The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-05-02
THE SITUATION.

City on the Goth of April, and signed
by fourteen Senators and ninety-four
members of Congress. Ii isan earnest
and eloquent appeal, and well worthy
the serious consideration ofevery true
American:
To the People of the United states:
Our presence and official duties at
Washington have enabled us to be-
come fully acquainted with the actions
and designs OF those who control the
radical party, and we feel called on to
utter IL few words of warning against
the alarming strides they have made
toward the Capitalization of power in
the hands of Congress and the ENecu-
tive. The time and attention of the
radical leaders have been almost
wholly directed to devisingsu legls-
lation as will, in their view, best pre-
serve their ascendency, and no regard
for the wise restraints imposed by the
constitution has checked their reckless
career. The President of the United
States has been formally announced as
a candidate for reelection. The dec
laration of his selfish supporters have
been echoed by Il subsidized press
and the discipline of II party has
already made adhesion to his personal
fortunes the supreme test of political
fealtv. The partisan legislation to
which we refer was decreed and shap-
ed in secret caucus, where the eN-
tremest counsels always dominated,
and was adopted by a~Subservient ma
jority, if not with the intent, certainly
with the effect, to place / IL the hands
of the President the powertO command
his own denomination and to employ
the navy, army and militia at his sole
discretion as Il means of subscribing
his personal 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 gravest apprehensions for the
future peace of the nation should be
entertained. At a time when labor Is
depressed and every material interest
is hampered by oppressive taxation,
public offices have been multiplying
beyond all precedent to serve as i'll
StrumeutS i'll the preparation OF their
power. P~artisan>hip 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 dis
honorable compiianse; hence. enor-
nous defalcatlonS and widespread
corruption have followed as a natural
consequence ofthis pernicious system.
BY the official report of the Secretary
of the Treasury. it appears that after
the deduction OF all proper credits,
MANY millions of dollars remain due
from the ex-co.lectOrS ofinternal reve-
nue., and no proper diligence has ever
| been used to collect them. Reforms
in the which all experience
| demonstrates to be necessary to the
frugal administration of the govern
ment as we'll as a measure of reliet to
an overburdened people, have been
per>istently postponed or wlitully ne
elected. Congress now adlourns With
out having even attempted to reduce
taxation, or to reveal the glaring i'm
positions by which industry is crushed
and Impoverished. The treasury Is
overfiowing, and an Ncess of $4,000
900 evenue is admitted, and yet, in
stead of some OF present re-
lief. a barren and, delusive resolution
J J. fLt~~ttl Nv lil1 tli"h ~ 40 1-IN
tariff and excise systems hereafter, as
if the history of broken pledges and
pretended remedies furnished any
better assurances for future legislation
thar experience has done in the past.
The shipbuilding and carrying trade,
once sources of national pride II
prosperity. now languish under the
crushing load of taxation, and nearly
every other business interest Is Strug-
! Cling without profit TO itself.
Our agriculturaliStS, While paying a
heavy tax on all they consume. either
to the government or the monopollsts,
find the prices for their own products
50 reduced that honest labor is denied
its lust reward. and industry is pros
trated by invidious discrimination.
Nearly two hundred million acres of
public lands, which should have been
reserved for the benefit of the people.
have been voted away to giant corpor-
atoms, ~ncglecting our soldiers and en-
riching a handful OF greedy Specula-
tors and lobbyists, who are thereby
enabled to exercise a 10 dangerous
and corrupting influence over State
and Federal legislation. If the career
of these conspirators be not checked.
the downfall of tree government is
inevitable, and with it the elevation OF
a military dictator on the ruins OF the
republic.
Under the pretense of passing laws
to enforce the Fourteenth Amend
ment, and tor other purposes, Con
gress has conferred the nos deSpotic
powers upon the Executive, and pro-
vided an official machinery by which
the liberties of the people are menaced,
and the sacred rights o. local self gov
eminent i'll the States ignored, If not
ltyrannically ~overthrown. Modelled by
the sed;ti0n laws so OdiOuS in history,
they are at variance with all the sane
titled theories of our institutions. and
the constructions given by these Rad
ical interpreters to the Fourteenth
Amendment is, to use the language OF