The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-08-05

and the least manifestation of conser
tive feeling sneered out of counte.
nance or villiied by the contemptuous
remark, "Ah ! There's a splinter of the
old constitution in his throat. All
There's a bone of the old constitutional
anatomy in that fellows windpipe,''
the parlors of the congressional com
mittees reeking with gluttony and de-
hatchery, and the appropriations COW
cred up in concentrations by millions,
present a scene for a laborer or an
economical union-loving farmer, or an
upright citizen hat is more eloquent
for the simple government of the con-
stitution, more denunciatory of the evils
OF bad government than all the stirring
appeals of Demosthenes against the
gold OF Phillip, oil of Cato or Cicero
for the libertyOf Rome. A scene tn at
veri6es the prediction of Luther Mar
tin and Patrick Henry, and puts to the
blush the farewell address of Wash
ington.
And thus, degradation for the South
has been accomplished in part. The
result so far has been to give a party a
further hold on the government, Was
this the object? Such of the States
as were doubtful as to the political af-
citations of the people are held back.
Such are not restored to the Union
The negro has become tie dominant
element in the States South. The
white population there do not vote with
the republican party, are powerless and
degraded. However bloody a rebel
has been, ne is lauded to the skies or
admitted to Congress if he votes with
Stevens and Butler.
To appease the moloch of party as
tendency, the doctrine of negro equali-
ty was perfected and degraded to negro
supremacy, The white man South is
the serf of the late slave: We stand
higher in the roll of infamy than even
Russia, Austria or England. The
Pole. the Hungarian or the Irishman
are lords compared with a portion CT
the white population of the United
States.
This policy was foreign to and ad
mited TO be outside of the Constitu-
ton. 1t bore and still will bear un-
constitutional fruits. The white PEG
pie of the South were paIalysed in
their industry, and the black, swarmins
in idleness, became a charge on the
labor of the Ncrth. Swarms Of officers,
military and civil, filled the southern
States to be kept by northern taxation
and the cotton, the rice the tobacco and
other staples of the South-the traffic
in which yielded to the government
more than twice as much revnue as the
North. sunk away in the disorder and
scramble Of officers and negroes
Large sums Of money collected from
northern toll we're sent South to clothe,
feed and support this southern anarchy.
White men went ragged in the north
to furnish suitable outfits for negro
members of constitutional conventions.
Imagine a country desolated by a war
and then p~lundered, insulted and in
fected by three millions of freedman,
under the guidance Of partisan vindict-
iveness and avarice. The Constitution
is. in fact, not recognized, and mere
brute force is the governing principle.
The South has no parallel in civilized
eras, Charles the Fifth ard Phillip
the Second were more humane to the
Moors and Jews of Spain. The Duke
OF Alva, alone, can claim a place in the
niche OF American oppressors by his
merciless, bloody and internal policy in
the Netherlands.
This policy has the double effect of
cutting off all revnue at the South
and pouring our northern taxes into
the lap of the negro and speculator.-
1t disturbs the confidence of the PEG
pie in their own governn ent ; it breeds
extravaganza and debauchery. Unless
changed it will result In war. Is the
consummation Of this policy to be the
end of our troubles z Can the negro
sustain himself as the oppressor of the
white race there? When can he do
it without a standing without
the care Of the general government
and a perpetual increase of expenses
and the public debt, or an extortion-
ate demand for money to meet all these
burdens? Can this policg exist in the
South without outbreaks, riots, insur
rection or wal ? Think of it in the
light Of history--in the light ofreason
Think of a policy that wrings from you
the wages of your labor to enable the
negro to trample down the white race
in the South But this policy, how
ever degradingto the people and oppTes-
sive to industry and labor, does not
stop here. 1t has its concomitant
are necessary to its exis
tence. 1t requires a wal policy and a
war organization in times of peace.
The standing army must be kept at its
height at a ~ruinous expense.
Immense numbers of officers, clerks and
assistants must be paid in all the de-
of the government. The
that meets these expenses
must be collected, and every count must
support its revenue officers. In some
of the countries the amount collected
does not pay the officers. Litiga tion,
expensive and oppressive, arises in the
department, and our citizens
are compelled to go before the courts
Of the United States or to Washington
city to decide their rights, or suffer pro-
perty to be taken on the judgment of a
local collector. High protective tariffs
increase the price of goods to the labor
sr, and licenses and special taxes ag
the burden. To watch and
this %ruinous policy, Congress
must be kept in prolonged session. as it
mas been, and immense sums of money
ire expended for increase of salary to
members OF Congress, for legislation to
lefeat the constitutional efforts of the
and exclude him from Office,