The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-08-31


shat We propose Is 10 cure, and not to ag-
.rravatc the disease. In the language of
fte Democratic Congressional address:
. Our hopes for redress are in tie calm.
good sense Of the sober second thought of
the American people. We call upon them /
to be true to themselves and to their past. /
and. disregarding party name and minor |
differences, to insist upon decent equali- /
cation Of power: the restriction of Federal |
power within its just and proper limits, /
leaving to tho States that control of their .
domestic affairs that is essential 10 their .
happiness and tranquility and good govern !
ment.
They appeal to the reason and returning |
sense ofiustice, magnanimity and fraternai I
feeling OF al the people North and South, |
in favor of amnesty. In this appeal large |
numbers-th0usands upon thousands of I
liberal Republicans ike Brown and Schurz. |
OF Missouri, have already joined The !
negroes thenselye, at the South, VIII join |
in demanding amnesty for their late mas
ters The example of Missouri cannot |
long be resisted. The Choctaws and Che |
rokees in their treaties Of peace six years
ago, gave universal amnesty; and, their
example should shame Christian white men
out of policy resting on unforciying hate
or unnlanly fear.
The sentiment must become nearly uni
versal for amnesty, and two thirds of Con-
gress will vote for the bill.
Although late in coming, it will tend to
restore fraternal feeling. It will certainly
restore TO intelligence and character at the
South, Voice once more in the manage
ment of its local affairs, and restore to
those States what they have not had for
years Republican form of government.
Gentlemen, among other important is
sues Of the present, the greatest is this:
/ viz: whether our government Is to be in
/ substance II not in form, reVoluti0nfzri
! Whether the federal government is to
! remain as our fathers made it, based upon
a written constitution, limiting and defn-
/ ing its powers, and rcscrving the mass Of
! powers rot delegated to the several States
/ and to the people; Or whether It Is to be-
/ come government of unlimited and cen
+ tralized power? In word, whether the
7 United States shall continue to be a Union
of States under the cons titution, or become
! centralized dcspotism at Washington, to
| be ruled by the secret resolves of a caucus,
| and by the President at the head of the
| army.
Our faithful representatives at Washing
ton, say:
"Under the pretencc of passing laws to
! enforce the Fourteenth Amendment and
| for other purposes, Congress has conferred
| the most desnotic powers upon the EXccu-
| tive, and provided an official machinery by
! which the liberties OF the people are men
aced and the sacred rights OF local self
! government in the States is ignored, if not
T! tTrannically oycrthGoWn. Modelled by the
! ecdition laws So odious IN history, they are
at variance with all the sanctiticd theories
| Of cur institutions, and the construction
| given by these radical Interpreters to the
| Fourteenth Amendment Is, to use tie IAN
/ guage Of an eminent sCnator--AIr. Trum-
| bull of Illinois, an annihilator Of the
states Under the last enforcement bill.
| the Executive may, in his discretion, thrust
| aside the government of any state; suspend
the writ OF hGdcGS cOrpUS; arrest It's gov
ernor; imprison or dispense its lcgisla-
turc; silence Its judges, and trample Gown
its people. Under the armed heel Of his
troops, nothing is left to the citizens or
| state which can any longer be called a
right; al IS changed into mere suAcrancc."
As certain as we i've this is Il great issue
and danger upon Us now.
Everybody feels that a+reroution is 60
ino on I'm that direction: f,r v.,,,- ,,-.,,,,r,4
giving way under cur feet. Radicals adj
Nit s, Some ayow and ;nsf.f,- -. aa,!
some the best friends Of reruhiican GOV
crnmcnt, fear that revolution has already
! gone too far to be arrested. Bur r..ntIe-
men, let US not despair, truth viii rise
again.
In the nature Of tb;nas :, or,. s-..to,, of
government, two forces are n vsy ~ + (l u
Ike the two forces in our nlanetirr .[s+c,r
the one tending to draw all planets Ia the
centre; the other to take them ott of the
system altogether
They have been constantly st.,rc,;nc
with each other from the hag;n,,i,,,5r AZ
from before the berinn;nr. anu
As by comnromjsc Of forces Tho r1,n-
cts were made 10 rn,ojvo - tba;r ~ H.
around the su, 80 H., 800 e'',il " 2i'o