The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-04-27

desperate career. The President of the.
United States has been formally announced
as candidate for reelection. The de-
clararions of his selfish supporters have
been echoed by a subsidized press, and the
discipline of the party has already made
the adhesion to his personal fortunes the
supreme test of political fealty The par
tisan legislation to which we refer was. de-
creed and shaped in secret caucus, where
the EXTREMIST councils always dominated,
and was adopted by subserVient majority,
if not with the intent, certainly with the
effect to place IN the hands of the Presi-
dent the power to command his own re-
nomination, and to employ the army, ma
Wy and militia, at his sole discretion, as a
means of subscribing his personal amti-
ton. When the sad experience of the last
two years, SO disappointing 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, it is not
surprising that the gravest apprehensions
for the future peace of the nation should
be entertained. AT time when labor is
depressed and every material interest is
palsled by oppressive taxation, public Of
fees have been multiplied beyond all pre-
petuation of power Partisanship is the
only test applied to the distribution of this
vast patronage. Honesty, fitness and
moral worth are openly discarded in favor
of trucking submission and gdishonorable
compliance Hence enormous defalcations
and widespread corruption, have followed
as natural consequences of this pernicious
system. By the official report of the Sec
retary of the Treasury 1T appears that,
after the deduction of all proper credits,
many millions of dollars remain due from
ex-Collectors of Internal Revenue, and no
proper diligence has ever been used toeol-
lect them. Reforms in revenue and fiscal
systems, which all experience demonstrates
TO be necessary to the rugalradministra-
ton OF the Government as well as mea-
sure ofrehef to an oyerburdened npeopleY
have been persistently postponed or VIII.
fully neglected. Congress now adjourns
without having even. attempted to reduce
taxation, or to repeal the glaring imposi-
tlons by which industry Is crushed and
Impoverished. The Treasury is overflow
ing, and an excess of $80G06O0a of -reve-
nue. is admitted, and yet. instead of some
measure for present relief, a barren and
deiusive resolution Is passed by the Senate
to consider the tariff and excise systems
hereafter, as if history, broken pledges and
unapplied remedies furnished any better
assurance for future legislation than ex-
perence has done IN the past Ship
building and the carrying trade, once the
sources of National pride and PROSPERITY.
now languish-undeF crushing load of
taxation, and nearly every other business
interest is struggling without profit to
maintain itself 1-1 cl i.51l15-5-4 = lz4 o.
Il Our agrioulturists, while paying heavy
taxes on all they consume, either to the
Government or monopolists, find prices for
their own products so reduced that honest
labor Is denied its just reward, and indus
try Is prostrated by invidious discrimina-
ton, Nearly 100000 acres of public
lands, which should have been reserved
for the benefit of the people, have been
voted awayato giant corporations. neglect
ing our soldiers and enriching a handfuliof
greedy spectators and lobbyists, who are
thereby enabled to exercise most danger
GUS and corruptlng influence over State
and Federal legislation. q
If the career of these conspirators be not
checked, the downfall of our free Govern
ment is inevitable, and with 1t the eleva-
ton OF military Dictator on the ruins of
the Republic. .-o----- OH 1--la51 sia
enforce the Fourteenth Amendment. and
for other purposes, Congress has conferred.
the most despotlc powers upon the Ex-
ecutive, and provided an official machinery
by which the liberties of the people ara
menaced, and the sacred right Of self
government IN the States ignored. if not
tyrannically2 overthrown. Modelled after
the Sedition Laws so -odious in history
they are at variance with all the sancti-.
fed theenes of our institutions; and the
construction given by these Radical inter
prefers to the Fourteenth. Ameadment is.
to use the language of an eminent Senator
(Trumbull of Illinois, an q Aanihilator of
States" -- ID Eitaill55Hr b5GIl1d az +
Under the last enforcement bill the Ex-
ecutive may in his discretion thrust aside
the Government of any State, suspend the
writ of habedS corpus, arrest its Governors
imprison or dispeTse the Legislature, 81
lenceits Judges and tFample down its peo-
pile under the armed heel of his troops.
Nothing is left to the citizens or State
which can any longer be called Alright.
All is changed into mere saferancel Our
hopes for redress are in calm. good sense
and sober second 2thought of the American
people. We call upon them to be true to
themselves and their past, and, disregard
ing party names and minor differences. 10
insist on decent equalzatieR of power,
and the restriction of the Federal authority
within its just and proper limits, leaving
to the States that control over their domes-
tic affairs which is essential to their hap
piness and tranquility and good Govern
ment Every thing that malicious ingen-
uity could suggest has been done to irri-
tate thepeople of the Middle and Southern
States. The gross and Exaggerated charges
of disorder and violence owe their origin
to the mischieyous minds of political man
ayers in the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatiFes, to which the Executive has we
regret to say, lent his aid, and thus helped
to infame popular feeling In all this
course of hostile legislation and harsh re-
sentiment, no word Of Cancellation, of kind
encouragement or fraternal fellowship has
ever been spoken by the President or by
Congress to the people of the Southern
States. They have been addressed only
in language of prescription. We earnest
ly entreat our fellow citizens in all parts
of the Union to spare no effort to main
tain peace and order to carefully protect
the rights of every citizen to preserve
kindly relations among all men, and to
discountenance and discourage any viola
ton of the rights OF any portion OF the
people secured under the Constitution or
any of its amendments.
Let us, in CONCLUSION. earnestly beg of
You not to aid the present attempts of the
Radical partisans to stir up strife in the
land, to renew the issues of the war, or to
obstruct the return of peace and prosperity
to the Southern States, because 1T is thus
that they seek to divert the attention OF
The country from the corruption and ex-
travaeance of their administration of pub
lie affairs and the dangerous and prohIgate
attempts they are making towards Great
ing a centralized military Government.
In the five years of peace following the
war the Radical administrations have ex-
pended 81, ,2O0, 600 600 for ordinary pur-
poses alone, being within 500, 600 900 of
the aggregate amount spent for same pur-
poses in war and in peace during the sew
enty years preceding June 80, 1851 not
including in either case the sum paid on
the principal or interest of the public debt.
1t is trihing with the intelligence of the
people for the Radical leaders to pretend
that this vast sum has been honestly ex-