The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-08-26

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Congress has deprived him CT the right
70 have such q cabinet as he could con.
suit, and have kept in Office, against
the will of the President, civil officers
who were hostile TO bim, and mere
tools of Congress.
Congress has INSTRUCTED the Pres
dent in the performance of his sworn
duty TO see iae laws executed, by de-
prIying him of the power to remove
officers who refused to perform their
duty, or performed it illegally. Con-
gress has kept in session tc watch the
President, employed spies to keep on
his track, and suborned witnesses to
subs:antiate charges against him.
Congress has, systematically, DETAINED
the President to the people, and pro
voked a partisan feel ne to degrade and
des2ise the Executive department =
Congress has invented laws, to interfere
with the President, which they knew
the President, must v~'e'ate, if he per
formed his duty, and then preferred
false, and fraudulent charges against
him, arrayed him as a criminal and
tired Kim, only to be visited with the
judgement of the highest court in the
world, that Congress was corrupt, false
and poriured in its Infamous work.
Constitutional advice, worthy of the
best DAYS of the Republic, has been
derided, by Congress, and to-day, the
Executive department is destroyed
Congress is a mere Jacobin assembly
making preparations for, but afraid to
employ, the guillotiuc.
The judicial department has mo-
escaped III, communicating touch o.
Congress. To prevent the appointment
of good men,, in that tribunal, Congress
reduced the number of the judges,
prescribed by law, that they should not
have common law jurisdiction. in many
crscs, or how they should decide in
othcrs; denounced the court and judges
for their decisions adverse to congress
ional policy, but according TO settled
principles of law threatened Impeach
nent for the exercise of their eonsti
.utional functions ; attempted to de
grade the Chief Justice dragging him
in to preside at a trial which was a ma
tional disgrace ; voted down the decis
ions Of the chief justic, whenever il
suSservcd a predetermination to con-
vict the President ; brought to bear
upon the chief justice the slang and
SANDER CT a partisan press and partisan
opinion /; accused him of perjury BY
charging him with attempts to infu
ence members of the Sena'e; and at
tempted to bIacken and defame him for
a pure and upright and honorable dis
charge of his duty. The Supreme
| Court is under the ban of Congress
The States, and the people, the graz
Fourth department, have been treated
with contempt. Congress, willfully
disregarding the popular will, and tt.
interest of the people, has not yet rep
scented them, but rather erected itself
into an independent power. and acted
for itself, only asking the approval OF
the people, after it has acted, for the
purpose of retaining power, and pro
curing that approval by deceit, false
rumors and hypocrisy Congress ha,
imposed policies Oh the people they did
| not want, without asking their con
sent. The tariff. tn revenue laws, th'
bankrupt act, the squandering of tn,
public lands, the appropriation OF
money 10 railroads, the exemption O.
bonds from taxation, the payment OF
bonds in gold, the extension OF time
for paying the public debt; The alliance
with Z Istern capitalists and Tonopolies-
the burdening Of labor, the assaults or
the President and Supreme Courr, the
destruction of ten State governments
in the South, organized by the Pres 1
ident and the people, tho elevation o. ,
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despotisn of the sword in the South.
the expenditure and robbery in all the
departments, the long sessions of Con
gress, the increase ofsaiaries, the hosts
of officers TO be paid, the policy thai
will yet impose slavery on all the labor
of the country, the revolution that
seems smminent; all these indicate
that the States and the people are the
mere attaches of a Congress that
should be merely representative ; bur
which is, and has became, by usurpa
ton, a sole, effective tyranny, in plac'
of the department which were designed
TO subservc the interests of the people
and protect, and nourish, industry, and
happiness among them.
Discord reigns in the peaceful do
main of our fathers. Inequality has
usurped the place of justice. 81, 000,
600 of negroes, lately em%ancipated
now appear in our public councils will
20 Senators, while the great States f
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indi-
ana, Illinois and Wisconsin, embracing
a population of IA, 500, coo, have but
II Senator's.
. The credit of the government has
been sorely impaired. It's bonds are
selling at from go to 80 cents on the
d liar in Europe, while third rate pow
ers realize 80 and 95 cents The stocA
of some OF our railroads is worth dollar
for dollar. in market, while govern
ment credit is as low as some Of cur
insolvcnt railroad companies. Our
government currency is not worth over
so cents on the dollar, in gold, while
many bankrupts pay that amount as a
dividend to their creditors. This is
not for want of means 10 redeem, but
because of the revolutionary policy of
Congress. Our affairs look toward an
other civil strife, and in hat event., |
bankruptcy. Our ability to pay, at all,
is in Constitutional government.
The policy of Congress is calculated
to repudiate the public debt, and all
the obligations of the government
Let US have free trade with foreign ma
tons, and thereby cheap goods for