The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-10-04

dfalu 10 trust tne people. 1hulilOu was n
delegate from the State of New York to the
Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in
1881 He drew up the plan of con
stituton in all its details and presented
it to the convention. BY its provisions
the Chief Executive of the United States, by
whatever title known, was TO hold office for
life. How regal and permanent that sounds!
Nine-tenths of the holders of Understanding
Government securities, national bankers and
capitalists, out of trade generally, will indorse
that position now-not all of them openly
rather than risk their Investments to change
of administration. They are fixed comfortably,
and what hey want is permanency. They are on
top aud they want to stay there They have
the advantage of the millions below them and
they want to keep it BY the plan presented
by Hamilton the Senator's were Also 70 hold
Office for life This was intended to create an
aristocracy in the management of the Govern
meut similar to the House of Lords in England,
As to the States and the people of the States,
they were to be trusted with nothing The
National Executive Committee, with thelPresi-
dent was to appoint the Governors of the
various States; the Legislatures of the States
were to be permitted TO enact laws, subject,
however, to revision and entire repeal by Con
gress; and all the courts of The State "for
the determination of all matters Of general
concern" were to be created by act of Con-
gress And even this vast scheme of CONSOLE
daiion fell short of the wishes of Hamilton and
his followers, as it does now, perhaps, of the
more advanced and stalwart leaders of the Re-
publican party. Hamilton boldly stated that
II by no means came up to his conception OF a
model Government In discussing the proper
executive head OF Government he said: SThe
English model is the only good one on this
subject The hereditary interests of the King
were so interviewer with those of the nation,
and his personal emoluments 80 great, that he
was placed above the danger OF being corrupted
from abroad, and at the same time was suf-
fttata I'D
TO answer the purpose OF the institution at
home" In presenting his draft OF constitu-
ton, he also said, speaking of the American
Senate, that 1t should be on the same model as
the House of Lords In England, and that no
temporary Senate would have "hrmness TO
carry out its proper functions"
These principles OF Alexander Hamilton, and
of the Federal party at the formation of our
Government, show tho fountain from which
have descended the principles Of the so-called
Republican party Of our times; principles mo-
narchical in their tendencies, repugnant to the
elf-respect of the people, offensive to every
sentiment of manhood, and in opposition 10 the
spirit and the letter of the constitution. l
have heretofore foretold some things in the po-
litical world which have come to pass | pre-
dict now that the coming issue in the near
future is to be between the broad principles OF
Jefferson on the one hand and the monarchi-
cal doctrines of Hamilton on the other; the
latter supported by all the monopoliee, banks
and boarded interest-gathering wealth IN the
land. Jefferson announced that he who feared
to trust the people was a Tory by nature That
was his mode of describing an enomy to fIee
government, and we are rapidly finding out
now who are Tories, or enemies of free govern
ment, by the same rule
The leaders Of the Republican party insist
that you ought to surrender the principle Of
self government and of free elections in the
Nortn in order that the bayonet may be used,
according TO the forms of law, at tho polls in
the South. For every piece of wicked and viii
famous legislation, inspired by the hearts of
designing men, who believed in despotism end
not in the people, the South is held mp and
rallied at as an all sufficient cause II the peo-
pie are to be shorn OF their most sacred rights;
curtailed of their freedom, and insuited in
their homes, you are told that something in
the South imperatively demands it. 1t, indeed,
il was true that to govern the Eouth wehad to
give up the constitution, deprive ourselves and
our poserity of its protection, our condition
would be most deplorable; but deny that any
such necessity exists. We cannot, nor are we
called on to, govern one part OF this country
one way and the other part another way A
Southern State is In this Union exactly
as Ohio is. Whenever distinctions are
made between States, or the people OF
| States, the Union and the constitution are
both destroyed. But you are told by the great
political Pharisees of the times that the people
| of the different Southern States are not con-
| jects and therefore you should cast away your
own liberties in order to regulate by force their
| domestic affairs. You also stimulated to
| this course by a constant stream of Islander
| poured out on an entirely helpless and submits
| sive people, people who have submitted to
! every constitutional amendment, and to every
| other condition of reconstruction which the
| Government has imposed upon them. 1t is TO
the interest of the Republican party to SANDER
| them. Every fault they have is not only set
1n,yr lint ia
magnified and multiplied by all the lens power
| of party machinery. An actual offense against
| the laws in the South, such as have happened
| every day and every hour since the human
race began, is sweet morsel, delicious
| item, O savory paragraph over which the
Republican editor rubs his hands in keen
| enjoyment A thousand murders may and
| do occur in the Northern States, but how
fiat and insipid they appear when dished
| up in our morning papers at breakfast In
| comparison with any act of crime, however
commonplace its motive that comes to us, hot
and sensational, upon the breezes Of the South!
| You live in law abiding State, as much 80 as
any other in the Union, and more 80 than some
| Of the loud pretending States OF New England;
| vet | doubt if there is county in Ohio in
| which blood has not been unlawfully shed in
the last twelve months The same may be said
| of the great State of Indiana, and perhaps OF
every other Northern State. Crime is inherent
| in the heart of man, and it prevails everywhere
| latitude, every longitude, and every climate.
| hold that the people of the North, and the PEG
| pie of the South, on the average OF conduct
| and motive are neither better nor worse than
| each 6ther; and, in this opinion, the statistics
| of crime. in proportion to population, will
amply sustain me. The trouble, however. is
| that the leaders and newspapers OF powerful
| party in the North are deeply interested
| In making you believe the Southern peo-
pie are worse than they are. When actual
| offenses do not occur frequently enough to
answer the purposes of an approaching cleo
| ton. fictitious ones are manufactured for the
| occasion Recently two prominent Democrats
| in Mississippi, both candidates for Office, be-
came involved in trouble and Mr.. Dixon was
shot and killed by Mr.. Barksdale This is
! deplorable event, and sincerely hope that the
survivor will punished, If he took the iife OF
| his adversary without cause. But is homi-
eide of this kind great novelty to the
| Northern mind that we are to be thrown into
| commissions on its account? About three-qua
| ters of q century ago there was a very noted
homicide in the streets of Boston. 1t grew out
of political quarrel in which Mr.. Selfridge, a
Federalist, killed Mr.. Austin. Democrat, and
from that time to this more than twice ten
thousand cases of killing have been occasioned
in the Northern States alone by political feeling
and anmosity There is hardly man
in my presence who can not recall one in
his own recollection. Yet such events have
caused but brief comment, for the reason
that heretofore no political party has been so
debased as to thrive on crime fAtten on muir
| der and hence been interested in proclaiming
its prevalence where 1t did exist and in forg-
ing It's calendar where 1t did not But few
DAYS since saw in leading Republican pa
per of your State the following jubilant an
nouncement: 1.-The best Republican speech Of
| the campaign thus far--the shooting OF Dixon,