The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-10-19
THE ENATI0NAL ENEMY.

| aimed certain recognition as a logic
of events :" At every stage Of the con-
test between freedom aud slavery country
and anarchy, equity and taste, Republl-
canisnI and democracy, no sooner has
Il crisis approached than some command
and overmastering event or series OF
events have, like thunder storm. dispel-
| led the mists Of uncertainty and false
hood. cleared the political atmosphere
and disclosed to all men the actual stu
alton with perfect dIstinctness. AS the
result of it the patriotic masses have ever
been found on the right side in the hour
Of need
| Tie Tammany disclosures are the lat
est Illustration Of tits fact. Republcals
| have long arraigned the Democratic lead
| ers as essentially unprotected, the DE
mocratic faith as radical denial Of ilbei-
| ty Itself, the Democratic cunst ~uetien OF
| the Constitution as incompatible, If Civ
en- effect, with the national existence, the
| DemocracyEoS The assenblage Of the worst
elements of thought, interest and charac-
| ter Of the country, united By the common
bond of devotion to the spoils, and dis
| tinguished by the theories and inspiia-
| tons that are consonant only with NOR
! al and political soullessness. Can any
| Tended the sum Of all viliainie~. and slav-
ery, that championed the crime Of all
crimes, rebellion; that could see no dis
grace in repudiating the national debit
that could feel DO obligation to accord
citizenship to the man, but only to his
hue; that organizes and upholds Ku-
Kluxism, that carries elections by delib-
erat y planned gigantic fraud that ppGs-
eS educational movements and the pub
lie schools; and that has fostered and
obeyed 1ammany? That Satan avows
himself and his aims and deceives no
honest people is Of course not true. That
he claims to be the sole angel of light
makes him not less Satan. OF late he
has rallied artfully and eloquently at Re
publican abuses, has affected to remould
his Ineaments by "a new departure,
has meekiy owned that slavery and re-
beIlion, were wrong, and asked to be
permitted to protect the freedmen under
the Amendments. One of his strong ar
guments has been the allie yed assump
tion Of unauthorized power by Congress
in passing national election law. This
law was in some striking respects unpre-
| cedented It afforded him serviceable
theme on which to appeal for the sacred
ness of State rights. and against the inva-
sion by the government of the inviolable
fra nchses Of the. commonwealth. Thus
could he appeal for immunity IN contin-
uing the Wholesale Preparation of cleo
ton frauds, and against the overthrow Of
the power Of Tamnany.
Now, to intelligent and thoughtful
men who have or will find leisure to
weigh facts and evidences, great many
things become certainties, that the cheek
and ingenuity of scoundrels make doubt
ful or incredible to multitudes. Where
this wholesale corruption has been de-
monstrated, counter demonstrations, how
ever vicious, have been, accepted By a
host Of wel-meaning believers In the De
mocratic party. At length, In the signal
exposure and discontinue OF the Tam
many Ring, a calcium blaze lights up
the practices by which, for years, Demo-
cratic supremacy has maintained IN New
York, by which alone the thirty-three
electoral votes of the State were given
to Seymour and Blair in '6S, and through
which those votes were again 20 be given
for a Democratic nominee In II.
1t is not possible to eXaggerate the
peril thus created Imagine the cause
lost in the war and lost again In the re-
construction, by suci! fraud put IN pos
setsion of the government the treasury,
army and navy. Conceive by what steps
power thus won would maintain itself.
Suppose ;he VAMPIRE Ring to be in the
White House instead Of city hall,
Would Anything short of second civil
war rescue the country?
Iudicrous are the attempts making TO
shield the Democratic party mana cement
from the consequences of these exposures
On one hand it is denied that this man
agement is in the remotest degree re
spousibIe for them; and on the other
hand it is sternly proclal med that the
| Democracy must arise IN It's might and
rid itself on the wicked managers
Meanwhile the full extent Of the wicked
party management is not yet ascertalned
| The highest schemers Of the Empire
State are implicated. Do we yet know
who is not guilty.
In '6S a single agent ofTammany, Ben
iamln g. Rosenbuyg, at No. 6 Center
street, New York, sold seven thousand
naturalization papers at prices agreed
upon, Wholesale and retail, and Tam
MANY paid the clerk of the court 70: is
suing them. In that year the three
| courts Of the city executed over forty
one thousand uaturatizations, this being
| four times the average Of any preceding
year. Not less than 6S. 343 Fraudulent
| naturalization papers are known to have
| been issued anu scattered oyer the State
| IF \ w \ ork in that year by Democratic
machinery, paid for hy Tammany. y.-One
nf the aqencics of this work was No.
! Center street in the metropolis, and en-
pi3yed twenty clerks. The courts, owned
by and dependent upon Tammany, were
partics to this wick edness. The Su
preme conrt alone, in the fall Of SO, pro
cured $4,000 blank applications and 80,
| coo blank certificates Of naturalization,
and naturalized over 0,000 persons dur
| ing fourteen days In October. From Oc-
tober to October 23 Of that year, he Su-
perior Court naturalized 26,22G persons
! Applicants were exa amined In gangs by a
iudse who excluded reporters the while,
| and bv another who boasted he could ex,
anime two minute. In the Tresiden-
tial election of 6S, 155, 900 votes were
cast by men hired for that purpose, as
sembed at designated headquarters fur
nishel with fictitious names and resi-
! deuce numbers, and with a leader or cap
| tain, and who then went out In gangs,
from two to dozens, into nearly every
part of the city, registering many times
each When the day of election came
these ''repeaters, supplied abundantly
with intoxicating drinks and changing
coats. hats or caps as occasion required,
! commenced the work Of voting often and
prolonged it till the polls closed. Thus
New York was carried by a majority OF
only ten thousand for Seymour and Blair,
II this fraud had elected that ticket, how
should we have escaped a fearful, possibly
a bloody struggle.
TELEGRAPH MONEY ORDERs-A gen
eral transfer OF money order system by
telegraph will GO into effect on October
lst throughout the territory occupied by
the Western Union Telegraph. except
, tho Sontherti States The practice has