Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-02-07
Notification.

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THE main issues for 1880 are rapidly
developing. Except that the situation
does not threaten war, it differs little
from the manifestations of 1860. Then
the South was preparing TO secure State
rights outside the Union through armed
rebellion. Now it is boldly renewing
the contest within the Union, with un-
armed notification for its weapons
Yesterday, at the demand of the South
ern Senators, the Northern Democrats
assembled with them in caucus; agreed,
and without protest, to announce ex-
treme State-rights doctrines as their
common platform; agreed further to
ask the Democrats of the House to unite
with them in destroying the letter of
those laws by which the National Gov
ernment as yet retains the fiction of au-
thority in the Southern States. They
further decided among themselves to
withhold supplies through the Appro-
priation bill unless the Republicans
yielded and allowed the repeal of such
obnoxious laws as the Democratic eau
Gus might point out.
The picture is one of clear outlines
Its unexaggerated features are these
Practical Hullification of all Unitet
States laws in South Carolina which re
late to the election franchise, the right
of citizens, or the collection of the reve
nue. from illicit dealers. In that Stat
there are United States revenue officer
in Jail for performing their duty. Su
pervisors of Elections and Deputy MAJ
shals are in Jail or, by sufferance, on
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by United States courts are under ir
dictments upon false charges of pei
jury. All efforts of the General GOV
ernment to protect its own officers, c
its courts to arrest or punish Illicit di,
tillers; to punish the great violations
National election laws, or to prever
the harassing of its election officers
and of its witnesses, by local author
ties, have, one and all, been effectuall
nullified in the State of South Carolina
In Louisiana, witnesses summoned b
United States courts have been openl
taken from Federal officers and brutal
ly murdered, while others have bee
driven from their homes, and warne,
not to return at the peril of their lives
In Alabama the United States Mar
shall is in prison, and tho United Statei
District Attorney under arrest for re
fusing to deliver to local Grand jury
the evidence which the United States
holds against prominent Democratic
ballot-box suffers.
In Virginia the country is called to
hear her Legislature proclaim through
the formal report of committee that
the State of Virginia is superior to the
mandates of United States Courts with
in her borders. And in the Senate of
the United States the Democrats have
in secret caucus pledged themselves
each to the other to uphold and defend
the most extreme views of State rights.
AT the demand of the Southern side in
their caucus the Northern members
agreed to the terms of the Morgan res
olution, and, so far as caucus action
can determine it, doctrines with which
the most extreme Southern Senators
and members express themselves de-
lighted are announced as the platform
of the mocratic party. 1t was a plat
form forced upon Northern Senators
against their will. The latter insisted
that any apparent lack of Endorsement
of the several war amendments would
solidify the North against them. The
Southern Senators replied that their
people would not submit to indorsing
them to the extent of recognizing the
power of the General Government to
enforce them, The Southern men car
ried the day, and the Morgan resolu-
ton is the result. Do Southern men
expect to blind the intelligence of the
North to the rankest doctrines of State
rights by their disguises of those reso-
The first, while declaring the War
valid, and that it is the
duty and right of the United States to
enforce them, ends by virtually deny
ing that the power to enforce them re-
sides in the Government, and virtually
affirming that it is lodged in the States.
In the subsequent resolutions these
positions are boldly declared to be
founded upon the Constitution itself
Prominent in the second resolution is
the old cornerstone of secession, that
the citizen owes paramount allegiance
to his State.
And to close all, and to crown all, it
is graVely resolved that if the rifle
clubs, or mobs, or murders, or any of |
the means by which lawlessness in the |
South tramples upon the Constitutional
rights of citizens, those rights are
abridged or destroyed, the General
Government is powerless, and if action
is taken in the premises, such action
must originate in the States alone.
This is the undistorted meaning of the
last in this series of resolutions
To sum all up, the Democrats are
turning the dial of the years back to
1860, and summoning the Nation to try
the issues of State rights again, and to !
settle the question whether the United
States are nation. A North that once
left all congenial pursuits, and so sue
learned that most uncongenial
business of war, will probably not find |
itself at loss for proper weapons and
sufficient armies of voting men to put
down this old rebellion in its new form.
Washington Cor. Cincinnati Gazette. |
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