Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-04-28

rOnaye Homes tS, fitness, ANT; moral worth
are openly d scsrde,i in iaynTstti trucking
apd ii hrpnIhble G mIsliance.
Hence. enormous j. faleati rs ard wide
s2read corruption haze followed as the
natura! consequence. IT this precious sys-
tenn. ....l co., q. 81 .e t. -s.-e z.a45-s.z Aeg :.
BY the official report Of the Secretary oil
the Treasury, It app ans that -aitsr- the de-
duction of I'll proper credits, many mll-
lions of dolierS remain due from ex-eoiiec-
tors Of the iuternai re:yeLue, and that no
proper diligence bae " + been used to
collect them
Reforms IN the revenue and fiscal GJa-
TENS, which a! experience demonstrates
to be necessary to frugal administration
relief to an overburdened people, have
been perristently postponed or wilfuily
neglected. Congress now adjOurns without
having even atten pied to reduce taxation,
or 70 repeal the giaring imposltions by
which industry IS crushed AID impoVer-
ished The TretsDr, j. o, 81 oalng, and
an xce. s Of eight1 n1t''ns Of revenue Is
admitted; and Ut lurc&d OF some
% Aeure Of present. r.liof a b!Ircn and
de!usiyc II solution il p~s g ~ ;he Senate
to consider the tariff AM txcise system
hereafter. as if the tis'ory OF broken
pledges AID pretended remedies furnished
any better assurance for future legislation
than experience has done in the past.
Ship building and the carrying trade,
oDce sources OF rational pride and pres
pCrity, now languish under a crushing
load of taxation, and nearly every other
business interest is Smuggling without
profit to maintain itself.
Our rgriculturists, while paying heavy
taxes on all they consume, either to :he
Government Or to monopo!lstS, find the
prices for their own products so reduced,
that honest labor is denied its just reward,
and industry is Frustrated by lnvldion~
discrimination.
Nearly 200 900, 900 ac1es Of public Lands,
which should have been reserved tor the
benefit of the people, have been voted
away to giant corporations, ncg;ecting our
soldiers and enrichipg HANDFUL of greedy
spectators and loyalist5, who ai g thereby
enabled TO exercise q most dangerous and
corruptiDg Influence over State and Fed
cral legislation.
IL the career of these conspirators be
not checke /, the downfall of free govern
ment is inevitable, and with it the eleva-
ton of military Dictator Oh the ruins of
the Republic.
Under pretence of passing laws 10 ''en-
force the fourteenth am endmont, and for
other purposes, Congress has conferred
the most despotic power upon the Execn-
tive, and provided an official machinery
by which the libeI ties of the people are
meneced, and tie sacred right Of local self
govern aren't in the Sta:es is ignored, Il
rot iyrannicalIy overtl r)wn. Modelled
If or the sstiition laws, so odious in his
try, they are at variance with all the
81 nctitied the cries o. cur institutions, aud
the cons ructi0n giv"n by these Radical
Interpreters to taa fourteenth anen Uncut
il. 20 use to us he lAnguage Of AZ emf
IL ut Senator, Mr.. TrumLull, Of [ linois,
All ''AnntAiI 4tiO II 5l1 } .t,4.
Under the last enforcement bill the
Executive may, in his discretion, thrust
aside the government OF ally State, sus-
pend the writ of A0be5ts cOTpus," arrest its
Governor, imprison or disper5e the Legis-
lature, silence It's Judges and trample down
its people under the armed heel Of its
troops, Nothing is left to the citizen or
the which can any longer be called rig ht /;
all is changed Into mele sufferancc.
Our hopes for redress are in the calm
coed sense, the ''sobor second thought, -
of the American people. Wo Cal! uTol
them to be true to them selves and t. tn 39r
posterity. and, dis-egarding miner name s
aud party di1erCuces, to inslst upon de-
Capitalization Of power, the restriction OF
Federal authority with its proper Init,
leaving TO States that CONTROL over domes
tic affairs which is essential to their hap
piness and tranquility ard good govern
10 nj.
Evcrything that malicious Ingenuity
co aid slgges, has been done 10 irritatc the
people OF the Middle and Southern State3.
Gross and exaggerated charges Of disorder
and violence owe their origin to the mis-
chievous minds of potential managers in
the Senate and House of Representatives,,
which the Executive has, we regret to say,
lent his aid and thus helped TO Infame the
popular feeling. In all this course Of hos
.iIe legislation and harsh re eminent, no
word of Cancellation, of kind ncourage-
mcnt or fraternal fellowship has ever been
spoken 1y the President or By Congress to
the people OF the Southern States. They
have been address sed only in tho languA sc
OF pre- acrlptlo4.
We earnestly entroat our fellow citizens
in all parts of the Union to spare no effort
to maintain peace and order to carefully
protect the rights If every citizen to pre-
serve kindly relations among all men, and
to discountenance and discourage any vio-
lations of the rights Of any portion of the
pc Ople secured under the Constitution or
any e its amendments,
Let W., in conclusion, earnestly beg of
you not to aid tho present attempts Of
Radical pnrtisans to stir up strife in the
land 10 renew the Issues of the war !; or
to obstruct the return OF peace and pros
perity to the Southern States because it
is thus that they seek to divert the atten-
ton OF the country from the corruption
and extravaganza in their administration
of public affairs, and the dangerous and
prohigate attempts they are making to-
wards the creation OF centralized military
government.
In the five years OF peace. following tle
war, the Radical Administrations have ex-
pended 81, 200, 100000 for ordinary pur-
poses alone. being within 5000, 200, 600 of
the aggregate amount spent for the same
purposes in war and ia peace during the
seventy-one years preceding June 30,
1861, not including in either case the sum
paid upon principal CT interest of the pub
lie debt. It is trifing with the intelli-
genoo OF the people for the Radical lead
ers to pretend that this vast sum has been
honestly expended. Hundreds Of millions
of it have been wantonly squandered.
The expenditures of the Government for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1861, were
only 500, O00,C coo, while for precisely the
same purposes civil list. army, navy,
and Tp1iopr-2161 On0 000 rrara