Year: 1879

they did not take their arms. but whius
with which they had scourged these
Helots before, and tie Helots promptly
submitted. As Mr.. Hayes has become
a rebel to the Government he is
sworn to support, and is openly plot
ting treason against the system on
which our fabric of Government de-
pends, and cannot be reached by moral
nsiderations, the only remedy left
us is toappeal to his fears. / beg leave
/ to remind him that be has q amaster be-s
fore whom he has already crouched in
the past, and who will not tolerate such
stuff as he isnow putting forth. Speak
ing in the Senate of the United States.
on the Oath of May last, Senator Ed
munds, a stalwart of the stalwarts, dis
cussing the distribution of power.
spoke as follows:


@And the courts have said that that is
case OF concurrent jurisdiction, that
each State, having supreme and SOW
ereign domain over the conduct of its
own citizens, is not limited in the exer-
else of that dominion by the fact that
there is another power that has a SINH
lar dominion in that particular case
over citizens of that .other power; that
is tc say, over citizens of the United
States; and, therefore, the citizen is
amenable to two jurisdictions; either
may command him not to do q particu-
lar act, but each commands him in its
own right, speaking directly to the fact
of what he is to do, and not in refer
ence to the laws of the other at all. In
that instance, it is clear, according to
the decided cases, and, think, accord
ing to the philosophy of this singular
Government which we have, that each
sovereignty may exert itself according
to its own notions of what is fit and
reasonable against the same man for the
same act"


Further on Mr.. Edmunds says: The
State laws, consistently with the con-
stitution of the United States and indie
! pendent of 1t, and in respect where
the constitution of the United States
does not touch upon the sovereignty Of
the State, and in regard to which the
sovereignty of the State was never in
any degree surrendered, may provide,
as they do provide in many States, for
the preservation of the health of the
citizens Of the State


In other words, not only do the
States have rights not surrendered, but
in respect to these rights they are abso-
lutely sovereign" It is q great pity
that among these precious rights OF
sovereignty, State or Federal, there is
not also the power to furnish person
holding the Office of President with q
| decent modicum of brains and honesty,
Mr.. Hayes object was not 80 much to
] PROFOUND his constitutional views as to
fan the flame of prejudice against the
South. The South was at one time
disposed to give him most generous
interpretation. Unmindful of the fact
that the policy of Withdrawing the
troops from the infamous Office of up
holding the carpet bag governments had
been resolved on and actually ordered
by Grant before he went out of Office;
that the execution of the order was de-
feated by the Sherman influence in q
covert and underhanded manner, 80 as
to secure for Hayes the disposition
of the whole question; that
months elapsed before Hayes
carried out Grants policy, and
then only after his own agents at New
Orleans had endeavered to extort two
United States Senators as the price OF
the concession of their right to choose
their own rulers; the Southern people
hastily assumed that the President
meant to treat them fairly. But they
we're undeceived. They saw him dis
pensing the patronage of his Office moi
to the best citizens, but to the worst
paying the Returning Boards and theil
affiliated miscreants for their dirty
work, and then the confidence of the
Southerners in him was shaken. Mr.
Hayes found that he could not hitch on
the South to the car of Radicalism, and
now he has taken up the role of defam
alton, SANDER and persecution. Per
haps he may hope in this way to helr
the Sherman boom. His ofhce-holdert
are at work in this city to secure a solid
delegation from the Southern States
for Sherman. Their object was un
blushingly avowed, and has been pub
lished by the Republican correspond
ents in this city. But it looks as if the
office-holders' boom would soon be
drowned by the Grant boom. Already
the California Republicans have spoken
The State Republican Convention il
Colorado greeted Mr.. Carl Schurz will
a pronunciamento for Grant. Nebrasbf
follows suit. These are but the pat
tering d the rain-drops. The office
holders may as well prepare to go. They
will get even less mercy from Gran
than they would from a Democratic
administration. They will all have to
walk the plank, and Mr.. Hayes sid,
show, the Shermans, the monkeys ant
the elephants will be buried as forgotten
rubbish.