Year: 1879

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dom to-day offered resolution calling for a


committee 90 consider whether it is not expe-


dent to provide some means by which the


negroes of the South who are deprived of


their rights in the Southern States, can be


transported to some State or Territory where


their rights will be respected.


Senator Window says that he offers this


proposition in good faith, and after having
submitted il to twenty or more Senators,


most of whom thought it wise thing to do.


He will make speech upon if in few days,


and state wherein he believes his proposition


TO be practicable and advisable.


ALL through Democratic oratory we find


ding dong about the Constitution. The ora


tors of the party are especially fond of ap-


rading themselves as the champions of the
Constitution. They are always assuming that
somebody is trying hurt the Constitution, and
that they are acting in the capacity of body
guard of the sacred instrument. Or the Con-
stitution is sick. and they belong to the only
school of physicians entitled to medicate it.
Boil down all they have to say, and skim the
froth from it, and after pouring on the fluid
extract, allow it to cool, and what have we 4?
Merely assumptions that we are a Confeder-
acy, not Nation; that the General Govern
ment is under surveillance of the States. The
sum of it all is. that the Southern Confeder-
acy was constitutional, and that the Nation
does not exist. Originally the fuss about the
Constitution covered a Southern assumption
that the right to interpret that document be-
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raised up to represent slavery. The use they
had for the Constitution was to insist that the
South-by which they meant the political
power of slavery-must be equal to the
North, or the smaller to the greater section.
Any form of asserting the natural rights OF
the free States with their superior growth,
was denounced as unconstitutional. This was
carried on until the fundamental doctrine of
the Solid South was that the Territories
were all slave soil. All protests and opposi-
tion were unconstitutional, until the intelli-
gent young men of the country were wearied
and disguised with the fussing about the Con-
stltution, and cared somewhat less what be-
came of the sacred instrument than they
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a continual clatter that the rebels were lholy
under the Constitution. and that the invasion
of, the sovereign States could not progress
without awful consequence Atlast, we be-
lieve, when the Unconstitutional army had
ravaged and oyerthrown the Constitutional
Southern Confederacy became unconstitu-
tional to amend the Constitution. We have
no doubt everything that has happened since
the Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln is more
or less unconstitutional, and even then we do
not feel overwhelmed with grief The spe-
cialists of the Constitution have not changed
seriously. Substantially they mean the same
old thing, that the Constitution belongs to
those who have set up their Estates as Su-
preme Beings. The amendments of the Con-
stitution, which are the treaty of peace be-
tween the sections recently at war, do not
seem to- possess the odor of sapctity. Tie
amount of all the presnmptu0us palaseD is
that in order to live under the Constitution
we mnst be submissive to the Solid South
and assume that all Democratic defeats are
fraudulent.-[C CON-. --.,t .E-~.7