The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-05-30
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throned at the White House. Kansas was
bleeding. A Presidential election was i'm
pending. The rebellion loomed. The cry
in Congress was, curb the Executive aud
bluut the bayonets of the army. And q
littlo jocky was trottcd out and swung into
the saddle as rider on the army appropri.
alton bill. The administration cried out
that it was being starved and coerced. But
the army bill and its rider passed the House
with hurrah. The President was not to
be permitted to move the army at his own
sweet will. He was not To allow the use of
troops as domestic police within the States
or Territories. The army should perish
rather than that this use should be made
of it. The bill aud the rider went to the
Senate. One Senator rose and said:
Since tho House Of Representatives, has
power to pass such a bill Gan appropriation
bill, distinctly, it has power also to place an
equivalent prohibition in any bill which it
has constitutional power to pass. And so
it has constitutional right to place the
prohibition in the annual army appropria-
ton bill. grant that this mode Of reach
ing the object proposed is in some respects
an inconvenicnt one. 1t is not, therefore,
however, an unconstitutional one, nor even
necessarily a wrong ono. 1t is a right one,
if it is necessary to effect the object desired,
and if that object is one that is in itself just
and eminently important to the peace and
| happiness of tn, country, or to the security
of the liberties of the people. The House
of Representatives, moreover, is entitled to
Judge and determine for itself whether the
proceeding is thus necessary, and whether
the object of it is thus important.
This Senator was Confederate Briga-
dicr, rcvolutionist of 1859. 1t was Will
liam III. Seward,
Another Senator rose and said: eff the
House can refuse the supplies requisite for
the support of government, it it possesses
this complete and effective weapon for OBJ
tanning a redress of every grievance, and
for carrying into effect every just and
salutary m easurc, the occasion surely de-
mands the full exercise Of that power in
the House, and in its firm exercise it will
be sustained by the consciousness of being
supported in its demands by right, by rca-
son and by the constitution"
This revolutionist of 1850 was the Vice
President of 1872, Brigadicr Henry Vii.
son.
Another Senator smotc Hunter, of Vir-
ginia, hip and thigh, for charging revolution
upon the advocates of the rider, the cocrc-
ers of the administration. He said with
much else that was forcible: "The power
of supply and the power Of anncxing con.
ditions of supply, have always gone together
| in parliamentary history; and their joint
exercise has never been denounced as case
of revolution or tending to produce rcvolu-
tion in any shape or form whatever. 1t is
a,power essential to the preservation of our
| liberties"
This brigadicr of two decades gone was
Lincoln's Secretary Of the Treasury, after
Chase, William Pitt Fessenden.
Another Senator rose in his wrath and
proclaimed
The Senator from Virginia tells us that
if the House attempts to interpose condi.
ton to an appropriation bill which they
make, it is revolution. Well, sir, if to resist
in any way measures like these is revolution
| say let revolution come. The pride Of
the American people, the principles of the
American government, demand revolu-
tion if that be revolution. But is it
revolution, Mr.. President? Must the
peoples House of Representatives sit
with their arms folded and, although the
constitution of the United States confers
emphatically upon them the power to ori.
ginate all revenue bills (Which comprises
the power to place these grants of money
on such condition as they see fit)v must
they refrain from exercising their authority
10 an emergency like this? Is this the
liberty Of the American citizen, that the
peoples House, where there really is rep
resentation Of the people, where the wisdom
of the fathers placed the taxing power, are
leading to revolution by annexing condi-
tion to the appropriation of the people s
money! most wholesome restraint put.
ting curb in the mouth of the traitor who
sits in the Executive chair, now stimulat-
ing this country, as fast as he can do it, to
civil war? r..
This revolutionist of the dark and trying
times of SO was Brigadier General Bluff
Ben. Wade Chicago Times.
"It surprises me to see young man like
you here" said Judge Bowker, at Reno.
New, the other day to fellow who had
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