New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-18

as has often been seen IN States and III tue Nation.
has WAYS to plough IND tnis stump. Aboishing
circuit district adding to ~ another. takes MS
out from under judge and gets rid OF him
finally; he Is "legslated out"
Thus the whole judicial establishment OF the Re
public is nj the disposal of the Law making power
With courts revolutioniZed TO conform 10 .eac-
ticnary notions and dogmas preludices and inter
ests what NAV be the fate of questions affecting
commerce among the several States. revenue:
hauk and legaI-tender currency. the taxation Oh
Government bonds, the currency in which these
bonds aEe payable. civil rights acts, election laws
ca,ms growing ont of the war, claims for rounding
the war tax on cotton, the Late amendments, ana
many other grave matters, no man can predict.
OPPOSITION TO TdE ARMY.
The Army too is envied-;ts " offence is rank.
Less than four lines of the Revised Statutes are all
that deuies commissions in the Army to men who,
educated at the country's cost, and presented with
their countrys sword, drew that sword against
their count-y's life bill to repeal these four lines
is pending IN the Senate, already passed 20
third reading by the solid Democratic vote; IN the
2Jth Of February last, Mr. HelSkell, OF MarNlanu,
was relieved from the operation of this exclusion,
and "A Senator from Arkansas moved As a" amend
ment ITS total repeal. The ayes and navS were ur.
manded. and thiity-SlX Senators. every Democrat
who was present. voted ave. ONO. NeW-Jefs"N'
Pennsylvania and New-YOrk coniriJuted thelr
Democratic votes to ihs oouhrrl propooii'om o y.
re Orm.' subsequently the power ana az con
cluded 10 reconsider and drop tue aInendnieht-,
a sagaci9us conclusion IN l,rcSliehiial yelI'
Mr.. fucker. of Virginia, moved In the House tne
repeal of this safeguard 10 the Army AZ rider 10
an appropriation bill, bus 1t was huddled OUT Oh
signt on point Of 0rIer-a Jndiclous point I'D q
" Pres den .ial year." The Democratic majority put
III thc Army blll q provision that oiHccis now ~
the Army mlCnt receive advanced rank ahu pay u
thay wodld retire. benevolent, thoughiiu' proEiI
sion certainly. Bat f body OF Army oihcers coul"
thus ae coaXed cut OF the service, lhefe Wouli ne
80 many vacancies 20 be hlled and filled By the
President by ANA wits the advice and cOLScnt OF
a Democratic Senate. Waeu this viii Offering
was presented. a cry arouse about = T. bearing
Greeks and other ungncioaS symptoms were
manf stod on tIe hrploucdn size, ana 50 ofcNet
rank and Drcyet DSF stald over IL itdsI III lHc -
: n OF Santa Claus.
Meanwhile the Amy has been reduced to
skeleton and whenever "A scare. Dretencc, a speck
Of war on the Mexican border or elsewhere can we
discovered or invented, tEe Army must DE increased
aud iileG up Fiiled 40 by whom, mat dcpchus
on the approaching election. Ii GARFIELD ana
Arthur are chosen by Union men-infn always lor
TIE cnion to the core. Ii Hancock and Enghsh
and tie Democratic party get ~, oy men VINO
went with their states" CoHitderaie soialers
wou,h flock 10 the standard Of military Is well as
o. evil service reform aud flock IN terv0r oil mag
uapf,niiv and Devotion. ready 70 let by-gones
he hv-gOnes. ard 10 forgive the ADAPTATIONS
of Lincoln" and tie " unconstitutional coercion
OF sovercign S,ates.' Why shouldn't they
WHO would lee warranted 10 assert that Conied-
crate soldier was false or immOdest in protesting
uarlOtic intentions while seeking rank IN the Army
of the Republic No man Ought TO assert It, ana yer
al far men would agree that. 0tner tnlng- peihg
email prefcrments in the Army should be gwen To
those who fought IN that Army, rather than 10 tnNse
who assailed IL III the dread extremity OF the Ma
tons lite.
DEMOCRATIC HOSTILITY TO TARIFF AND REVENUE
The present tariff and revenue laws are deemed
very bad bv the dominant element of the Democ-
racv. They want TO change them. They Will change
them radically whenever the way IS clear There Is
4 wbiskev rebellion now in several states and the
officers of the law are pOwerless TO suppress IT. In
Alabama the law resisted, and the process OF The
courts destroyed and deiled. Recently warrant
ur4s mod
with such an offence. deputy marshal went with
posse 10 execute the warrant. In ms report to the
Marshal he says PentOn assembled from twenty-five
to fifty armed men. and set aim and the law at de-
fance When cautioned TO deslst Penton replied,
When Hancock is elected this damn fOosAness
The tang 10 stop. thus pousy predicted. is the
C collection Of the tax on whskey-that mid bever-
age sacred to tire Democratlc heart so grateful
10 the Democratic stomach, and so nourishlng to
Democratic principles. The law l. dehed IN Arkan-
sas ana the officers apply to the Governor Tor the
use of the of the United states loaned to Al
kansas. and the Governor replies that be dare not
permit the arms TO be used, because II lie should,
and If mOonshneT should be killed. be would have
to leave the state
Washington raised an army when he Presi-
dent and marched at It's head 10 put down such law
lessness and he kept the army IN PENNSYLVANIA
Get mn again. Now there are thlrtytwO soldiers OF
the United States in Alabama and flftv-seyen in
Arkansas and if a hundred more should be ordered
10 either State the country would not be
bic enough to hold the noise. Hancocks order No:
40 would leap from the Democratic scabbard and
we should hear how I" the military must be always
snhordinate 10 the civil power,' and how the
courts are OPEN" These obnoxious laws are marked
for reform and a change" whenever the Dem-
ocratic hand can reach them.
THE AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
The recent amendments to the Constitution and
the lavs made in pursuance of them are objects of
uuabated Democratic wrath-a wrath going to such
excess as TO compel the belief that free fraud i'll
elections i deemed the only adequate means to
marty success These amendments of freedom
especially the thirteenth and fourteenth Were est
Ished IN the Constitution against the most desp rate
ouDoslt,on the Democracy could make. A. they
gained power IN States which had already ratlned
them. IN ImpOtent passion tne iarce was enacfeu OF
formally resembling and Withdrawing The lileVoca-
bic assent which had been finally given. ms was
done in Indiana and New-Jersey, and Mr.. Tweed
did II In New YORK.
! triue have declare these Amendments Illegal
caIIied-i,iegai, lecau,e Democratic States that
were out fighting, were not III To vote. They never
| VET have said or admitted that the Amendments
! were legally adopted. They dld say III Ma
| tlonal Convention in 1872 that they opposed re-
opening the questions settled by the APPOINTMENTS
aud they dId say in 1876 that they would accept
them; bur tGat they were legally valid, they nave
| never SAID 49,,
detied IN more taan half the Democratic states, ana
| have been ion years The laws enacted under them
| have been denounced III every FORM and denounced
! as null and void even since the Supreme Court mas
soiemuly decided otherwise. 1t was To get rid or
these law that the EVOLUTIONARY plot was Idd las
year 10 stop the wheels OF Government, u close the
! courts and post offices, and put out the beacon
/ lights on the sea and on the lakes unless repeal
| was yielded. With thoroughbred Democratic
| President, Whatever may happen in form TO the
! Amendments. they Will become more dead letter
than qulcke1lng spirit. and the laws made TO en-
force them will be swept Ike leaves before q Taie.
! should tnes,. laws b. swept away. and shouid the
! spirit which ass3ils them III the SOUTH and which
| called them mo being, continue to rage mildew
| will follow IN the wake.
| When Lincoln issued his proclamation of emanci-
nation. men and women lii TINS city were mad
deued by being made to believe that the slaves set
| Tree would swarm to the North. crowd our white
| labor and cut down its wages The draft riots
were largely incIted by this wicked, insane pre-
| teuce throughout the North tins was the appeal
| to the laboring man, and many members of Con-
| gress VITO had Supported Lincoln were defeated at
g. :, Iectinu VANITY we pleaQed for reason.