The Stark County Democrat, 1868-09-09

i uj-o:i the government except such as i.i necessary to protect life, liberty and j property; that when the government ! protected the life, liberty and property of the citizen, its duties were per- .ruisi, and in every other respect the . . !. : should ho left free to pursue '.. ; . eo;:r.-e, in their own wny, i : . w 'ui-ueu'iioo or liiinlrance. : . - ; riiu ip!,-r, were ail recognized . :" ,i:iT" ij. verti!iient.s. TJie peo i . itie n-'etive .States etinferretl ;y upon I lit- State governuienlsihe i '' to j.-rotect as a K"eral prooosi prooosi-:l.' - :l.' prooosi-:l.' i !::", iii.iTty 8o 1 property, liut it lu-.-t.-'-ary to create a general ;, ' ; !i:u,-;ii. oai Kiaa oi powers tiit-y eia;it-r upon it? Xot peneral :;eli:ni:i ti power, liy any means, but r ; .'fin j a;.,i iiaiiled, wliifh are defined io t;i:? coii.-tiiution of the United S'.atcs. They declared that the gen- rid i;ovt riiii'.ent should have certain f pcci:ic powers and no other. Why, t .jiisaler for one single moment. Where die the power of protection to your life, your liberty and your property rest? If a man enters your house to-aiht and steals your prop property, - erty, property, if lie assaults you upon the pub pub-lie - lie pub-lie highway or illegally confines and restrains you of your liberty, where do you resort lo for protection ? Not to the general government at Wash Washington. - ington. Washington. All the power conferred up upon - on upon that ijoveniujent is not sufficient to redress either one of the wrongs to which I have referred. A simple tre.-pasa committed upon your prop property, - erty, property, cannot be redressed by all the powers possessed by the general gov government. - ernment. government. They have no power over t he subject. They resort to the power ol the i-Uute government to that vaot amount of reserved power which the ti;.vte and the people never gave up to t lie general government. And so cau cautious - tious cautious were our forefathers, thoso wi.-:e men who formed the government, to gtdde against usurpation on the part el the general government, that they divided its several powers into three departments namely, the executive, h ifisLilive and judicial. If the Lejjis Lejjis-l.itive - l.itive Lejjis-l.itive Department exceeded its pow powers - ers powers it could be cheeked by the Kxecu Kxecu-tive, - tive, Kxecu-tive, and so, if the latter exceeded its powers it could be cheeked by the legislative Department, and if there were a conflict as to the power of eitiier lo do f.n act the Judicial De De-pttriujeiil - pttriujeiil De-pttriujeiil was made an arbiter to set settle - tle settle the dispute and thus to make a harmonious government. Now our government has therefore been called out; of chks and balances. It is a govenui.tnt wherein the power con con-it - it con-it ried cannot be exercised by any one d 'i'ariu.ent, and it was intended to be m, that one depaitment should not a nrp powers not conferred, and the nher tlept'.i tnii nt could check and i.it.-i eoni Mil taeni. 1 desire again to ;.! s-- my tCepuhiicati friends. 1 do oH ell: e ihe Republican party c't.ogf which 1 am about to beo.oi .e ilia m.isses of that whole masses of the i-t ..pit.., v. ere perfectly sincere and lion- f i"i:;::cn-i.E3 violatku by the republicans, ,. , . i lut givabmans of the people have ,"..;.... r. -a .in no r.i..,i.. t(1 .'. " . ... . Tf , ,V, a , vt gtiod government. If any body ever gets rich out of public office- publi 1. u l very few become wealthy out of public t;fu!.'u honestly it is not the m.:.-;se.-i of the peoxde. They desire to vote and I give credit to the Repub Republicans - licans Republicans as well as to the Democrats they dcrsire to vote so that our gov government - ernment government will he perpetuated as it was made; so that we shall have a govern government - ment government that will not oppress and rob the people, but administer its affairs upon economical, safe and sound prin prin-tii - tii prin-tii !es. But tha organization of the IU publican party has been seized by a few extreme, bad men, who are con controlling - trolling controlling its action in Consress and its organization throughout the country, and are intending, in my honest judgment to ox-erthrow every free princi principle - ple principle upon which the government was founded. Now, I have said something to you in regard to the principles upon which the government is founded, and I fur further - ther further assert that these vultures who have seized the organization of the Republican party have violated every one of them. They have the absolute control of the legislative powers of the government, and by their major majority - ity majority have overridden the veto of the President. Have they not usurped the powers of the Executive? Is it not notorious that they have taken from the Executive the powers con conferred - ferred conferred upon him by the Constitution of life United States and which have been, exercised, by' every President from Washington to the present time?. They'have taken away all has power and patronage all power to appoint. pube.e officers a power which -every President has exercised since the ior ior-mation - mation ior-mation of the government, and with without - out without the exercise of which I undertake to say this government cannot be honosilyadministered. , '. . !. Why, lookat it for a single moment. S " the vast, complicated financial f j m-'chiuery cast over this country, in 1 voivins immense amounts of money; e: the President, by the action of , is prohibited from remo - iii'ri in'; tie most important public officer connected with thecollection aDd dis dis-b:ii - b:ii dis-b:ii --.-n ent of the finances of the country. Take the most notorious :iii' hd thief, who has stojeii the people's money, lobbed them of their hard eurninjis, an 1 the President has no power to remove him. If he at-!- ntp'.s to do so and the culprit claims to be an adherent to the radical party and its extreme meaures he is sure to be retained. (Cheers.) Not only that the constitution of the United States, in express terms, makes tho PresiJeiit.of the United States tho Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy. Have they not taken that power from him ? Do you not know that by act of Congress the President of the United States is prohibited ftom i.-suing an order to the smallest subordinate officer of the army unless such order passes through the General ol the Army, with his approbation and the humiliating spectacle is p re represented - presented represented of a President of the "Uni-

A correspondent of the New York Sun recently paid a x'isit to the Dem Democratic - ocratic Democratic nominee, at his residence near Utica, and thus records his observa observations - tions observations : ' "The Governor," as the Democrat Democratic - ic Democratic nominee is familiarly known by all his friends and neighbors and that includes pretty much everybody In ' this region "the Governor" resides" in a plain, unpretending farm cottage about two miles north of and over overlooking - looking overlooking the city ol Utica. Something in the outward appearance of the architecture, something in the pastor pastoral - al pastoral air that surrounds it, something in the approach to it, and in the view from the verandah that stretches along its front something there is in all these features of the Governor's home that, while not affording partic particular - ular particular points of remembrance, inevita inevitably - bly inevitably calls to one's mind - Mount Ver Vernon. - non. Vernon. "A snug little farm of about three hundred and fifty acres' surroun surrounding - ding surrounding the rural retreat has been tho property-of Mr. Seymour and his an ancestors - cestors ancestors for half a century. The house in which the proprietor now resides xva-s built for a tenant of the farm.and when, 'a few years agor Mr. Seymour grew weary of lav and sought privacy and retirement, a few alterations and repairs rendered the place amply im imposing - posing imposing and sufficiently accoinmpdOf accoinmpdOf-ling - ling accoinmpdOf-ling for. his own wants and those . of his family. A fine grove of ancient trees, surrounds the. house, affording an inviting shade, while walks and drives are abundant without materi materially - ally materially encroaching upon, the usefulness of the sail. The house is furnished in'keeping with its own outward ap appearance, - pearance, appearance, its 'surroundings,' and the well-known taste and character of its occupunlst. An air of refined comfort pervades the whole. From the x-er-andah a view is obtained well worth a long journey to enjoy. Down the green slopes and across the rich mead meadows - ows meadows of tho Mohawk valley, all cov covered - ered covered at the time with toiling farmer farmer-hastening - hastening farmer-hastening to secure the overabundant crop of hay, taking in the entire city of Utica aisd all its surroundings, stretching far up or down the Mohawk the view is finally lost in the blue distance far up the. picturesque Che Chenango - nango Chenango valley, the opening to which it directly opposite. . , . At the lime of my .visit, he was en encaged - caged encaged in superintending his laborers in securing the hay crop. I apolo apologized - gized apologized for the inopportune-ness of my call, and remarked that 1 had 'sup 'supposed - posed 'supposed him to be a country gentleman of leisure. He simply smiled, told the. men not to cut any more grass, but haul in xvhat they hfid down, and invittd iiic into the house. ' ' ii 'V. V, ' ? . ; t'r ' ' ' oi. ,1. : vv '"r ' ill le ' ''"I i ra asi f Ice" ' m . lee ' rm rm-' - ' rm-' ifilj Vil lalj 1 wa. i trau llen ovaf l the ) . is oini tin 301a iwhe er in" ttha1 eod-J ,have (oV-n Jiom, an(1 9 v v-khese - khese v-khese iu pa pa-up - up pa-up to with irlosl- I, and rers if iYouM iome? fought fipped II. and djsT Of imp ol Wiitr't I no j iv uf hi thter. ; t i naL; fr. 'P.

But what has this Congress done V They have passed a series of acts which are notoriously unconstitutional, arid then they passed an act prohibitinir the Supreme Court from reviewing their work. The very powers which our fathers coLferred upon the Su Supreme - preme Supreme Court this Congress has, by an act of its own, prohibited it from ex exercising. - ercising. exercising. Was I not, then, correct iu saying that they have violated every principle, to which I have referred, upon which the government was founded, by usurping the power of the Executive and the Judiciary ? Is it a wonder then, that people are dis discontented? - contented? discontented? Is it singular that you iiud complaints made on every hand against the administration of public alfairs ? Let us go one step further. And here again I desire to addrtss my republican friends. Let us recall for a moment the his history - tory history of Congress with reference to the restoration of the Union for the last four years, and see how you have been led along, step by step, by these bad men, until you have approached the very precipice over which they rsk you in this campaipn to plunge, tail tailing - ing tailing your country, with all its lioeriies with you. When the war was over and Mr. Lincoln died, he had recon reconstructed - structed reconstructed two States by proclamation Arkansas and Louisana, He recon reconstructed - structed reconstructed them upon what was ca lied the "one tenth principle" that is, if one-tenth of the people of ary State of the South woultl form a S?j:c gov government - ernment government ho promised to protect them in the enjoyment of such a State gov ernment. Arkansas and Lousiaoa did that. They called conventions, adopted constitutions, submitted them the people, aud they were ratified. They elected State officers, members of Congress and Senators, and sent tnem to Washington. - All of this was done before ilr. Lincoln's death, and under his superistendence. When he died he left unissued a proclama proclamation - tion proclamation for reorganizing:" North Carolina, When Andrew Johnson came in be took the identical proclamation j.re j.re-nared - nared j.re-nared bv Mr. Lincoln for N'ovth fVir- , 0ma a,jd iri;4Ued ,fc ,or thg organiaa. tio:i of not only North Carolina and i Arkansss, but lor all the other unre- ttori'il Stsllp TTrnInr th-.lt nr.mli ma . j tioa allof tho8e sttttes 1)rcCeeded to j organize State governments. They 'abolished slavery by. constitutional I provision. They recognized the led- j , , , , . ... . . . ! feral debt by constitutional provisum; I They repudiated the Confederate debt . J . , . , . 4, fact' dld everything which at tha at time was required of them organized their State governments, elected mem members - bers members of Congress aud the Senate under that organization, and sent them to Washington. Now, my Republican friends, I ask you whether you did not support that policy of Andrew Andrew-Johnson - Johnson Andrew-Johnson gt the time it was inaugura inaugurated, - ted, inaugurated, and for a year itfteawards ? Did not the great mass of the republi republican - can republican party (for the. e bad men had not then the control of its organization) approve and support the policy of Andrew Johnson in restoring thoso States? Let us look back now to the fall of I860.