Year: 1871

unable to P7psect, or SHALL fom any cause, fail in
or refuse protection OF the people in such rights
such facts shall be deemed a denial by such State
of equal protection of the laws to which they
entitled under the Constitution of the United
States, and in all such cases, or whenever any
such insurrection, violence, unlawful combination,
or conspiracy shall oppose or obstruct the laws OF
the United states or the due uton thereof, or
impede obstruct the due course of justice under
the same, shall be lawful for the President, aud
1t shall be his duty to take such measures by the
force of the United States, of either, or by
other means, as he may deem necessary for the
suppression of such insurrection, domestic vio-
le nee, or combinations; and any person who shall
be arrested under the provisions OF this and the
preceding section shall be delivered to the Mar
sha OF the proper district to be dealt with accord
ing to law" lApplause.]


Not to be held as prisoner of war; not
to be tried by court martial; not to be in
carcerated in military prisons, but at once
to be delivered over to the civil officer
the Marshal of the district-to be dealt
with according to law. Yet Mr.. Groes-
beck told the people that the bill did not
look to arrests, but to open f1agraut ways
to kill and to slay. As have before re-
marked, every portion of this bill looks to
judicial proceedings, and The President is
authorized to use the army and navy to
suppress violence and insurrection. Where
the State is powerless to do it, or fails, or
refuses to do it. and after the parties have
been arrested, they are to be handed over
for trial. [Cheers.1


Why, if there is riot in this city, and
the Mayor turns out with his posse, and if
the police are not sufficient, he calls upon
tie militia, and they make arrests without
warrants. They do not wait for that when
there is riot going on, and there is burn
ing, killing and destroying They arrest
the violators of law without warrants, and
then hand them over for trial to the regu-
larly constituted authorities. And that
is what the President is authorized to do
in case of insurrection, violence and un-
lawful combination, when the State fails,
refuses, or is unable to suppress them by
her own power. The President is simply
authorized to do in these cases what the
Governor of New York did the other day
The Governor of New York called out the
militia of that city, and, without waiting
for warrants or writs, they we're directed
10 fire upon the mob, and blood flowed in
the streets. Cheers Hundreds of men
were arrested in that case. The Governor
used the militia as q posse conlitdtus, and
those arrested were handed over TO the
civil authority. The Ku-Klux bill au-
tn rizes the President to do what the Gov
ernor of that State recently did in New
York.


The authorizing of tie President to use
the army and navy as posse c0nitdtus is
not q new thing. The President would
have had that power if not naue ed in this
bill. 1t was first given to the President,
by act of Congress, in 1907, authorizing
him by that act to employ the army and
navy as posse c0nttGtus to enforce any law,
no difference what it might be, and under
the authority of that old act of Congress,
about year ago, the army vas employed
in Brooklyn to enforce the revenue law
against illicit distillers, where the civil
powers were unable to. And this is the
whole of it. This bill simply empowers
the President to d. what the Mayor of
Cincinnati may do in this city, what the
Governor of Ohio may do throughout the
State, and what the Democratic Governor
did in the city of New York. But because
this power is conferred upon the Presi-
dent the Republican party is sssailed as
having authorized the President to make
war. He is no more authorized to make
war than is the Mayor of Cincinnati au-
thorized to make war, or the Governor of
Ohio, when ne may call upon the militia
to enforce the laws of the State of Ohio.
So much for Mr.. Groesbeck's speech upon
this subject.


1 have not time to dwell upon all his
argument in regard to this subject, but
want 10 say to you that this bill has exer
cised most beneficial influence. 1t is
dangerous only to combinations of rebels
murderers and thieves. 1t may also he
dangerous to Democratic politicians, who
want, by the instrumentality of the Ku.
Klux, to carry all the s outhern S ates
| applause and laughter But it is not
dangerous to good mea, North or South
of any State. Its moral influence already
has been re uarkable. The very passage
of that bill has saved the lives of huu
dreds of people. 1t has saved thousands
of men from being whipped and scourged
and has prevented nameless crimes and
outrages. 1t has given peace to section:
where there was no security for life OF
property before that bill was passed. AND
l can say in regard to that bill that it wa'
fully discussed in Congress. The argu
ments against it all fell fiat in the Senate
of the Uniied States. Every objection tC
it was answered, and thought that the
objections to this bill were more thorough b
ly and completely vanquished thsn were
the objections to any project ever pro
posed in the Congress fthe United State!
while was there.


l want to say that if the government hai
no power to protect the people of thu


United States, when the States fail to dC
it, the government is failure and ough
to be remodeled. [Applause. The great


est dang rs that have come to this govern


ment, in its past history, have arisen iron


denying its just powers. Does any on


suppose that the refusal of governmen
to protect life and liberty is more advan
tageous to that government than the exer
else of mere unconstitutional powers
| The refusal of the President and Congress


in the winter of 1S6061 to exercise thei
| lust constitutional pow ers to snuH out re


bellion, then just kindling into flam'


was almost the greatest crime of moderl


times, the conse sequences of which will no


be expiated during this century. Az


plause.


| HOME GOVERNMENTS.


| Now, Mr.. Groesbeck has something t


say about home governments and firesid


governments, and he exhorts you to pre-


tect and cherish your State government:


/ agree with him. / believe the preservs


ton of the State governments is essentls


to our political system. would not TAX


from them single power that belongs t


them. agree with him in regard to tn


necessity Of local domestic home govern
| dllu WIN I'LL. oiONooSS


on another point, and that is the wits


point in the whole case, and l honor hir


Tor his opinion upon it, and want tn


Democratic party of the whole country


take notice of what Mr.. Grcesbeck hs


said, and that is, that the Government {


the United States is not created by States


that it is not compact of the States


that he scouts the idea of State sovereignt


entirely. He says that the sovereignt


does not reside in the people of Stat


but resides in all the people of the Unite


States, and agree with him there. Al


plause That is the most important thin


Mr. Groesbeck said in lis whole speec


and want to read it now, to show you


l don't misrepresent him. He says:
"Our Federal government and our State go
ernments. under the Constitution, make togeth
one complex system. Eachis limited, and neith


complete enough to do all we need to have don
: The Federal government Is to have the cnarge


interests that are common to all; the State go
ernments of interests that are special, each Sta


taking charge of its own interests. The State shi
, not do the work of the Federal government;
Federal government shall not do the work OF
} State. Each is supreme within the limits OF
powers, and the people are supreme over bot
, We worship neither. for they are the word of o
| nd ade n We hear.