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Tl-EKYEIIN}WINNSBOIRO. S. C.TED1.,APRILA8, 1879 NVOL 3 O.2 JOE BLACKBUlN'S SPEECH, j --o --- nIOW lE RIl)Dlll) (.A RFIE'LD. AN) THE BADS. Hurling Back Defiance--Reading the Record--Free Ballots for North and South--"Ho Who Doubts is Damned." lIon. J. 5. C. Bl.tckburn. of Kan tucky, replied to Garfiid on Tiurs d.y, in a magnificent eflo.t. A brief resume is here given. He said: In the very nature of things the prolposed repeal could not be rovo, lutionary. Negautive legislati:mn Was never revolitio)n-ry. Allirmative legislation mig be, but not nega tive legislation. There was no one who would assert that previous to 1865 the Executive had held the power of which this bill proposed to deprive him. There was no pre rogative which the President hold that was not clearly defined and limited by law, but the C'nst,itution had made Congress, in express terms, the grand reservoir into ,vhich all the powers of implication flowed. This bill could not com prohend revolution, but it was said that it was not in proper place when it was engrafted upon an appropria tion bill. If, he said, lectuttes were to be read to the Democrats, let them come from sono quarter and aomtl mCbor not convicted on the record. The gentleman [G.rield] had said that this was revolution. READING TIE RADICAL RECORD. Did the gentleman remember the record that lie had m ade in 1868, in an amendmn t offered by Mr. Wilson, Iowa, to an approp'riation bill proposing to revolationizo the judicial system of the country, pro posing to rob a co-ordinate branch of the Government, proposing to atrip the Supreme Court of pre rogatives and the powers that the Federal Constitution had clothed it with ? That atmendmeut had pro.. vi,led that if any Circuit or District Court should declare any act of Congress to be unconstitutional the judgment should be Carried up to the Supreme Court, and if 'two thirds of the members of that Court should not affirm tho judgment, the same should be held reversed, and on the call of yeas and naya the gentleman from Ohio is fomnd vot ing yea. The Supreme Court, at that time, had consisted of eight members, and by that aieneuent six wore required to overrule the opinion of a District Court, declar ing unconstitutionall any of the ill, advised, hasty, crude and partisan Ineasnres of the Republican party. Revolution ? What was there tha.t the party the gentleman so ably led had not done in that catalogue of crimes ?. In his speech of Saturday, the gentleman from Ohio had chal .lenged all corners to -show a single instance in the history of the coun try wvhere the consent of the Execu tive had ever been 'cered. lie [Blackburn] areepted the gage of hattle which the gen tleman biad throw down. He would iread from Vhe Record and show him an in, .stance on the 2d of March, 1867. An drew Jolmson had signed an Ai lmy Appropriation bill under pro test, feeling., as he 5.Ii, c.)mstraiue.1 .to return the b)ill with his aignature, ~but accomlpanybag it with his pro - test. Was there o 0c)orcIi there.f WVhy, the Record was ful.1 of in .stances. He found that im the 39th Congress, that had occurred which would never fade from the minds of the American people. He referred to the effort which wats anade and which ,ame so nigh re. sulting in the successful impeach ment of the Chief E1xecutive of the country. THE EXECUIJ~vE H1AD BEEN IMPEAoEED of high crimes and misdenieanors, and of usurpation, of violation of law. First, "In thiat lhe lhas cor ruptly used t.he appointing power." Had sthe gentleman from Ohio in tended to impeach him for that ? 'The gentleman knewv that ho had not. Second, "In that he has -cor ruptly used the pardoning power." .Had the gentleman intended to simpeach him for that?#" E'verybody 'knew he had not. Third, "Ini that he he has corruptly uised the veto power." This was where the siing ,came in. 'it was the exercise of that prerogative, it was the em piloymient of that veto power. o which the Hoduse voted those articles of impeachment. Fourthily, "In that lhe has .corruptly disp'osed of public proper}y.~." .1'md was a .more or mal count in the indictment. ?ifthly, "In that he has corruptly nterfered with the elections." Chose were the two counts in this ndictment on which it was pro osed to impeach the Executive. )ne was the exercise of the veto ower, and the other his interfor 3nco not in elections, but to prevent ie interference of armed power in 3lections. Those counts had been rAted upon more than once, and the rentiei,ian from Ohio was on the Recorl every time as voting in their av r. And he had been supported i:i his action, and had standing by him voting side by side with hun to impeach the President for the exercise of the veto power, one then comparatively obncure, and who, but for a combination of accidents, would have remained to this day and until his dying day in that obscurity for which nature and his Creator seemed to have designed him ; side by side with the gentle main from Ohio had stood and voted Mr. Hayes of the same State [Ap plause on the Democratic side and in the galleries.1 HURLING BoK THE THREATS. And now by what sort of authori ty had the gentleman from Ohio come to threaten the House with a probable and possible action of the Executive ? Who had commissioned the gentleman from Ohio to toll the House that it had better be care ful b3cause the issue was made and the President would not be coerced into a message of approval ? Did the gentleman from Onio or any oth. er gentleman i ut such a low esti mate on the self-respect, the integ rity, the courage and the mnanhnod of the House, without rigard tc party, as to believe that eucha threat so flaunted was to intimidat( the law-making branch of the G,vernment, and shape its action 01 measures of legislation ? Continuing, he said : "Let one t-ihe the darkened pages of hiE country's history for the last four teen long years, and read it careful" ly, and tell me then whether it liwe in the mouth of this leader of a once great but now waning party to reat b ctnres to anybody, either on tht scare of revolutionary legislation o1 e:trancous introduction of legiela" tCon on appropriation bills. .Better far, in the face of the record whiel: they have made, better listen pa tiently to the confirmed inebriate at lie dwells on the virtues of temper ance, or better let the queen of th< denui monde elaborate the beauties o: female virtue, or let the devil pratm of the scheme of universal re dem,ption, than for homilies or good mo:als and lectures on revoiu" tionary legislation to be leiiverec; from such a source." [Applause or the i)eimocratie side.] Having reat the act of George the II., he con tinued : "From that day till now I do declare that itis not within th< power of any man to find a scion of the Saxon race that has not evum held in utter contempt the efFjrt of him or them who sought to con tro the freedom of the ballot by the em ploymaent of military p)ower. [Ap) plausd oa thme Da.niocra~tic siJe.] Tf he very army of this country pr tcsts against such a p)rostitution o: it. I see uefore mue the Geoner.d-in Chief o.f the Amuesicamn army [Gener aLl duemn n was occupying GaLrfield seat], and If do riot U>eiievL thatJ overstate the fact, wvhen I saLy from him dowL to the lowest subaltern it is diflicult to find a coImmssion~ec oficer who has not repugtnane foi the service wvhichm, under the prosti tution of the prumy, he has bemn cailed on to pemform. IL is thiu quertion that is before us. We ar< declaring that THE BALLOT ShALL BE FREE. If we cannot stand on an issue B< broad, so constitutional, so catholic so free and so .fair as this, then tel me, in Heaven's name, what earthla battl6ments are strong enough tc got behind. For the first time iil eighteen years, Democracy is baclh in powor in both branches of Con gress. We propose no celebrate bei return to power by wiping 'from the statute.book those degrading re away the shackles which partisar legislation has imnposed. WVe d( notin'tend to stop until we havi striekon the last vestige of your iat Imeasures from the.statute book, liki those which wer~e born of the pas sions Incident to civil strife, and which loo.ked alone .to the abridge ment of the liberties .of the citizen until we have an. untrammeled elec tlon and an.unsupervised ballot, ani .ath bpo.lute free right (or t,he citizer to deposit bis ballot as the conditior precedent 'Which" we offer to yot for he pssAg ofthis bill. If th< genlomn fomOhio (Garfield) il to be excused, for ce rtainly he can, not be justified, for parading before this House the argqwncntuin in terro rcm of a veto that is cut and dried, to be put upon a bill which has not yet passed, I ask whether I ma:ty not be warranted and justilied in emn1 ploying eqlt candor and in assuring that gentleimian aid his assdeiates tiat the dominant power in this Congress, the ruling cdoiment in this body, is also equ ily determine : that until its just deumnds. s:iie tionod by all laws, humai and divino, protecttd and hed..ed around by pretlents without lumber, d munled by the peoplo of this land, witiint reg ird t:) saction, clamored for, not by the South alone, but in Philadelphia as well as Now Orleans, in San Francisco and Boston, is well as Charleston and S L vannah, are not complied with, this side of the chamber, whi cli has dun1onstrated its power, NEVER MEANs TO YIELD or sur'l ender util this Congress shall have died by virtue of its limi tation. [Wild applause on the Democratic side.] There is no tri bunal before which we are not willing to cariy thi case of contest, and we are ready to allow Him who rules the destinies of man to judge be tween us and give victory to the right. I do not mean to imitate the gentleman from Ohio [G.rlield.] I disclaim any authority to state what othei s may do, but I do1 mean to Eay that it is my deliberate co n viction that. there is not to be found a single man on this side of the hIoise who will ever consent to abandon one jot or tittle of the faith that is in him. He could not surrender it if he would, and will not, I beg the other side to believe, be coerced by threats or intimidated by the other in party. Vo are planted on thesc convictions, and there we will -stand. He who dallies is a d-rstard, and he who doubts is dawned." [Loud applause.] Hox. A. H. STEPMENs ON T.HE NEXT P1RsIDENCY.--A correspondent of the New York herald has been interviewing Ion. A. H. S ephens, of Georgia, on the subject bf Presi dential candidates in 1880. This is what Mr. Stephens said to him: "I havo no opinion to express on the subject. I have no idea who will be the Democratic nominee in 1880 for President. It is one of the uncei tainties of the future, and no satisfactory belief can he enter taiued by any sensible man in refer ence to it. I do not know whether Mr. Tilden will be renominated, and have no opinion on the subject. I will say I do not think he ought to be renominated. I was opposed to him before and am more opposed to l his renomination than I was to his first nomination." "Whom do you think the 1epubli cans will nominate ?" Mr. Stephens was asked, to which he replied: "I have no more satisfactory idea on that point tlhan I have as to whom the D)emoerats wvill nominate. Judge Dooley, of Geor'gia, once said if there was anything that was un known to God it was a ver'dict of a petit jury, and I~think if the ,Judge was alive lie would inicliude ammoig the possible things unknown to God that of the nomination of any nationmd cenvention or eitheLr party for a candidate for the Presidenev in theso days." A FARMER'S SQUARE ME. .-Years ago there lived someo miles fr'om Philadelphia am farmer named Jcerry Foster, noted for eating much and( spending little. ~Qne (lay lie took a wagon load of butto-, eggs, potatoes and1 ready-dressed p.igs to thIe city; and bofor'e he had been in the maket disposed of all his stock save one pig. Driving round to a tavern, the landlord of which was wvont to supply market folks with a dinner for twenty-five cents, hie sold1 his roaster to Mr. Ranwdolph for seven ty-five cents, and departed to wvhile away tihe timne until dinner hour. Jerry wvas punctual to the minute and. found no oule ready for the meal bui'mnself, tihe landlord and his wife. Just as they', were sitting down, Mr. and' Mrs. - ndi(oph were called away, the former tiell.ing Jerry not to wait for theni, but go ahead.~ Beofore him, nicely crisped and brown, was his own roaster, with plenty of potataes,-eraubst'$es, tu' nmps, bread and butter ; and the farmer went ahead to such good purpose that when the host and hostess returned to the room they found Jerry leaning back in his chair picking his iteeth, comnplacent - ly regarding all that 'remained of the porker-its bones. He never dined there agaln. ' Pn.y omar anhrip.ion. TnE NEoRo EXODUs FROM THE Sou'rll.--A Now Orleans dispntch says the negro exodus continues in the northern part of Louisiana. It is rudely estimated that ten thou sand negroes will have left by the time the emigration fever ends. The reduction of wages, owing to the low prices of cotton, is the main cause ; but an effort is made to give it the appoarance of fear that an other election may touch them in life or limb. Itoally no such fear is entertained by the emigrants. They have no yield for the labor of last year and see no prospects of im. provelent; some therefore leave on inducements by railroad men from Kansas an1t others follow. It is notable that there is but little emi, gration from what has been desig nated as the bull-dozed region, which shows that there is no pulitical cause for the movement. The trial of Taluigo is progress ing in Brooklyn Presbytery. It has been proved pretty conlusively that when Talinage was editor of the C'hristian at Work ho received an offer of the editorship of the Ad vu(nce. Ho promised the proprietor of the first mentioned palor to remain at least a month, but that same night, after a portion of the edition had been struck off, he stop ped the press, surreptitiously intro duced a valedietory and an advertis ment of the Advance and sent the proprietor a copy of the unchanged 1-aper, so that the latter knew noth ing of the trick till ho reached the oflice next morning. The other charges have not been tried yet. Ex"-Governor Curtin, of Pennsyl vani:i, visi ted Hon. Samuel J. Tilden last week, and they took a stroll of over six miles, at the conclusion of which, according to the Pennsylva nia ex-governor, Mr. Tilden was "fresh and keen, and ready for another dash." He gives it as his opinion that Mr. Tilden is very far from being a paralytic, and is good to live a dozen years yet. When the Confederate army was on the rhortest rations General Leo remonstrated with a straggler for eat ing green persimmons and asked him if he did not know they were untit for food. "I am not eating them for food, General," replied the man, "but for the sake of drawing my stomach up to lit my rations." The day before a Turkish girl is married she i.s taken to the bath by her lady friends and lumps of augar :re broken over her head as a forecast of the s,veets of matrimony. A year or so afterward her husband breaks the whole sugar bowl over her head. LOW PRICES THA'rw 1[.[. ASTONISH YOU ! LOOK : Sugair-Cured Uncauvassed Hams at 10 cents per lb. Good Coil'ee S-ugar at 8 cents .per lb. ]Jest 1Rio Coffooe at 17 eents per lb., Pu,re Leafli Lard at 1i cenits per. 1b. Fresha soda CrackIars nt 10 centis per lb. All sorts of S.weet Cakes at corresplond.. ingly low low prices Also.15S or '20 lib)is. Newv Mackerdi Fiishi in diiTor.int sized packagos suiitable for far:nm use. Glive me a c.al. 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