Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-04
WING AND TRIBUNE.
JACKSON, Tenn.
SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1874.

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CoNGREss.-The forty-third Con-
gress, whose adjournment VIC an
nounced last week, will go down to
history with a double burden Of
commission and omission. Its sins
of commission are, that its legisla-
ton was partizan and sectional. Con
fined TO the erection in favored To-
calities of public buildings, that the
public good but little required-to
the fostering Of Eastern monopOlies,
already too powerful-to the build
ing up in favored States, of institu-
lions purely local-to the encour-
agement of railroad rings and other
great combinations whose inspirations
and ann is plumber. From its works
the impartial reader would very
naturally conclude, that there was
no State belonging to the American
Union, south of the Ohio river. It's
Investigations into the crimes and
robberies perpetrated by the partiLans
of the party in power, We're sol
emn mockeries of justice. Sins as
glaring as midsummer sun were fres-
coed with ITS ever ready party brush.
Crimes more infamous than Humans,
crimes that damn our civilization and |
disgrace the Republic, were per
mitted to go unpublished, or white
washed, and proclaimed virtues.
South Carolina, robbed, oppressed
and trampled, by thieves, cut-throats
and fools, appealed in vain for re-
lief. Louisiana, bowed to the earth
with poverty, distressed beyond {
measure with the expressions Of Of /
fetal knayes, forced to support an
illegal government organized for
plumber, bleeding from innumerable
wounds inflicted by outlaws whom
the government licensed, was uncere-
mouiously kicked from its gilded
halls and ordered to bear or die I'M
der her burdens of wrong and OPP
preston. But as the browning Infa-
nv of its crime, the 43d -GoB9ress
essayed to force upon the country
the villainous Civil Rights Bill; a
measure that will stand forever as n
suggestive monument to the greatest
fanatic, who in the folly, blindness, ig-
norance and passion of men was ever
miscalled, a statesman. In the efforts
Of tho majority to thrust this out
rageous measure upon the country,
much important legislation was per-
united opass over to the next session.
But for the two-ihirds rule which
obtains IN such cases that misera-
bic assault upon the private rights
of the citizen would have been
taken up out of its place and passed.
Such are briefly the sins of commits
sion, which the country and poster
ity will treasure up against the for
ty-third Congress. AS to its sins
of omission 1t is only necessary to
say that it did not achieve O single
great national measure. The vital
question of finance, question that
ramifies every interest and hope of
the country, remains practically
just where it was. No decided pol
icy, 10 definite action was taken in
the matter. A pitiful compromise,
which like all compromises, produce
n temporary calm, is all that Con-
gress has achieved upon this great
question. The tariff, that future
simeon in American politics, is left
just where it has always been left
by the Republican party, in the
hands and in the interest of the great
over shadowing monopolies of the
moneyed East.
No question of relief, no thought
of the necessities of the people
South or West, has the 43d Congress
considered. Its legislation stamps
it tho tool of the East, with its
rings and monopolies, and it is the
patriotic duty of the South and of
the great West, to re-elect no man
TO Congress who is tainted with
the suspicion of undue subserviency
to the aggressive demands OF the
East upon the legislation of the coun-
try. For all the sins of commits
sion and omission, chargeable to the
43d Congress, tho Republican party
is responsible. Let the Democrats
hold it to a strict accountability.