Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-02-09
COMMUNICATED.
Hot Box.

Mcssrs. Editors I'm my communication
of the 22nd December, promised another
installment mot instrument as the last word
therein is printed) on the subject Of North
ern Anarchy, and should have complied
before this, but for sickness of self and
family and other matters requiring my at
tention. Without however, going further
on the subject at this time shall merely
undertake short reply TO &C." your New
Haven, Connecticut correspondent The
writer appears to be good one so far as
the use of language is concerned, but must
say If understand his views, he is extrem-
ly heretical in his political opinions. He
appears to be very ignorant of our form of
government when he assumes and says,
under our form of government laws are
made by the people" This Is not so. Our
government is in every branch representa-
tive in form. The Senate represents the
States, being elected by the Legislatures
thereof. The House of Representatives
represents the people of the various Con-
gressional districts laid off in each State.
These two Houses with the concurrence
of the President land not the people, enact
laws that bind every citizen in the Union
unless indeed they should be declared in
valid by the Supreme Court, should any
case under them be brought before that tri-
bunal. Under our Constitution, the people
are as remote from Legislative power as
they can be placed in n government calcu-
lated and intended to protect popular
rights. The majority of the House of Rep
rcsentativcs, representing vast majority
of the people may pass bill and the SEN
ate Through State Lcgislaturcsl represent
ing a comparatively small minority, can
check it and prevent its passage into law
The negative Senators may represent the
least populous States-the States OF Rhode
Island and Delaware for instance having
equal power in the Senate with the very
populous States of New York and Pcnnsyl-
vania. 1t must thus, think, appear plain
to any but foreign or lately naturalized
citizen, ignorant of our institutions, one or
the other of which suppose c. - be, that
under our form of government the people
do not make the laws as asserted by him.
But if the two Houses pass bill by ma
jority of each and it is approved by the
Executive, and not overruled, as above
stated, by the Supreme Court, then it is
Lac and all must obey or suffer the conse-
quence of disobed!encc. To ''resist its ere
cutiOR" is anarchy, and the officer of the
law whose duty il is 10 execute it can, if
necessary TO the performance of that duty,
take the life of the person or persons who
resist him and it will be justifiable homi-
eide, so that Lar thus enacted is King Ga
tbs Country. Is it not surprising there
fore that any person of ordinary intelli-
gence should be impressed with the idea
las c appears to bel that the people or q
portion of them have a right to "Fesist tie
execution of laws which they deemed TO be
wrong" That doctrine if carried into prac-
ticc is the very consummation of anarchy
His denial "that there is an analogy be-
tween the action Of n portion of the North
ern people in resisting laws that were
adopted before the late war, and the con-
| duct Of those who are 50 called anarchists
cannot be sustained There is surely o
striking analogy betweea the two sets, 50
far as disposition, feeling and language are
concerned, and if the Chicago criminals
did commit murder 1.-THE crime for which
they were hung they were not ahead OF
the anarchists Of Pennsylvania who muir
dcrcd GOrsueh, n citizen Of our State, who
went to that State in order to recover his
slave under the provisions OF the Fugitive
Slave Law-onc of those laws made long
before the late war which & thinks the
Northern people had right to resist The
difference land great difference tool i:
that the Chicago men were hung for theil
murder and the Pennsylvania men wen
free by the csnnivance Of her officers
The animus OF c is plain W hen he used tn,
following language, "when those Law,
were enacted to perpetuate slavery, tn,
people Of the North through their represen
tatives who took psrt in the enactment O
those laws protested G9.IiasG Eseir erceatioH
and they were right in their protest" CT
p enlirely in error in his history. The reprC
!. sSRiatives did take part in the adoption c
the Constitution and the laws made in pul