The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-04-23

ton, for the purpose Of the more speedy arrest
and 1sa the Of aT wIa
section reads in the following words:
whenever the president has reason to be-
neve that ohenses have been. or are likely to
be- committed against the provisions of chap
ter of the title crimes, within any Judicial
erection, to direct the judge, marshal and dis
trict attorney of such district to attend at such
he NAV designate, for the purpose Of the more
speedy arrest and trial OF persons SO charged,
and it shall be the duty of every judge or other
officer, when any such requisltion is received
by him, to attend at the place and for the time
therein designated"
In the old and darker days of English juris-
prudence we read of juries in q state of disa-
greement being carted through the circuit
from one point to another until coerced into
finding verdict, but think tins is the first
instance in civilized history where the court
itself, with all its officers, was compelled to
travel, to stop and to open for business at the
discretion and the command of executive
authority. The president, perhaps a candidate
that offenses are likely to be committed, and
he can at once send the courts where he
ana
politically opposed TO him. The Judges q the
circuit and district courts of the United States
reduced to a state of itinerancy for political
purposes whenever any administration from
motives of party success shall order them to
move on. If some distant seaboard town or
some point on nayigable stream should be-
s6e Of hs Of the
States as they now exist authorize him, at his
own discretion. to invest ii on the land side
with the army, on the water side with the
navy and at the same time locate a Federal
court in its midst to dispose of the prisoners at
great powers of this Government in the hands
OF the executive is not accidental nor the re-
suit of thoughtless action.
1t is the climax of premeditated system for
the complete withdrawal of all powers from
the people and the States and tor their CEN
tralization In the executive department. tits
the logical conclusion of a well-wrought plan,
perfect in all its details, for revolution
toward consolidation and ultimate monarchy.
There was a party when our constitution was
formed in favor OF what they styled higher
toned Government; that is 10 say, Govern,
of the common people. The idea of such a
Government was embraced in the draught of
1857 by the great leader of the Federalists pro-
viding for a hereditary monarchy and cor
There is far larger party today IN this
country in favor of the principles then enun-
ciated than there was at that time, and the
And what cause is to be assigned for all these
pies and purposes of this Government? Who
will stand forth and justify them, and say
why the very elements of civil liberty must
now be destroyed in our midst? Is this mas
sive structure of despotism, created by the
laws have pointed out, made necessary by
the results of the war which ended IA years
ago; and must it be upheld for the govern
ment of the Southern States? If so, then in
QeeQ mas the NOIlH paul d QcdIcT price ILdn
has ever yet been estimated fer the preserva-
tion of the Union. Time repairs the loss of
treasure and ASSUMES nation g grief LOT ner
no compensation, and after it there comes no
resurrection. The conquest of the South at
courts would be most dismal and barren
victory recoiling with curses on this and all
succeeding T. Mnat shall III 1t Profit
earth and lose their own liberties?
But utterly deny that anything in the con-
quires such laws as now blacken the pages of
our statutes. They have borne the results of
the war with patent SUBMISSION SION, 70 every
upon them. Their States were torn down and
reconstructed from their foundations up for
the purpose of establishing the supremacy OF
the Republican party throughout the South.
Aliens, strangers and enemies went into their
midst, seized upon their places of honor, trust
their broken fortunes. Political emissaries
from the North have, at the approach Of every,
pornons of eie''iS the gouth in or
der der to incite strife between the two
leaders of the Republican party have falsely
proclaimed the existence of insurrections in
the %ar closed, and have soreiy regretted
from year to year that the people of those States
could not be goaded into even show of
armed resistance. And the Southern people
are now reaping the rewards of their brave
forbearapce. They have regained the rights
their fellow Citizens of the North; they con-
troll their own States; they have re-established
domestic peace and social order, and are rap.
idly repairing the widespread devastatiOns OF
war. They have done more. They have vim
dictated themselves, under the most trying
have fastened upon their enemies the odious
crime of calumny and SANDER. Others may If
they choose eoDjIre up WITH eyil magic e, the
in the past-I will not. Nor do envy the heart
of the man who engages in such WORK. bis
his country, and his name will be preserved
by the future historian to illustrate the OBJ
stacles which progress and Christian civiliza-
Sir, my task on this occasion draws to a
close. have confined myself to the discussion
| of q series of laws which are, in my judgment,
wholly fatal to free government Among
others have pointed out those for the repeal
belong stands pledged. The issue thus Joined
| is not sectional. 1t now concerns the personal
liberty of the Northern as much as 1t does the
Southern voter. The destruction originally
aimed at free elections and an Independent
| judiciary in the South extends now TO every
can taxpayer, regardless. of his locality,
| whether he approves that system of destruc-
! ton? When we vote away his hard-earned
money on this floor, 1 ask him whether we
ought not first to guarantee to him his liberties
and give him the protection OF freeman al
| the balot-box and in the courts?
| That is the sole question here this hour
| Shall the taxpayer receive as compensation
for his toll the blessings Of self-government:
or shall he, like Issachar of old, couch down
between two burdens, the burden of debt and
| the bufuen OF enslavement both? snail he
| bow his shoulder to bear, and become servant
| unto tribute, with no more rights in the con
troll of his own Government than election
overseers, deputy marshals, commissioners
| and political courts may see 1T to grant him.
/ That is the naked question for the people tt
| decide. Others have discussed with great abil
| ity the manner in which the repeal of these
| laws is proposed. 1 have no concern on thai
| point. If they are obnoxious to freedom anc
Justice they ought to fall, and no better time o.
place for their repeal could occur than in con
nection with measures appropriating thu
peoples money for the support of their Gov
eminent. The cheap and shallow cry of revo
| luton will deceive nobody, not even those WHIT
! want to be deceived. The people will princi
paliy care to know the true character of thu
| laws under consideration, and they will judg
our work here accordingly. Ii the laws w
propose TO repeal are right we will stand con
| demned in the public mind but II, on tn
/ other hand, they are odious in the sight of tn
American people, we Will be justified.
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