Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-15

/ The Democratic State Committee of
Pennsylvania, have issued an address to
the people Of that State, in which they pre-
sent the following complaints against Rad
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The Republican party has controlled the
government for six years, and we accuse it
before you, because e 80 as. ~.
In the sacred name Of Union, it has per
petuated disunion
In the room of tie blessings Of psace, Il
has given Us hate, discord and misery;
II has violated the plainest principles of
free government, broken the written con-
stilution, and only yielded obedience to
the behests of party;
The people are denied the attribute of
sovereignty the mility subyerts the civil
power; Generals remove Governors elected
by the people, and despotism reigns in
ten States;
Congress assumes the right to say that
negroes shall vote in Pennsylvania, and
denies to us the right to regulate our own
rule of suffrage;
The negro is, by law, made the equal of
the white man in all public places, and au-
thorized to hold offices and sit on iuries in
the capital
The destinies of ten States, and of ten
millions of white people therein, are, by
Congress and the military power, placed
under the control of four millions of
blacks;
Their reckless expenditure Of the public
money in their conduct of the government,
IN the support and organization of hun
dreds of thousands of idle negroes, in the
employment of hordes of unnecessary spies
and officials, and in maintaining military
power over the submissive South, endan-
gers and delays the payment of the public
debt Of twenty-seven hundred millions of
dollars-to which the public faith is
pledged
Their gross Encouragement causes tax
alton to bear heavily upsn the people. In
1860, one dollar and sixty cents per head
were paid by the people through the Gus
toms; IN 1866, fourteen dollars per head
were drawn, mainly from the consumption
and business of the poorer classes, through
the customs and internal revenue;
In 1860, each individual owed two dol
lars and six cents Of the public debt in
1867, each owes seventy-nine dollars and
fifty cents thereof In 1860, the expenses
Of the government we're sixty-two millions;
IN 1867 the Treasurer estimates them at
two hundred and twenty-five millions.
independent of interest on the debt. both beinG
periods Of peace. Peansylvania's share of
OF the public debt is two hundred and
seVenty-hye millions, her own debt thirty
hve and a half millions, and her city
and county Indebtedness will swell
the total to four hundred millions.
twenty-five millions annually come from
yspr earnings, to pay the interest thereon.
In 1860, your State government cost you
Hour hundred and two thousand dollars.
while in 1866 il cost you six hundred and
sixty nine thousand dollars
ne pressure of these exhaustiuu bur-
thens and the suicidal policy of Congress
having caused uncertainty and depression
70 pervade all branches of trade and manu-
factures;
Our commerce is suffering, the enterprise
of our people is repressed and business in
terests languish;
The revenues of the government are less
than its interest and expenses, and the finan-
cial officer foreslladows an increase of the
public debt;
They plot the destruction of our form of
government by destroying the indepeu-
dence of the Executive, attempting to sub
ordinate the Judiciary, and by con-
centrating all power in the Legislative
branch;
Robbing the people of sovereign power,
they have united it with the government |
in Congress, and dealt fatal blow at our
Liberties, for tyranny may be as abso- |
Lutte in number of persons as in an indivi- |
dual
Unblushing corruption stalks through |
every department of the government under
their control.