Tl-EKYEIIN}WINNSBOIRO. S. C.TED1.,APRILA8, 1879 NVOL 3 O.2
JOE BLACKBUlN'S SPEECH, j
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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.
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Fresha soda CrackIars nt 10 centis per lb.
All sorts of S.weet Cakes at corresplond..
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