The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-10


q second year by the people of the sever;
m States and that the election
re In each State shall have III
Ee qualifications requisite for electors of th
I'd most numerous branch of the Legislator,
D. as given By the State. The qualification
to within the limits of the 18Th amendmen
IN to the constitution, are made BY Ststes
,e The United States does not confer the RICH
y OF suffrage on these individuals; but III
1t United States adopts to its suffrag,
g. the class that has already the right O
lie suffrage given to it BY the States. 1t make.
them Its voters for the election of it
Is officers and it is bound to guarantee to then
g ire and fair election Applause on the
- Republican side II is technically and YER
r baily true that the United States does no,
" confess the right of suffrage on those men
o VINO vote Tor the most numerous branch OF
r the State Legislature; that the right Of
{ suffrage and qualifications necessary to il
: are prescribed by the States; but the Uni
: ted States does say that every man who be-
: longs 10 that class-every nan who has
, that qualihcation-shai re an elector for
) the members of the HUue of Represents
: tives. That is the right which it guaran-
tees. Nhatis the guarantee of the United
States worth, If IL Is not clothed with the
power TO carry il out?
Mr.. robson argued that the pro-
posed legislation wac unconstitutional, and
continued: My friend from Ohio, MIR
Hurd, has said that it becomes Us to look
keeniy TO the use Of the military power.
as by it republics have always died /
take is-ue with him there. The last final
blow at the liberty of republics mas come
from the sword, but it has not hesn until
some branch of the government has usurp.d
to itself the rights which it did not enjoy
under the constitution and laws OF The
couutry. Ii hs. not been until
some branch Of the government, usual
a branch cisiming more specially TO repre-
sent the popular will, hiss usurp-d TO itself
the powers that did not belong
20 it. 1t was only after the Long Parlia-
ment of England had di giIsted the country
by its disreg ,rd OF civil AID personal right
and by its assumptions OF everything that
belonged TO the government, that the stero
soldier, Oliver Crom we'll, dared to
90 10 il and dissolve it with military
power. Is was only after the French |
assembly had made France, its iair fields |
and its vine clad hills, run red with the |
blood OF it, b ST cilizsns-not uuril Europe |
was appalled, at the scenes OF murder per |
peirated theTe-not until tire world Itself |
stood aghsst at the crimes that We're 'com- |
mited Ia the name Of libsrty-ihat young |
Napoleon, with his armed force, was aha |
20 SELF upon the Government. Ny friend" /
addressing the Democratic side Of the |
House, cit il from the disrupted system
OF government that the military power
arises. IL Is in the confusion, the disorder, |
he lack Of writs 10 be executed by civil of |
he, h. -, III 81. 6
such a contest that The man on horseback
rides in and liberty is sacrificed to order
81 long as the civil proces OF the law NAV
be properly executed by civil officers in
this country, there is no danger Of the mill
tary power. The strong arms. the clear
heads, the brave hearts of our people,
Norih and Souh, would never
yield to a standing army, were it
million strong, unless il became absolutely
necessary under III presence Of the u-urpei
and arbitrary powers of some irresponsible
member Of a system TO sacrlnce Liberty 10
order. The time will never come in this
country, unless you. my friends, disregard
the plain teaching OF history. Ny fiend
from Ohio, Mr.. Hurd, also took
occasion 10 cay, in allusion TO
the Executive OF this country, that hi
title was in doubt, and his tenure was not
vet certain. | do not think that my friend
meant that, because il he did he meant 10
appe ] TO the grant of a revolution. Let
me say 10 him that the responses all over
the country are but mutterings of the storm
which will increase IN vIyor, ID fury and in
resis'ie power until tn. men and the par
" who eldeavor to Unssttle the title OF the
president will be swept forever from the
political horizon.
[ Loud applause upon the Il republican side
and in the galleries
Mr.. BLACKBURN said he was Toor
student OF his c1uutry'- history, who was
not able 10 satisfy himself that from the
found alton Of the constitution down to the
present time, it had ever been held, and ,
that by the highest authorities ia the land,
that IL was III the power of the House TO
control the employment of the army by
Withholding supplies. In the very nature
Of things, the proposed repeal could not be
Negative legislation was
never revolutionary. The constitution did
not give the right to the President to send
armed forces into any State, even TO sup
press domestic violence. BY no meaIs. Ii
~ quired the Pre-iGeat TO prot CT any State
from invasion, but only conferred upon
him the right to send soldiers to that State
TO suppress domestic violence, when the Leg |
islature of that State, or the governor,
she uid make a requisilion upon him. He
was not Permitted TO anticipate domestic
he, nor the legislature
nor the governor. Domestic violence mus:
have been in existence, ard ihat fact must :
have been certified to him by the legi-la
lure. More than one third Of all the per-
nanent legislation affecting that arm OF the
government had been Put upon the '
,tatute books as riders upon an
srmy sppropristion bill. If lee
ures were to be read to the Demo
rats, 1t them come from some quarter and !
ome member not convicted on record Did I
he gentleman from Ohio, MIR Garfield. r.
Ut mber the records he had made in 1862
N an amdeIduent offered by Mr.. q
Wilson, OF lows, 10 an appro
,ristion bill, propo-ing TO revOlulionize
h. judicial systems OF the country; prOpos- 0
Dc TO rob coordinate branches of the Gov
rnment; proposing to strip the Supreme
court Of it, prerogatives and powers that
he Federal Cons ituiiOn had clothed it z
With? What was thee that the party, the
Gentleman so ably led had lot done in that
catalogue of crimes? In his speech Of Sat-
lrdsy, the gentleman from Ohio had chat rs
lance in the history OF the country where
he consent OF the executive had. ever
,een carried. He tBlac kburn) accepted fhe
age Of battle which the gentleman had b
brown down. He would read from the n
scord and show him an instance: On the ;,
nd of March, 1867, Andrew johnson had
igned an srmy appIoFriation bill under
Protest Was ihsIe no coercion there?
Y nv the record waa full of instances. h. | T.
puud in that SCH Congress that had oc- :.
urrsd which would never fade from the :,
minds OF The American people He refer d
ed to the effort which was made which q
anne 20 nigh resulting in success full i'm :,
'eachment of the Chief Executive Of our
OUn'ry. There were two principal counts
n this indictment On which il was proposed
o impesch the Executive. One was TIE b,
xerci-e of the veto power, and the other his b,
nterf renee not in elections, but TO pre-
ent interference Of the army power in :,
lections. The count had been voted upon u
nor- than once, ard the gentleman from ir
)hio was on record every time as voting in te
heir favor, and he had been supported in
ia action, and had staDdirg by him, voting
ide by eide with him, to impeach the pres al
dent for the ex rcise Of the veto power, Ii
ne then comparatively obscure and who but W
Dr. a combination of accidents would have i
o remained TO this day ard until his dying -
Nv in that obscurily for which nature and o.
is creator seemed to have designed him; Ii
id- by eide with the gentleman from Ohio 4
,r Mr. Have, of Ohio, the same State
Applause on the Democratic side and in
he gsllerissl Now, by what sort of au
horny had The gentleman from Ohio come Ii
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