Year: 1879

IN the D0dy OF his Dalliwlck Is CIVIL, not
military right, and is in the interest of
inviolability and strength of civil law.
Can that be doubted by any lawyer!
The jurisdiction of the United States
comes within states wherever it has
any United States duty to perform.
That is not only sense but good law.


Wherever the United States has guar
anteed a right, wherever right comes by
the constitution and is guaranteed by it
there the United States has right and
must have right to enforce and carry
out that power.


Kimmel-Where has the United
States guaranteed a right to vote?
Robeson-It has guaranteed right
to every man in Maryland who has a
Fright to vote for most of the numerous
branches of the state legislature, that
he shall vote at a peaceable election for
members of congress applause on the
republican side).


He denied Hurd's statement that
nations had alway died of military pow
er. They died because some branch of
the government had usurped rights of
another. He instanced several cases
in history showing that the sword was
the last resort, after the usurpation had
necessitated its use. So long as the
civil process of law may be properly ex-
ecuted by civil officers in this country,
there is no danger of military power.
Our people would never yield to large
standing army unless it became abso-
lutely necessary under the pressure. of
an ursurped and arbitrary power of
some irresponsible members of system
to sacrifice liberty to order. That time
will never come here unless you, my
friends, disregard the plain teaching of
history. My friend frcm Ohio (Hurd)
also took occasion to say, in allusion
to the executive of this country, that
his title was in doubt, and that his
tenure was not certain. l do not think
that my friend meant that, because, if
he did, he meant to appeal to the giant
of revolution. Let me say to him that
the responses all over the country to-
day, are but mutterings of the storm,
which will increase in vigor and fury,
and in resistless power, until the men
and party who endeavored to unsettle
the title of the president will be swept
from the political horizon. Loud ap-
plause on the republican side, and in
the galleries.)


Blackburn said he was but poor stu
dent of his country's history, who was
not able to satisfy himself that from
the foundation of the constitution
down to the present time it had even
been held land that by the highest au-
thorities in the land) that it was in
the power of the house to control the
employment of the army by withhold
Ing supplies. In the very nature of
things, the proposed repeal could not
be revolutionary.


By what sort of authority did the
gentleman from Ohio come to threaten
the house with probable and possible
action of execution? What provision
of the federal constitution undertook
to clothe anybody, either the president
himself, or one of his privy council
even including his premier the secreta-
ry of state, to sit as he had done on the
floor of the house last Saturday and by
his presence and approval seem to in
timidate, overawe and browbeat the
American congress? [Derisive laughter
on the republican sidel.


For the first time in eighteen years
the democracy is back in power in both
branches of congress. We propose to
celebrate our return to power by wip-
ing from the statute book these degrad-
ing restrictions on free men, and by
striking away the shackles which parti-
san legislation has imposed. We do
not intend to stop until we have strick-
en- the last vestige of your war meas
ures from the statute books.


If the gentleman from Ohio is to be
pardoned for warning the house that
the executive branch of the government
will never yield its assent to this meas
ure in its present form, l ask whether
may not be warranted and justified in
employing equal candor in assuring that
gentleman and his associates that DOM
inant power in this congress, the ruling
element in this body, is also equally de-
termined that until its just demands
are sanctioned by all laws human and
divine, protected and hedged around by
precedents without number, demanded
by the people of this land without re-
gard to section, clamored for not by
the south alone, but in Philadelphia as
well as in New Orleans, in San Fran
cisco and Boston as well as in Charles
ton and Savannah, are complied with,
this code of the chamber which has DEM
onstrated its power never means to
yield or surrender unless this congress
shall have died by virtue of its hmita-
tions.


The issue is laid down. The guage OF
battle is delivered. Lift it when you
please, and we are willing to appeal to
that sovereign arbiter to which the
gentleman from Ohio so handsomely al
luded, the American people, to decide
between us. We intend to deny to the
president of this republic the right to