The daily state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 188?-1891, 1890-07-24

laws and provides that the army and
deputy marshals shall keep the peace.
This is in direct contravention of the in
structions given to a United States mar
shall by Mr.. Evarts in 1868, when he
was Attorney General of the United
States. A chief supervisor may also
concentrate the deputies and the troops
at any place where he may allege that he
expects breach of the peace.
Such in brief is the abstract of the bill
by which the Republican party proposes
to assume supreme control of all elec
tlons, State as we'll as Federal.
THOUGH DEAD HE YET SPEAKS.
At the Democratic State convention
in Rochester in 1871, the late great
Democratic leader, SAMUEL J. T1LDEN,
made a speech against Capitalization
which deserves to live forever. His wise
words have special significance now,
when it is attempted to pass the law
that would do more to establish central
ization than any legislation of an hun
dred years. he said:
The Democracy advances to fight anew
the battle against centralism and cor
ruption to which it was first led by
Thomas Jefferson in the nation and by
George Clinton in the State Of New
York.
The equilibrium of our whole political
system is in danger of being overthrown
and despotic and corrupt centralism
established. The whole value Of the ar.
rangement by which our world is kept
in its place in the solar system is the
balance between the opposing forces II
would matter little to US which of these
forces should be allowed to prevail [
the centrifugal tendency should domi
nate, our planet would shoot madly into
the realms of endless space, far ava.
from the source of heat and life, unit
every living thing upon it's surface woul(
perish. If the centripetal tendenc,
should prevail, the earth would rusl
with inconceivable velocity toward tn
sun, until it would be engulfed in tn
burning mass So it is with the ad
iustment Of powers between tn
State and Federal Governments dis
union and Capitalization are equally ia
tai to good government. Disunio
4 would generate the centralism of mill
. tary despotism in the separate States
centralism attempted on areas and poI
ulations so vast would break the part
. asunder, and fill our continent, as it hf
e filled every other, with rival nations.
Y Our wise ancestors devised the onl
0 system possible to avoid these opposi
/, evils. They formed a Federal Goverl
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maintain peace and unity between tt
States, and to administer few exec
O tional functions of common interes
if and they left the great residuary ma
e of governmental power to the States.
j. The creed of the Democratic party
comprised in two ideas: First, to lin
n as much as possible all government
t, power, enlarging always and everywhe
1t the domain of individual judgment al
y action; secondly, to throw back the go
l. ernmental powers necessary to be exc
cised as much as possible upon t
rt States and the localities, approaching
Se every case the individuals to be affecte
,e These ideas dominate over the Dem
D. cratic party, and find in it their bt
g. representative. The opposite ideas,
TO mouQlo Will oVcIy tu4ub properly l
q. longing to the individual, and to centr
is lze all governmental powers, express t
v tendencies of the Republican party.
~ Under this inspiration the Fedel
90 Government is rapidly seizing upon
n the powers of human society. 1t
ne assumed to regulate the suffrage a
h. threatens to take the control of all ell
k. tions.
tie oppose centralism because it is
compatible with civil liberty.
al oppose centralism because it crea
,rs an irresponsible power, and an irresp'
sible power is always corrupt A g
nd ernment ruling all the affairs of indiv
re uals and localities, from the Atlantic
an the Pacific, from the Great Lakes to
of Gulf of Mexico, would be the most
competent for what it would underta
the most oppressive, the most irresp
IN sible, and the most corrupt goyernm
zes of which history affords any example
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