Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-04-24

invite and welcome military dlctAtOrS.
Peoples terror stricken by the raids otmasked
midnight marluders AMI assassins pray for
and receive the protection of standing armies.
States plundered and despoilcd by corrupt
officials, try to find relief both IN impeach-
ment and reputation. The first city on the
continent Is hardly yet free from the banded
robbers who with their spoils corrupted
Democrat and Republican alike, made their
place of assembling de of thieves, bou yht
legislators as they would bay cattle in the
ma kct, stole without c1nceamens, and held
with impunity one OF the principal railroads
of the country. bribed judges, and N de
courts their willing tools, detiict the purity
of the balOt-bJx until they IN ,de elections
the merest sham through which to give color
to their usurpat Ons, and by the poison OF
their influence and their plumber sent their
contamination far beyond st t. li2cs until
they became national IN their gigantic
crimes, and their apparent overthrow seemed
cause for national c0asratullti5n. And in
is ashes there vet live enough OF the w3nted
fires Of Tammany To arouse the alarm aud
. excite ahe apprclens on of honest men both
IA the state and in the nation. Ii the sp)il7
|or a SIM Ele state produced a Twcet and Hall
aud Barnard in that limited fl Ii of opera
zion, wItt alarming prop 'rtions oi vilitiny
might uo5 De developed when the sp0us OF
four hundred millions of reveauc are turned
into private ami party channels, and - the
whole unnIuniei continent gives scope for
the expansion 0t schemes eli pluadcr We
shall nave more Tweeis uallw we stop sowing
the >ceI irlu winch they sprung
Ctn gentlemen pretend - forecast the
future and sly they tc'r nothing from the
continuance Ot tins partisan use ot the
sp]Is l. there no danger that what we
nave clarIeC rizei Is the consummttl "a Ot
| political wIcSednfss n q sttte, may not yet
appear IA mightlcr proportions on tue larger
stage of national affairs beg those who
think 50 to consider the great railroad cor
porations that reach with their Briarean
| hands iutJ every STATE and u the utmost
b,uu : of tie continent, ami levy their
tribute ON every Industry known u oar peo-
| pie. The control of S.ate Legislatures IS
/ with them "a matter OF business, provided
| for re-ur.arIy IN their '' construction ac-
count OF miscellaues Us expenditures;
and only the other dtv we had a taste OF
/ their quality in tbc national Congress. How
/ long viii II be- before the people may have
to assert their Ji,le u the nptIonal Govern
meut against the power ot these cJrpora-
! ti0u52
! Wht. problems Will be presented 70 us @
| solve iu Connection with territory AMI peo-
/ plies Just beyond our border Canada, Mex
lcO, Cuba, ; IN Domingo even the Islands Of
| the Pacific sen. are daily held up before u
! is our future possessions AMI what partls
| ot Io.iticL. legislation vs. may nave I'd en-
counter before annexation. and what pcTIls
\ 81 government aiter&arj. the clslre,. "a
/ ga.ity can auiy Sanity discern.
L'ch sue very lltti-i 7t.I III Z 4ll ''y'ie'H
1 government, an honest election AMI TAR
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telliren,, anon, tba ne,fIo and n Ianoua,re
/ have already ooo5eI fr,m me constit5-
zion Of NV state. hv "a FREQUENT rec,rrence
to r,n3a1nent,l rri1cinIes s,J !, f;rr, ,'fbor-
ence r. i1stico m15ersfio, ts,n1,er1rc,
industry ami frn.alitv,' alike in the pe9ple
and in their public servants. Is 1t not toler-
ably clear that the country now needs and
will need in the future s,5ne reform tb,t