New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-04-21

put his hst in the fsoe Of the member ftogl
4aooachu1otts and don0unce him In every
way that one man can denounoo another,un
til haQ 10 say to thoother membeFo Of the
committee standing By, that I did not
think that one white man would take il
without fght and that tho decent me-
groes in my State would fight over It. (Up-
Mr.. .Farnsworth, derisively: It was on 40
connt Of his extreme age, perhaps. lShouts
Mr. Butler, pointing to Mr.. Farnsworth: !:
He 10 not . Whit0 man.
Mr.. Eldridge: Now ID the proper time to
call in the chaplain. Continuous laughter
Mr.. Cox: The coroner should bo also sent
for. ~
The Democrats in Congress have Just il
sued the following address:
TO the People Of the United States:
Our presence and Official duties at Wash
ingt0n have enabled m to become fully &C.
quainted with the actions. and designs Of
those who control the radical0arty, and We
feel called upon to utter few words Of
warning against the alarming strides they
have made toward centrali1ation Of power
in tho hands OF Congress and the executive.
Tho time and attention Of tho radical lead
ers have been almost wholly devoted to do
vising such Legislation - will, in their view,
best preserve their ascendeney; and NO 70
gard for tho wise restraints imposed by the
constitution has checked their reckless and
desperate career.
Tho President of the United States has
been formally announced - . candidate for
reelection. The declarations Of his sel6sh
supporters have been echoed BY . subsi-
already made adhesion to his personal for
tunes the supreme test Of political fealty.
Tho partisan legislation to which We re-
fer was decreed and shaped in secret
caucus, where the extremest c0uneels a.
ways dominated; was adopted by . sub
sertient majority, if not with tho intent
certainly with the effect to place in the
hands Of the President p0wer to command
his own denomination and to employ the
army, navy and militia at his sole discre:
ton as means Of subserving his personal
ambition. When the sad experience Of the
last two years, 20 disappointing to tho
hopes and generous confidence Of the
country, is considered in connection with
the violent utterances and rash
purposes Of those who control
the President's policy, it il mot
surprising that tho gravest apprehensions
for the future peace Of tho nation should be
entertained. At >. time whom labor is de-
pressed and every material interest IL pal
O0A0e4OASS
Offices have been multiplied beyond al pre-
codont, to serve as instruments in the Per.
petuatiOn of power. Partisanship il 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 dishonorable COM
pliance. Hence enormous defalcatiOns and
widespread corruption have followed -
the natural conSequences Of this pernicious
system.
By tho Official report of tho Secretary of
the Treasury it appears that after de-
Of dollars remain due from ex-coilectors Of
the internal revenue, and that no proper
diligence has ever been used to collect
them. Reforms in tho revenue and fiscal
systems. which all experience demonstrates
to be necessary to . frugal administration
of the government, as well a. . measure of
relief to an overburdened people, have been
persistently postponed or Willfuly neg
lected. Congress now sdjourns without
having even attempted to reduce taxation,
which industry is crushed and impover-
The treasury is overfowing, and an excess
of eighty millions of revenue 10 admitted;
and yet, instead of some measure of present
relief, barren and delusive resolution 10
passed by the Senate, to consider the tariff
and excise systems hereafter, a. if the his
tory of broken pledges and pretended reme-
dies furnished any better assurance for ft-
ture legislation than experience has done in
the past. Ship building and tho carrying
trade, once sources of national pride and
prosperity, now languish under crushing
load Of taxation, and nearly every other
business interest is struggling without profit
Rxv n<ns s<an1$ 1w1,s1n
paying heavy taxes on all they consume.
either to the government or to mQnopolists,
find the prices for their own products 90 re-
duced that honest labor 10 denied its just
award, and industry iSprostrated BY invidf
Gus discrimination.
Nearly two hundred million acres of pub.
lie lands, which should have been reserved
for the benefit of the people. have been
voted away to giant corporations, neglecting
our soldiers and snriching 9 handful Of
greedy speculatOrs and lobbyists, who are
thereby enabled to exercise q most dan
gerous and corrupting influence over State
and federal legislation. If the career of
these c0nspiratOrs be not checked, the down
fall of our fIee government is inevitable,
and with it the elevation of military die
tator on the ruins of the republic.
Under pretense of passing laws to enforce
the fourteenth amendment, and for other
purposes, Congress has conferred the most
despotic power upon the executive, and
provided an official machinery by which
the liberties of the people are menaced, and
the sacred right of local elfgovernment in
tho States 10 ignored, if not tyrannically
overthrown: Modelled up to the sedition
laws, 90 odious in history, they are at vari-
amos with all the sanctiied theories Of our
institutions, and the construction given by
these radical Interpreters to the fourteenth
amendment is, to use the language of AN
eminent Senator (Mr. Trumbull, of Illin0is),
an annihilation Of the States. Under tho
last enforcement bill the executive may, in
his discretion, thrust aside the government
of any State, suspend the right Of habeao
corpus, arrest its governor, imprison or dis
perse the legislature, silence its Judges,
and trample down it's people under the
armed heels of his troops. Nothing 10 Left
to the citizens or tho State which can any
longer be called right; all 10 changed into
mere sufferance.
Our hopes for redress are in the calm good
sense, the second thought of tho American
people. We call upon them to be true to
themselves and to their posterity, and, dis
regarding party names and minor differ
ences, to insist upon . decentralization of
power, tho restriction of federal authority
within its just and proper limits, leaving
to the States that control over domestic
affairs which 10 essential to their happiness,
tranquility and good government.
Everything that malicious ingenuity could
suuwesf haa haan dnma IN ;rrs<S<> |A.c.~n,1.