Address Of The Republican State Convention Held In Richmond Virginia On The 24th And 25th Of November 1869 Relative To The Election In That State On The 6th Of July Last December 7 1869 Ordered To Lie On The Table And Be Printed PDF Download

Excerpt from Address of the Republican State Convention: Held at Little Rock, Sept; 15, 1874 The question presented to congress is not, as some suppose, a mere contest between Brooks and Baxter, but it is one involving a settlement of the question whether or not a State government can be administered by adjudicated usurpers, and its form changed in a manner unknown to the organic act, to defeat the administration of the same by its legally-elected Officers. Section four Of article four 01 the constitution of the United States declares that the Unit-cd States shall guaranty to every State in this union a repub lican form of government, and the eigth section of. Article one clothes congress with the power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers vested by the constitution in the government of the United States. We contend there is no such thing as a republican form Of govern ment where force and effect is not given to the voice of the ma jority Of the legal electors. Under the clauses of the constitution quoted, congress is clothed with authority to determine whether a' republican form of government exists in any one Of the states Of this union, and if it does, to guaranty its enjoyment to the people of the State. This is what we demand. By the clauses quoted, congress is clothed with power to determine whether a republican form Of govermnent has ceased to exist, and if so, from what cause, and if it has, to provide by law for the establishment of a government that is republican in form, or for the reinstatement of the lawful government. If, in the examination of the question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.