Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-22

TaugfTed IN South Carolina since the passage
.of az. kluk law which can be the Slightest
Just cation Of dc Pfesi dent III susperfrg TIE
writ in the absence of war and the clasc OF arms,
spreading terror and dismay among the whole
masses q Ieopie gasssS OF r fE1ne anT p9oc
| testify to the fact that there has been no more
trouble on disorder in South Caroline for the last
HING months than is common 20 any other State
ssIn the absence of the facts or statements and
representations; which are not facts founded in
truth, communicated to the President, whether
truthfaily or falsely, prior 20 the issuing OF his
pr0clamati0Ii, we Enthusiastically assert that for
nine months prior to said proclamation, and at
/ least three months previous 70 the passage Of
| what is known as the FEn-kiux law, there was
zTnore peace aid good order throughout the en-
| tire borders of South Carolina than had been
at any time since the termination OF the war.
4 Now, If this Is the fact, then the action of the
President was not only unwise and impolitic,
but IL was naked and most unjustifiable act of
tyranny and oppression, at war with the spirit
of free institutions, and Precedent which, by
repeated use, viii not only sap the foundations
of the government, but can almost change the
But, sir as this is Democratic testimony,
j propose to give you some that comes
from the leaders andfounGers of the Re-
publican party, from men who stand aghast
at what they have done, and are calling on
the people to assist them in aliaying the
storm they have raised. Judge TrumbIlll,
of Illinois, said on the 18th inst. at meet
ing held at Cooper Institute, in New York
city:
'sThe safety of the citizen, let me say to
you, and bis protection in his person and
his property, IS TO be found in local laws
which the people themselves administer
Tapplausel, and not in central government
where all the powers of the governments are
combined; and If this system Of encroach-
ment is permitted to go on, the day is not
distant when our republican system, based
on the idea of division of the power be-
tween the Federal Government and the
States, will be Transformed into one impe-
rial despotism, with all the power at the city
of WashingtoH and l care not whether that
power be exercised by single
person called monarch, or
by five hundred persons, called a
Congress, it is equally a despotism.
APPLAUSE The doctrine is A0W boldly
proclaimed by men high in authority that
The States of this Union have such powers
only as are conferred upon them by the
Constitution of the United States, when
directly the reverse is true, and tie States
have all power except such as the Consti-
tuition of the United States has conferred
upon the United States or has withheld
from the States. The difference is this.
the Government of the United States is
Government of derivative powers; that of
the States is inherent. They have all power
not denied them, while the Government of
the United States has no power except such 4
as is given to it." .s- F,-- .r
And Gen. SchuTz, q gentleman who has
distinguished himself, not only here, bat in |
his native land, by his advocacy of republic
can principles, denounees the administration |
in the following language:
cit was our pride as Republicans once to
say that in no party there had ever existed
such a freedom of criticism and individual
opinion. So it was when Abraham Lincoln !
was President. Every Republican spoke
his mind freely, and found in him a Presi- |
dent who, instead of resenting, invited can
did criticism, and who respected every hon
est conviction, even if that conviction ran
counter to his personal desires. But things
have changed. If now you ever conceive |
an opinion contrary to the interests and
controlling desires of the powers that be,
be careful not to give it utteranee. The
good times of Abraham Lincoln are no
more. a loyal Republican to-day viii |
think and speak only by royal per-
mission, or be viii, in his most legitimate |
aspirations, find a most resentful Govern |
ment influence in his way; he will find him !
self denounced as a traitor to the Republi- |
can cause if he thinks that caase entitled |
to higher consideration than the personal |
interests of the party chiefs, and be will |
hear pack of hounds az his heels whose |
bark would be terrible could they conceal |
the collars they wear around their necks. |
Never was holder, more unrepublican |
attempt to terrorize and subjugate to one |
win the freedom of opinion in a party, and |
to- press its whole machinery into the service
of selfish interest" i
While Horace Greeley, the great advocate /
and founder of the party, is unsparing in |
his denunciations of its eorruptions, venality, !
and oppression. .-.-- q. 80
Sir, examineit in its all acts and what do |
you find Pass from its home to its foreign (
policy, if policy that can be called which |
consists of trucking, bullying, and evasion,
as the administration is guided by its fears, /
power, or desires. / win not allude to the |
attempted San Domingo swindle; that has
been sufficiently exposed, but call your at
tention to the Washington treaty, which |
has been claimed as the browning glory of |
the Administration, as feat of diplomacy
that would render it immortal, and whose i
effects are to be felt in all time; look, / say,
at this treaty, miserable failure which
complexities our position with England, and
leaves us further from the attainment of the
objects it was intended to secure than we
were before its inception.
Upon our Southern coast lies "the gem of
the Antilles the beautiful island of Cuba,
the most fertile and pleasant, the most
valuable and the richest of all ''the islands
Of the sea-" for long years its people have
been struggling to free themselves from a
despotism almost as Odious as that under
which some of the Southern States are
held; all they haVes asked from this
Government TO enable them to secure the
blessings. of liberty was a recognition of
their efforts, and this has been denied them;
to obtain this recognition this poor island
decreed the abolition of slavery in every
form, and yet this boosted Republican
party, this Republican Administration,
whose chief boast is that it emancipated
the slaves here, turns to them a deaf
ear; and instead of aiding, even by
word, these men who are struggling to
free themselves and 10 bestow the great
boon of freedom upon millions now held
in slavery, this boosted Republican Gov
eminent, ruled as it is by men calling
themselves 'Ethe friends of freedom" has
used all its power to continue these men in
the most odious bondage, trucking to the
most despotic power in Europe, and indi-
rectly, if not directly, aiding it in commit
ting the vilest atrocities, not only upon its
own, out upon citizens of the United
States.
Upon our southern border, extending
from the Gulf of Mexico and the Carbide
an sea upon the east, to the Pacific ocean
on the west, from our boundary on the
north to the equator on the south, lies the
republic of Mexico. It contains millions of
square miles of the richest agricultural
lands upon the earth its productions COM
prise sugar, coffee, cotton, rice, indigo, to-
bacco and all the most valuable of earth's
rich gifts to man; its mineral wealth is I'M
surpassed and indispensable, yet it stands
almost a barren waste, producing nothing,
monument of misgovernment, when it
could be made to add so much to the wealth
of the world and the happiness of man.
kind. Plunged in chronic state of reyo-
luton, its fields without cultivation, its
mines abandoned, its people preying upon
each other, without history in the past or
a hope for the future, this government re-