Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1871-05-13
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anl ~ smploy The array, hasy @ai nlll'ls'
a. his sole diseTeilen, as means ~ sob
serving his PsrsoRsl snbilion' When me
sad experiences Of the last TOO years, %
disappointing 10 the hopes sHi ssRsFsas
confidence Of the e0ualry is considered, IA
..,.,.....s.. ..ftk fha glal.nt aFlarangas and
rash purposes ef these She eeh'rol the re
sldehrs policy Il y cot surprising lhA'
the srayssl aPPFvhsssior. re- the iallrs
peace 81 lhe naiicn should hs ealsf'sihsi
/ A. time when laber 10 dsrresseii asd
every material interest is Faisiei W ep'
pTssslye IAIalion, the PublR ofAess have
been multiplied beyond ell precedent 70
serve az ihs,Tumsni. Ia the lsfrs'aal'oh
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| rar,i'anship Is the only iett app'ei "
the distribution Of this vast patronage
Honesty, itness aud moral worth are ePen'
| ~ discarded, In favor Of tracking snhms'
sion and dlshonorable COMP lance, Hence
enormous defaleallons aud widespread
corruption have followed as the natural
consequences Of this perhieious - s'en'
liy the official report dt the Secretary OF
the Treasury IL appears that, after the ue'
luctions Of all proper credits, many mil
lions Of dollars remain due from es'e'l'
leelors Of internal revenue aud thsi No
proper diligence has ever been used 70 col
lect them. Reforms In the revenue aud
fiscal systems, which all espsrience demon
straies to be necessary 10 irngai admin
istration Of government, rs we'll as mea'
sure Of relief TO an oyerburdened people
have been persistently postponed or Will
fully neglected.
Congress now adjourns without having
even attempted to reduce taxation or Il
repeal the glaring imposiiions by which
industry Is crushed and impoverished
The Treasury is overlooking, and nm excess
Of eighty millions Of revenue Is admitted
and yet, instead Of some measure Of present
relief. a barren and delusiye resolution II
passed by The Senate TO consider the tarii
and excise systems hereafter, as If the his
tory of broken pledges and pretended rem
edies furnished my better assurances fol
future legislation than experience has dom
in the mast. Shipbuilding and the carry
ing trade, once sources Of national prii'
and prosperity, now lanyuish under ,
crushing load OF taxation; and nearl.
every other business interest is struggling
without profit, to maintain itself. Our
arriculturists, while paying heavy taxes
on all they consume, either to the Govern
ment or 10 monopolies, find the prices OF
their own products 80 reduced that honest
labor is denied its just reward, and Indus
try is Frustrated by invidious discrimina
ton. Nearly 100 100000 acres Of publ,
| IL 4 H.. haa nd in
the benefit of the people, have been voteC
away to giant corporations, neglecling on
soldiers, enriching n handful of greedy
epeculators and lobbyists, who are thereby
enabled to exercise u most dangerous an'
currupting influence over State and Feie
ral legislation. If the career Of these con
spifa!ors be not checked, the downfall o
free government is inevitable, and with !:
= the elevation IF military dictator on thu
ruins of n Republic.
> Under the pretence Of passing laws Il
enforce the Fourteenth amendment, ant
for other purposes, Congress has conferred
the most despotic power upon the Executive
and provided an official machinery b,
which the liberties Of the people are men
aeed. and the sacred right of local self
government in the States IL ignored, if no
totally overthrow. Modelled upon tn
seiition laws, SO Odious IN liistCryi the.
are at variance with nil the Sanctioned
theories of our institutions, and the con
. struction given by these Radical intcrpre
ters of the Fourteenth Amendment is, t
use the language OF an eminent SenatBr-
MIR. Trumbull, of Illinois-nn "nnnihlla
tion of the States.r Under the last en-
: forcement bill, "the Executive may, in hi
discretion. thrust aside the Government o
any State, suspend the hsbeas corpus,
arrest its Governor imprison or dispers
. the Legislature imprison its judges, IN,
trampis down It's people under the arme'
: heel of its troops. Nothing is left to tn
: citizens of tho State, which can any longe
be called A right-all is changed into mer
suffetance.
Our hppes for redress are in the calu
uood spnsr. the "sober. seco nd thought" o
the American people. We call upon then
TO be true TO themselves and their posteri
c tv. and. disrerardins party names and diff
fsrences to insist up5h decentralization
If nower and the restricting of Federal au
tboritv within its lust and proper limits
jeov;no IN the States that control over do
nestle affairs which is essential to thei
D bonniness and tranquility and good gov