The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-10-23
THE LIBERAL MOVEMENT.
A STRONG LETTER FROM THE
HON. D. W. VOORHEES,.
TxRRE HAUTE, IND, Oct. II, 1872.


TERRE HAUTE, IND, Oct II, 1872.
Hon. Il. 8. Alvord, Chairman Demo-
ocratic Central Committee, Indianapo-
lis, Ind.
MY DEAR SrR:--1t was my intention to
have been present at the meeting in Indi-
annapolis on the night of the 10th, and re-
greet that was prevented by a professional
engagement. -, i,
the movement in which we are engaged
when it commenced last May, there can
be no doubt now as to our duty. What
was then o crude and discOrdant begin
ming has now matured into cause fraught
with the best principles for which men
ever commended. We must go forward till
this cause triumphs, or confess that error
is stronger than truth, and that corruption
wins more than honesty. have no
more doubt that the political elements
which have cO-operated this summer
against the reelection of Gen. Grant will
ultimately govern this country than have
that 1 now live and write these lines.
Their perfect success may not come this
year other battles may have to be fought
in order to drive q strong and vicious
party from power, but all this will not
dishearten earnest men, who, though they
hesitated at first, finally embraced this
cause, and determined after careful
thong hit that it was good enough to live or
die with. Mr.. Greeley is merely one
man among millions engaged in it no
more. He may be elected or defeated, but
the cause will survive and 60 forward.
1t has in it the elements Of en-
during vitality, and 1t will not be
buried by the falling leaves OF this autumn
It represents all the cardinal ideas of
free government.
Itproclaims the supremacy of the civil
authorities over the sinister and menace
ing usurpations of q military administra-
ton.
1t asserts the sacredness Of that great
instrument of human liberty, the writ of
habeas corpus, and declares that it must
be upheld beyond the reach of aspiring
tyrsnts who would strike it down.
1t pronounces in favor Of the Jefier-
sonian doctrine Of local self-government,
and against that concentration of the
powers of the people, and the States in
the hands Of the federal government,
which was denounced by the Fathers OF
the Republic as the certain prelude to O
monarchy.
It advocates the right of each state to
control its own domestic affairs, subject to
the constitution of the United States, with
out let or hindrance from martial law,
carpet-bag robbers, and official thieves
imported from distant regions and sus-
tanned by the bayonets of the federal ad-
ministration.
1t is in favor Of releasing the white
people Of the South from seven. years
bondage, commencing at the close Of the
war and continuing until the present
hour, the bondage Of proscriptive laws,
test oaths, and military domination, by
which they have been excluded from the
government of themselves and turned
over, bound hand and foot, to organized
and official piracy and plumber.
1t is opposed to that system Of govern.
ment by which states have been made
bankrupt, taxes multiplied hundred fold
fraudulent debts created almost beyond
computation, and all this and more, done
to enrich the lawless leaders Of q corrup,
and cruel party.
1t rises above the low doctrine of hate
and inscribes universal amnesty on it,
banner, heralding in the dawn Of a better
and more peaceful day than this dis
tracted country has known for the las
twelve weary and bitter years a day o
entire reconciliation, and complete
American brotherhood. q.
1t appeals in this rs in all else TO thu
higher and purer instincts Of mankind
and to the recognized and accepted truths
of God.
Our cause has also other great aims il
view which will give il life and victory il
the future.
1t has declared undying hostility to
system of civil-ssrvice, by which, it is con
fessed in an Official investigation friendl
to the Administration, that one.fOurth G
the tax collected from the laboring masse
is lost or stolen before it reaches the nj
tional treasury; q system in which de-
talcation, population and robbery are 6
frequent and of such common occurrenc
that the best argument that can be mad
in favor Of continuing the present admin
istration in power was made by Gen. Bu
Ter, in:his Western campaign that the of
cial thieves are now full, and being gorg
ed may not steal much more The caus
in which we are struggling and in whic
we will continue to work is indeed, III
cause of reform and publication.
1t strikes at a new and marvellous dy
nasty of corruption in which the lust {
private gain has broken out with vic
lence and contempt Of morality not hitt
erto known amongst the nations Of tn
earth for the last two hundred year
The president himself has grown suddenl
and enormously rich, and, according
the highest Republican testimony, he h,
done so upon the barter and exchange
official patronage for pay; while all h
kindred, immediate and remote, line,
and collateral, by blood and marriage, al
quartered upon the public treasury an
Z fattening on its contents. The world h,
seldom beheld spectacle SO disgustir
and revolving since the most shamele
; and venal periods of the Roman empir
And If this administration is continued
power four years more 1t will grow
( evil, and our cause will grow in impo
lance, and gather strength with time. A
read the honorable leadership of Il
Republican party has been driven fro
, the support Of Grants administration |
its open debesucheries and wanton vol
, ton of the laws of the country as we'll
all the laws of propriety. Already Il
names of Sumner, and Greeley, an
: Brown, and Trumbull, and Schurz, al
Kerner, and Palmer, and Farnsworth, ar
Banks, and Austin Blair, and Cassius J
Clay, and Julian, and Brinkerhof, an
Fenton, and Grow, and hundreds more
the ablest and purest Of their party a
enrolled in the cause of reform. Tin
will only swell the column as the necess
for thorough and sweeping reformati,
? | hacOmaa plain IN avan the slnwast on