Liberal Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1???, 1873-09-27

lators to betray the true interests of
their constituents, while others has
have been kept quiet by the compliment
of free pass.
They have repeatedly prevented the
reelection of representatives, tor
opposing with manly frmness, their
invarion of the peoples rigts.
They have by false representations
and subtertuge induced the people to
subscribe funds to build roads, whose
rates, when built, are so exorbitant,
that in many instances tFansportion
by private convey ance is less burdeL>
some.
They have procured charters by
which they condemn and appropriate
our lands without adequate compensa-
tiou therefor, aud arrogantly claim that
by virtue of these charters they are
absolutely above the conttol Of legal
enactment
They have procured law Of Congress
by which they have dispossessed hum
drcds of farmers Of TIM homes that
by years of toll they have butt up !;
have induced others TO mortgage their
farms for roads never intended to be
built, and after squlndering the money
thus obtained, have left their victims to
the mercy of courts over which they
held absolute sway,
They obs,ructed the administration
Of justice BY iujunctions procuring
from venal judges by legal quibbles and
appeals from coart to court, with intent
TO wear ont ruin the prosecutors, openly
avowing their determination to make il
so terrible for the public to prosecute
them that they will not dare undertake
it.
They have virtually made judges
| dependent on their will alone, aud have
/ proc lred their appointment for the
express purpose Of reversing decision
Of the highest court Of the nation, by
which millions were gained to them, to
the injury of the holders of the bond-
aud the breaking down Of the last
safeguard Of American ireemon.
They have affected to render them.
selves Independent of and superior
to the civil power, by ordering large
bodies of hireling to enforce their
unlawful exactions, and have protected
them from punishment for aniiujary they
might infict upon peaceful citizens
while ejectlng them from their convey
ances for refusing to pay more than tn,
rate of fair prescribed by law,
They have arrested and summoned
from their homes for trial, at distan,
POINTS, other citizens for the sam
offensive of refusing to pay more thar
legal fare, putting them to as great al
enconvience and expense as possible
and still further evincing their det er
inination to myke II too terrible for tn
people to dare engage in any legal con
flict with them.
They have combined together t
, destroy competetion and to practice a
unjust discrimination, contrary to tn
, expressed provisions of our constitution
E and tho spirit of our law.
: They have virtually cut off ou
! trade withdistant parts of the worl
G by their unjust discrimination and b
: their exhorbitant rates of freight, fore
8 ing upon the alternative OF accumula
! ting upon our hands worthless sur
plus or of giving three-fourths of tn
our customers pay for our products fo
their transportation
Under the false and specious pretens
of developing the country, they hav
} obtained enormous grants of publ!
lands from Congress, and now retard
rather than develop its settlement, b.
the high prices charged for sucl
} land.
They have converted the bond
fraudulently obtained from the govern
ment. into a great corruption fund
with which they are enabled to brib
and control legislatures, and subvcr
every branch of Government to thei
nun hoso on6 co~J;I ,,urno,a