Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-07-11

lignity and venom where it WIS left
oil when 80 suddenly interrupted in
1910. 1t will DO remembered that
the last act OF tho radicals Mt that
tilno was an effort to rush through
tho villanous Force Bill, by means
OF which tho writ Of hubcas corpus
was to be suspended in the South at
the will of tho President, and the
sovereign States of this section OF
the Union were to be bound hand
and foot and turned over to the ten.
der ncrcies of Republican Federal
officials This net was being consid
cred III the closing hours OF the las;
Radical Congress, and but for the
timely intcrposition of tho 4th of
March, 1916, whom that Congress cx.
pred by Limitation, it would proba
bly, have become law, for both
Houses were overwhelmingly Rldi
cal. and Grant himself, then prcsi
dent, engaged an Office in the Capt.
tol, and personally lob5ied for its
pussaSc. Forum ,tely, the infany
was prevented from being consum
mated by tho death Of Congress, and
Tor the succeeding fourteen wears
all such malignant and revolutionary
Legislation ceased, because of the
control during that period of the
House of Representatives. by the
Dem" vrats. AS soon, however, ms
me party of Southern hate rcgaincd
power, one Of their first moves wns
to take up their sectional program
where it. was then Interrupted, and
Tie result is tho passage of the SO,
called National Election bill
This measure is, if anything, moro
odious than the original force bill
IT. does not in SO many words sus
pond tho writ of labcas corpus in
WY '''"'''' bit' u II ever becomes
law, 1T will iGtvc exactly tho same Of
feet. 1T will provide for the control
OF Southern Congressional elections
by Federal ovcrsccrs, and will en-
power Federal Circuit Courts TO
puck jurics which shall be organized
To convict any citizen whom those
Federal ovcrsccrs may STE lit to pre-
sent upon any charge which can be
trnmpcd up. In thi, way tho Rndi.
Gals hope that the Southern whites
may be placed completely i'll the
power of Southern negroes and seal
awaSs and Nortlicrr judicial section
alist;, and that the chaos of Recon.
airuction days may come again
There are, however, II number of
sources Of consolation for tho South
despite this exhibition of partisan
mnlevolcnco towards her First, the
Indications ut present arc Tint this
bill will not pass tho Senate, mt least
tins session, md before tho short
session begins in December tho cleo.
lion for tho ucXt Congress will have
been decided. Next, even if it
should finally pass Tho Senate, IL Ill
not be likely to stanl the test of the
United States Supreme Court, be.
cause ii not only. while claiming to
be IL National" Inv, is made to a,,-
ply only to one section of the coun.
try, but by virtually placing the cleo
tons IN the hands of Federal Judges,
it mikes up in most incxt,::: a.;,rYle con.
fusion t IL. so.-.scsi5t,tlivc and judiciary
departments of the Government
which, by the Constitution, nrc made
separate ANA distinct from; and en-
tircly independent Of each other
Still again: Ii may DO counted upon
us absolutely certain That if the
South, destitute and prone i'll the
dust before her political enemies
could successfully withstand The hor
rors Of reconstruction, she can surely
now, in the days of her returning
prosperity and power, defeat the
most cunning Vaccinations of hel
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