The Republican Party Its Present Duties and Past Achievements, and Democratic Repudiation, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Republican Party Its Present Duties and Past Achievements, and Democratic Repudiation, Vol. 5 Co Conservative. The one is Rome, the other is Carthage; the one is Luther, the other is the Pope; the one is Cromwell, the other is Charles; the one is Washington, the other is George III; the one is freedom, the other is human bondage; the one is Grant, the other is Lee; the one is the Republican part, the other is modern Democracy. Here is the jirrepressible conflict. Jt has always existed, it always will exist. As physical light and darkness antagonize so do moral light and darkness. As the former will continue to exist while the material universe endures, so will the latter while the moral world remains. But light is more potent than-, darkness, and the new spirit is stronger than the old. When the two forces meet the new always triumphs over the old. In eveiy contest of principles this will always be the case. It triumphed in our early history; it won on the battle-fields of the South; it gained its cause when the great jury of the people rendered their verdict in November last; and when :i crowning triumph is achieved, in the final passage of the fifteenth amendment, in spite of the persistent, stubborn, and factious opposition of the Democratic party, two political organizations willremain; the one characterized as now by the fire of youth, the other by the wheeziness of age: and they will be judged according to their past career and future tendency. They that believe in progress founded on intelligence will follow the Republican faith; they that love darkness rather than light will find their fitting home in the Democratic party.2. When the fifteenth amendment is adopted, when political equality is established as the fundamental law of the nation, it will become the duty of the Republican party to enforce, protect, and defend the Constitution, with all its amendments, especially the last two, which are more likely to lie violated. I believe that Congress has full power of legislation to so control the States as to prevent any violation of the Constitution either in letter or in spirit. I regret that truth compels me to say that violations have been of frequent occurrence; and in one instance, at least, the remedy has been applied. Georgia has learned that we are a nation. We must take the ground that Congress ma- legislate for the enforcement of any provision of the Constitution, and mar coerce a refractory State, n les than a refractory individual. Would I destroy the rights of the States? By no means. I would give the State every right to which it is nit it led under the Constitution, but I totally repudiate the pernicious heresy I the sovereignty of the State. The United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican Conn oi ;nr in,. , i. So speaks the Constitution, uttering the voice of the nation. The term United States here, means the Government of the United States. Thai Government operates through a law of Congress executed by the Executive, and perhaps in certain contingencies reviewed by the judicial tribunals. Now, what is this republican form of government which the United States is bound to uguaranty to the State? 1 hold that the phrase republican form of government derives all its force and meaning from the Constitution itself. A republican form of government means just what the Constitution of the United States has made it mean. All of us have a general idea of a republican government as distinguished from a monarch or an aristocracy; and in general terms it is a government where the people rule through representatives chosen by themselves. Rut republican governments need not always be exactly alike in all their details. They are not so. A republican form of government under a general constitution must partake of and be in accord with the spirit of that, constitution. If our Constitution upheld and sanctioned human slavery a State might have a republican form
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