The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-04-23

vast patronage. honesty, ntness ana NOR
al worth are openly discarded In favor OF
trucking submission and dishonorable
. compliance. Hence enormous defalca-
tions and wide spread corruption have
followed as the natural consequences OF
, this pernicious system. by the Official re-
port of the Secretary Of the Treasury, II
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 TO collect them.
Reforms in the revenue and fiscal sys.
toms which all experience demonstrates tc
be necessary to the frugal administration
] OF the government, as well az measure OF
relief of an overburdened people, have
been persistent'y postponed or willfully
!; neglected Congress now adjourns with
out having even attempted to reduce tax
alton or TO repeal tho glaring impositions
by which industry is crushed and impover-
ished. The treasuryis overflowing and an
excess of eighty millions of revenue is adj
United, and yet, instead of some measure
TO present relief barren and delusive res
olution is passed by the Senate to consider
the tariff und excise system hereafter, as
if the history of broken pledges and un-
applied rerredies furnished any better as
surance for future legislation than expert
ence has done in the past. Ship building
and the carrying trade, once sources Of ra-
tional pride and prosperity, now languish
under the crushing load Of taxation, and
nearly every other business interest is
struggling without profit to maintain itself.
Our agriculturists while paying heavy
taxes on all they consume, either to the
Government or monopolists, find the prices
f.S hltr
honest labor is denied its Just reward, and
Industry is prostrated by invidous des-
examinations.
Nearly 200 100000 of acres Of public
lands which should have been reserved for
the benefit of the people, have been voted
away to grants and corporations, neglect
ing our soldiers and enriching a handful OF
greedy spectators and lobbyists, who are
thereby enabled to exercise most danger
GUS and corrupting influence in our State
and Federal legislation. If the career of
those conspirators be not checked the
downfall Of free government is inevitable,
| and With the elevation of q military die
tator on the ruins of the republic. Under
pretense of passing laws to enforce the
| Fifteenth amendment and for other pur-
poses Congress has conferred the most des-
potfc powers upon the Executive, and
provided an official machinery by which
the liberties of the people are menaced
and the sacred right of local self-govern-
ment in the States is ignored, if not ty-
rannica)ly overthrown-laws so odious
that they are at variance with all the sa-
cred theories of our Institutions. The
| construction, given by these Radical in
terpretes Of the Fourteenth mendment, to
| use the language Of an eminent Senator
| [Trumbull, Of Illinois |, is the annihilation
of the States. Under the last enforce
ment bill the Executive may in his dis
cretion thrust aside the government of any
State, suspend the writ of habeas corpus,
arrest its governor, imprison or disperse
the legislature, silence its judges and
trsmple down its people under the armed
heel of his troops. Nothing is left TO the
citizen of State which can any longer be
called right.
Our hopes for redress are in the calm
,2vd sense and sober second thought of
the American people. We call upon then,
to be true to themselves and to their posts,
and disregarding party names and minor
differences, to insist on decent equaliza-
tion of power, the restoration Of the Fed |
eral authority within lis Just and proper
limits leaving to the States that control |
of their domestic affairs which Is essential |
to their happiness. tranquility and poud
government. Everything that malicious
Ingenuity could suggest has been done TO
irri,atc tine people OF the Middle and
Southern States. Gross and exaggerated
charges of disorder and violence owe their
origin to the mischievous minds of the po-
| iisical managers in the Senate and House
of Repr rcsentatiycs to which the Executive
has, we are sorry TO saw, lent his Aid. and
these have helped to infiame popular feel
| ing. In all this course of hostile Iepisla.
tion and harsh resentment no word of con-
ciliation, of Kind encouragement or frater-
nal fellowship has ever been spoken BY the
President or by Congress to the people of
the Southern States. They have been
addressed only in the Language of pro-
scription.
We earnestly entreat our felow-citizens
il all parts of the Union to spare no effort
TO maintain peace and order to carefully |
protect the ri ghts of every citizen, to pre-
serve kindly relations among all men and
to discountenancc and discourage any vio-
lation of the rights OF any portion Of the
people secured under the Constitution or
any of its amendments.
Let US IN 9pnciusion earnestly beg or
you not 10 ana the present attempts of the