The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-12
A FORCIBLE ARRAIGNMENT OF THE
PARTY IN POWER.

At the recent celebration of the Fourth of
July in Tammany Hall, New York, among
other speeches delivered, was one by the Hon.
s. 5. Cox, member of Congress from that city.
IN his eloquent and striking arraignment of
the dominant party, he said
Is there one element of civil freedom named
In the Declaration or reserved in the Constitu-
ton which this Administration has conserved, or
which it has not tried to abridge or destroy
What mOckery to tell Louisiana that she de-
i1ves her just powers from the consent of the
governed; that she is an equal State, according
III her music with the Federal constellation
What scandal to tell South Carolina that taxa
ton and representation go together! What
sham to talk to Arkansas about being fifty or
gained between Brooks and Baxter-so as to
our talk of the tyranny Of George Ill over the
colonies; while the unimpeached Durell pockets
the proceeds OF bankrupts State and individual,
and wears the spotless ermine and the holy
Indictment by the dignity of his office! What
commentary, the Calling guns of Casey and
the imprisoned Legislators of Louisiana,
IS the impeachment of the British ring
irony in the reproach that King George
obstructed naturalization with the Re-
publican bill from the Foreign Affairs of the
House to uneitzenize, denationalize those al
abroad! Think of our revolutionary Indictment
against the English king how it might be
translated by the recent editions of our political
lexicon Did the stupid king interfere with the
Supreme Court to crowd its bench for purpose?
Who carried ont that purpose The Executive
who desired i'll his memoranda to repeal the
legal tender, and who signed the present cur
rency law. The king made swarms Of harassinp
and hungry officers. Yet we rather like our
honest custom houses, post-offces and Internal
Revenue Department. The king kept the mill
taly above the civil did he? He cut off trade,
compared to the loins of our tariff swindIers.
he transported our fathers incrimnated to for
elgn tribunals, did he? He violated Magma
Gharta by destroying the jury of the vcinage?
what Mha1 qua 1s the thirty-six Senators do who
editor and the penal muzzle Of the press :? You
say this was the work of the venal lawyer So it
was. In one word, the present Administrator
mas copied the English King. Did he not naBe
our people, degrade our States? It is too true.
too true. See the taxed desperate and ever
patient South! 1 declare to you that the
kabyles, whom I visited in North Africa, are
better treated and governed, their local hts
and Evolutionary liberties better guarded under
French chasseurs d'Afrique than are those Of the
accomplishing whites of the Southern satrapies
A word from Washington, and Baxter rules
hint from Grant, and Kellogg prints bonds a
wink from the nethermost underling of the Ad-
in New York city, and my constitu-
ents are in Ludlow street Jail, to make vacancies
as inspectors OF an election for the convict Police
Commissioners to fill with their supple tools
Thus the ballot becomes farce of diabolic
fetch in the South, and sinks into the
black muck. 1t becomes an attempted
fraud in the North and, unless some
one Like John Kelley, or Judge Brady, or Tam
many Hall, Or something Of the old spirit inter
senes, its abuse is free from penalty and it's out
rage and disgrace! What has this revolutionary
party not done IN time Of peace? Confessed!y,
t spends money not appropriated. 1t thus defies
aw. 1t brings in deficiency bills after elections,
80 as to boast of economy before. 1t pretends to
sustain an Executive who will take no step, ex-
'ept towards gold, as our standard, yet who APP
points perpatetic syndicates and signs bill
egalizing his Secretary's defiance of law, and
which takes many backward steps from the true
metallic measure. 1t DISCREPANCIES business to
lelp itself to power. 1t pets capital and juggles
With the pains and hours of labor. 1t appoints
N reappoints irresponsible men to respon ible
lac IS, and with munsh pertinaclty upnolds
yst I'm Of government at once revolutionary and
disastrous, while it defes the prescripts OF the
Constitution and the tenor and effect Of its own
avs. What should be done with such party?
Bury it? Nay, burn it that its ashes may be
catered to the winds. and that 1t may be quoted
8 an example to be avoided, and never in al time
. , pattern TO initiate. 51 MA