The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-07-22

w y uaNG AAuNl llAAOC ,NIdiS VI lAOAObAAN
peace not a hostile arm has been raised in
in opposition to the Government, and yet to-
day ten States are held by the strong arm of
military power in acknowledged subjuga-
ton, or else are compelled to submit by that |
same power 10 frames of State constitutions |
and governments which they abhor, whose /
foundation and sole purpose is the enfran-
chisement of the negro and disfranchise- |
ment of the white man. / know they tell |
us that the work of reconstruction goes |
bravely on. II does, forSOOth, but it is not |
the restoration of the South; not the resto- !
ration of the Union; not the re-establish- |
ment of civil government! Read your tel |
egraphic dispatches to-day, and you will see |
that Georgia men are being tried by military |
commission, upon charges Of murder. Read |
the telegraphic dispatches of yesterday, and |
yOu will see that the military commander OF |
that State declines to recognize the validity |
of the Legislature until the House of Rep |
rcsentatives shall turn ont the Democratic |
members.
PERIPATETIC CoNGREssMEN.
Read the dispatches of the day before,
and You will see that one of the newly cleo |
ted Senators from Louisiana was, six months
ago, citizen of Illinois, and the other a
citizen of Indiana that the Governor of
Florida was, year ago, the President of an
AgINtulluIstl lNONlctg III lONd II an Hot
mistaken the State of Virginia reiOiccs in
the possession of a Governor fresh from the
soil of Ohio; [laughterl and if the newspa-
pcrs do not belle him, a citizen of our State
has declined 10 be q candidate for Congress
in the District in which he lives, for the
reason that he expects To be q Senator from
Alabama before the fall elections in Ohio
shall take place. Laughter and applause.
CONGRESSIONAL INSPIRATIONS.
Congress Inns usurped to itself all power
over the State governments of the South.
1t has destroyed them. 1t has made use of
the Federal Government itself. h has de-
stroyed the independence of the Judiciary
it has struck at the existence OF the Evccu-
tive. Our fathers thought they had solved
the problem of free Government in the crG-
alton of the three departments. This Re
publican Congress has destroyed ALL the di-
visions which were thus created, and seeks
to collect, in its own hands, all the powers
which belong to the system, and by an in
eXorable law of its existence, it now stands
ready, in case of party necessity, TO trans
fer them to the grasp of the military dicta-
tor. 1t is-reproducing in our country the
lessons of all history.
LEGISLATIVE DESPOTISM AND THE SEQUEL
HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE.
The despotism of legislative assembly is
the worst despotism in the world: it is the
most selfish, the most cruel, the most auda-
ciOus and the most short-lived; il ends in
anarchy, and is speedily followed by the
calm rcpOSe of tyranny under the order of
the sword. Recall the history of the long
Parliament and the tyranny of the Com
monweaith recall the history of the Leg
islative Assembly of France, and of the
Consulate and the Empire, and read in them
the certain prophecy of the fate of this
-
shall run its hour.
OUR OWN EXPERIENCE.
Have we not already part fulfllment of
these examples Congress has despOiled
the Executive of the just powers of his
office, and has invested them in the General
of our armies. 1t has despOiled the States,
and vested tdem, too, in the same officer
1t has given HIM power over all the military
commanders, and TO his decision it has re-
feTred every question of Interpretation or
execution of the reconstruction laws. And
this same Oflicer-wielding this enormous
pOWer-backed by the army-sustained all
thes military organizations, by whatever
name they may be known, appealing to the
fervOr which yet aemaius after the struggle
of terrible war-demands that he shall be
elected President of these United States.-
And the party which supports him declares
you, men of the North, it will elect him by
the votes of the negroes and carpet-baggers
in the reconstructed States of the South
THE DANGER ILLUSTRATED AND THE REM
EDY SUGGESTED.
Gentlemen, do you see no danger here
When, years ago, we predicted this result,
and warned against the first step in revOlu-
tionary progress, the Republicans laughed
at our fearS-called us copperheads and
traitors. Applause. When Napoleon was
called on-yOung-yOung, unknown to his
cOuntrymen, never having had command
even of regiment--to quell the revolt of
the sections, he did it effectually. In four
years he was first Consul and Master of the
French people. Hero, grand party, thro'
the General of our army, attempts similar
usurpation, which the Democratic party OPP
poses, as inimical 10 the whole system of
Republican government, and it proposes a
safe and simple means by which it may be
averted; l read from their declaration of
principles:
'Immediate restoration of all the States
TO their rights in the Union, under the Con-
! stitution, and of civil government 10 the
American people.
'12. Amnesty for all past political offenses
and the regulation of the elective franchise
in the States by their citizens"
AND EAlkAN AGANCh OF Tile
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
The Republican party is the party of usur-
| patton. 1t is also the party of corruption.
Read the report of the Commissioner CT
Revenue. Count the number of clerks who
are seeking in vain to discover the amount
of peculation in the Treasury Department.
4 Go to the War Department and see the mu-
| tilated archives and ask why they were de-
| stroycd2 Visit the penitentiary and count
/ the public plunderers who are confined
there. Applause. 1t is the party of ex-
| travagance-the war party ended in May,
| 1865.
| During the three years, from July l, 1865,
| to July /, 1868, the expenditure of the
Federal Government, independent of inter
est on the public debt, was eight hundred
and twenty millions of dollars. These were
years of peace. The army and navy of the
war had been reduced; their back pay had
already been made up TO them; immense
sales of Government property, consequent
| upon the close of the war, had been made,
| and yet in these three years the Republican
administration eXpeneed eight hundred and
| twenty millions of dollars-twO hundred and
seventy millions of dollars year.
| CONTRAST WITH DEMOCRATIC ADMINS
| TRATIONS.
The whole expense of the Government of
the United States for four years preceding
the war was two hundred and fifty six mill
ions of dollars. These eight hundred and
twenty millions do not include the interest
upon the public debt If this be added, the
expenditure of each one of these three years
will amount to at least four hundred and
thirty millions of dollars, The taxation of
the year SG6 amounted to tiYe hundred and
ninety millions OF dollars. The taxation of
the last year OF MIR. Buchanan's administra-
tion amounted to eighty millions of dollars.
The expenses of the War Department du-
ring the whole Of Mr.. Polk ADMINISTRATION,
including the Mexican war, were 800, $40,
900. In one year of Republican admins
tration, in time of peace, the War Depart
ment spent $50, 600, 900 more than q four
years Democratic administration did in time
of war. [Applause.l The Navy Depart
ment for four years, before the war, cost
500, OlO, 600. Then our commerce was
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