The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-10-05
THE CAIRO DAILY BULLETIN SATURDAY OCTOBER s, 1872

Iney bad double and perplexing ONCE
10 perform. They must ut one and the
same time laud the popularity and power
and success of the party to win your SYM
patty and admiration, and show that it
had failed in its work, fallen short Of its
promises, and must be continued in power
in order to accomplish it.
Strip these speeches of their verbiage
and what are they l condense them
they tell us the Republican party has had
the entire confidence of the people; it has
been in power twelve years, years of war
yerrs of peace They tell us the rebels
we're conqured by force of arms in battle;
the Democrats sympathized with the rebles
and were conquered by ballots at the polls;
it has had absolute power in the federal
and in the state governments; in con-
gress it has had two-thirds majority; in the
presidency it has had the men of its choice,
in The judiciary it has found or il has
made majority Of the judges. Seven
years have elapsed since the war. Seven
years of pesce. Seven years of Republic
csnism. Seven years of absolute party
ascendency. -Four years of General Grants
presidency. This has been its opportuni-
iy. Behold its work
Fel.ow-citizens, what has been accom-
plshed What claim to public gratitude ?
What title 10 longer power
Read these speeches further:
We promised you peace, but there is no
peace. We promised you concord, but
there is no concord. We promised you
more perfect Union. but there is no hearty
Union. We promised YOU freedom
throughout the land, but there can be no
freedom there must be prescription;
4 L.. Il. - A,
is still rebellious the habeds corpus must
be suspended the elections must be super
vised; the reconstructed governments
must be sustained; the whites are disloysl,
and must be subjected; the negroes are
loyal, and must be put over them.
This 10 their own testimony. Yet, gen.
tlemen, after twelve years of power, after
seven years of peace, this is their ,esti-
mony of their own success-this is their
claim, as they themselves state it, to re-
newal of power. And they are right.
This is their claim-.heir only claim
They state it properly and fully. They
have exercised absolute power-president,
congress, judiciary they have done their
best, and they have SO far beggsred the
people of the South, so far exaspera,ed the
races, so far despoiled the owners of prop
erty and children of industry, so far up
turned the foundation of civil order and
prosperous labor, that they need the pow
ers Of war; the presence of an army. the
suspension of habeas corpus, disfranchise-
ment of the strong, prescription of the
timid, to carry one single state at the
South ; and to justify themselves in your
eyes, and obtain your support they do not
hesitate to invoke the bitterness of hate,
and to influence the passions and animos.
ties Of fragrant war.
Read these speeches for yourselves.
This is their fair Interpretation, their phi
losophy no man can deny it.
Read them more closely. They furnish
incontestible proof that this admiristra-
ton has done more than all others TO de-
grade the public service and to debauch
the public morals.
The president has received money and
houses and other presents of large value
from asprants for public office, and has
appointed those same men to office. l do
not say that he has done it corruptly; |
only say that he has done it.
The president has appointed his family
and relations to high Offices to an extent
without parallel in our history. do not
say because they are his relatives, but l
do say they had no other visible qualifca-
ton.
The president has surrounded himself
with ring OF military secretaries, with
out law, in violation of law; and syco-
phantic adherents, whose influence in ar-
pontments and jobs has been scandal
and u by-word.
The president has treated his high office
a. if it had been created, and ought TO be
administered for his own personal benefit,
the reward of his merits or his industry,
and that neither his political adversaries
nor the people at large have any interest
in it.
The legitimate results Of this conduct
are apparent on every hand.
Corruption prevades every department
Of the covernm ent. Declarations are as
common as the days. Neglect of duty is
made universal by the example Of the
president. Absence from their posts
is the rule among the highest officers.
The secretary OF the treasury, the sec.
rotary Of the navy, the secretary Of the
interior, the postmaster general, the at
torney general-fve of the seven mem
bers of the cabinet-are announced to
take active part in the pending canvass
in Ohio. Every exertion Of every en-
ploye ofevery office is called into requisi-
ton to re-elect the president. The ex-
penditures Of every office are made with
reference to the same result. Every sal
AIRY paid by the government from the
money collected by taxation is made to
contribute to this purpose. The work in
the navy-yards the contracts for sup
plies the mails of the country the
surplus millions in the treasury are used
to the same end; and SO universal IL the
generalization that every officer Is be-
lieved to be influenced in his exertion by
tho desire to retain office rather than by
any conviction OF puulic duty or sentiment
of personal fidelity.
do not say that Mr.. Delany and Mr..
Boutwell, and Mr.. Cresswel are not sin
cere in the opinions they express on the
stump in Ohio, but do sag that if they
expressed different opinions, or were
silent, they could not hold office for an
hour. They work for their chief. They
hold his office at the price of their
personal allegiance. They are the tenants
OF his property, and the rent they pay is
service in his reelection. Our constitu-
tional government is made personal gov
eminent in its worst form, and necessarily,
inevitably follows Capitalization. BY
usurpation, by absorption, by open and
shameless graspings, by secret and steallhy
outreachings the federal government Is
drawing itself all the powers of the states,
and dy that mysterious process by which
the power steals from the many to the
few, the president is drawing all power