National Republican., 1882-12-23
Hnrlt, From the Tombs.

Hark, From the Tombs.
That dear old remnant of a by-gone age,
known as the democratic party, has not with
in its fold a member who can, at shorter no.
tice or with more antique method, give out
the old creed which animated that involun-
tary political association, when men were
afraid to not belong to it lest they might be
scourged as abolitionists, than can the Hon
WILKINSON CALL, of Florida. He rises in
the senate at intervals and begins where
YULEE and BENJAMIN and IvERsoN, and all
their companions of 1901, left off. The de-
mocracy of that period is good enough for
him. In a speech on the PENDLEToN bill for
abolishing party politics, Senator CALL said
on Thursday, that he believed that the best
means of working real reform would be
found in the restoration to the states of the
control of their own domestic affairs, the pro-
lection of the elective franchise in the states
from the interference of the judicial and ex-
ecutive power of the national government,
and the creation of bipartisan federal
judiciary.
How those mournful cadences take us back
to the days of the domestic institution" of
slavery, which was cruelty arrested in its
march to the SHOWS of Washington territory,
where federal intervention was to rebuke the
prctense that il could be confined within an
isothermal line. The domestic affairs of the
slave states were then free from the profane
touch of national power and, as for the free
tntn hol eli nd hu1
no domestic affairs within the meaning of the
constitution, as interpreted by the democratic
party. Those were the days when fanatics Z"
in the free states were pelted with stale
eggs by constitutional democrats in an
swer to their claim that slavery de-
pended on local laws and could not exist
beyond their jurisdiction. Those were the
days when STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS was read
out of the party caucus in the senate for re-
fusing to vote for a slave code for the free
territories, and when the control of their own
domestic affairs by the states was deemed in
complete until Mr.. ROBERT TooMBs could
call the roll of his slaves from Bunker hill
monument. Those were the days when a
democratic United States marshal was placed
in command of the army and navy of the
United States to enable citizen of a slave
state to invade the state of Massachusetts and
tear from the horns of her altar black man
alleged to be an escaped domestic affair,
whose control must be restored to the state,
before the laws of which Massachusetts law,
in its own home, must pale its Intellectual fire.
But why pursue the theme? The sacred
idol has been broken. There is now no state
in which any of the native residents are the
goods and chattels of others. The states
which cherished the right of property in man
as the chief one to be contended for through
fire and slaughter have been deprived of the
control of their own domestic affairs, so far as
that great right was concerned, and low lies
the head of human slavery. Never again will
the control of that particular domestic affair
be restored to the states where once it was
the soul and essence of political and social,
industrial and governmental life.
"The protection of the elective franchise in
the states from the interference of the judi
cial and executive power of the national gov-
crnment is another object of Senator CALLS
rather to the need of protection, in the states,
of those energetic and public spirited citizens
who are now sometimes interfcrcd with
by the general government for depriving
others Of the privilege of exercising
the elective franchise. There is no
complaint that democrats are not al.
lowed to vote. The elective franchise can
not be suffering from any judicial or ex-
ecutive bulldo2ing or false counting at the
hands Of the national government. When
any interference occurs it is in attempts tc
vindicate the right of citizens to vote dgainS
as well as for the senator's party.
Finally, the orthodoxy of the Florida states
man is made to include demand for "thC
creation of non-partisan federal judiciary
| The fact that he does not express desire fol
state judiciary of the same kind suggests thu
idea that the courts Of Florida are now as fre,
from partisan bias as is the eloquent senate
himself.
Oh for the days of a non-partisan fedora
judiciary and the DRED SCOTT decision Thei
there could be no partisanship, for the un
biased chief justice looked upon those who's,
political opinions were adverse to his owl
much as he said the people in earlier days hat
regarded the negroes, viz, as having no right
which white men were bound to respect w
can imagine the joy that would lift up tn
soul of the traditional constitutional nationa
democrat on each occasion when man @
broad and non-partisan views like Senate
CALL went upon the bench, and we can fame.
him murmuring, in the language of the epi
taph reported by JOHN PHGNIX-" one of tn
old kind--brass mounted-and of such is til
kingdom of heaven"
Donate the SchoOlmasters.
Notwithstanding the fearful statistics cor
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