The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-07-01


maintained, and ''disponses its blessings IKE
the dews of Heaven, unseen and untelt, save
in the beauty aud freshness they contribute
to produce :" the secure tranquility OF
regal establishment may sometimes be
compensation for the burden 1t imposes
but rotten republic is at once 1he most
costly, the most oppressive. and the most
unsteady Of all political structures
To support the extravagant corruption
of an administration like the present, and
at the same time pay the pensions ana the
interest on the debt, would require heaVy
taxation at best. But the party IN power
has contrived to make the taxes doaoiy
burdeusome by tbeir mode OF levylng ana
collecting.them. Great gangs of unnecessary
officers are supported and fattened out OF
them. They are in many cases imposed,
not with any view to the supply of the
public treasury. but solely to operate as
bounties for the benefit Of individuals and
private corporations. While the mouth OF
labor is thus robbed Of the bread 1t earns,
the fortunes of mononolists and ringmasters
a.e hideously sweIleG, and their rapacity
iplamed for still further aggression upon
the rights Of the industrious masses. The
neccssity of revenue reform is admitted on
all hands, and by none more freely than by
candid supporters of the so-called RePu0li-
can party in Congress, but the majority Is
so completely controlled by private interests
that considerations of public duty have no
influence upon them.
No people can be wholly onslaved so long
as they have the protection of an indePend
ent and upright judiciary. The Radical
party, feeling this, have tried by all means
fair and foul. to make the federal judiciary
an instrument to aid them in their crusade
ha cf Ia They ba
filed the inferior courts, especially in the
South, with their most unscrupulous part!-
sans. Again and again have they CON
structed and re constructed the Supreme
Court-sometimes by reducing. and some-
times by increasing the number OF judges
always with a view to make majority
which could be relied on to indofso their
anti-constitutional legislation. When the
judgments of that august tribunal sustained
the ancient principles of liberty and justice,
its authority was denounced, diso6eyed and
contemned. They have interposed in
pending case with legislative DEGREES to take
away the jurisdiction of the court. and pre-
vent It from protecting citizen whose
planest right they desired to invade. We
solemnly trust that they have not yet sues
ceeded, and viii never succeed in bending the
court of last resort TO their foul purposes.
i
series Cf experiments for the reduction of
the Southern States to the lowest condition
of political slavery, hoping thereby TO make
them instruments for the enslaveruent of
every other section. To this end they have
not only refused them a representation in
Congress, but forced them to be misreprea
seuted by persons who came there to get
oppressive laws enacted against them. They
have steadily struggled TO make the State
governments the tools of their partisan
tyranny. Wherever they have fully sue.
ceeGed they have debauched the adminis>
traiion of Justice, disregarded the popular
will, and produced the most hightful dis
orders. Scalawags, carpet baggers, and the
most ignorant Of the ne gro population, wels
ter together in one mass Of moral putrefac>
ton, scourging the respectable and peaceful
citizens with their dishonest eXactions,
These outrages are openly justified, and their
encouragement declared to be necessary for
the good Of the radical party. The foremost
members of Congress have avowed their de-
termination to Iegslate upon them with
reference to the chances it may give them of
carrying future elections. In other words,
the worst wrongs and the mos. shameful
violations of common justice are committed
in order that a certain combination Of poll
ticisns already in power may continue to
rule US for their pleasure, AID plunder US
for their profit.
OF General Grant we desire to spe1k with
the respect that is due to the chief magis
trate of the nation and Ildier of great repu-
tatiou. But it is painfully manifest that he is
not fit for h is place. He has never made
the slightest efferts to preserve, protect, or
defend the constitution. On the contrary
be has given to its enemies in Congress all
the aid and comfort he could, and he has
assumed, without scruple, powers which
kings are careful not TO exercise and which
10 republican ruler can hold without moral
offence to popular liberty. Instead Of guard
ing the public treasury he has encouraged
the corrupt extravaganza Of Congress, and
some Of the worst t)bs have had their Or
igin in the rings which Immediately SUR
rounded him. Before and about the time
of his election his Inconsistent expressions
showed that he had no convictions {perhaps
no knowledge) upon public affairs. He
avowed openly in writing, over bis own
rame that be had no policy. that is to say
no opinions or sentiments which would con-
troll his choice of measure. But leading and
ambitious men of the Republican party pro-
posed to him a policy which would serve
their interests at the expense of equal rights
and they accompanied their suggestions with
. offers OF enormous presents In money, lands,
houses and goods far exceeding in value the
annual salary, which the people agreed to
pay him for an impartial aud just admins
tration of their government. He accepted
the presents, adopted the policy and appoint
ed the donors to Office.
1t will surely be admitted that all Amer
ican citizens who believe these facts to be
true are bound by the sacred obligations Of
patriotism, honor ard conscience to oppose
this state of things and by opposing end it
if possible. The person interested in pre-
venting a change will ask how, to what ex-
tent, and by what means we propose to
make reforms? The question is fair one
aud we will answer it briefly. 1t will be
the duty of the Democratic party, and, to the
extent of our authority, originally or delega-
ted, we hereby pledge ourselves and our as
sociates, so far as in US lies