Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1890-05-29

bold Declaration an officer from this
land OF piebald architecture was voted
| the mander-in-chiefship. When
this rebellion ended successfully anoth-
er Southerner WAS called upon to pre-
side over the body that framed the
Constitution, and the Constitution was
drawn mainly from the draft of Charles
Pinckney, Of South Carolina. "Thus.'' y
as a lover of his Southland tells us.
Independence was declared upon the
motion eli one Southeruer; its princi-
pies were set forth in the Declaration
fitten by another Southerner. A
l,a5;SNrd led the armies of the rebel colo
Is IS to victory, while a fourth framed
the Constitution 1t seems that if
these men ''l1new,n rs Mr. Coffin as.
serts, little of what was going on in
the world, they certainly knew what
was going in America. Again from
this Colonial, drunkt n. cabbag-eating
South came onc-half the Presidents Of
the Continental Congress. six out OF
the eight first Secretaries OF State, four
| out of the five first Presidents of the
United States, and Gf we count to
Buchanan administration eleven
ont OF seventeen Presidents, and twcp-
ty-two out OF thirty-eight Judges of the
supreme Court These cabbage-eaters
had, II may borrow the words of a
charming rosebud OF gisl that Just
used them, "a knacls of getting there %
The Alien and Sedition Acts, passed
under the Presidency OF John Adams,
were SO unpopular that they cost the
Federalists the Presidency. jefferson
and Madison looked upon them as q
stride towards consolidation, and ABLY
pointed out how contrary they were to
the spirit of on. Constitution. The
antl-States-rights men have always
tried TO defend these acts. Coffin says
Congress passed an Alien law under
which the President was authorized to
send d0any one whom he might Judge to
be dangerous out of the country. A
Sedition law was passed, under which
u man might be put in prison for pub
fishing anything false or malicious
against the government The Presi-
dent did not send anybody out of the
country; no one was Imprisoned; but
the Democrats had a great deal to say
against these laws. denouncing them
us tyrannical and subversive of liberty.
One thistle seed had been sown in Vir-
ginia in 1920. and in 1898 Thomas JEFF
ferson planted u companion seed-very
harmless at the time. but which was |
destined to bring forth terrible har-
vest John Taylor. of Virginia was a
member OF Congress, and was so Bit
terly opposed TO President Adams.
and had such hatred of the Alien
and Sedition laws, that he said Vir-
glnia was not bound to respect them,
and that the State ought to sccede from
the Union because the laws were un-
constitutional. jefferson and Madi-
son sympathizcd with John Taylor, as
did Mr. Nicholas, Of Kentucky; and
together they planted the new thistle
seed.
Let us examine this. Mr.. Coffin saws
mo one was imprisoned under the
Sedition Act" Has Mr.. Coffin never
heard how Mr.. Lyon. of Connecticut.
was arrested under this law for a
newspaper article. tried and sentenced
to four months imprisonment and
fine OF thousand dollars, and how
his people. to show their hatred for
the law, elected him member OF Con-
gress while he was still in jailo Did
MIR. Coffin never read how Judge
Peck ~ New York, was arrested un-
der this act because, in drawing up a
petition for the repeal of tho act. he
criticised the act and the' Com
gress that passed .it9 Has he forgot
ten the Calender ana the Cooper
casese Historians should have better
memoriesf or people may think that
they DO not want to tell the truth.
aptice Mr.. Coffln's impupn-
emotives OF Congressman