The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-30

among public officers, and stated against th
vague charge, sustained by no specification
proof. he brought the figures as they stood h
day upon the books of the Treasury Depar
ment. The cash balance standing against all tl
collectors Of internal revenue, good and bad, a
told, for taxes since 1869, we're less than one
tenth of one per cent. of the money they ha
actually paid into the Treasury, and when ths
which was collectable was paid in, there woul
/ remain less than one fifth of one per cent. Q
the whole. OF the customs there had bee
paid. ont of S553, ,000, 900 all but S28, 900, O
one ffty-ffth part Of one per cent. The pres
snt Republican Treasurer of the Unite'
States, appointed by Mr.. Lincoln, had been il
Office 11ls years. and during that time ha.
received and paid out 5000, ,O00. 200, ant
there had been q loss during that time of onl,
S55.Ge0, or one ten-thousandth part of one pc
cent These were the actual figures, and the,
ought to silence forever the charge of defalca
ton. 1t is very easy to make general charges
found by any one who cares to look ut the
books of the Treasury. The defalcationf
winch have actually occurred have met with
swift and condign punishment. Tammany,
which now supports Greeley, sends its thieves
to the Legislsare, while the Republican party
sends theirs to the Penitentiary.
Equally groundless was the charge of
President. No single instance Of military in.
terference by his order in all this disturbed
condition of the South, not authorized-by ex-
press provision of law. can be found. The cry
for relief from military rule, sent up SO i'm
ploringly to Mr.. Greeley and his followers, by
those who are stretching out their hands to
them over the q bloody chasm they themselves
from that restraint by law which compels them
to desist from outrages perpetrated by night,
aud IN disguise, upon unoffending women,
helpless negroes and white men. whose only
offeDse is that they come from Northern States
to make their home in the South. Proof o.
scenes, worthy only of barbarians. is fall and
incontrovertible. No man with his eyes open
can honestly deny it. The speaker had him
self seen, in Washington, under the statue Of
liberty itself. man whose back had been
lacerated by these disguised rutfians who had
bound him to the earth and beaten hun to
extOrt from him the promise that he would
leave the State he had chosen for his home
and return to the North 1t waste put stop
to these terrible outrages which disgraced the
passed, against which the whole srtillery
opposition is opposed. Under this aet it is
made the duty Of the President to employ the
military power of the United States in all
cases where insurrectiOn, domestic violence,
unlawful combinations or conspiracies IN any
State shall so obstruct or hinder the execution
Of the laws thereof. and Of the United States,
as TO deprive any portion or class of the peo-
pie OF such State of any of the rights, privi-
leges or immunities of protection named in
the Constitution, and secure by this act, and
the constituted authorities of such State shall
either be unable to protect or shall from any
cause fail in or refuse protection of the people
in such nights" These are the words of the
law. and TO re rure less Of the President would
be to abandon the citizen and cease to protect
him in his constitutional rights A President
who would fail to do this deserves impeach
ment. The President is also authorized by the
same act to suspend the writ of -habeas corpus
when these unlawful combinations shall be
organized and armed, and 80 numerous and
powerful as TO be able by violence to overthrow
or set at defiance the constituted authorites.''
But the Congress that made this law provided
that the power to suspend the writ Of habeas
corpus, even in these cases should terminate
with the last session Of Congress- Repub-
lican Congress refused to extend it, and re-
fused even to extend the session by recess
till November, so that there should be no pre-
tense for the exercise of this extraordinary
military power during Presidential canvass.
This is the head and front of all the ''military
by the President and Congress.
against which the cry has come up from the
new converts to peace in the Democratic party.
They vanish into thin air when tested BY the
Iaets' cue n
MI Dawes .nen erew picture ., ui1 Pros-
e. a;nnst; VI 'o nd oUt u,Te' .h % nepan
fnl disclosure of growth and development re
.esieu ps tne CENSUS showing lllaI IA the iast
zen !eaIs neI :, aI naliuiac.ufins pIouucts ai1ne
hau increased no per cent ana that tn9 Saiue
OF reaI anu persona property N tsss Union.
eociasl'e exc @ OF saseo' haa ancreasea ere @ 1 ION
yoo,oou,Vo IN Iooo 70 S2o.ooo,oOV,oOo IN lop
that every citizen had Deen pIotecsed IN nus
rights 10 the utmost apiity OF the Admi nistra-
non tnat there had Deeh tnorousn en-