The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1871-04-28
ADllI4 lcSS
Of the Democratic Members Oi
Congress to the People If
the United Stattls.
Tho Alarming Strides Townrd
the Capitalization Of Power
by the lecdi, nj Leaders,.

The Democrats in Congress have is
sued The following address to the pcopl,
Of the United States:
dur presence and official duties a
> Washington have enabled 10 TO become
fully acquainted with the actions amt
designs Of those who control the Radi
ccl party. and we feel called u,on to nj,
ter few words Of warning against liz
alarming strides they have made toward
; the Capitalization Of power ju the hand,
LOT Congress and the Executive. The
time and attention Of the Radical leaders
have been almost wholly directed to dc.
wishing such legislation as will IN tl,cil
view, best preserve their asccmdalcy,
and no regard for the wise restraints IN .
posed BY the Constitution has checked
their reckless and desperate career. The
President Of the United States has been
formally announced as a candidate for
reelection the declaration Of his sci fish
supporters have been re-echOed by a sui
sidizcd press, and the discipline Of party
has already made adhesion 10 Lis per-
sonaI fortunes the supreme test Of poll
teal fealty.
The partisan legislation 10 which VIC
refer was dccreetl and shaped in secret
caucus where the EXTREMIST councils a.
ways dominated. and was adopted by a
subsequent majority, it not with the in
'cnt. certainly with tho effort to place in
tho hands Of the President the lower 10
ohln'anI his own denomination, and 10
employ the army, navy and militia. at
his sole DISCRETION. as means OF subkery.
'ng his personal ambition.
When the sail experience Of the last
TWO years. SO disappointing 10 the Eopes
mi generous confidence Of the country.
= considered. in connection with tie
violent uttcranccs and rash purposes Of
those who control the Presidents policv,
il Is not surprising that the grave 81 an
prcIscnsiOns for the future peace Of the
nation should be entertained. AT time
when labor is depressed and every mu-
tual interest is pal>icd by oppressive tax
a.ion. public officers have been multi
Piled beyond all precedent 10 serve as
instruments in the pcrpct natiOm Of pow
or. Tart isanship il the only test offered
TO distribute this vast patronage homes
y, Illness anu moral worth arc openly
discarded in favor Of trucking submits
sion and dishOnsrablc compliance.
Hence enormous Declarations and wide
spread corruption have followed. MS
consequences Of this PERM, iuus
system.
ny f"s official report Of the Secretary
81 the Treasury il appears that after the
iepuction Of all proper credits. manv
Millions Of dollars remain due from OK
Collectors Of Internal Revenue. and no
proper diligence has ever been used to
collect them.
Reforms in the revenue and fiscol svs-
cm, which all experience demonstrates
oe necessary, frugal administration
Of Government, as well as n measure q,
fcllei to an ovcrburtlened people, have
pcen pcrsistcntly postponed or wilfully
'cEiccted. congress now adjOurns
without having even attempted 10 re-
luce taxation or to repeal 81 ring impo-
'itiohs " which Industry Is crushed and
The treasury is over
lowing an excess Of eighty millions OF
'evcnue 10 admitted, and yet instead oi
'ome measure Of present relief barren
mi deIusive resolution is passed BY the
senate to consider a tariff and excise
ysteIns hereafter, as il the history vi
broken pledges and unapplied remedies
urnislIcd any better assurance for tho.
ntnrc legislation than experience has
lone in the past.
Ship-building and the carrying trade. II
nee sources Of national pride and pros q
Gritty, now languish under crushing :
oad Of taxation, and nearly every other
BUSINESS interest is struggling without
'front.' to maintain itself. Our agricul.
uaii>ts, while paying heavy taxes or !,
" they consume, either to government
= 10 nonopolists, find the prices ofthcir
PRODUCTS 50 reduced that honest labor j. \
cnicd Its just reward, and honest indus 4
~ Is Frustrated by invidious DIS .rimi- I,
sti0n. Nearly 20O,OOOOOO acres Of pub 1,
e lands which should have been rcscrv-
Tor the benefit Of tho people have been
DIED away to great corporations, neg 4
'cting Our soldiers, and cnriching a :
andful Of greedy spectators and lob
visits. who arc thereby enabled to cxer- .
sc the most dangerous and corrupting 81
lhuences over State and Federal Icgis- q
tiOn. il the career Of these cOnspira- !.
RS be not checked, the downfall off Q :
overnment is inevitable, and with it the u
ovation ola military Dictatorship on Ct
e iuins Of the republic. I.
Cndcrprctensc Of passing laws for the
nfOrcemcnt Of tho Fourteenth amend
tent, and for other purposes, Congress-
% conferred the most dcspotic powers
pom the Executive, and provided an
hcial machinery by which the liberties I
the people are mcnaccd, and the sa-
ed rights Of sclf-government in the
tatcs ignored, II not tyrannically over =
lrown. Modelled mp to the setlitjon :.
ws, SO ediOus In history, they arc nj =
nriancc with ali the sanrfified fhco,;.e +
:! our institutions, and the construction
wen by these radical intcrprctators to
70 Fourteenth amendment, is, to use =
e language Of an eminent Senator
Irun,bnI!, OF lllinOis), an humiliation :. 81
Fthc States. -
Under the last enforcement bill the an
xccutivc may, In his discretion, thrust T.
idc the government Of any State, sus-