The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1874-07-03

bread, but receiving neither. Honest in
dustry received its just reward, and bloat
ed fortunes coined out of the necessities O
the people were unknown; and in tina
day there were no privileged classes O.
bankers and bond-holders, whose Golfer.
were filled to OVERLOOKING by immunitie.
granted at the expense of the people.
Then, sir, there was republican simple.
ity in official life and manners, and there
was no aping of regal magnifcence in es-
taDilshment, intercourse or equipage.
These, sir, are some of the things which
dld not exist, did not occur, and were not
done during the administration of James
buchanan, that "season of profigacy" re-
ferred to by my colleague. Did time per-
init, many others might be enumerated and
held forth for general detestation and exc
Grafton. But, sir, if these things do exist,
nave occurred and are done in this ''sea-
son ofprofigacy," which has been of four
teen dreary years. duration, it is not diff.
cult to determine the responsibility.
And, sir, of all these high crimes and
misdemeanors, fall these sins of omission
ana commits - oil these in yasions
of the right; ano .!5efties OF the people Of
al t.tseHoAstrages y d wrong, and of all the J
violations of the Co. stitution and the law, \
here and now arra IN the party to which
my colleague belongs before the bar of the
American people.
When the State becomes enervated and
corrupt; when the services of spies and
lnformers are needed ard resorted to when
those in authority are regardless of the
Constitution and the law, and are sustain
ed therein by reason of the general debase-
ment and decentralization of the people,
then, sir, are we surely approaching that
fearful condition when to escape worse
civil evils we shall yield ourselves to the
guidance of some despotic hand, which in
the future, as in the past, will be found
willing and ready to fix the yoke upon our
necks and keep it there by absolutism and
C@sarism. Being no longer worthy of
government, having abandoned our
allegiance to the Constitution, having lost
our regard tor virtue and for law, our greed
for gain having destroyed our love of liber-
ty, we shall justly deserve that fate.
But, sir, | have not lost faith in the
people. | believe their hearts to be sound.
A season Of adversely has sobered and
chastened them. By sad and bitter expe-
rience they have been taught the delusion
anu toiiy VI aoanuonlnS the virtues, the
the constitutional practices and
teachings of those who founded this Gov
eminent Everywhere in the West, the
East, the North, the South, and in the
imperial centre" of the land, they have
been marshaling their forces, and the late
results of their detached conflicts unerring.
ly indicate how well they understand the
issues. When the general and |
final Judgment is rendered they will surely
end this season of profigacy," and COM
pei rulers and representatives to return to
and practice those virtues and principles
which abounded in our adversely when the |
nation was born, which sustained us in our
infancy, which embed us in |
strengthening manhood, and by the aban-
domcnt of which suffering and distress,
disgrace and shame, have been fastened |
upon us as people.