The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-04-08
JOE BLACKBURN'S SPEECH.
nov HE RIDDLED GARFIELD IND
TIE RAIDS.

South--"He Who Doubts Is Damned"
Hon. j. $. G. Blackburn. of Kan !
lucky, replied to Garfield on Thurs
day, in magnificent ctfott. A
brief resume is here given. He
said:
In the very nat,7re Of things the
proposed repeal could not be revo-
lutioMary. Negative legislation WAS
never revolutionary. Affirmative
legislation might be, but not mega
tive legislation. There was no one
who would assert that previous to
1865 the Executive had held the
power Of which th5e bill proposed to
deprive him. There was no pre-.
rogative which the President held
THAI was not clearly defined and
limited by law, but the Constitution
had made Congress, in express
terms, the grand reservoir into
'vhich MI the powers of impliea tom
flowed. This bill could not COM
prohcnd revolution, but it was said
that it was not in proper place when
it was engrafted upon an appropriate
tion bill. If, he said, lectures were
to be read to the Democrats, let
them come from somo quarter and
some member not convicted on the
record. The gentleman [GArfcld !
had said that this WIS revolution.
READING TIE RADICAL RECORD.
Did the gentleman remember the
record that he had made in 1868,
in IN amendment offered by Mr..
Wilson, Iowa, to an appropriation
bill proposing to rerolutionize the
judicial system of the country, pro
posing to rob coordinate branch
OF the Government, proposing to
strip the Supreme Court of pre-
rogatives and the powers that the
Federal Constitution had clothed it
with ? That amendment had pro.
yiled that if any Circuit or District
Court should declare any act of
Congress to be unconstitutional the
Judgment should be carried up TO
the Supreme Court, and if two
thirds OF the members Of that Court
should not affirm the Judgment, the
same should be held reversed, and
Oh the call of yeas aud nays the
gentleman from Ohio is found vot-
ing yea. The Supreme Court, at
that time, Lad consisted of eight
members, and by that amendment
six were required to oyerrulc the
opinion of o. District Court, declar-
ing unconstitutional any of the ill.,
advised, hasty, crude and partisan
measures of tho Republican, party
Revolution? What was there that
the party the gentleman so ably led
had not done in that catalogue OF
cnmes? In his speech Of Saturday,
the gentleman from Ohio had chal- =
lenged all comers to show a single
instance in the history Of the coun :
try where the consent of the Execu-
tive had ever been coerced. He
Blackburn accepted the gage of
battle which the gentleman had
throw down. He would read from
tie Record and show him an in,
stance on the I'd of March, 1867.
Andrew johnson had signed an
Army Appropriation bill under pro
test, feeling, rs he said, constrained
TO return the bill with his signature,
but accompanying it with his pro
test. Mas there no coercion there
Why, the Rccor0 was full OF in
stances. He found that i'm tho 39th
Congress, that had occurred which
would aever fade from the
minds of the American people. He
referred to The effort which was
made and which jame so nigh re-.
,sulting in the successful impeach-
ment of the Chief Executive Of the
country.
THE EXECUTIVE HAZE BEEN IMpEAc6ED
of high crimes and misdemeanors,
and of usurpation, of violation OF
law. First, "In that he has cor
ruptly used the appointing power"
Had the gentleman from Ohio in
tended to impeach him for that
The gentleman knew that he had
not. Second, SIN that he has cor,
ruptly used the pardoning power
Had the gentleman intended to
inpeach him for thata" Everybody
knew he had not. Third, I'm that
he ha has c01.rrntlx nsad the uatn