The daily gazette., 1879-03-13
THE POWER AND THE DUTY.

1t NAV be admitted that the position
which Congress will take in forcing the
repeal of the Federal Supervisor laws is
one that should not be lightly taken. 1t
pu's a strain upon the poise of the three
coordinate powers of the Government,
the legislative, judicial and executive
But still it is power If necessity confer
red by the Constitution when ii made
the House of Represent atives the special
guardian of the Treasury and the Grand
Inquest Of the Nation. 1t was intended
thay the people should have that check
and restrainst upon the Senate and En-
ecuiive when it was provided that all
bills for raising revenue should originate
in the House. Unless that power We're
50 lodged there would be less protection
against executive aggressions and arbi-
trary assumptions of power. This power
is SOFT of safety-valve against revolu-
tion. II provides a means by which the
people can rid themselves of an insup-
portable admins ration tyranny by Con-
stitutioual means, without the necessity
of taking up arms against it. 1t is the
great safeguard against a coup detdt.-
SO long as the people hold the purse
strings in their hands the Executive is
comparatively harmless. He can neither
raise armies TO beat down the liberties
OF the people nor hire judges 20 steal
| hem. He can neither hire Federal
Supervisors to overthrow the freedom of
the ballot, nor armies of special deputies
to axe possession of the polls.
These Federal Supervisor laws were
passt d by Republican Congress tackled
| on AppI opriation bill. On their facs
they have an air of fairness
In reality they were iuterded Ia
perpetuate the power of the Republican
party even after it became minority
Since they were passed there has been a
political revolution. The Democracy are
now in possession of both branches of the
National Legislature. The people de-
mand "A return to the old, safelme hods OF
| Constitutional procedure, and they de.
| maud The repeal of this eXcrescence OF
the organic law. BY the aid OF Fedora
troops and certain infamous Fedora
Judges, the rights of thr-e Southern
States We're oyerthrown and gigantic
electoral Fraud consummated. Ia,
| FraudoCracy, now in power, dc Tres tn
pcrmanenre of these election laws so tha
Fraud may 10 consummated agar, n
matter how the people may vote. Th
return to power of such men as Logan
Carpenter and Chandler, and the prepa
rations that are on foot by the old third
term rings to bring back Grant, show tina
the machinery of force and fraud Wi
again be employed to defeat the will q
the people. The existence of Repre- enta
tive Government Is at stake. Tie right
OF the States, the liberties of the people
the preservation of he Republic deman
tnat every Democrat shall be in his plac
aud insist 10 the bitter end upon the I,
peal Of these laws and he must be pre-
pared TO use every Constitutional powe
which the people reserved in themsclv.
to enforce that repeal. The Radicals ma
call this revolutionary" if they Will. S
be 1t. 1t is, however, a revolutionar
power which Is granted by the Constltl
tion and inherent in it, 1t is safeguar
against revolutionary violence. 1t is
power not lightly to be resorted to, but
power never TO be abandoned when tn
rights aud liberties of the people are
: stake.-Bdu Gazette.