The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-04-22
Strong Indictment Against tie Radical
Party.

In the debate in the House upon the
bill to amend the Act known as the
Enforcement Act-thc object OF which
is to place the elective system i'll the
States under Federal supervision and
scrutiny-thc Hon. S. S. Cox, o! New
York, made IL speech OF considerable
ability, but remarkable mainly for Its
home thrusts at Radical usurpatlon.
| We present below Mr.. CoX's concluding
remarks, and commend them for their
truthfulness and telling sarcasm. They
are a complete offset to Senator Nor
toms remarks, to be found on our first
page:
Mr.. Speaker, the Republican party,
if it would save itself in the future from
defeat and disgrace, might be i'll better
business than passing cnactmcnts OF
this kind. Why does it not do some
thing for the country: Why docs 1t
not do something for the currency?
Why not relieve the onerous taxes now
expressing the people? Why not take
Off the duty on salt, coal, leather, lun-
Der, and what not, which has been so
urgently demanded? Why not heed
the cry which is now coming up from
New England even, and abolish your
oppressive tariffs on raw materials ::
Why not listen to the wooden and other
manufacturers if you will not hcarkcn
to the body Of the consumers and people
throughout the country for relief? Why
not reform the civil service, measure
which your President has OstentatlOusly
and freshly recommended Why not
stop these land grants?
/ According to tho resolutions OF the
Ohio Legislature, read here yesterday,
the Presidents policy is against them.
Why do you not instruct him not TO sign
any moro measures to help the rich at
the expense of the poor; to steal tho
peoples inheritance to aggrandlzc rich
corporations and classes? Why docs
he sign all such bills? Why do you
not revive our shipping? Why not
better the administration of the Gov
eminent, and introduce, as you prom
ised, more accOuntability and economy:
Why not endeavor to make the South
contented with your rule by wise and
liberal amnesty? Is all your time to
be given to controlling the elections in
1872, to perpetuate your abused power?
Has reason fled, and do you so dlstrust
the popular verdict that you seek to
constrain it by force of arms? 1t seems
as if military maNims, military men,
military politics arc to prevail, to the
eradication of every idea of civil gov
eminent. You have even allowed, I'M
challenged, your Executive, through
his aid-de-camp and anomalous embls-
sador, General Babcocll, to bargain for
u part Of one island and to threaten
war upon the other!
You are not content zoith or bMyDlg
I,xys< SSDS
end Of the ,ro,ltz, but yOu are dickeri,,g
for earthquakes, hurricanes, negroes md
bananas ut the other! You arc not only
stealing from the Indians, i'm regard to
which revelations arc made every day.
but your frauds in the New York GUS
tom-house and in other branches OF the
Federal Government call for all your
investigating energy. The Internal
revenue has no system of accountablll-
ty. No one can tell how many default
crs there are. The people will hold
you to an account for your failure III all
these regards. No measures of reprcs-
sion, no ingenious scheme like this, can
save you from the "deep damnation'
which is awaiting you in 1872. Did
you not try this policy OF repression
with the South? You introduced there
your Frcedman's Bureau, and sent tho
Army along to inspire kindness and
moral ideas, did you not? Why has
the South slipped from under your con-
troll? Why will it stand, except South
Carolina, en- G'oc by the Democratic
: party in 1872? Heed these things be-
forc you pass this measure, if only as Il
partisan measure!
am not such Il partisan but that
should like to see the Republican party
restored to that purity which it had in
its beginning. At that time it gave
hospitality to many noble ideas.
rccollect how it sang the battlc-songs
!, of the Republic. rccollect how "John
Browns body' marched on the music
of your Marseillaisc. I remember that
there were high-mindcd, liberal men,
who gave their labors and genius to
you in your anti-slavcry movement.
But know that thousands of such arc
now with us, and more awaiting Il
moro liberal policy on our part to dc
scrt you. They perceive that your
party by its strength has drawn to it.
self the selfish, greedy cormorants OF
the country. They perceive that 1t Is
inspired and moved by ignobic and
selfish aims, by ncpotisn., by jobbcry,
by schens of all kinds, which are every
day being developed in this House, as
we'll as at tho other end of the Capitol
and Avenue. Such mon will give us
their earnest pens, voices, and votes,
and the moro readily when they pcr-
ccivc, as they now do, the Democracy
advancing from tho dead past, where
their homes have been buried, into 4