The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-11-01

domestic INSTITUTIONS according 10 its
own judgment, exclusively, is essential
to the balance of power on which the
perfection and endurance of our politi.
cal fabric depend II this be true, the
attitude of MIR. Hayes and his friends
IN seeking to prejudice and destroy
State rights is moral treason, and the
greater treason because it is done IN
cowardly manner, under color OF office,
without risking their lives in battle.
BUTT Is useless to talk of morals to
such people as these. When the Spar
tans went forth to vanquish the Helots
they did not take their arms, but WHIPS
with which they had scourged these
Helots before, and the Helots promptly
submitted. As Mr.. Hayes has become
"rebel" to the Government he, is
sworn to support, and is openly plot
ting treason against the system ON
which our fabric of Government de-
ponds, and cannot be reached by moral
considerations, the only remedy left
us is to appeal to his fears. | beg leave
to remind him that he has a master he.
fore whom he has already cronched IN
the past, and who will not tolerate such
stun as he isnow putting forth. Speak
ing in the Senate Of the United States.
on the cath of May last, Senator Ed
munds, stalwart of the stalwarts. dis
cussing the distribution of power.
spoke as follows:
and the courts have said that that il
q case of concurrent jurisdiction, that
each State, having supreme and SOW
,ereign domain over the conduct of its
own citizens, is not limited in the exer-
else of that dominion by the fact that
there is another power that has u SINH
lar dominion in that particular case
over citizens of that other power: that
is to say, over citizens of The United
States; and, therefore, the citizen is
amenable to two jurisdictions; either
may command him not to do PARTON
lar act, but each commands him in it's
own right, speaking directly to the fact
of what he is to do, and not in refer
ence to the laws of the other at all. In
that instance, it is clear, according to
the decided cases, and, think, accord
ing to the philosophy of this singular
Government which we have, that, each
sovereignty may exert itself according
to its own notions of what is fit and
reasonable against the same man for the
same act" uHI 81
Further on Mr. Edmunds says "The
State laws, consistently with the con-
stitution of the United States and indie
pendent of 1t, and in respect where
the constitution of the United States
does not touch upon the sovereignty OF
the State, and in regard to which the
sovereignty of the State was never in
any degree surrendered, may provide,
as they do provide in many States, for
the preservation of the health of the
citizens of the State" .{fEf-91t1
In other words, not only do the
States have rights not surrendered, but
in respect to these rights they are abso-
lutely sovereign" It Is a great pity
that among these pre8ous rights Of
sovereignty, State or Federal, there is
not also the power to furnish person
holding the office of President with a
decent modicum Of brains and honesty.
Mr.. Hayes object was not SO much to-
PROFOUND his constitutional views as to
fan the flame Of prejudice against the
South. The South was at one time
disposed to give him most generous
Interpretation. Unmindful of the fact
that the policy of withdrawing the
troops from the infamous Office Of up
holding the carpet bag governments had
been resolved on and actually ordered
by Grant before he went out of office;
that the execution of the order was de-
feated by the Sherman influence in a
covert and underhanded manner, SO as
to secure for Hayes the disposition
of the " whole question; that
months elapsed before Hayes
carried out Grants policy, and
then only after his own agents at New,
Orleans had endeavered to extort two
United States Senators as the price of
the concession of their right to choose
their own rulers; the Southern people
hastily assumed that the President
meant to treat them, fairly. But. they
were undeceived. They saw him dis
pensing the patronage of his Office not
to the best citizens, but to the worst,
paying the, Returning Boards and their
affiliated misereants, for their dirty
work, and then the confidence Of the
Southerners in him was shaken. Mr..
Hayes found that he could not hitch ON
the South to the car of Radicahsm, and
now he has taken up the role of defam-,
alton, SANDER and persecution Per
haps he may hope in this way to help
the Sherman boom. His ofiice-holders
are at work in this city to secure solid
delegation from the Southern States
for Sherman. Their, object. was I'M
blushingly avowed, and has been pub
lished by the Republican correspond
ents in this city. But it looks as if the
office-holders' boom would soon be
drowned by the Grant boom. Already
the California Republicans have spoken.
The State Republican Convention in
Colorado greeted Mr.. Carl Schurz with
a pronunciamento for Grant. Nebraska
follows suit. These are but the pat
tering of the rain-drops. The Office
holders may as well prepare to go. They
will get even less mercy from Grant
than they would from q Democratic
administration. They will all have to
walk the plank, aud Mr.. Hayes side
show, the jShermans, the monkeys and
the elephants win be buried as forgotten
rubbish.