Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-24

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to carry out the edicts of their masters
and the whole army, navy and power
of the federal government shall be set
in motion to enforce their DEGREES. And
beyond and unprecedented is the as
sertion that this executive can embody
all the militia of all the states in the
U. S. Army and send them under mil
itary despotism into any and all the
states to enforce the commands Of the
federal commander-in-chief. In three
short paragraphs the states are oblit-
Grated and blotted out, without use for
legislatures or governors-nay scarcely
10 have representation in senate or
house, when military satraps can more
easily obey and enforce the instruc-
tions, directly communicated from the
White House. The steps taken by
Cleveland last year in throwing the
whole military force of the army and
navy to the assistance of corporations,
and against the masses of citizens, ex-
ercising the rights they believed had
been guaranteed by the constitution,
was attentive, under the prevailing
excitement to experiment with the doc
trine now laid down by the Supreme
court, and to see how far the people
would permit it, without taking alarm;
just as the tentative has been made
under the Golf injunction, to see
whether the people had been lulled to
sleep and supineness. Under that pro-
nunciamento of the federal judiciary,
with all its subordinates too willing
to resort to usurpations and attack up
on the poorer and weaker classes, it is
perfectly feasible for the present exec
utive to pervert law by open violations
of the constitution, and in Spanish
American style to carry the elections
as he pleases. The late force bill was
harmless and innocuous in comparison
with the force bill declared by the fed
eral court to be in existence. In the
debates in the convention preparing our
constitution, it was fully discussed why
the militia was created. 1t was en-
phatically declared that the formation
of state troops, under their own officers
and with the governor as commander
in-chief, was for the purpose of pro-
tecting the state against the federal
power. 1t was discussed from the op-
posite view by Alexander Hamilton
and the federalists under his lead. with
precisely the same coGc,usions that
the federal court has declared to-day
that all the militia should be under
the order of the United States execu-
tive-and that was defeated by large
majority. Jefferson saw more clearly
as time rolled on what would be the
perversions by the federal judiciary;
and he wrote several letters, teaching
that the destruction of the Union would
come from that body. Go on therefore,
l say, in your noble work and patriotic
efforts to enroll body of stalwart,
brave, answering men, who may be
ready when treason and violence is rife
to put in execution their plans-to rise
up everywhere and say to the conspira-
tors, Your plans are abortiye, unless
you can destroy us, fighting for liberty
and the support of the constitution"
And one of the first things you should
do is to proclaim everywhere to the
honest unbought militia-"resign from
the body, which you are notified can
and will be used by any ambitious man
and traitor, to send you into collision
with your brothers, against whom you
have no i'll will; no desire to conquer or
subjugate." Let the Hessians be en-
ployed by their masters to form the
militia. The governors of the states
need not arm or equip them, or call
them into service. The governors will
know where to find thousands, ready
to stand up in defense of the right
whenever they are needed. Let the
Hessians when the executive calls for
them and arms and equips them, stand
upon the same footing as the Pinker-
tons-mercenary Dugald Dalgetys, for
pay ready to assassinate any citizens,
under any employment, no matter how
much in derogation of real law under
the charge Of the civil authorities.
There may come a time, when the
words of Tom Corwin shall re-echo
with thunderous tones from the Allan
tic to the Pacific; from the lakes to the
gulf, as to these tories and traitors,
Welcome them with hospitable hands
to bloody graves" With my intimate
associations with that great man 1
know he would be the first. if permitted
to visit earth, to shout that expression
with stentorian voice. Let us put our
protest against partisanship; the graf
ification of ambition by the use of the
Populist party to obtain offices by men.
who cannot appreciate the dreadful
condition of the country, and the ca
lamities which may come from greed,
ambition. intent to retain power on
the one side-and the black and frown-
ing ogre Of want. despair. destitution
which stands right at our portals.