Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1879-10-17
Senator Whyte's Speech.

now pending between the two national par
ties, recently delivered at Baltimore City
by Hon. VIM. p, Whyte
1--WE meet tonight under brighter au
spices than we have done since the disas
rous panic of 1878. Everything around us
indicates that we have passed through the
valley of financial distress and are now or
the road to prosperity once more. We have
struck the bottom rock and by the practi
cal resumption of specie payments we have
laid the foundation for u long period o
business activity and success. The idlel
has returned to his long-sighcd-for employ
mcnt wages are increasing to Just stand
ard and the cost of living has been reduced
to a fair basis. Workshops are again re-
sounding with the busy hum of labor
furnaces long idle are now lurd with the
light of fires rekindled; our harbors ar,
filled with ships, bearing to foreign land,
the surplus grain with which Providence
with bountitul hand, has blessed our coun
try. With this era of prosperity and return
to the normal condition of an active and
happy people let us see that our government
tai affairs are restored us far Us practicable
to the healthy state which existed before
the war To this end let us turn our best
CndoavOrs.
There are three important issues before
the country involved in the pending cleo
tons: First, opposition to the consolidation
of all powers in the Federal Government tc
the destruction of the reserved rights of the
States; second, the keeping of the army
away from the polls; third, against federal
interference with elections in the States.
First Our first duty is to secure for our.
selves and for the education of the rising
/ al met Hon 81. I,,,.
of the relation Of the Federal Government
to the States; to appreciate the Union as the
creation Of the States; to understand that
the Government Of the United States was
erected by the States, with certain cnumer-
atcd powers granted TO it in trust for all the
| States, and beyond these powers all the re-
siduum of sovereignty was retained by the
| people OF the several States Ii is our duty
to warn the people against the tendency of
wealthy corporations, of large landed pro-
| prictOrs, Of accumulated riches in all its
| phases, to mctamorphOsc our admirable
scheme OF government, with it, checks and
| balances, into II centralized power ending
either in monarchy or empire. Against such
dangers to our system of republican govern
mcnt ! have not forgotten the words of
warning and wisdom in the fare well adj
dress Of that gacat apostle of Democracy,
l
he, that there have always been those among
us who wish to enlarge the powers of the
General Government and experience would
seem TO Indicate that there is tendency on
| the part Of this Government 10 Oycrstcp the
| boundaries marked ont for IL by the Consti
| tuition. It's legitimate authority j. album
dnntly sufficient for MI purpose for which
/ it WINS created and its powers being ex-
/ pressiy enumerated there can be no iustiii
cation for claiming anything beyond them.
/ Every attempt to exercise power beyond
these limits should be promptly and firmly
| opposed. For me 6cH CidmpiG will lead TO
other measures still more mischicvous; and
| II the principles OF constructive powers or
| supposed advantages, or temporary circum-
stances, shall ever be permitted 10 Justify th5
1 assumption OF u power not given by the
/ Constitution, the General Government will.
| betDtr tohg, absorb all the powers Of lcgsla-
| ton, and You will have, in effect but one
consolidated government. Every friend of
our free institutions should be always pre-
| pared 10 maintain, unimpaircd and in full
! yigor, the rights ANIL sovereignty If he SUITES
and 10 coniinc the action of the General
! Government strictly TO the sphere Of its ap-
! prOpriatc duties
! Therefore it was, that anticipating this
! issue, as long as eight years ago, when was
! your candidate for governor, | warned YOU
! from this stand, that in the near future our
| form of government was TO be tried, as it
| had been tested in 1900; that the same con-
| llict was 10 be wagcd between the antago-
niStic forces of local sclfgOvcrnmcnt and
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Pt,II'Hi .lp''1n' ..n,..
n'r w ""' IG"InIl'la'loh ailcr tne
H"i -, l''u .",'' r.t''IHl'"h coiuliel IN
w., , iy'', ",''''' ~ I''' C"hsuluuoli "I me
oI,'"5, '''h'' anu a8aiii, we declared IN
'"' ,'""r Ighau'u''"i' o io"' mat Inc
! p''l'' "a 'i''s '7Vuc nave llc alih ana cN-
c'"7IFe IiHht 81 regulating me internal gov
/ cfhnlcht ana ponce thcrcoi as u J'ee, &oeej'-
| '9t ~" "tttie"'e"t oWto' AS your repre-
7'I'"''tF W ~ ''' VI wv bItH'ncH Oh ton-
| sr's5 J nave m season ana sometimes ont Of
/ u, napte Oh GllInor anout me heresy OF
| 9tltrS figh's' denounced The attempts OF the
lhPuplicaI party toward CONTEMPLATION and
| lne absorption III lhc National Government
81 tho'e rights so reserved :" the States by
tlG Fe'leral constitution.
IN u speech III the senate maintained
NAV me people OF the several States, acting
III ihelr highest sovereign capacity rs free
ana independent states, ratified the Federal
Constitution ana adopted . form of govern
nent ~ me nature Of y conlcdcratcd repnb-
/ nc. ahdel sovereignty IS lodged with
! thc states where u had us nome long before
| me constitution was created ana that II was
| only 'curtalcd OF us lair proportions in so
iar rs IT. was transferred by the States to the
'CMiied otiies
ihr7c views Of orr form Of government
winch our lailicrs taught us brought down
upon our lcih8 ihc wrath Of The Republican
leaders. Remuneration took the place Of ar
BunGht ana III their straits toansWer US they
sought 70 dehy llc truth 81 our position by
!hc PcrVcfAph 81 history. Mr. darlleld, quot
Iig from ny speech ana ron lhe ullcrahccs
on otlitr Democrats, assnlied violently these