The Republican journal., 1871-01-26

after having been long and carefully examined not
only with the most scrupulous but with the most
suspicious attention. 1t comes from an order of
men whose interest is never exactly the same a.
that Of the people, who have generally an interest
to deceive and even Cypress the public, and who
accordingly have upon many occasions both d.
lceived and oppressed them"
Examine the facts in the light of these sugges-
tions, and make up your mind whether to support
the old Federal idea that men on the average need
guidance and control, or the old Democratic idea
that men best let alone. For that is the ultimate
issue. Yes, my friends, this is really nothing but
the old battle between the big government men
which began before the Constitution was framed
and which has been going on ever since, and will
go on forever so long one set of men think that
governments are blessings and sources OF blessings,
anu the others who regard them as necessary null
sances. Alexander Hamilton in the old days head
ed the party which believed, as he said that although
'the body Of the people in the country sincerely de-
sire its prosperity, it is equally unquestonabe that
they do not possess the discernment and the ability
necessary for systematic government" He thought
the Constitution a frail and worthless fabric" and
he strove by all means in his power to prop it by
prerogatiyes and strengthen 1t by constructions.
His influence with General Washington, whom tho
people loved and trusted enabled him to prosecute
successfully his plan for supplementing the feeble
ness of the form Of the Constitution by strength
into its veins by construction. Naturally enough
the tale of his exploits reads like the list have
given of the Republican blessings. He assumed
the war debts of the States; he instituted an intr-
cate and imposing funding system; he founded
great government baak; he origina ed "protection'
in this country by his report on manufactures; he
started the policy OF developing" the country by
roads and canals subsidized by the government;
he TOO. prosecuted the policy Of pulling the teeth
of the States" The anmating spirit of his system
Wa,s , pre- precisely the same which we ind to-day up
construction,' and 1t has been so f0rcibTt and ad
miraDly expressed by the gentleman upon whom
i in our day the mantle of the great Federast has
: fallen that crave permission to quote from re-
cent speech Of Mr.. Schenck in the House OF Rep
resentatives. Some narrow fellow, doubtless
Democrat, had been objectng that the Constitu
a re "A ~
in order to further any private interest The gen
a eral bursts upon him with this fine passage
Great Heavens! and is that TO be your idea OF
government? always thought every government,
and, most of ali, every free government. ought to
: be regarded as the great Alma Mater of her chill
dren" The chief idea of the gentleman's whole
q school ,f politics. the very bedpate of all the pro
tective' machinery and the deepest conviction ot
the great party of much government Is there.
h A good mother nurses her helpless babies, and
just the State should codde its helpless children.
h To men who have honestly absorbed this political
t philosophy, the Democratic faith, no doubt, seems
t cold and poor. But Mr.. Jefferson would have said
It that the "chdren'' of the United States govern
e ment were grown men, AS intelligent upon the
average, and able to take of themselves, and
4 Judge what is best for them, even this nursing
l. mother, who happens in this case to be General
it schenck himself. What Thomas Jefferson did
7 say to the report Of Mr. Hamilton, in which ho
spread before the people his plan of administering
Il the government according to the general welfare
4 scheme, which only mild form of what Is known
e very well AS the ''war power plan, was this-The
= object of these plans is to draw all the powers oil
J., the government into the hands of the general Leg
II islature, to establish means for corrupting suIi
cient corps in that Legislature to divide the honest
v votes and to preponderae by their own the scale
= which suited, and to have the corps under the com
manu of the Secretary of the Treasury, for the pur
pose of subVertng step by step the principles OF tho
d Constitution.' Such. gentlemen, we say is sub
k stanally the line of policy and its true meaning,
which the Republican party presents for approba-
l. ton to-day, and such is the scheme of government
which you ratity with your vote if you vote the Re-
nh ti.4l lat Mr hn.liS
= fIzmon-'He administrationed the government
into thing totally different from that which he and
Il | know perfectly we'll had been understood and in
h tended by the people in adopting it," so the Democ-
n racy say to-day that the Republican party has
Is reconstructed' the government into something
is not only totally different from ANYTHING tho Pep<o
h even intended, but utterly unlike the work o.
J. the fathers, that Mr.. Madison himself would not
J. known it for his offspring, and old Patrick ieaJs'
V would justly Voci!erate again-"lt has IN aWhii
T. squirting, sir; it squints towards Il monarchy
e And certainly the army of tlunkieS and the color OF
e corruption would justify the Old patriot. For in-
i consequence of this complication of unauthorized
II Jurisdiction under which our frame OF governments
!c has broken down, the army of oice-holdors has
l. been doubled in ten years, and those malades OF
IS the body polite which thrive under patronage, amt
= swell TO bursting upon a pcthorc public purse
J. have grown intoerable The best Republicans
= while They defend the system by their votes de
II plore the corruption which is depraving the nation
\, al character, and denounce the otce-seeking which
:. is dehasiu% our politics.
il Good men Of all parte, stood aghast ut the
T. scramble which took place at the last election The
y host of oicc-seekers and tde-waiters and men
e 'nslde politics" has been as the sands of the sea
In other days i'll our free and happy land but never,
either in the multitude rayenng did it equal the
herds of young lions of moral ideas that snatched
e and tore for the patronage of President Grant. fo
s this evil admitted and confessed, the Rupublican
l. party will apply no remedy and offer no palliaon
e Except Civil Service Bill, which it will not enact
l. My friends the Civil Service Bill would be better
8 than nothing but after all, it is only pnser-t
> can cure nothing so long as you maintain system
II which by its enormous taxes and vast expenses and
If lavish grants and ntermnabe meddling with every
l. nook and corner of State jurisdiction and private
> enterprise, promotes corruption and demands All
endless army of servants for It's manifold erauds.
$ Mr. Macauley tells us that
II "Whereer down Iber garbage floats, the greedy pike
you see"
If And you him there because his food i, there
e because there the sewers of Rome yomit-ant
# you never get rid of him except by stars ing
e him. Take away the refuse upon which lie feeds.
n Cut down your outlay, reduce your taxes, stop
Il "protecting the people and reconstructing' States
= Reduce your central government to the simple fed
l. GRAFTON of the fathers, and then, perhaps honesty
y may return to public service and economy drive
out the lazy luzzaroni of the Treasury. But while
y you MAINTAIN system which is day by day more
o and more consolidating the definitely defined tunt
tious of every limited delegated power into grand
e imperial government you must look to see cOrrup
l. ton increase and politics degenerate. Why see it
II go under your very eyes today.
> The advent of President Grant was heruded a.,
l. a of supra political purity. No longer
were the hack politicians to bear away. Only the
, most honest independent, pure citizen should
: cupy office for the public good. Such the
Il promise. What has been the performances First.
! we Judge iIoar driven from office because he
+ was too honest and upright for his place, and now
Secretary Cox is forced ont by coalition of two vi
} the most corrupt and aded political hacks in the
:, country because he has ably and firmly tried to
l. form his department in the interest of the people
l. rather than party. My friends, this is the bare
u truth, thousands of good Republicans know and
'f yet they maintain the system which works and
e must continue to work in this way. Hoar and
v Cox have gone; Mr.. Fish viii soon follow and
& then the who really control the Republican
+ party will openly use it. Look again at Missouri
r There is AN honest division of opinion among hou
Il oreu and eminent leader Of the Republican party
3 on question of principle. Mr.. GratZ Brown and
Senator SchurZ maintain that is parody equal
rights to give votes TO every black in the State
10 and 10 refuse votes at the time to fifty thous
1t and white men. And so think and you think,
s and so thinks the honest half of the Republican
party. And yet President Grant meets the qle.-
d ton how? BY argument He cannot speak: BY
= IDEAS! He has none. By persuasionl 'I's OF
such kind he knows, and the only kind that his
Il party misrepresentation, force, 'War power" He
II turns out of office all who differ from him. | tell
d you my friends, the fault is in the whole grand
u systematic, combined, and consolidated parapher
d MALTA of autocracy, dcnomnated the Republican
party.
L From his pharsac thanking of God that it is
e much more moral than other parties are, through
. the hypocrtca humbuS which processes to cite the
governments derive their Just power from the
q pInnnu tnft tJ,n nod in of