Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-21

dlTcauE WOHueTlully improved unuer the DEBATE
on the bill. Some of the ablcst of the southern
democrats are forced to admit that it has had
an excellent effect in their districts. There is
general expectation that the passage of the bill
alone will prevent more kuklux outrages.
SAMiWELLER.
CTO the Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 20.
THE AMENDMENT.
The following is the full text of the sixth sec
ton of the kukluX bill, as finally passed, and
taking the place of the amendment originally
Offerediby Mr.. Sherman:
Sect. 6. That any person or persons having knowl
edge that any of the wrongs oJnspired to be done
and mentioned in the second section of this act
about to be committed, and having power TO pre-
vent aid in preventing the same shall neglect
refuse so to do, and such wrongful act shall be
mitted such person or persons shall be liable to the
person injured or his legal representatives, for all
damage caused by any such wrongful act which such
hrst named person or persons, by reasonable
diligence, could have prevented, and such
damages may be recovered in action on
the case in the proper circuit court of the
United States, and any number of persons guilty
of such wrongful neglect or refusal may be Joined
as defendants in such action: provided such action
shall be commenced within one year after such
Ofaction shall have accrued; and il the death
of any person shall be caused by any such wrongful
act and neglect the legal representative of such de-
ceased person shall have such action therefor, and
may recover, not exceeding five thousand dollars
damages, therein for the benefit of the widow of
such deceased person. if any there be; Or If there
be no widow, Tor the benefit of the next of kin Of
such deceased person.
EXTRA SESSION OF THE SENATE.
The following is made public tonight:
By the PreSidentQf the United States of america:
A Proclamation.
Whereas, objects of interest to the United States
require that the senate should be convened at twelve
O'Clock, on Wednesday, the tenth day of May next
to receive and act upon such communications as
may be made to it on the part of the executive;
now, therefore,
Ulysses s. Grant president of the United States,
have considered it to be my duty to issue this my
proclamation declaring that an extraordinary occa-
sion requires the senate of tine United States to
vene for the transaction of business at the capitol
in the city of Washington, on Wednesday, the
tenth day of May next, at twelve O'Clock on that
day; of which all who SHALL at that time be en-
titled to act members of that body, are hereby
quired to take notice.
Given under my hand and Ithe seal of the United
States, at Washington, the twentieth of April, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-0ne, and of the independence of the
United States of America, the ninety-tfth.
U. 5. GRANT.
BY the president,
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State,
DEMOCRATIC ADDREss-A WEAK DOCUMENT.
The democrats in congress have just issued
the following address:
To the People Of the United States:
Our presence and official duties at Washington
have enabled to become fully acquainted with the
ACTIONS ana designs OF VINO control the radical
party, and we feel called upon to utter few words
of warning against the alarming strides they have
made towards Capitalization of power in the hands
of congress and the executive. The time and atten-
ton of the radical leaders have been almost wholly
directed to devisng such legislation WILL in their
view, best preserve their ascendency and regard
for the wise restraints imposed by the constitution
has checked their reckless and desperate career.
The president of the United States has been
formally announced as candidate for reelection.
The declarations OF his selfish supporters have been
echoed by subsidized press, and the discipline Of
party has already made adhesion to his personal
fortunes the supreme test of political fealty. The
partizan legislation, to which refer, decreed
and shaped in secret caucus where the EXTREMIST
counsels always dominated, and was adopted by
subservient majority, if not with the INTENT GER
tainly with the effect to place in the hands of the
president power to command his own renomina-
ton, and to employ the army, navy and militia, at
his sole direction, means of subscribing his per-
sonal ambition.
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 grayest apprehensons for the future peace
of the nation should be entertained. AT a time
when labor Is depressed and every material interest
is palsled by oppressive taxation, public offices have
been multiplied beyond all precedent, to serve as
instruments in the perpetuation OF power Partl-
Zanship 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 dlshorabe compliance. Hence
enormous defalcations and widespread corruption
have followed, the natural consequences of this
pernicious system.
ury it appears that, after the deduction Of all prop
CREDITS many millions of dollars remain due
from eX-c0lectOrs of internal revenue, and that
proper diligence has been used to collect them
Reforms in the revenue and fiscal systems which
all experience demonstrates to be necessary to a
frugal administration of the government well as
a measure of relief to over burdened people, has
been persistenty postponed, willfully neglected
Congress now adjourns without having even at.
tempted TO reduce taxation or TO repeal the garing
impOsltions by which industry Is crushed and i'm
poverished. The. treasury is overlooking, and an
excess of eighty million dollars in revenue is adj
mitted; and yet, instead OF some measure of
present relief, barren and delusiye resolution is
passed by the senate, to consider the tariff and
else systems hereafter, as if the history of broken
pledges aud pretended remedies furnished any bet
ter assurance for future legislation than experience
has done in the past. Ship building and the carry
ing trade, once source Of national pride and pros
perity, now languiSh under the crushing load of
taxation, and nearly every other business interest
is struggling, without profit ia maintain ITSELF
Our, agriculturists, while paying heavy taxes on
all they consume, either to the government or to
monOposts find prices for their own products so
reduced that honest labor is denied its just reward
and industry prostFated by inyidious discrimina:
ton,
should have been reserved for the benefit of the peo
pie have been voted away to corporations, negecing
our soldiers, and enriching handful of greed
specuators and lobbyists, who are thereby enabled
to exercise most dangerous and eorrupting infu.
euVe oNeI anu ieBlslatiou. II
of those cOnspirators be not checked, the downfall
of free government is inevitable and with it the
elevation u military dictator on the ruins Of tue
republic
Under pretence of passing laws to enforce the
l4th amendment, and for other purposes, congress
has conferred most despotc powers upon the execu.
tive, and provided official machinery by which the
liberties of the people are menaced, and the sacred
right OF local selfgOYernment in the states Is 10.
nored, II not tyrannioally everthrown. Modelled IN
to sediton, the laws are at variance with all the
sanctited theories of institutions ana the con-
strlction given by these radical interpreters to the
14th amendment is, to use tine language of the emil
nent senator Mr.. Trumbul, of Illinois, an gannihi.
lator Of stRtes,i
Under the last enforcement BILL the executive
may in his disoretonS thrust aside the government
OF any state suspend the writ of habeas corpus ar
ture, silence its judges and trample down its people
under the armed heel of his troops. Nothing is left
to citizen or state which any longer be called
right, All Is changed into mere suiferance Our
hopes for redress are in the calm good sense the
sober second thought Of the American people We
call upon them 10 be true TO themselves and TO
their past, and, disregarding party names end
minor differences insist upon decent equalization
OF power, restriction of federal authority within It's
just and proper limits, leaving 10 the states that
control over domestic affairs which Is essential TO
their happiness and tranquility and good govern
ment.
Everything that malicious ingenuity could sug-
gest mas been done to irritate the people of the
middle and southern states: Gross and exaggerated
charges Of disorder and violence owe their origin to
the mischevous minds Of political managers In the
senate aud house Of representatives, to which the
awoeutivo haa rQ0rak LIANT hfs aid and