Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-16
visible to the eye of Federal law. OF ever

tlOIc Is tuc CONSTITUTION OF the ultcu CbnsCS
governmental structure, contrtved to unlty
IN peace what has been lately called grouI
OF cooperative land companies strung along
the Atlantic border. which had been asslsteo
to obtain separation from the parent EN-
pire by war. Here, now, after century o.
storm and stress, is that same fabric almost
seamless, wholly unruptured. 1t has sumceo
without important change to house the IN
dustries and liberties of the teeming
thronging millions on millions VINO mere
have lived, or who here survive ana constl
public or republics between the Atlantic
and the Pacific sea. (Applause.] L say 1t Is
the standing marvel in the history OF civlll
Zed man.
Now, 1 think we shall find that the OBJ.
jects of our Constitution, the spirit of it and
the letter of it explain that enormous
miracle of its equal adjustment to our past,
our present and our future. Inc powers
which it grants are few and specified.
|. The Doctrine of State Rights.
1t concentrates and centralizes those few
as it needs most. But, after prohibiting
| many powers to the States, it explicitly dis.
| tributes the whole residue of powers not
thus delegated to the United States nor thus
| prohibited to the several States, as reserved
to the States respectively or to the people.
Nor is this enough. The power of Con-
gress to make laws for carrying into execu-
tion these powers vested in the Government
| of the United States is again explicitly re-
| stricted to such as shall be necessarily and
| properly executory. There is no limitation
| OF government by a written constitution
| possible among men if this be not sufficient
written limitation. There is no sound con-
| struction possible, except it be a strict con-
| struction. Nothing to the Federal Govern
ment except granted powers; nothing which
can be better done by State governments
| and more jealously watched; nothing to the
| State governments which can be better done
Governmepss eS pa aDa more jealousy % aatohed
and even to these neighboring govern
ments nothing which can better be reserved
| to the people.
gress outside the Constitution, which ex-
| plains why we still live and move and have
our being beneath its egis. 1t is in despite
OF transgressions, not by the help of them,
that we still live. We have not profited by
| them, we have survived them. 1t is indi-
| vidual freedom, not Republican forcibles,
enable you, the strong and highly civilized
race, to guide forward your less gifted fel-
| low-citiZens
Sectional Taffy for the South.
The late Republican Congress tried to put
| manacles on Southern limbs. The Demo-
| cratic party answered, "Shall Northern
| limbs, then, wear the like, or are we all free
men nowe'' Never, beneath this canopy of
| our surviving Constitutions Constitution
color blind-and equal laws, will the Democ-
acy of the great North and the greater w est
confound and confuse your present social
problem with past and gone political PROB
lens.
1t shocks the historic sense to witness that
recent forging of force bill chains Garrl-
son should be alive to tell the darrlsons
that slavery is dead. even wflte e siavery, y
BRYANT or Wordsworth should be alive TO
pour forth in lofty verse, the oeep respecI-
full sympathy with which the nobler hearts
among your kindred race now follow your
exceeding trial. How otherwise among
equal States should considerate and equal
free men speak?
Shall we now go on together and try to
live up to this Constitution of ours, which
survives unimpaired in substance and su-
preme in authority? Shall We recur to the
whole Democratic faith and tradition and
re-establish its supremacy & In our n.d podlt1cs les
not ,ssIsa2Rb: sand by New York! IApplauseI our
Federal Constitution, unimpaired in sub
stance admirable in purpose, clear in letter
and prescription, is supreme in rightful au-
thority!'
Every Calamity Laid to the Republicans.
1 submit to your candid judgment that
every trouble, every disturbance that ex-
lists, every disaster that impends and every
danger that is feared at this time through
out our whole land not merely in some parts
of it, is the direct and obvious consequence
of Republican legislation in disregard of the
spirit of the letter of our Constitution.
Every disorder in our finance, every injus-
tice in our taxation, is not only the conse-
Quence direct and obvious, of Republican
legislation, but of legislation SO plainly out.
side the Constitution, so plainly disregard
full of its inhibitions and limita tons, that
not one statesman of any party prior to 1850
ever dreamed of advocating such trans
gress1ons.
That is not all, nor the worst. Three years
ago the Democratic party experien ced dis
astrous overthrow and lost the House of
Representatives, which till then it had con-
trolled for years.
What did the Republicans do with their
la, ,Ja,a nf
those unconstitutional laws for which they
had been pleading the false excuse of war,
its burdens, its necessities? Let our worse
than-war tariff taxation reply. Let the dis
orders of our currency make answer. No:
they first cheated more power into their
own hands and then doubled its prostitu-
tion. [Applause1
A Blast at Tom Reed
Their Speaker in the House, by violent and
unparliamentary procedures, distended
the actually small to a fraudulenty largo
majority, all of whom followed him with
dog-like docility. [Laughter.l
In the Senate six new Republican Senators
were seated to represent a smaller popu-
lation than their census left unacounted
in the City of New York, and one State was
defrauded of its Democratic choice. Their |
object was, not only to enact more and
worse unconstitutional legislation, but also
to put that legislation beyond the peoples |
amendments or repeal This they did, and |
their occupation within those fntrench- |
ments, and the occupation of the whole Re- |
publican and Mugwump press, has ever |
since been to plant political discussion on |
preferred bills which their President would |
veto and their Senate won't pass. regret |
that some unwary Democrats in the press |
and in Congress thus render daily assistance
in taking off public attention from the un- |
surpassable monstrosities of their living |
laws, and assist the Republican party in |
hiding the scope of that revolution it pur
sues.
To call Republican taxation unconstttu-