South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1871-07-14

sign to sirangle the liberties of the nation,
and to take perpetual power into their own
hands. The fo>ce bill authorizes the Pres
ident not only to invade the States at his
pleasure, but, by declaring martial law, to
suovert all government, except What con-
Sists of his mere will. Under the election
law his cannon is planted directly against
the freedom Of State elections"
Financial corruption:
"Ihe enormous extent to which this f.
nancial corruption has been carried will be-
come manifest to any one who compares the
expenditures of the government during the
SIX years which followed tue civil war
Both were periods of peace, and there can
be no excuse for more than a small increase
corresponding to the ratio in which the pc
pulation has advanced. But where the or
binary expenditures of the fiscal year end
ing June /, 1870, exclusive of Indian au-
nulties, pensions and interest on the public
debt, were Sl4S, 500 ,922 43, for the year
ending Juno l, 1860, the expenditures for
the same purposes were but 55,9lS, ISIS
Y. Here is shown the difference between
the ordinary cost of carrying on our gov
crnmont when its agents arc honest and the
cost of the same thing when its officers arc
so destitute Of moral principle as to disro-
gard all legal limitations upon their own
authority"
Tampcriag with the Supreme Court:
"No people can be wholly cnslaved so
long as they have tho protection of an in
dependent and upright judiciary. The
Radical party, feeling this, have tried by
ali means, fair and foul, to make the Fede-
raj judiciary an instrument to aid them in
their crusade against the law of the land.
They have filed tho inferior courts, espc-
cially in the South, with their most unscru-.
pulous partisans. Again and ngain they
have constructed and reconstructed the Su-
preme Court-somctimes reducing, and
sometimes by increasing the number of
Judges, always with n view to make n ma
jority which could DO relied on to endorse
thor ADMINISTRATION legislation. When
the judgments of that august tribunal sus-
tanned tho ancient principles of liberty and
justice, its authority was denounced, DISC
beyod, aud contcmncd. They have inter
posed in pending case with Legislative de-
crees to take away the jurisdiction of the
| Court, ard prevent it from protecting q cit
izon whose plainost right ;hoy desired to in
wade. We solomnly trust that they have
not yet succeeded, and will never succeed
in bending tho court of last resort to the ir
foul purposes.
Enslavement of the Southern States:
''Thcir so-called reconstruction laws arc
series of experiments for the reduction of
tho Southern States to tho lowest condition
OF political slavery, hoping thereby to make
them instruments, for the enslavemcnt of
every other section. To this end thoy have
not only refused them n representation in
Congress, but forced them TO be lnisrcurc-
scented by persons who camo there to get
oppressive laws enacted against them They
have steadily struggled to make the State
governments the tools Of their partisan tyr
amy. Wherever they have fully succeed.
cd they have dobauchcd tho administration
OF justice, disrcgardcd tho popular will, and
produced the most frighful Disorders
Scalawags, carpet bapgors, and tho most
ignorant OF the negro population weller to
gether IN ono mass of moral putrcflcion.
scourglng the respectable and peaceful citi-
zcns with their dishonest cxactiona. These
outragcs are openly justified and ihor en-
couragomcnt declared to be necessary for
most members Of Congress have ayowed
their determination to lcgisato upon them
with references to the chances it NAV give
them of carrying future elections. In 9th
or words, the worst wrong, and tho most
shameful violation of common Justice Is
committed in order that certain combina
ton of politicians, already in power, may
continue to rule US for their pleasure, and
plumber us for their profit
In the following passage allusion is made with
great force to n practice which has been inaugu-
rated by the present Exccutiyc-tbat of rcceiy-
ing presents and appointing ,he donors to Office
practice condemned by reason and all past cx-
pcriencc the chief source Of ruin of nh former
governments and denounced and prohibited by
holy writ
General Grant has assumed, without
scruplo, powers which kings are careful not
to exercise, ard which no Bepublican ruler
can hold without mortal oiFonso to popular
liberty. Instead Of guarding the public
treasury ho has encouraged tho corrupt ox-
travagaDcc of Congress, md some Of the
worst jobs have had their origin in tho
Rings which Immediately surround him
Before and about the time Of his election,
his inconsistent expressions showed that ho
had no convictions (pcrhaps no knowledge
upon public oiirirs. Ito avowed openly in
writing over his own name, that ho bad no
Poiicy, that is TO say, no opinions or soni-
monts which would control Lis choice Of
measures. But leading and ambitious mon
Of tho Republican party proposed 70 him a
| policy which would save their interests at
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