The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-04-24

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ing his personal ambition. When the sad
experience OF the last two. years-so disap-
pointing to the hopes and generous confidence
OF the country-is considered. in connection
with the violent utterances and rash purposes
of those who control the Presidents policy, lit
is not surprising that the gravest apprehen.
siens forthe future peace OF the. nation should
AT a time when labor is depressed, and every
material interest is palsiedFb by oppressive taxa
ton, the public Offices have been multiplied
beyond all precedent. to serve as Instruments
in the perpe,uation of.:power. Partisanship Is
the only test applied to tie distribution Of nls
vast patronage. Honesty, fitness, and moral
worth are openly discarded IN favor Of truck
ling submission and ~dtsbonorable compliance.
Hence, enormous .defalcations and widespread
corruption have followed as the natural con-
sequences Of this pernieious system"
By the official report. OF the Secretary OF the
Treasury, IL appears that alter deduction OF
all proper credits, many millions of dollars re-
main due from ex-eOltectors OF the internal
revenue, and that no proper diligence has ever
been used to collect them.
Reforms In The revenue and FISCAL systems,
which all experience demonstrates TO De nee
essary to . frugal administration OF the gov
ernments as well as a. measure:ot re!iet to an
oyerburdened people, have. been prrslstently
postponed o. wilfully neglected. Congress now
adjourns without having even attempted to re-
duee taxation, OR to repeal The glaring impos'-
tioras by which industry Is crushed and'impoT-
erished. 4sT The treasury Is overlooking, and on
excess Of eighty millions OF; revenue Is 70
ted: and YET, instead or some measure Of pres
ent relief, a barren and delusive resolution is
passedby the Senate to consider the ira
excise systems hereafter, as fIthe history Of
broken pledges and pretended remedies fur-
nished any better, assurance fol, future leglsia-
ton than experience has done tn the past
Ship.buildlng and the carrying trade, once
sources of national pride and prosperity, now
languish under o crushing load OF taxation,
and nearly every ether business Interest Is
struggling without profit to maitain itself.
on all they consume. either 10 the government
or to %monopolists, ind the prices fortheir "
products sd reduced, that honest labor Is de-
MED its Just reward, land industry Is Frustrated
by indvldious discrimination.
Nearly.2OQ OQe, 600 acres Of public lands, which
should have been reserved toy the beneht OF
the people, have been voted away to giant cor
porations,- neglecing our soldiers and enrich,
ing a handful of greedy spectators and lob
byIsts. who are thereby enabled to eXerclEe o
most dangerous and corrupting influence over
State and Federal legislation.
II the career Of these. conspirators be not
checked, the downfall of free government Is
inevitable, and with It the elevation IF a mill
tary dictator on the ruins Of the Republic.
Under pretence of passing laws reinforce
the fourteenth amendment, and for other pur-
poses. !" Congress has conferred the most des.I
potic power upon the Executive, and provided
an official machinery by which the liberties or
the people are menaced, and the sacred right
of local self-government In the States is ig-.
nored, If not Iyranuically overthrown. &odel-
led AFTER the sedilion laws, 90 odious In his
tory, they are. at variance with oil the sane
titled theories of our-instituttons, and lne
construction given by these Radical interpret
ers to the fourteenth amendment Is, tosIse
the language of anssnnlnent senator, lMr.
Trumbuli, Of Illinois, an t.annihilation OF the
States"
Under the last enforcement bill, '.the Ex-
ecutive may, in his discretion, thrust aside the
governments of any State, suspend the VIII Of
Rabeas corpus" arrest It's governor. imprison
or dispense the Legislature, silence its Judges,
and trample down its people under the armed
heel of his troops. Nothing ID LEFT to the
citizen or the State which can any longer be
called o right; all Is changed Into mere suner-
ance.
sense, the ''sober second thought" OF the
American people, Wee alF.npon them to be,
true to themselves and TO their posterlty. and
disreSarding party names and minor Differ:
ences, to insist upon a decentralization OF pow
er, the restriction OF Federal authority within
its Just and proper limits, leaving to the States
thai control over domestic affairs which is es,
sentiaf to their happiness and tranquility and
coed government. .
everything that malicious ingenuity could
suggest has oeen done to irritate the people OF
the Middle and Southern States. Gross and
exaggerated charges of disorder and violencel
owe their origin to the mischieVous' minds Of
potential managers in the, Senate and House
Of REPRESENTATIVES, to which the Executive
has, Ne regret 10 say, lent his AID, aia mus
helped to inlame the popular. feeling In oil
This course Of hostile legislation and harsh re-
sentiment, no word OF Cancellation, OF kind
announcement or ifraternat feeling, has
ever been, spokenrb by the President, or
by Congress, to the people OF the :South-
ern States. They have ,6eeh, addressed '0n's
We earnestly entreat our fellow-citizens IN
all parts ofathe Union 10 spare no enort
-to1naintain peace and order. to carefullytpro-
tect The rights Of every citizen, 10 preserve
kindly relations among all men, and to dis
countenance and discourage any violations OF
the rights Of any portion OF the people secured
under the constitution, or any OF its amend
melts,
Let us, In conclusion, earnestly beg OF you
not to aid the present attempts OF Raulcai
partisans to stir up strife in The LAND, 10 repeW
the issues OF war, or TO obstruct the return 81
peace and prosperity to the southern States,
because 1t = thus that they seek to divert tne
attention of the country from the corruption
6uu cAlIdfdBouCO IL tuCh
public affairs, and the dangerous and prohi-
gate attempts they are making towards the Gre
alton OF a centralized military government.
In the five years OF peace, following the
war, the Radical administrations have expend-
ed 81, 200, 600, 600 for ordinary purposes alone,
being within 5000, 900, 600 OF the aggregate
amount spent for the same purposes IN war
and In peace during the seventy-one years
preceding June 80, 1861, not including IN
either case the sum paid upon principal or
interest Of the public debt. II Is trihl9s WITH
leaders TO pretend that1his 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 80, 1851, were only
$50, oo0, 900, while for precisely the same pnr-
pose-civil list. army, navy, pensions and In
dians-$l64, 600 600 were expended during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1870. r"
No indignation eau be loo stern, and no
scorn too severe, for the assertions, by I'M
scrupulous Radical leaders, that the great
Democratic and Conservative party Of The
Union has or can have sympathy with dis
orders or violence in any part or the country,