The Placer herald., 1872-10-19
TRUTHFUL ARRANGEMENT.

SIateS Senate to-uaV, Haue speccH a'
Newark, Ohio, lately, from which we make
the following extracts. They are the utter
ances of truthful, honest and most pro-
found statesman, who loves his country with
patriotism not common in these days of
selfish corruption:
They have failed to reconcile the North
and the South.
They have failed to bring about a good
understanding between the black and white
races; and, on the contrary, have arrayed
the former in fearful antagonism against the
| latter.
They have upheld the most infamous rulers
in the South that ever afflicted community !,
and thus enabled them to harass and plum
der their constituents as no people ever were
harassed and plundered before.
They have abjured the persuasive modes
of peace, and, instead of them, have en-
ployed the bayonet and the dungeon.
They have authorized Federal interference
in State elections, and sought to carry them
under the guns of the army and navy.
They have employed the army to oyerawe
a State Convention and dictate its platform
and its nominations.
They have employed an armed vessel of
the United States to carry away members of
State Legislature, in order to deprive it Of
quorum.
They have carried elections by prosecut
ing their opponents for pretended offences,
and threatening them with fines and impris
onment if they did not support the Admins
tration.
They have, for the same purpose, made
the most corrupt use Of the public patronage
ever known in any country.
They have descended so low as TO turn
laborers out of employment in navy yards
and arsenals, because they voted according
to the dictates of their honest judgment.
They have marched other such laborers to
the polls in military array, and compelled
them to vote marked tickets under the eyes
and inspection Of Government agents.
They have placed ,the liberty Of every
human being in the Republic at the mercy of
the President by unconsitutionally author
izing suspension of the habeas corpus.
They have bent all their energies to de-
prive the people of local government, and
to concentrate all power in the hands of the
President and Congress.
They have brought our Treasury accounts
into such inextricable confusion that no man
can tell what is the true amount of our pub
lie debt or the exact sum Of our annual ex-
pendture.
In the conduct of our foreign affairs they
have reversed the policy Of our Government
from its very foundaton--A policy that IA
vored the extension and not the restriction Of
the rights of neutral nations.
In like manner they have violnted our
traditional policy and instincts, by frownlug
down instead Of encouraging Cuban inde-
pendence.
They have disregarded the plainest provi-
sions of statute law in the sales of arms for
the use Of the French against The Germans.
To obtain from the tyrant Baez sale of
San Domingo, in direct violation of her Con
stitution, the President, violating our own
Constitution, has assumed the war making
power, and employed our naval foIces to
uphold the woud-be vender of his country,
and to menace the friendly Republic of
Hayti.
Then see the farce that was enacted by
| the Administration and its Congressional
suppor5e q the subject Of civil service re-
form - the pparently solemn recommenda-
tiol. of te President to beguile the public
etl an the scorn, derision and neglect with
which they were treated by his q ,ngresslonal
partisans.
Look at that other farce performed at
| Philade phia-the passage of resolution III
favor of the abolition Of the franking prlyl-
lege, while the Radical majority in Congress
steadily refuse to abolish it.
Look at that other transparent piece of
hypocrisy-the passage ola resolution against
land grants to corporations, after kadicai
Congresses had given to them more land
than is contained in seven States like ONO.
Look at the ferscious party despotlsm that
applies the political tomahawk to the very
founders of the Republican party, because
they dare to differ from Grant.
Look at the vast multitude of Federal Of
ficers and employees who, to use the words
of another, ''dare not call their political souls
their own for fear of losing their official
heads.
Look at the nepotism and favoritism that
are a scandal and disgrace TO the ap-
pointing power.
| LOOK at tne llSJ vi SlNciS VI Sh'o wa"
have received public honors and emouments
from the receiver of gifts
Look at the absence from their posts for a
large portion of the year of the chief officers
of Government, leaving the conduct of pub
lie affairs to subordinates and clerks.
See Cabinet Ministers forsaking their du-
ties and perambulating the country making
speeches to effect their continuance in power
Look at these things, my Radical friend,
and consider the want Of capacity for civil
administration that Grant has shown, and
then answer to your own conscience the
question, els there reason for the prevailing
discomfort p
And now, my friends, let us consider
some of these things little more fully. 10