The Weekly Washington telegraph., 1871-08-30

impoverished in pocket, paying her
debts with promises of amendment in
the face ofrapid financial decline, suf'
fering all the pains of oppression,
mockcry of law and presenting a car
ricature upon Republican institutions;
shall the perpetrators Of his wickedness
and outrage be covered with the mgis
of party protection and shall Republi-
canism assume responsibility for their
crimes? We'll have none of it, but
apply the caustic to the proud flesh
and heal the body polite.
We have nGught but resistance TO
tender the official vultures who are
sucking the life blood of the State, and
who look forward for their security in
power only to the most glarirg oppres-
sions and frauds; who by their whole
sale corruptions and injustice UNDER
mine the moral force Of social order
and by their expressions and promo
ton to the bench as a reward for faith
iessness TO the people, destroy the
moral authority of law-who, by a
price for venality and fraud, and a
penalty for honesty and patriots
ism, and a policy which makes law
and authority synonymous with out
rage and wrong, are rapidly tending
to produce disorder and decentralization
of the popular mind.
These are qucstiors which appeal
t. the patriot, not to the partisart; and,
gentlemen of the Organ aud of the
west wing of the State House, we
advise you that the only terms upon
which we will agree to an armistice
with you, are repentance and conver-
sion from your evil ways. When you
shall have restored the State credit
and returned to the treasury all that
you have already stolen thercfrom. in
railroad bonds, leyee bonds, militia
claims and school funds, and completed
the work OF rcparation when you
shall have ceased to stuff ballot boxes
and desistcd from your expressions
and usurpations, and transmogihel the
judiciary from Il political machine for
personal ends into Il tribunal of law
and fountain of iusticc--in Il word,
when you shall have cease to do evil
and learned to do good, and like the
sorrowful publican knecling aiar of
from the holy place, reproach your
selves with pcnitential groans Of inca
cuipa, mca cHlpa, mea marina culpa,"
then, but not till then, can we cease to
warn or denounce you. Until then
peace with You would be "a covenant
with Satan and a league with hell"
and to call it the harmony Of Republi-
canism would be simply a corrupt tsfs.
There can be no harmony Will "''
is corruption no pQa4-----,.i' pQa--,. '''le ,
exists wrong. aT,," &C.. 1'''o ,'o ansao ,"sao
begotten Of We van. .'0 l'."'0
,,r pon an honest administration,
ro.. publican laws enacted by just
"a elected by a free people: and this
size shall have, and have, too, through
Republican State Convention, for
the irrsrt and conscience of the Re.
publican party is surely and rapidly
arousing against you, and you know
it. 1t is resolved to rid itself OF the
load of ofiicial corruption and corrup
t,;onists who are weighing it down like
the old man Of tine sea, and get out
into its pure native air Of justice and
liberty, which has ever been the true
inspirations CT 1ts triumphs.
What say you 20 our terms of peace
Surely, if you are honest you vii
accept them. "BrotlSr Brooks i
not here to sign thon;$ot we thinl
we know him and hear him sa.
"Amep;" nor do we feel that we ar
assuming too much for him when w
promise, by way Of inducement, hi
prayers for the good Of your souls; bu
he will be home in a few days, an
doubtless answer for himseh.-Li
Rcck Journal.
c Gen. Sherman expresses the opll"u