The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-10-28
The Party Of Broken Promises.

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5 If there is anything to be found
the teachings of history-those guid
= posts along the pathway of nations
4 by which the people of this countr.
' warned of their danger, could avoi
the rocks wherein 70 many goodl
: vessels of State have been wrecked j
v the past, it is this: "Not to trust wit
, power the mon who. having no pc
: manent policy, trim their sails to e.
cry passing breeze and as a sequenc
falsify every promise made to til
people" 1t is true that in the histor
, of any administration unforeseen ex:
gencies may occur requiring Peculia
Legislation ; but no events can tram
pire which may pot-which shout
not be met by legislation based .uI
on the well established fundamenta
principles of government. There ar
no evils growing out of our constitu
tional laws which cannot be remediet
within the province of the constitu
ton.
1t is M of the most dangerous in
dicatlons of the times that the domi
nant party of the country not only
claim it to be necessary, but actually
travel out of all constitutional limits
in order to legislate for the present
condition of the country. This is an
admission that, in their estimation,
not only was the war for the preser,
walton of the Union a failure, but
that the fundamental principles of
government under which our fathers
confederated, and whose wise admin
istrations, for more than four decades,
had made us a great and prosperous
people, was wanting in the force and
vigor necessary to keep the Union in
tact and the machinery of govern
ment in motion.
Will the people of the country
we do not mean the vampires of Office,
multiplied almost beyond calculation
but those who in the sweat of their
face a bread, not only by reason of
the great primeval order, but doubly
ordained by the powers rnaU be, of
this civil or uncivil government, to
be hewers of wood and drawers of
water to shoddy contractors and mon
ey changers, stop for a moment and
reason on the Questions which in a
few days will perhaps forever fix and
determine the destinies of this great
country.
We say that the party now con-
trolling the affairs of government new
er had a policy, unless it is one that
we will speak of anon. Their only
commission, ike the pirates of the
Spanish Main in olden times, has
been a rowing one, preying alike up
on the rights aud property of all that
to come within their pirat-
ical course
When the war was inaugurated by
the teachings of the Phillipea, Chan
Wades, Greeleys, aud others
of like ilk, it was soleInnly assevera-
ted that the only purpose of the war
was to maintain unbraken the URion
of the States. For tIat purpose,
and for that alone, the men of the
north responded with an enthusiasm
never equalled in the history of the
For three years, in all the
wide domain of what was once the
States, no armed force has
been seer antagonistical to the gov
eminent. Now, that the conflict of
arms is over, what have we a right to
expect from the party who Inaugural
ed, conducted and ended the war
Certainly the fulflment of their
promises that the war was for the
preservation of the Union. Let the
Inrepresented states in u national
be witnesses whether this
has been broken or not.
The grave and reverend Seigneurs
God save the clan unless it would
toe large an economy who sit in
not fll-the seats once occupied by
men who fashioned our institu-
and made our history, tell us
by their puerile legislation, that the
,reat fundamental charter of our
government is but a thimble-rig con-
'ern-now you see it-now you don't
Zee the little joker. In other words,
heir promises to the people that,
lnder our fundamental laws, there
could be no such thing as a state get
ing without the Federal Compact.
md yet three years of legislation, in
time of profound peace, has result
ID in the anomalous discovery that
States, despite the efforts of eur
soldiers, are out of the Unionl i.
Vas the war a failure, or was the I
ummer too short to fight it out on i
hat line? ,
At the time of the surrender of I
zee, which a the end of all martial
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