The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-09

erai Grant ana the rings that surround him. But
the prime cause Hes further back an6 deeper dow
with an His reforms oGers no immediate atsnszsens
and only partial remedy.
In Engiand, amer every civil commotion, ne
rapacty By passing bills OF attainder and bills OF
pains and penalties against their fallen and helpless
shes Sss' aa and we're the
Tins OF these legislative DEGREES. In All
the most notable cases subsequent Psriaments &C,
kn0wledged the wrong, reversed the attatndeIs
determined that no such thing should ever be done
plain words and made it part Of the fundamental
law that neither Congress nor any State Legislature
should ever pass bill OF attainder.
The reconstruction act of 1857 was bill OF at
tainder more deliberately cruel and with pains and
penalties more compendlously UNJUST than any Brit
conscious that It could not stand and they must
replace 1t with something else for sooner or later
Besdes the obec 90 sure 70 sn H. Sa
people under the domination OF greedy adventurers
rom the North, with unlimited license to Cypress
and plumber them, the officers OF the army were
not very good agents In such nefariOus business
The negroes would be instruments OF tyranny much
renchisng the white people for offences real or i'm
puted, and handing over their State governments
carpet baggers, would lie merely another bin Of
attainder, or rather modification OF the first one
making 1t much worse, but equally within the reach
o. judicial correction In this strait they resortcd
to the expedient of converting the constitution It.
self into bill OF attainder.
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments were
frauds upon the spirit and letter OF the instrument
inasmuch as they effected the wOrat outrage which
1t was made to prevent They were carried against
the known Will of nearly every State In the Union
by shameless deception in the North and by brutal
Violence In the South. May this be washed In
Lethe and forgottenYn Certainly not as long as
any portion of our people compelled to bear the
intolerable burden of the yoke thus fastened np0n
them. need not say how much they have suffered
already, nor try to conjecture how much they will
be called to endure hereater but is certain that
ton or mercy In comparison. When we re-
Meet upon the number and rapacity Of the
thieves that have been upheld in their
not nelp but regret the non-adoption OF Mr..
Stevens proposition, atrOciOus 1t was, for uni
versal confscation. The pernicious consequences
local governments The legislation OF Congress IL
largely controlled by fit representatives OF the
carpet-oag interests, and the worst acts of the
power which cOrrals the negroes at the meeting
places Of the leagues and drives them thence to the
polls.
Mr.. Greeley's election will not do ali that we
could wish to free US from these evils; it will not
even be popular condemnation Of the base
means by which they were inflicted upon
S T. M begin t Win svs the OF w nfs
people reasonable hope that the heritabe
qualities OF their fathers' blood may some day be
the attainder il viii at least insure mercful ex-
ecuton OF 1t. Democrats who d.sliked Mr.. Greeleys
nomination have reflected well, and think Will
Thought that victory will not give us everything
at once may diminish in some degree 'the rapture
Of the STRIFE" but it will not impair the efficiency
, o. their support for they are impelied to their
nothing but his election will save the country from
long period OF misgovcrnment, and, perhaps, the
total destruction OF our nee institutions I am
with great respect, yours, &c. J. =. BLACK.
YORK, Pa. August 3, 1872.