The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-08-30

be perpetrated. The ofilcial salaries
are of course paid out of the public
To compel the officer TO
give portion of it as fund for elec-
purposes is, in fact, using
the public funds to that end. And in
this instance the object of these as
was, and continues to be, TO
secure the reelection OF Gen. Grant,
and the election of his party friends
to Congress.
G. His not only permitting, but vir-
tually ordering, the members of his
Cabinet, and Bureau officers to can
vass the States where elections have
been or may be depending, in his be.
hali-thus seriously interfering with
the public business which they alone
were appointed TO attend to, and for
which alone they are paid.
Z. In not only not disappearing of
the Acts of Congress known as the
Enforcement Acts of 1S70-fI, bnt in
recklessly carrying them out by means
of the military. And, although the
condition of things alleged rs an ex-
cuse for these laws no longer existed,
and quiet prevailed in the two Caro-
linas, not an arm being raised against
the authority of the General Govern
ment or OF either of the State Gov
ernments, and the like quiet existing
in the other Southern States, his at.
tempt TO obtain, through Congress,
until after the coming Presidential
election. the continuance Of those
laws. No sensible man can doubt his
motives in this attempt. 1t was evi.
dently to secure the electoral votes oil
those States, either by alarming the
voters with the dread of military 10.
reference, or By rcsorting to such in
teriercnce, if that should be found
necessary.
s. BY his utter disregard of the
rights of the States and of the people
BY holding the latter still as enemies,
aud under this pretense continuing
the military occupation of some oil
the States, and not interfering in any
degree with the unconstitutional, reck-
less and corrupt governments which
from the first to the present time
have plundered those States, involv-
ing them IN almost hopeless bank
ruptcy.
o. His management Of our Foreign
relations. He has, il is said, convert.
ell the Russian Government from 4
warm friend To 4 cold one by the
manner in which he treated the eldest
son of the Emperor, whilst. by the or
der of his father, rs mark OF the
lztters esteem and regard. lie visited
the President. His continuing. as our
representative at Denmark. a brother
in law who read dispatch relative TO
the same government III the presence
of it's Minister which was so offensive
as TO force that gentleman To leave
the room; aud his hs wing failed not
only not 10 remove our representative,
but not even to rcprimand him. His
having known or having failed 10
know that our Government was sell
ling arms To France during the late
war between that Government and
Prussia, and, when the Prussian Min
lister, whose long residence ia that ca
pacity among us, and whose steady
friendship during our war SO endear-
ed him To- all who had knowledge of
his services. and character, addressed
. polite note Of inquiry in regard TO
it TO the State Department, received,
it is said, and | have reason TO believe
with truth, very rude and offensive
reply from one of the assistant secre-
taries. and instead of rebuking the
latter, he has since conferred upon
him most important trust in the dis
charge of which he is now in Geneva.
This having been discovered by the
Emperor Of Germany, it has there ar
rested that current of friendly, feeling
which did US 30 much service during
our war.
His management of the Alabama
claims under the Washington Treaty;
his permitting demand to be pre-
sented for consequential damages TO
the b B,ard of Arbitrators at Geneva
when he must have known that the
British Commissioners IN the negotia-
ton of the Treaty never supposed
that such claim was embraced by il;
and that they had good reason for so
supposing irrespective of the words
of the Treaty. And when he found
that if persevered in, the Treaty
would be a failure, his ridiculous blum
ders in his efforts to avert it, culmi-
mated in that most ridiculous and ab
surd of all, his having the Arbitrators
informed that he never expected any
pecuniary recompensation, but only
wanted the claim pissed upon by
them, when, if he and his advisers had
not been utterly stupid, they would
have known that the Board had no
authority to make any award in favor
of the United States except an award
for money-thus accomplishing his OBJ
ject, the safety of the Treaty, by be.
ing told by the Arbitrators that the
claim as thus explained was not with
in the Treaty or within their jurisdic.
ton. 1t is unfortunately but too true
that his conduct in this respect from
the moment that the difficulty pre-
.sented itself, to the period when it
was removed in the way just stated
has but served to impair our charac-
ter abroad and mortity us at home in
making the world, at one time, be-
lieve that we were a nation of shar-
pers, and at another, nation of block
heads.
10. His conduct, and the conduct
of the party in Congress and out OF it,
by whom he is supported, in extend
ing the powers OF the General Gov
ernment beyond those delegated. in