
to something that will touch you in
the most vital parts: That is, the right
to choose your own rulers. Is not
that the essence of free government
Every law that interferes with that
is direct stroke at our institutions.
Cheers. 7al e.i ~
In the selection of State officers, the
general Government has no more right
to interfere, than to interfere in the
election of the officers in the Republic
of France. You have on your statute
books election laws; every two years
the Federal authority can interfere in
the election of local affairs by the use
of supervisors and deputy marshals.
In New, York City in 1873 over 5000
afidavits were made by one man, and
thousands of men prevented from vot-
ing by that one little Johnnie Daven-
port. call especially the attention of
all naturalized. Citizens to the fact,
that out of four or five thousand ar
rests made in the city of New York.
do not remember of one being ar
rested, who was Am erican born. This
shows that these lawsare the same in
spirit - the old alien and sedition
|laWa, and are nothing else than the
revival of Knownothingism. -
Laws introduced into Congress af-
ter Grant's election. The anti-natur-
alisation and election laws were twin
brothers TO- osprevent naturalization and
| . fair eleotion. in order that the Re-
publicans might carry New York
City and through New York City,
New York State and thereby elect
their President. We defeated the
| former bill and when we did SO they
brought forward the present election
laws and pressed them through there
by eHecting the same object. Those
election laws cost you more than a
quarter of u million of dollars. That
is vast corruption fund for the pur-
pose of bribing electors.
Their modus operandi is simple.
The law provides for the appointment
Of deputies by the Marshal, who may
serve for ten days receiving therefor
$5 for each day. The Marshal gets
the names Of corrupt men who are
purchaseable and who are supposed
to vote the Democratic ticket and ap-
points them deputies at five dollars q
day. They use your money for whole
sale bribery under the shabbv pre-
tense of preserving the purity of the
1 election. "a [Applause.] must say
the deputies as shown up by the res