The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-09-30
GOOD READING FOR ALL.
Garfeld's Implacable Hatred to the
People Of fine South.
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CHANCES AZ a DARE REeoR
Character of the Republican
Candidate for President.
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Candidate for President.
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The Democratic Congressional
Committee has issued the followingt
address to the public, containing an
epitome Of the acts of Garfield. aN
HIS IDEAS OF SOVEREIGNTY.
Mr.. Garfield views of sovereignty
are those of a man who never under
stood our system of constitutional Gov-
ernment, with its admirable division OF
bowers between Federal and State au
thority. or of one who honestly prefers
monarchical or imperial forms. AS
early as January. 1862, he made a la
bored argument, in which he attempted
! TO describe what he termed "the polltl
cal apostolic succession of sovereignty.
he undertook to show that political
sovereignty decended from the Grown
and Parliament of Great Britain, first,
to the Revolutionary Congress at Phil
| adelphia, then to the government rep>
resented by the articles OF c%onfedera-
ZION, and. finally. to the "nation,
| where it was permanently lodged in the
| Constitution of the United States. He
| had no idea that sovereignty had ever
| belonged to the people, or to the States
| which formed our Federal Union. 1Ig
noring the people altogether as sources
of political power, he believed that
Ieyery elelaept OF sovereignty had been
absorbed in one Federal head. A mau
holding such despotic notions Of our
Government 'sof the people, by the
people and for the people, is unfit to.
be trusted in any public station.
HIS FOR THE CONSTITUTION.
The Republican party mado no pre-
tense that tue apntiscation and recoqs
strnc.ion acts Here W thin either the
letter or the spirit of the Constitution
/ Thad. Stevens, James A. Garfield, John
A. Bingham, and others boldly declare
I'D that the Constitution of the United
Estates must be thrown to he winds,
when necessity demanded the suhstltp-
t.ion of the sword tor the regular aud
orderly administration Of the law. .tt.
In 1868 Garfield left the army and re
treated to his home in Ohio, where he,
entered the race for a seat an the 3sth
Il Oongress. to which he, was elected IL
l.fOctober Of That year. On the It'll day
,lof December, 1868, he was sworn inSas
a member of the House, taking the fol-
lowing oath: ~ Hf~
HI, James A.. Garfield, do solemnly
swear that. to the best of my knows
edge and ability, [ will support and de
fa.J th6| r.poFilut;N, pf thp 1Oital
4 States;' ''* that | will bear true
faith and allegiance to the same; that I
take this obligation freely, w~ithoutany
mental reservation or purpose of eva
sion" ~.tt55aogH AZ .
How be, respected the Obligations of
THAT oath the following will show:
January IA. 1864, the House had up-
Ider considerable d bill ''to punish trea-
son and rebellion, and to seizs and cons
fscate the property of rRbels." Gar
field said thatt the iDsurrectionary States
E were out of the Union, and had no
rights under the Constitution Under
this doctrine lands could be appropria-
ted and parceled out to Northern sol-
diers, NJ Caesar and Napoleon, in cases
of foreign Conquest, divided conquered
: territory among their followers and de
partmeuts. trha measure being de,
nounced on the Democratic SIDE of the
House as a violation Of the PLAIN letter
Inf the Constitution, MI, Garfield,
! speaking forthe Republican patty, said:
.'T would n6t brsek the Constitution at
I LAW unless 1t should become necessary "a
. overleap its barriers (Globe, LIST
, Sess 33tlp Gong. p ABB .a
, During the debate on Colfa1s r"so
Tuition to expel Long, of Ohio, for words
spoken in the Hou5n, Garfield vas re-
= minded of tSs declaration about over
leaping The Constitution Being asked
if be still held the same VIEWS, Mr..
Garfield answered deliberately in these
reasonable words: aut .gH. . +.
81 would take all the old sanctions OF
the law aud the Constitution and fling
them to the winds if necessary" (Giobf
!st Sess. 3Sth Cong, p. 1904
January IS, 1854, Mr.. Dawson, Dem
9 %ocrat, of Pennsylvania, offered a resclu
4 ton:
~"That whenever any State NJ in IN
surrection shall subnit to the author ty
=, or the Federal Government as defined
in the Constitution, hostilities agains'
her shall cease, and such State shall be
Z protected, and her people shall be guar
anteed in the full enjoyment OF all the
rights which the Constitution gives
Them" (Giobe, LIST Sess. 18Th Cong ,
l p, 1851 --aaN hl
~ % motion of Thad. Stevens this res'
%olutipp was tabled by Radical votes
, Garfield voting yea. ,4I.s.