Daily globe., 1879-04-04

branch OF the 1eslsAa'ute' Ane
United States does not confer the rig ht of suf-
frage on these individuals, but the United
States adopts to its suffrage by description the |
class that has already the right of suffrage |
given to it by the States. 1t makes them its
voters for the election of its officers and it is
bound to guarantee to them free and fair cleo |
tion, (Applause on the Republican side.
1t ia technicaily and verbally true that the
United States does not confer the right of suf-
fraue on these men who vote for the most
numerous branch of tho State Legislature
That right Of suffrage and the qualifications
necessary to it prescribed by the States, but
the United States does say thai every man who
qualification, shall be an elector for members
of the House of Representatives.
Mr. Robeson argued that the proposed legis-
lation was unconstitutional, and continued
My friend from Ohio (Hurd) has said it be-
comes to look sharply and keenly as to the
have always died. Itake issue with him there.
Tho last final blow at the liberty of the repub-
lie has come from the sword, but it has not
been until some branch of the government has
ursurped to itself the rights which it did not
enjoy under the constitution and laws of the
country. 1t has not been until some branch of
the government. usually branch claiming
more specially to represent the popular will,
has usurped to itself powers that did not be-
long to it. 1t was only after the long larlia-
ment of England had disgusted the
country with its disregard of civilized
personal rights and it's assumption of every
thing that belongs to the government, that the
stern soldier, Oliver Cromwell, dared to 60 to
that house and dissolve it with military power.
1t vas only after the French assembly had
made France, itssfair fields and vine clad hills,
run red with the blood of its best citizens not
until Europe was appalled, at the scenes of
murder perpetrated there, not until the world
stood aghast at the crimes that were committed
in the name of liberty, that young Napoleon
with his armed force were able to seize upon
the government.
MY friends, addressing the Democratic side
of the house, it is from disrupted systems of
government that military power arises. 1t is
in the confusion, the disorder, the lack of writs
to be executed by civil officers of the law. 1t
is within the smoke of such contest that the
man on horseback rides in, and liberty Is sac' l.
feed to order. So long as the civil process of
law may be properly executed by civil officers
in this country there is no danger of the mill
tary power. The strong Wills, the clear heads,
| the brave hearts of our people, North and
| South, would never yield to standing army
were it million strong, unless it became alb.
solutely necessary under pressure of usurped
member of the system to sacrifice liberty tc
order. That time will never come in this
| country, unless you, my friends disregard the
plain teachng of history.
My friend from Ohio, Hurd, also took oc
casion to say in allusion to the executive o,
this country, that his title was in doubt anc
that his tenure was not yet certain. l do no
think that my friend meant that, because II
he did he meant to appeal to the giant of revo
luton. Let me say to him that responses al
over the country to-day are but the muttering
of the storm which will increase in vigor ant
fury and in res'stless power until the men ant
party who endeavor to unsettle the title OF the
President, will be swept forever from the po
litical horizon. cloud applause on the Repub
lican side and in the galleries.)
BLAcKBuRNs REJo1NDER.
Mr.. Blackburn said he was but poor studen
of ris country's history who was not able t.
satisfy himself that from the foundation o
the constitution down to the present time,
had ever been held and that by the highest au
thorities in the land, that it was in the powe
of the House to control the employment of th
army by withholding supplies. In the yer
nature Of things, the proposed repeal could nc
never revolutionary: The constitution di
not give the right to the Presider
to send armed men into any Stat
even to suppress domestic violence. BY n
means. It required the President to protet
any State from invasion, but only conterre
upon him the right to send soldiers to thu
State to suppress domestic violence when tt
legislature Of that State, the Governo
} should make requisition upon him. He W;
not permitted to anticipate domestic violence
neither he, nor the legislature. nor the Go
ernor. Domestic violence must have been
: existence, and that fact must have been cert
fed to him by the legislature.
> More than one-third of all permanent legi
J lation affecting that arm of the governme
t had been put upon the statute book as ride
Il upon tho army appropriation bill. If lectur
+ were to be read to the Democrats, let the
t come from some quarter and some member n
y convicted on the record. Did the gentlems
: from Ohio, Garfield, remember the record
+ had made in 1868 on an amendment offered
e Wilson, of Iowa, to an appropriation bill, pr
IS posing to revolutionize the judicial system
e the country, proposing to rob a co-ordina
i branch of the government, proposing to str
d the supreme court of the prerogatives 81
d clothed it with. Revolution! What was the
It that the party the gentleman 50 ably led hi
d not done in that catalogue of crime?
q In his speech Saturday the gentleman fro
s Ohio had challenged all corners to show a sins
l. instance in the history of the country whe
Il consent of the executive had ever been coerce
II He, Blackburn, accepted the gage of bat
ID which the gentleman had thrown down.
in would read from the records and show him
I'd instance. On the 22d Of March, 1867, Andr
re Johnson had signed an army appropriation
IL under protest. Was there no coercion ther
".
found that in the Thirty-ninth Congress tt
had occurred which would never fade from
,v minds OF the American people. He referred
~ the effort which was made which came SO nj
~ resulting in the successful impeachment of {
IT, chief executive of the country. There w
ms two principal counts in these indictments,
ry which it was proposed to impeach the exc
n tive. One was the exercise of this veto po1
ed and the other his interference, not in electio
Cd but to prevent interference Of the army po,
,o- in elections. The counts had been voted
ad more than once, and the gentleman from 0
nd was on record every time as voting in tt
zee favor. He had been supported in his act
rec side by side with him to
bs. peach the President for the exer,
er, of tho veto power, one then comparatively
or, scure, and who but for a combination of a
ose dents, would have remained to this day 8
or until his dying day, in thatobscurity for VII
.th nature and his creator seemed to have desig
a him. Side by side with the gentleman fl
Ap- Ohio had stood and voted Mr.. Hayes, of
be same State. (Applause on the Democratic
dy and in the galleries.) And now, by what
ide of authority had the gentleman from
to come to threaten the House with prob.
ow provision of the federal constitut
if undertook to clothe anybody, either the Pr
ote dent himselfssor one of his privy council e,
nal including his premier, the secretary of st
ted to sit as he had done on the floor of the He
ted last Saturday. and by his presence and app
tic al, seem to intimidate, overawe and browl
the American Congress. Derisive laughter
the Republican side.)
;elf Referring to Mr. Garfeld's statement reg.
-. ing POWELL Mr.. Blackburn said did not
~, "'- gentleman from Ohio known that the anne
the ment to the Powell bill had been incorpor;
ing upon motion of Senator Pomeroy, and
hat every Democrat had voted against it, Pc,
ms, among them. 1t was not candid, it was
of fair for the gentleman from Ohio to place
sse dead stateman in such false position.
ary one tske the darkened pages of his count
the history for the last seventeen long years
ION read it carefully and tell me then whethe
of lies in the mouth of this leader of the Q
ht, great but now waning party to read
md lures to anybody, either on the score
ted revolutionary legislation or the eStraneous
my PRODUCTION of legislation appropriation b
ties Better far in face of the record which t
has have made, better to listen patiently to
rm. frmed inebriate, as he dwells On the virtue
but temperance, or better let the queen of
ties demi-monde elaborate the beauties of fer
mes virtue, or let the devil prate of the schem
it universal redemption, than for homilies
ust good morals and lectures on revolution