Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-07
KANSAS.
Eloquent and Patriotic Address from the
Kansas Republicans.
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In Washington.
. To the Republicans Of Kansas:
The undersigned, appointed by
meeting of Republicans held at the
3 city of Topeka on the, 23d inst, issue
the following address to the people o.
the State of Kansas. This action Is
preliminary to the contemplated or.
!, ganizatiOn OF a movement having fol
| Its object the union OF the people Of
the State in a concerted effort TO re-
, buke the corruption and usurpatiOnE
which have characterized our State
and national politics, and brought
disgrace upon us as a people and 8
party.
The purposes and practices which
animated and controlled this conven.
ton, which met under the call of the
Republican State Central COMMITTEES
at Lawrence, February q, 1872, have
in the main animated and controlled
all the Republican State conventions
that have thus far been held for the
purpose Of selecting delegates to the
Philadelphia convention ; that pur.
pose has been the nomination of the
President for reelection, and the cor.
Tupt rings that are sapping the life
blood of the nation; and so far as the
enunciation Of platforms and resOlu-
tions by these conventions is con-
cerned, that has been their only pur-
pose. A state of things through the
existence Of which the Republican
party, so long the dominant party OF
the nation, is daily losing its vitality,
its power for usefulness, and even its
very identity.
We are required to believe that
fidelity to the President is above
fealty to the party. and that fealtyto
the party is above and beyond fealty
to the principles upon which the
party is founded.
These results are the elimination OF
the history of the past three years.
They are the outgrowth of the species
of persOnalism usually incident to the
purely military characters, which was
inaugurated in this government at
the accession of General Grant to the
executive chair.
1t is from their influence we have
the greatest evils to apprehend.
1t is through their deadening effect
upon the public political pulse-a
sitting OF that vigilance which ever
has been and ever must be the price of
political liberty-that we have seen
the President successfully demand at
the hands Of congress the enactment
OF legislation giving him the power,
upon a mere pretext, to places State,
or any part of State of this Union,
under absolute memorable martial
law.
It is to these conditions that we may
safely aseribe the existence of that
public apathy which has permitted
great entertainments upon popular
liberty-which has accustomed the
people to lean for protection in their
rights upon the arm of federal power,
rather than upon those agencies so
much nearer and more accessible to
them, their municipal and State or.
CARNATIONS.
1t is that centrsliziDg tendency Of
the time which enables the President
to demand and receive the authority
Of congress, practically at his own
pleasure and volition, to encircle the
polls within any of our States or cities
with the bayOnets of the army, and
thus control irrevocably the declara-
tons of the ballOt-box or the conven-
ton.
1t Is to the existence Of these facts
that we may ascribe, in large part, the
successful public robbery which has
characterized the official career of
many now high in public station.
To that degree has this new dogma
come to prevail, which places fealty
to the president before fealty to the |
party, and fealty to the party before
fealty to principle, that excessive |
obeieance to the president first, and
the party next, has been sufficient to
command the bestOwal of great pow
ers and emoluments, and to silence,
almost in infamy, with the stigma Of
disloyaity to that great parsonage and
party, all who have presumed to in
duIge in friendly criticisms, or to in.
innate that the highest conceptions of
purity did not prevail in the admins.
trati0n Of public affairs.
1t is to check this dangerous and
growing spirit OF absolutism-to cor.
rect the rapidly spreading evils Of
personal ambition and public corrup-
ton which necessarily arise from Il.
and to summarily and effectually re-.
buke the instigators and perpetrators
of these wrongs, that we call upon
the Republicans of Kansas to unite in
an effort to repress this growing evil.
To put a stop to the insidous en-
croachments OF the military upon the
civil functions of the government.
To bring to q sudden and severe
punishment of the offenders, the gi-
-.-Ag, @r~14nnn ~ 1N9oso1 .,hk1--
has so long been practised in
the name of loyalty to the president
FIRST and to the party next.
To establish a wholesale and efiec- /
tive ci~vil-serviee reform, which shall {
serve to protect in place the eompe.
tent and honest official, and prevent
The appointment to places Of honor,
rust and profit, for partisan OF other
purposes, Of incOmpetents and
znaves.
To effect a modification Of our rev.
niue system, so that no class or special
interest of the country shall be en-
outraged at the expense Of the rest. ,
To save the public lands from the
OF corporations and mon
and secure them to actual {
ettlers.
To establish, as q guarantee against :
be corrupt use OF the executive
atFonage, the restriction Of the presi- c
entail Office to a single term.
To place the United States in SYM
with the spirit OF liberty and Il
wherever 1t may be iound-to
xtend q GOd-speed to all peoples and "
4 nationalities who are struggling to 70
glorious exampl0 Of self q
liranchisement and the achievement 70
political independence. -
M. P. PARROT, s. A. RIGGS, 10
N. A ADAMS, 8. N. WOOD, =
A. THOMAE, a. O. HASS,
e. G. BOSS, Committee. -.
John Tyler, Jr., has written an e
ticie In favor OF the Republican 81
Irty, and predicts Its triumph andits sol
rpetuity. He Is now q citizen Of y