The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-10-04

clazens are moro than one half or this people, are
rhas made up and welding power overlapping
that OF all other branches they should pause
acc ponder wen before opening the noocgaies o. esoa
lion. Yet II these members sought TO have tho Senate
rubbed out Of the constitutional scheme they could not
do act. more hateful 20 the people give reasons moe
powerful for Its overthrow than their own teaching Win
regard TO the rights OF impartial suffrage and by their c
ton In the face Of their teachings Colorado which
passes which canno. by the force OF its numbers up
hold the rudmeut OF State. to-day balances in the
scale the four millions Of people OF New York IL was
admitted merely to gam two votes In struggle win
the Executive. But holder Is in view unless this
dangerous game to get power over the majority
by a rotten borough system Is stopped. Tsenty
Senators are to be admitted from ten States
lately In rebellion, representatives OF
the white people, for they dsfranehsed not Of the
blacks, Tor IL rs indscree to claim that race who are
declared BY Congress be unable take oil them
selves and placed under the guardianship OF the
Freedmen's Bureau and Military Chiefs, would, as
body know Of the existence OF such representative
but they 10 be admitted because they hold the Views
OF the majority OF the Senator'S and because they are
sent 70 Washington by their agents These Senators
mean to DO their constituents TO become q close
corporation and to have more representatives OF their
country living in nine States About sixty republican
Senators will. beyond their own votes. have In the
twenty members sent by the Freedmen's ,,,, Blu.
OF American people living In New York, Pennsylvania,
Kentucky. Tennessee Illinois. Indiana Wisconsin. OHIO
and Missouri. Not content with holding in subsection
the people OF the South, they to extend IN the
name OF the negro their domination over the North and
South alike. II would that this madness was
enough TO make their destruction But here, after
acts like these they soemny declare they IN favor
OF what they call manhood suffrage. Be 1t So But
with it must 90 manhood representation. Manhood
suffrage must not be used TO destroy the right Of the
majority Of the people Of this country II 1t is the
natural right OF in Florida TO have vote, 1t ID
not his right IL count forty fold in tho
Senate Of the United States than that Of man in
New York. II It is the natural right Of man In
New York 10 have vote, II u also his natural right
TO have much in the controlling branch OF
the government as that OF a man n Rhode Island II
TINS vouon 10 begun 1t must go to its logical just
end. Il must not roll on the necxs Of the majority Of
the American people and stop there but numbers must
be represented, no. ro,en boronghs or sham states
We implore Senators not TO begin revolution. Be con-
tent with your vast powers Your organization h at
war with impartial suffrage and impartial representation
II you continue your usurpation the country NAV not
be content with driving You back within constitutional
limits. II may 60 farther, and acting upon doc
trnes you assert il may crush you out and make
another Senate, based In Truth upon manhood SUI
frage. The country needs peace, out II you Will
have revelation i cannot step At any chalk lines
you may mark out. The nine States, with majority
OF the people, with Iowa Minnesota and Michigan, all
of which virtually disranchised in your body,
for they are controlled by the representatives of quar-
ter of our population II our government IS To be re-
shaped will have their full rights Tney not suffer-
ing merely IRON theoretical wrongs. Tho destruction
Of the carry ng trade OF New York and the overaxaon
Of the Northwest show how unequal distribution OF
power makes unequal burdens. During the war OF the
rebellion the exertion of the senatorial power
upon weak head OF tho enrolling bureau 10 nxng
the quotas OF States. While their purposes to
their constituents from the riices Of war, by so
doing they threw other ates tho cost OF life aud
blood In New York tins into abuses so lagrant
that even partisan passions could not be blind
TO- the outrages. But the Northwestern States suffered
the most severely from tbs injustice have The official
proof that while the average quotas the Congressional
districts OF massachusetts, and New Hampshire were
2l67, in Illinois they 004, Indiana they
3,24S, in Wisconsin they 3,l72. in Michigan they
were 3O47 We ask tho people OF New England II II 10
time for them to stop the stupid malice Of their
Senator's to put stop to the teaching that New England
Senatorial power IS in violation Of natural rights. We
suffer in New York by the present CONSTITUTIONAL law
N 1 tt0iu q A
powers OF all the States We remember tn. glorious
part they bore in tho revolutionary contest II timc
has Changed their comparative population we do not
implore them not 10 teach doctrines which must,
peace OF the country What is the social condnion OF
the country shall speak only OF the situation Of the
North II IL not possible to fasten the republican party
10 any standpoint to tbs condition OF the southern
people. They arc In or out of the Union a. partisan
purposes demand They must carry constitutional
but they punished II they Trey
must their political duties held criminal
If they take part Ia pubic affairs. rho southern people
have u deal with political problems more bew!derng
You can ana you can't
You'il be damned Il you 10,
aud sou II DC damusd Il you don't
The social state Of country aarIning. The pun-
lie IL stried with usual violence through
land Acn. aud women oo kill those @ho nave
done them no wrong life and property have become
SAFE Our people learned TO 10 these things rJm hose
wnO should nave taught rsserenco for tho laws The
mobbcd or murdered because they honestly differed
from the parry In power, are nov sprnging up IA an
abundant harvest Of crime. which plaques and
those who were actors In voenca or consentng Wit
ne-ses TO outrage upon the'r neighbors. II, when
an unworthy Secretary o. state boas ed to the rep
tv q sham, and that ne could do what
Brifan's monarch dare not, imprison without var
rant aud punish without trial. weak and wicked vanity
had been nttngy whipped by justice, the Goodsates OF
violence would not been opened. But ne ~
held and OF robbers and brutal men drunk with
fxstl
and let loose upon The puonc The spirit Of cowadg and
criminal violence that wa sent oas fsom the bepart-
ment Of State IN time siaked back into the chamber Il
tine Secretary IN the foul form OF ths assassin. Gnraer
robbery and arson atct the people, who dad not
would avert Gods just Judgment let Us now Try 10
bring back reverence for the laws which our fathers
left us as beriiase, aad wich we have wasted. IL
not courage but coward &c which male the admin
strstion trampie upon laws, courts and home nights
ami judges trail their crmnes IN TIRE,
duet. But will pass by the question growing out
OF admin crimes and foles, to spoaN % that
which 10 uppermost in mems minds-onr hpanc al con-
diuon. Upon this We should be 0utspoken ana true.
IL burdens end harasses labor; IT binders and per-
pexes business IL carries taxation and into every
home We owe vast debt, made by the consent OF the
people OF this country. In the details OF hcappg IL up
there was much Of fraud aud more % folly But at the
time and since its creation the citizens OF the United
States have In their elections approved Of these acts OF
their Representatives, The fabric OF government
has been already Iearuly shaken by the violation Of
personal and political rights; we must not add re-
pudation the list Of crimes which destroy con.
ndencc In republican governments The frt
step to uphold The public faith Is TO put forth
an honest statement OF our affairs The credit OF our
government Is lover in the market Of the world than
OF any Chr stan nation in Europe II mas sunk To
the level OF thai OF the Turk. the sck OF the Eas.n
When you look al the list OF prices Of naton, stock you
vii lind that our bonds taking into account the great
interest paw selling Tor less u an bali the prco
git for those o. Great Britain. When we lay them
side BY side the counter OF The capitalist, no
takes tho British bond rate hch will gisc hun back
in the course OF ~enty years only 81 700 wuile wc pay
him 81 100 during the same time. That Il TO say, wien
the United States borrows $1,000 in gold II pays tho
lender, principal and interest twenty wears,
az. 700; England pays only 81, zoo. When we
borrow $1,000 900 we Tav on twenty year
loan 81 100000; England pays only s1700Oo0. But,
leaving the markets of the world, AMI coming 10 our
Shores find citizens will not trust our gov
eminent upon the same terms which trey give 10 their
neghbors Tho bonds OF the United States pay in-
terest TO those who buy them OF about eight per cent
They also give exemption from taxation, worth ono
two per cent more. Yet men eagerly seek safe se-
curtes which, with tho drawback Of TAXATION. pay but
about half the interest given by government Every
day report from Europe that ahes aons tho ecctr
line tells tho than that