This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870. Excerpt: ... and action, necessary to develop sound statesmanship; and we have fallen under the dominion of party politicians, many of whom, of each party, are sharp and adroit managers of party conventions and elections, and the distribution of party patronage--but have no clear conceptions of the true principles of political economy, finance, currency, or social or political science of any kind. The degradation of the elective suffrage, party spirit and party domination, with negro domination at the South, and the centralization of supreme power in Congress, will tend to produce extravagance, oppressive taxation and despotism, by the national government--anarchy, mobs and riots in the States, and particularly in the Southern States and large cities--and prodigality and corruption everywhere. Sec. 9.--Powers and jurisdiction of the federal and State governments--Law and jurisprudence. Within the several States, the federal government has power to levy taxes for national purposes; to establish post offices and post roads, receive, transport and distribute mail matter; to regulate foreign commerce and commerce and navigation between States; to exercise certain enumerated military powers; to borrow money; to establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws upon the subject of bankruptcies; to secure copyrights to authors and patents to inventors; to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and to regulate the currency as is now claimed, and fix the standard of weights and measures; to punish certain enumerated crimes, and all violations of its own laws; and to hold courts to administer its own laws, and to administer justice between citizens of different States, and in a few other cases. Here its powers and jurisdiction, within the limits...