The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1869-04-16

the voters of the State fight the battle. We
are draw back Our support subjects the
loyal Conservative to the charge of sympa-
termination and paraly zing his Efforts
There is one simple right which we ask in
this whole matter, and at some future time
perhaps, it will be granted. AS We are not
represented, justice and the demands of
Republican government require that We
should not be taxed.
The Political and Material Corruption
Of the Country.
There is u marked difference between
the present time and the period Just preVi- ]
Gus to our war. In 1860 the man who be-
came marked in political or business i'm
morality was held up to public scorn and
obloquy. Not so to-day. He who de-
frauds the government, his business asso-
ciatee, or disgraces his constituents in Con-
gress, is looked at with admiration and as
a bright examplar worthy of imitation
The man VINO few years since stole few
hundred dollars from our City Councils and
called down the wrath of every citizen may
pundeF The nation of millions and
hoDofs which be wins in the
hia peculiar ability.
Credit Pacific Mobiliea~Com-
whose duty face we tried to wash
yesterday. is among the first of the
sWindling combinations whose
pow having their natural rebound.
lant mass OF corruption which all
follows in the wake Of war came up
in the ratio of the gigantic material
hurled upon the rebellion. The whole
sVil elements of the country found full play
and plenty to feed upon. How well it fed
let two thousand six hundred millions of
national debt answer. How well it still
saps our prosperity let three hundred mil
lions of annual expenditures demonstrate.
Our great struggle for national preserva-
ton was undertaken in the loftiest senti-
N ent of patriotism. The first year Of the
war the people shouldered arms for prinoi-
pie. We paid no bounty, and patriotism
had not fixed its price. Two years had
scarcely passed before the decentralization
produced by the prodigal Outpouring Of
men, government contractors and the lead
ing punderers to the lower grades of So
eiety, and the nation became one vast
whirlpool of immortality. With the moe
ulaton of the masses the leading brains
grew holder and felt surer of their power
to inaugurate gigantic system of plumber
which depended, in great part, for success
upon public opinion thus prepared. So
education went on. reflected from high to
low and then from low to high, until the
country could take. as we'll played jest,
the betrayal Of its political and material
prosperity. Congress naturally, in our
system Of government, represented our
general condition, and consequently was
ripe for all measures that aimed at the tap
ping Of the fountaiDhead of wealth-the
public treasury.
The country was ready-then were
launched in rapid succession the schemes
for plumber which have since staggered us
and brought us to our senses. Then came
the Union Pacific Railroad. with its tens
Of millions of plumber. aud, following this
the hungry financial wolves, seeming the
national blood. rushed in. aud Pacific rail
road charters from all sides-from Wash
ington and from every Sate-AOoded the
market and filed the whole space. from
Texas to British America with Imaginary
parallel lines of IRON. The wolves tore the
national domain into shreds and parcelled
out the land spoils to their followers. II
the Indian residents stood in their W.
convenient war destroyed their
consideration and despoiled q
pOssessionss This failing,
treaty between the plumb
gave the former the q
iessness to present
for The con6Es
ness
ava
OF