American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-08-02

| the usurpation." Perhaps | was rash in treat
| ing that way good Il message. True, the
| Senate Committee itself had denounced the
| wrong. and gave some hope to the oppressed;
but had not the election said in advance to the
| oppressorS: clay ON the mailed hand 1t Is
only the mouths of the Mississippi which you
| smother This was The climax of irony.
Georgia is the only one of the States once IN
rebellion which il free from these cnllghtcnc d
policies. How she freed? \ French
writer describing the tilthncsS of the Cal
mucks says that after their departure from a
| camp the yermin were so thick ON the dead
leaves that the leaves walked off of themselves.
The noble Governor Bullock walked off in
imitation of these sagacious and attached
| friends of the soldiers. Is there other pre-
| text for the continuance of these policies eN-
| cept the sinister approval of the people last
| fall All, YES, there is not vet recognized
| civil equality The black is superior, and
| there is now impending fierce war between
master and eX-save to regain the equality of
| the former. But the length of this irony can
| 90 no further | doubt were the election to
| come off to-day the result of last year would
ensuc. Therefore, if We would reverse this
verdict of last year, and harmonic our best
| intentions with those of the good ruler, we
| ought to turn away from Southern wrongs TO
| their source AT the Capitol. We should train
our guns the White House; and make war
for the supremacy of Civil Rule against mill
| tary craft and force
| Let us go back to the alphabet of civil lib
erty and reproduce its rudiments. We should
labor 10 dispcrse, not concentrate power.
Through many coordinate organisms We
would restore lost rights and regain mutilatcd
liberties. This lesson comes home to us in
New York in no ironic way. By the same
reason with which we deny to Washington the
power to overthrow government in Louisiana
we deny to Albany the right to lcgislatc for the
| enslavement of New York city
THE NATION IMPERILED BY AvARICE.
The nation is undergoing the gravest pcrils
| through the greed for gain and the lust of
l # nj
| mercenary politics. 1t does not become us to
| be apathetic. This is not society of despair
ing dastards or luxurious laggards. The sons
| of Tammany are not so gracelsss as to toss
| the parents head back on the couch of Ian
gushing as if already dead. Suppose there
has been strange lethargy, and wrongs have
grown TO monstrous proportions, does it fol-
low that the power that allowed, either in
heaven or earth, will forever perpetuate?
suppose that the last election con-
| tiued what you believed to be an
| odious, incapable, demoraiizing rule,
| is it at such time that you
leave the land to the mercy of barrack coun-
| ellis and partisan cormorantss The very ira
ditions of this society for three score years. i'll
spire better faith. In this day, when the
| Latin races of Europe are essaying to estab-
| fish republics; when France even is moderate
\ in its changes of rulers under self government:
| when the hymn of Rego in Spain browns the
careless click of the castanet and lazy twang
| of the guitar; when all Europe is being inspir-
cd with the doctrine of federal and local liber-
| ty; when the experiment of decentralization
| without disruption is being tried before the
world, it is mott for us in this hall nor the De-
| mocracy of this grand metropolis of the hem
| isphere to sing jeremiads about our republic,
its system and its future. Our voice should
be like that of Isaiah, full of hope and prom
Use: . Good tidings shall bind up the broken
| hearted, and to them that mourn in Zion, give
unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for
mourning, and the garment of praise for the
spirit of heaviness.
And they shall build the old wastes, they shall
faise up the former desolation, i
as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and
the garden causeth things that are sown in it to
spring forth " $50 through, go through the
gates, prepare We the way of the people; cast
up, cast up the highway; lift up standard
for the people ~