Inspectors Of Election Will Have To

próvida two extra boxes at the coming el&ction : for the bállotsfor and against the two constilutkmul amciulmoiits. Tris Allegan Journal, " ploased with a rutile and tickled with :i straw," says of ils senior editor: "President Ilondor■ii ' S lar ís siuiiul is concerned who can sty tlist is iiot eqmil to President Hayès?" And "sound" js tho best hold of suh Republicana as Don. 'Lüi. lii. ge ComuiUtee pro, isé tü a.;wi!i; f. ir stopping tho coinago I tho u iivi: et at si!vi:r pieens. ■ f -thcT t twenty or u cent piecea sliunld also bi i pp) id. 'l'hcy árq too íieaily alike in ln goiiv.nuMici! or s:ii'uty. 'i'iiK Seoiotary of thoTresury should umUu ut lo;ist one exoeption to his 8e:i üot to pay out the neV silvt-r dollars oxcept in exotange for gold. He should till the baskets of silv.er bill Congressuifn witli tluiu v.lnu they :ill tor thoir niouthiv or quartorly pay. Tin: President h:is thiown a very sni;ill sop to Senator Blaino, by rofusing to iv:ppu!nt ücn. llaiiisjii, uf lmliunapulia, UüVfinment director of the i niiiii Patffic Baiiroad : betföiae Of the at'oresaid Harrison's attack upon Blaiuo i n l'iTO. And now will tho Maine Senator smilu ou tlie Prcsidcni . : i;.-l):siKh r Aïxoknev Mav.ai:d is being talfcéd ot' is a prospectivo candidato for Cougress in the Soventh district ; bul the Sauilac Jtiffersuhiuu tliings that the Kepnblicans of tho district " will consiflor a loug time before they lay aside a wan of Mr. Congür's inñuL'iicu for a new and nntried muil, no matter how ablo he uiay be." Auaix has Mayor Laiigdon, of Detroit, prúved that he has a levol head : this tiuie by iollowiiig lp his voto of ■ -ntral markot loan ot' $70,000 by unother veto of a resolution nppropriating $1,0,000 for two outside market buildings. Why should Detroit or any other city build uiarkets " to let" more tlian banking offices, dry goods stores, fírocery and hardware stores, etc. ? Il' 1T s a crimo for a man to own I iiiti i! States or State bomls or bank atojk, why is it not equally a crimo for a farmer to hold a niortgage on his ueighbor's lands, or even to invost his surplus earnings in increasing the number of his farms? Is thure any real differonco bctwecn a " bloated bondholder" nul a bloatèd huul-holder t That's :t (jucstion for somo of' our rimgr greenbackers to solvo. l'HK pending constitutionul uiueudiiieut giving to the Supreme Court the appointuient of its clerk ought to be adoptad. Tho present povision (uiaking the lugham County Clerk) its clerk is anomalous and objeotionuble. The othej amondment, modifyiug the liability of stoukholders in corporations, does not seora to us to be in the right direction. Tlie soction as it now stands afforda nono too great protection to laboréis for corgoratipns, and the pro rata tthuiáo proposed to be substituted will prove a snare and a delusion to the laborer it assnmes to protect. Wu vote agaiunl it. L4.SOR Blainf, t-vidontly put his foot in it in exprcssing an opinión that the $5,000,000 award of the Haifax. Pièh Conimission was not binding bocrvuse not nnauiwous. Uo should havo reinemberod that tbo Geneva award was not unanimous and that it was not ruputiiated by Qreat Britain becauso of such defect. A Supremo Court makes a decisión by a divided vote, aud so do urbitrators and Comraissiouers. Ex-President Woolsey, of Yale, ono of the best of authorities :ch subjects, has knoei; ed the under pinning out of Senator Blaine'a reasoning. If the Halifax pommissioii was propwly constitntcd undcr tho treaty - and ii' nüt wby did our Government appear beforo it 'i - there is nothiug to do but to pay the award, howuver overlarge it may be. Whining ovorit, even, will do no good. Ir A liül.DS the note or " prouiiso to . iv 'of B ho would not willingly receive a now note in payment of tho saine. Consentiug to tako a new note he would justly consider an extensión of time of payment and not payment in any sense of tlie word. So if A has loaned his town, city, county, or State $100 and receivod ita noto, or " prouiiso to pay," would ke consider a new note or lioinis; - forced upon him ugainst his wishes or consent - a payment of the loan and a discharge of his dabtor? If individuals and local municipal eorpofations canuot indefinitely discharge their obligations by new ones, how is it that tho United Statos can so treatits creditors without as mnch as saying " by your permissipn f " Is there any provisión in tho Gonstitution authorizing it - acting tlirough Congress or any cther departroent of the Government - to levy a torced loan upon its citizcns.with a viow to auvo in torest or for auy othor purpose ? And the greouback which souiu oí our i'riands would havo indefinitoly multij)iied is neitber more nor less than a forced Iban, - anoto on which the Govcrnmeut borrows nioney by tho might of law and without tho consent of tho lender. Tako a greonback froni your pockel and roa:! it: " Tlie United States will pay to bearer," - that and nothing more, except dnt: and sigpatujes. How paj ':' In another notu inscriÉed in the same language, and so on to tho end f Thai a tbe modera notion of poging, that is greenhacker íinaciering. U we ure to havo greenbacka - and we (cuy lliu right of the Government to isbus Hiiiilhcf dollar of theni - let us have noèbam gxeeaback Let theni if made )é paid - or rédeemed - in gold or Rtlver, tho only moncy ov lugal tündor lcnown 10 the Constitutiou, or let the tliin disguiso bo strii)peil trom them and tbe fa od mado to read, " This ia , a Dollar. Uncle Sam." How would such a note look 't The Supremo Uourt of Louisiana hns decideil tbat Andcrson was wrongfully couvicted of forgery becauso a Consolidated return was a paper not known to the law and could n't therefore be forged. He was prosecuted for the wrong crime and gets off on a teehniculity. Ilis "pais" will makc tho same narrow escape. The Coldwater greelibaokera tuko naturully to wind aud soda water : judging by the way they were captivated by Sum Cary. Jiidge ('oolcy on the XVUi Anicndiiii-nl. Froui !!);■ lïnltiniure Sim, M;irch S. Justioe Cooley.of Michigan, delivered his sixth law lecture at tho John Hopkins University yesterday ovening, on the rit'teenth aroendment to the coustitution of tha United states, whioh declares that the right of citizens to vote sliall not bo abridged by any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitudo. A previous artielo was intended to secure the same right by declaring that the representation of any State in Congress shall be reduced in proportion as it denied the right to vote to citizens except for crime. These anieles do not prevent soveral of the States from affixing couditions to the exercise of the right of suffrage. Oonuecticut allows no citizens to vote who ciinnot read ; Massachusetts and other States require that the voter shall read and write ; Georgia requires the voter to pay his taxes, and other States deny the suffrage to citizens absent from the State though on public duty. It is doubtful if the requirement to paj' taxes is a denial of the right to vote any more than is rogistration, or other prerequisitse going to show fitness and qualification. As tho ability to read oan be ucquired by everybody, it is a miause of terms to cali that requirement a denial of suffrage. Besides, it is requlring somethiug beneficial to the individual and to the State through him. Gerrit Smith and others have contended that suft'rago is a natural right, like those to life and property, but this view ia withuut reason to justify it. To say it rs a natural right is to set its possession above the State. But suffrago as a privilege conferred by law is ontitled to be protected as well as other legal rights. Suffrage is not an accompaniment of Stato citizenship. Tho child and tho mother are as much citizens as the husband and father. Persons may be given the right to vote by a State who are not citizens. Thu in some States unuaturalized persons are admitted to vote. In some, Indians vote. It is apparent the fifteenth auieudment has not accomplished its full purposes. It only retors to citizens of the United States. It does not apply to discrirnination against foreigners. Some of the decisious show the danger of advancing to a stato of citizenship by a single paragraph a race without previous training and qualilication for it. The fourteenth amondment declares all persons born in the United States citizens. A few years ago few would have admitted to citizenship Africans, but would rather have admitted Chimse or Japanese. The blasts of war threw open the door to the Afriean. Whethor wise or not those who did it doubted. The reasons for it wero the good of tho Afriean and of the State. The latter should be the controlling reason and primary purpose in such cases, but consideration could also be propeily given to the good of the individual. It was beyoud queïtiou a dangorous experiment. We have been tryiug a good niany such oxperiments. The recent extensión of the contraction of municipal debts is ono. It is ofteu popular, because tho people who handle the inoney are uot the taxpayers the rulers of the city. But tho people are generally led by leaders who are the least qualifiod to be such by intelligencü or real interest. Au effort is making in New York in tho right way, but it may fail. There is little doubt that Congress under this amendment can legislate as to the voting at a State or municipal election, for colorod men vote at all theso elections. The law also seeks to prevent iuterfereuce with the voter by officials of tho State or private persons, and Justice Hunt says this law is right. Petty officers, clothed with all tho diguity of the State - and the lower the grado the greater the Bssumption of consequence - have taken upon them such anthority. The war has changed the Stato of our laws. The govprnment performs functions it did not before. He closed with a quotation forin the eloquent speech of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens on receiving the portrait of Lincoln at the capítol reeently, speaking with strong praiso of the sentimenta uttored. This was the concluding lecture of tho series of six delivered by Chief Justico Cooley, aud he was greetod at its closo by hearty applause. Judges Inglis, Brown, and Bobbin, Prancis T. King, Galloway Cheston, Henry Stockbridgo and others congratulated liim in person.