Show FEDERAL AND state POWEi iS the record Is a bourbon sheet through and through the war did not in the least change in ILI tile ideas ot of uio the absolute absolu to sove sovereignty ref rity and sacredness ot of state stale rights it if tile the editor was alii a 0 at thi the time he doubtless approved approve if tho the position of james buchanan ISu chanan when he in III effect saki eald the union was ana but a ropo ropa of sand and if 1 any state plead pleased ed to withdraw from roni it there was no under the constitution to chelc 0 it in a late issue of 0 the r record ecord we a find this arr booker T washington president of if till to institute and ono one of tile 1 brai brainiest niest colored men or of tile the south thinks his ahli people ha hav a moto to baan ain by on themselves than by upon Con Congre greas aa for or their r ight anu opportuna ties in an address before thi the leaggo I tor for political Idu catlon in now york 0 on saturday lat last ho he suld fluid e when ehen hen there was waa federal le deral the could not carry a ainola southern state slate now they have stubs tanti a fly carried five I 1 mr might have added that tho the Is lw ot of Voc lid cral leral interference with tile tho fairs of oc the th people north or south she taft better for tho the people and therefore the better tor for the party parly in power immediately after the war livar when tho the bitterness of defeat and of 0 the crushing of slavery wm was poison to the men of th the south the legislatures of 0 south carolina and mississippi passed bills which had they ther become iw onie laws law would have trade made the colored people of 0 the south as much slaves ss as they ever were and would have withdrawn Nith drawn from rom them all the protection in the days prior to the war WM was theirs what wa would uld the record say it those same mine states should undertake to do that same thing now would there bo be no obligation on the part of 0 the federal government to interfere the th constitution makes it the bounden duty of tho the federal government to insure to every state stale a republican publican form orm of 0 government Eov emment if I 1 that means anything it means that when by the acts of a majority or a nil minority in power a a state government bo becomes comes an engine of oppression to any portion of its ILI people it has no longer ax a republican torm form ot of government and tho the sovereign go GG crement should interpose and compel justice to bo be done mr cleveland didiot did not hesitate for a moment when president to interfere when the city of chicago seemed about abod t to be turned over to the gentle mercies of 0 the iho flits thus and incendiary it Is truo true that in the tha south after the war the effort of the tha government to compel justice to be done to in the colored raco race there vas unavailing and that the anally suspended its efforts etna efna forts in fix that direction dut but that waa duo due to tho the work of oc just such newspapers as tho the record in the north a and nd to the iho men of 0 the north who were lilies allies of 0 the confederacy before and arter after tile the war in all things except in bearing arms for the confederate cause their work kept the south a theater of disorder and violence tor for years and made a pace faeo in our history darker than that of the war itself but that did not in the least alter the principle and it la is clear that except tor for the struggle made to compel tho the tight right to be dono there the chances are a thousand to one that mr washington would not now be making speeches an anywhere here ile ho 16 1 aule right ahen he says saya his race depend upon their own exertions that every man white hite or black should do but that does not in ili tho the least detract from the sovereignty le posed la in the federal power or relieve it from any responsibility which the constitution aud and the laws fasten upon it |