Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-08-22

Tammany, wh.ch now supports Gree
ley, sends lis thieves to tho legsla
turc, while tic republican party
sends theirs 10 the peniten.i .iary.
Equally gronn!less was he charge
of military usurpations' brought
against ihc rr"si lent. No single in.
tancc ot military interference by
his order in all this desturbed condi
tion OF the South, not authorized by
express prov ision Of law, can be
found. The cry for relief from mil
itary rule, sent up SO imploringly TO
Slr Greeley and his followers, iy
those who are stretching their hands
to them oyer the bloody chasm'
they themselves have made, is no
more nor Icss than reiiei from that
restraint by law which compel. them
to desist from celrages perpctrated
by night, and i'll disguise, upon unof
iicnding women, helpless negroes,
and whitc mon, whose only offensc
is tat they came from northern
States TO make their homes in the
SJuth. Proof OF scenes, worthy
only Of barbarism. is full and incon
troveriible. No mau with his eyes
open can honestly deny it, The
speaker had himsolf seen, in Wash.
ington, under the statue of Liberty
itself a man whose hack Lad b,cn
lacerated by those disguised ruffians,
who had bound him to the earth and
| beaten him to cxtort from him the
promise that he would leave the
State he had chosen for his home
and return to the North. 1t was to
put stop to these terrible outragcs
which disgraced the nation that tho
"ku.klux act,' so called, was passed,
against which the whole artillery OF
the opposition is opened. Under
tins act it is made the duty Of the
president TO employ the military
power of the United States Sin all
cases where insnrrcction, domestic
violence, unlawful combinations or
conspiracics in any State shall 50 OBJ
struct or liindc: the execution Of the
laws thereof and Of the United States
as 10 deprive any portion or class of
the people of such State of any of the
rights, privileges or immuni,ics or
protection named in the constitution,
and secured by this act, and the con.
stitutcd authorities OF such State
shall either be unable TO protect or
shall from any cause fail IN Oh refuse
protection oi the people in such
rights" These afe the words OF the
law, and to rcGui. G less OF the prcsi-
dent would he to abandon the citl.
zen and cease TO protcc, him in his
constitutional rights. A president
who would fail to do this deserves
impeachment. The president is also
authorized by tho same act to sus-
pend the writ OF iiabeas corpus when
these "unlawiu. combinations shall
be organized and armed, and SO nu-
merous as to overthrow or set at dc.
fiance tho constituted authoritles."-
But the Congress that made this
law provided that the power TO sus-
pend the writ OF labeas corpus, even
in these cases, SHOULD terminate with
the last session Of Congress. A Re.
publican Congress refused to extend
it, and even refused the session by s
recess till November, SO that there
should be no pretense for the exer-
else Of this extraordinary military
power during a presidential canvass.
This is the head and front of all the
military usurpa,ionsn by the presi.
dent and Congress, agains. which the
cry has come up from the new con-
verts to peace in the democratic
party. They vanish into thin air
when tested by the facts.
Mr.. Dawes then drew o picture Of
the prosperous condition OF the coun-
try under republican administration
pointed 10 the wonderful disclosures
Of growth and development revealed
by the census; showing that in the
last ten years her manufacturing pro.
ducts alone had increased l2S per
cent. and that tie value OF real and
personal property in this Union, ex-
elusive OF slaves. had increased from
$4,000, 100000 iii 1850 to 10000,
100000 in 1870; that every citizen
had been protected in his rights 10
the u;mos, ability Of the admsnlStra-
tom ,ha, there had bsen a thorough
enforcement Of every law; faithful
collection Of every tax; a rigid econ.
omy III the disbursement OF the pub
lie money, and sacred regard tor
the honor of the nation at home and
abroad.
That there were faults in the ad.
mms,ra,ion OF President Grant
which could no. he defended, he did
not deny; that errors had been com.
mit,cd which shoull have been avoid
cd, he admitted, but that the presi
dent and the cl,iel officers OF the cab
inc; by which he was surrounded
were actuated by the strictcst hon
csty OF purpose, aud that the admin
istration as a whole had been signal.
Iy successful III all the great elements
OF an enlightened and enlarged state
manship, would be the just Judgment
OF impartial history. With all its
faults and shortcomings, it present
cd such a contrast To the controlling
elements or that organization which
was arrayed against it, that no en-
lighteno patriot, nnwarped by pref
udice and no, blinded by passion,
coula hesitate to give 1t his support.
The speaker closed with an appeal
to the men OF business not to aband.
on tho principles and paths III which
they haa tourd stability and pros
pcrlty, for those Of tho democratic
party, s,rcwn in the past Wit, the
wreck Of capital and tho ruin Of Ia
hor lIe implored the friends OF
equal rights not to pat ,hsir trust in
,he mcru lip service OF those out OF
whosr Grin every constitutional guar.