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Show KENTUCKY CONTEST. Brier Tiled in the Case in United States Supreme Court. Consul for Hon. William S. Taylor . aud John Marshall, in the contest in the supreme court over the offices of governor aud lieutenant-governor of Kentucky, have filed their briefs. After reviewing- the various points involved, the brief concludes as follows: "We will not attempt any resume of the argument; we have attempted to so divide it as not to confuse it. We simply insist that the pretended adjudication adjudi-cation which is pleaded by Mr. Beckham Beck-ham as the foundation of his action whereby he seeks to take from William S. Taylor and John Marshall the'offices to which they certainly had the admitted ad-mitted prima facie right aud whereby he seeks to make himself the governor of Kentucky and the chief magistrate of her people, is an absolute nullity. We feel that in this case is involved the question of whether we are political politi-cal freemen or political serfs: whether we have iu Kentucky a republic or an oligarch'; whether we vote by right secured by the law or by grace of a few men. It matters not that these men may themselves ihave been elected. They were given no commission by the people to select a governor for them; and as said by Mr. Jefferson, in speak-iug speak-iug for himself and his compatriots, 'an elective despotism was not the government govern-ment we fought for." We have been denied Republicanism; the principle has failed in its duty aud we calt on guarantor to make good its guaranty. We ask for the protection of liberty and property against the 'arbitrary ex ercise of the powers of the government." govern-ment." ' |
