St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-10-11
Correct Without Doubt.

e2- The DeSoto Times of Sept. Goth, CO
L. tains tho following:
Viewing the anti-lottery mail bill n
JUS Democrat, and as one moved bv consj
we eratlons OF private and individual rigf
ana liberties. rs ono ready and prepar
op to combat any thing that Is siren Of
rip enIng OF the government at the cxDen
all OF private liberty, anything that is
ks the direction OF censorship of 4
~ press, we, anti lottery though we h
p- Can but confess that the law under Iii
I'D cusslon, is the most dangerous one tn
he has been passed since the birth of IL
Ia Republic. Where is the power of tb
~ government to cease and the liberties
K the people to begins Shall nnblicit
t have no end and privacy no beginnino
er A censorship of the press has been e.
taoIlshed; who is to be our censc
mOrOrum4
, The Times estimate of tn, nrcscn
;" censorship law of Congress, forbiddin
- the use of the United States mails, 70
" certain purposes therein set forth,
correct. The act is, without doubt, tn
. boIdest and most uuqucstiouab|o strid
towards the centralixation of this GOV
. :, ernmcnt-by the oh!itcration of State
= rights, that ever disgracet} our Law
makers, Or gave canse Of alarm to the
people. Those who ignorantly approve
lt-shonld not think it can be made to
apply to nothing but the Louisiana
state Lottery matters. It has a fa1
~'aeF scope. It will reach mail matter,
Its authors never contemplated mat
lers which, We do not desl,e now to
touch npon. The danger turks and lies
in The pf1nciple which is covered by, and
concealed III il. Congress had already
stretched its constitutional power, in at
tempting to withhold the use of the
malls for the transmission of obscene
and indecent communications, etc., but.
even in the acts passed for those mr.
poses, it did not confer upon the Post
master General, such inquisitorial rights
and powers, as are specially conferred
upon him by the act in question.
lhe simple authority to "establish
post Offices and post roads," cannot fair.
~ be understood as conferrine the i'm
pellal power to interfere with the trans
mission OF such matter, as the States
themselves may authorize and sanction
the circulation of. What power in such
case, is to determine what is moral or
lmmolalg
Ii such power can legally be claimed
by Congress, why can it not 20 still fur
ther, and declare that, the State which
charters Lottery Company, shall not
be permitted to use the mails? Why
not go yet further and declare that it
VIII not establish post offices and post
roads in any state where the dominan.
party is in n minority 7 Will some
pro-censorslIip cham
non, be good enough to point out any, {
uing In the Constitution which prohib t
Is Congress from ending a Post-road at {
State line ? or elsewhere ad placitum ? T
n anything which compels it to estab- u
sh or maintain Post-offices in State d
ilould 1t see proper to refuse them
The language of the Constitution is,
-rt. l, Sec. Z: "The Congress shall
ave POWER, "I0 establish a
'ost-otices and Post-roads." The DOW - -
to DO it, has always been understood ~
imply the outy of doing it, but where a. Z"
e ask again, is the power to force it u a,
do 1t, t through partl2an oppression l.,
I'd injustice, it should see proper to 80
fuse to do so? Such being the pomer w. w.
an unscrupulous party, will any man y
Hing himself Democrat, or, a man q,
the people in other words, champion W. W.
ch an act as the one under considera ~ ~
On? pc
Can any one, who pretends to know M %;
ything about the meaning of the term ~, ~
pretend that he finds excuse for de- w
nding an act, which embodies a prin- 49,;
Die SO dangerous to the equal rights of m ~,
cry citizen and every State ? AS M t';
oot that we are not mistaken-our ~.
aders have but to recall to mind an ~
OF very recent occurrence which uo w.
Ok place in neigbboring State. An IL" Ia
and faithful postmaster, was re- 'ns "e
wed for no cause, other than bis un w,
mocracy. Wanamaker appointed a he'
gro in his place, which was objected 'n' '
by the people. Whereupon he W SID
sed the POst-otfice and removed it's see
faphernaIia away. Again, we find no
discontinuing the mail route on the W
mblghee river from Mobile to Demo- "'
is, distance of a54 miles. WEI pat
n this instance, not for the purpose .a'
fault finding, for it was possibly ex- : "es
lient to do so, but to establish the 'ns
al proposition we laid down in the p'"
t half OF this article, to-wit: That .'"l Va.
re is nothing in the Constitution to T."
vent Congress from authorizing the oo' ~
vt Master General to terminate tile sea-
il routes wherever he may see proper. III
1t Democrats should consort with ava
'ublicans to invoke the exercise of Aep
power, to an extent which may we'll a'"
tyrannous, is astounding. "o
'ay the least of it. Carried to its e'e'
cal extent, dominant party can "eo, ~
Q the mails to whomsoever il
ses. Will our anti friends persist JUG
bis madness? seen
-a.--- sane
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