The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-05
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thsar rights and knowing dare maintain.
To connect Mobile with Chicago by
naviglable waters, the money can be
raised by settling aside the tax collected
from Alabama alone on account OF pm
sionS for five years. Do this, and the
round sum of 100000 would stock this
anetrnal navigation money chest most
abundantly
Watch the votes of New York in con-
grsss, and they will be found favorable
to tha canal projected to connect Chi
cago with Buffalo and vehemsmtly OPP
posed to this southern improvement.
They ten us we are weak; our south
eIn NswS of government belong to thd
dead past consolidation is the living
word Such allegations as these are
unfounded on fact; they are deceptive
and vastly costly. The election CT Bryan
in 1900 Will effect indefinitely more for
the Jeffersonian theories than the cleo
tion of Thomas Jefferson in 1900.
century of controversy between the
monarchtcal and democratic idsas has
left no movement however remoSe to i'm
pair local self-government. As long as
the county lives the county is the. safe
unit OF this state autonomy; as long as
the state lives consolidation is a phrase
of mockery. Counties tend to- multiply
and not decrease. There is no STATE in
the union which would not psrish in de-
fence of it's eqIIdl autonomy while this
Jealousy u autonomy Is OFltn leu ny the
increase in numbers of equal Stat s.
Nevada has one electoral vote for per-
haps, each $4,000 population. No move
memt is suggested ito eliminate Nevada.
New York has one electoral vote to each
100000 population. TIL IRE is a moveme MT
within New York looking to a division of
thar state. Alabama has one electoral
vote TO each 10000 population A das-
perate attempt to destroy the autonomy
of Alabama ANONYMOUSLY failed W.
are not proceeding in our politics in
wrong direction aus a settled habit, fndi-
caiuive of permanent sendlty and dry rot.
Why does each great political party
nominate its presidential ticket by a
convention organized upon the theory of
the federal system, giving to Nevada's
$4,000 population thu samsl fence and
effect given to Alabama's 10000?
MIR. Hannis Taylor says in his great
text book, taught in the University of
Alabama, that the phrase ''sItate" has
had in course of time various meanings,
intimating that in the American sense
of 1776, it is no more; gone out in the
lesson taught at Appomattox. Mr.. Tay-
lci's book also teaches that Ham.lton's
theory, that America should have no
state lines, should have "a Governor
electsd for life; should have a senate
elected for dife: should have a national
Judiciary with original and final juris-
diction over the people; should have
ma tional bank as the source eff currency,
3'tc.-thaIt Hamiltnn's and not JSffsr-
sons theory was the constitutional evo-
ludon of the American life at the Begin
ming.
There has been nothing discovered at
Appomattox or anywhere else tIsnding TO
discredit THE prediction that the 1=cti-n
of Bryan in 1900 will give to the theory
of Jefferson 1.-THE final ascendancy. In
1776 the thin LIEUTENANT governor of Con-
rl-tcd .7ttt Ars1a mi 11x-
declare that I wish The northern states
would separate from the soUSheun th=
| mom,nb Thomas Jeffergcn is elected
president" In the first half of Jeffer
sons first term troops were being organ
lied in New England and a commander
selected to make war against his admin
iStra ton. State rights were much in
vogue then, as they always will be in
defence.
A year after the multiplying sta ties of the
nonthern confaderacy had waged a war
of conquest enduring four years, agains.
the southern oemfed= racy conpos Ia of
states that, suppositi!iously, hal seeded
from them while in the Status of nullifi-
cation, Chief Justice Chase went down
to North Carolina ito hold court. Thsn
and ther5 he decrelad this government to
be IAN indissoluble union of indie s;rucIti-
bic state" The most advanced secession
list of th= south never for a moment
commended for any othsr kind of stale
than a state indestructible, CIR for any
O .hsr kind of union than ONE indissoiuble
in the care of such states
No effort of any kind has ever been
mada, at any time, to alter or de.ttroy
the Tenth amendment. TIL refore moth
Ing against state rights was gairsd ny
AppomattoX. By some hocus poculs three
alleged amendments llavs been add as
results of the war, but cheese ann mdments
stopping with a mere slur at the Amer
lean constitutional ddea, no. Jeffersonian.
Nevertheless, when the multiplying states
of the northern confederscy had waged
war of four years against this sec ding
% states of the southern confs deracy,
DIT was found that no change whatever
could be carried into the lstter of the
constitution disturbing The relation of the
states to the federal government or DO
each other BY some hocus pocus. un-
known to the system several so-called
amendments were added but these
AIMED at nothing beyond indorsing and
effectuating John Browns original
scheme of invasion, rape, slaughter and
confiscation.
Mr.. Taylor's claim that the alleged
Fourteenth amendment is The logical
conclusion of American sympathy with
British constitutional growth. needs only
the election of Bryan to prove that the
| legislation which enacted the amend
ment" was itself invalid Some years
| after Appomattox, the supreme court
| justices met, as usual, Saturday. to read
the various opinions prepared during the
| week. The opirton on the McArdle-
| Mississippi case was read and approved
| The opinion decreed all the war legisla-
| tion, That is the reconstruction acts in
| toto, void for uncons titut onality. On
merton of Justice David Davis, 1T was
agreed to postpone the rendering of this
case one week. Within that week con-
gress passed and President Grant sigred
a hill never before thought of, removing
the case from the jurisdiction of the
court.
If q future congress restores the juris-
|. diction of thecourt, what becomes of Mr..
Tayler's marvellous history of the evo-
luton of negro equality upon consolida-
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