The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-09-24

cotton taxes and the like were at stake. The
bill passed to second reading, and was referred
| to q committee, whose Chairman, few DAYS
/ afterward, came into the House and denounced
/ the court, and said that a majority of the
present Judges were "hopelessly lost IN the
1 fog. For the present it would be premature
and bunghng to pass sucha bill. Veto might
spoil it. and it might spoil the result in some of
the close Northern States, but let the Demo-
Gratis elect their President or rather their party
for the party is running, and who will say that
this bib will not find its way to the statute
book2, You can all say what kind of Judges the
twelve new ones would be, but no new law is
needed. Natures law, and the statutory limit
| of age at which Judges may retire. will, during
the next four years. vacate at least four seats
on the Supreme bench These four appoint-
ments will decide the political complexion of
| thecourt. With what Judges would the Dem
| ocracy fill them? The Circuit and District
Courts are obnoxious also. They afestill more
! easy to deal with. Like the Judges of the SUI
| preme Court, these Judges hold their places
during good behavior, but legislation, as has
| often been seen in States and in the nation.
has ways to pillow around this stump abol-
ishing a circuit or district, or adding to it, :
another takes his seat out from, under a
4 Judge and gets rid of him, and finally
4 he is "legislated out" THUS the whole
| Judicial establishment of the republic is at the
disposal of the law-making power With courts
reyolutionized to conform to reaetionary no.
tons and dogmas, prejudices and interests.
| what may be the fate of the question affecting
/ commerce among the several States, revenue
bank and iegal-tender currency the taxation Of
4 Government bonds, the currency in which these
bonds are payable, the civil-rights acts, election
I laws claims growing out of the war; claims for
| funding the war tax on cotton, the late amend-
ments, and many other grave matters, no man
can predict, f,lrl f,i, -irqfasHafss ffatfs.
The army, too is envied, its "offense is
frank" Less than four lines of the Revised
| Statutes are all that denies commissions in the
army to men who, educated at the country's
cost, and presented with their countrys sword
1 drew that sword against their country's life
II ASbill to repeal these four lines is now pending
the Senate already passed to third reading
! by the solid Democratic vote. On the 18th
Of February last, Mr.. Herskell of, MARYLAND
was relieved from the operation of this excll-
/ sion, and a Senator from Arkansas moved, as.
an amendment, its total repeal. The ayes and
j noes We're demanded, and thirty-six Senator'S Z
4 every Democrat who was present, voted aye n
Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New
York contributed their Democratic votes to
| this Southern proposition of "refor1n."
I subsequently the mover and all conf
| cluded to reconsider and drop the amendment
sagacious conclusion ina Presidential wear p,
/ Mr.. Tucker, of Virginia, moved in, the House
the repeal of this safeguard to the army as a
rider to an appropriation bill, but it was hud-
died out Of sight on a point of order. A judi
i cious point, in a g Presidential year, The
Democratic majority put in the, army bill pro-
| vision that officers now in the army might re-
celve advanced rank and pay if they would re-
tire. A benevolent, thoughtful provision GER
talnly, but If a body of army officers could thus
| beicoaxed out of the service there would be so
! many vacancies to be filed, and filled by the
/ President by and with the advice and consent
fiaG la han 10
4 offering was presented cry arose about
/ = elft-bearlng Greeks and other ungra-
/ clous symptoms were manifested on the Re-
! publican side, and so brevet rank and -brevet
pay stand over at least till the season of Santa
'Caarls.o Meanwhile the army has been reduced
lsto.a skeleton, and whenever scare, pretense,
1, 4 speck of, war on the Mexican border or else
| where shall be discovered or invented the army
! must be increased and filed up Filled lipiby
4 whom? That depends on the approaching cleo
h zion. If Garfield and Arthur are chosen, by
/ Union men, men always for the Union to the
+ core; if Hancock and English and the Demo
cratic party get in, by the men who sEwent with
| their States" Confederate soldiers would flock
: to the. standard of military as well as Of civil
service reform, and flock in fervor of magma
nimity. Rank in the army should be gwen to
those who fought in that army rather than to
| those who assaiedit in the dread extremity of
| the nations life. -o s.E
| deemed very bad by the dominant element of
| the Democracy. They want to change them.
/ They will change them radically whenever the
| way is clear. There is whisky rebellion now
in several States and the officers of the law are
| poweress to suppress it. In Alabama the law
! is resisted and the process of the courts de-
! stroyed and defed. Recentlya warrant was
/ issued for the arrest of one Pinto, charged with
| such an offense. A Deputy Marshal went with
posse to execute the warrant. In his report
u tolthe Marshal, he says Pinto assembled from
4 twenty-five to fifty armed men. and set himand
| the law at defiance when cautioned to desist.g
\ Pinto replied, "When Hancock is elected this
/ id foolishness will stop" The thing to stop,
thus piously predicted, is the collection of the
] tax on whisky, that mild beverage 80
sacred to the Democratic heart, SO grateful
| to the Democratic stomach, and SO nourishing
| to Democratic principles. The law is defied in
Arkansas, and the officers apply to the Governor
| for the use of the arms of the United States
I loaned to Arkansas, and the Governor replies
that he dare not permit the arms to be used, be-
cause If he should, and if moonshiner should
be killed., he would have to leave the State
/ Washington raised an army when he was Presi-
| dent and marched at its head to put down such :
| lawlessness, and he kept the army in Pennsyl- ,
vania three months after it was put down to see
that it did not get up again. Now there are
+ thirty7two soldiers of the United States in Ala
| bama and ,fifty-seven in Arkansas, and if 100
more should be ordered to- either State the
country would not be big enough to hold the
noise. Hancock's order No. 40 would leap from
! the Democratic scabbard, and we should hear
| how g the military must be Away subordinateto
the civil power,nn and how the courts are open.
These obnoxious laws are marked reform and
! a change whenever the Democratic hand can
reach them. The recent Amendments to the
constitution, and the laws made in pursuance
/ thereof, are the object of undated Demo-
cratic wrath-a wrath going to such excess
as to compel the belief that free fraud in
I elections is deemed the only adequate means
/ to, party success. These amendments of free
I dom, especially the thirteenth and fourteenth
we're established in the constitution against
| the most desperate opposition the Denloc-
racy could make. AS they gained power in
the States which had already ratified them in
.impotent passion the farce was enacted of
| formally rescinding and withdrawing the
irrevocable assent which had been finally given
| This was done in Indiana and New jersey
I and Mr., Tweed did it in New York. From
first to last the organs of Democratic doctrine
have declared these amendments Illegally car
| RED, illegal because Democratic States that were
oat fighting were not in tovote.i They never vet
had said or admitted that the amendments were
| legally adopted. They did say in National Con-
vention in 1872 that they opposed the reopening
of questions settled by the amendments, and
| they did say in 1876 that they would accept
I
never said. These amendments are constantly
and fagrantly defied in more than half the
Democratic States, and have been for years
The laws enacted under them have been de-
nounced In every form, and denounced ssnull
and void, even since the Supreme Court has
solennly decided otherwise. It was toget rid of
| these laws that the revolutionary plot was laid
last year to stop the wheels of Government, to
close the courts and postoffces; and put out the
| beacon lights on the sea and on the lakes, I'M
less repeal was yielded. With a thoroughbred
i Democratic. President, whatever NAV happen
| in form to the amendment they viii become
| more adead letterthan quiekening spirit, and
the laws made to enforce them1will be swept
( like leaves before a gale. Should these Laws be /
swept away, and should the spirit which aEsails
them in the South, and which called them into
being continue to rage mildew will follow in the
!. wake .a.rf,l "a
+ When Lincoln issued his Proclamation of
| Emancipation men and women in this CITY were
maddened By being made to believe that the
! slaves set free would swarm to the North, cI6wd
out the white labor, and cut down It's wages.
The draft riots, were largely inGted by this
s9Eicked, insane pfetense 1hrotig hout flie No til
|. this was the appeal to the working1naii, and
many members Of Congress who mad Supported
lincoln we're defeated at the ensuing election. !
I Vsinlv e pleaded for reason. We said, :: No.
/ Men do not iv from liberty: they fy from