The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-05

box when they will not hesitate to purge
the jury box.
THE CROwNInG CaIMR OR RADI-
CALISM.
Every government, whatever ITS form,
must be responsible for the condition Of its
people. save when some distinct, well-de-
fined, proyIdential calamity befalls the
State, its condition must be ascribed to
those who make its laws and tins shape the
morals and industry and modes of thinking
and acting of the people. The condition
of the people of Texas is influenced largely
by the action of the State, and of the whole
Union, by the conduct of the party in power.
Through fifteen terrible years Republican
statesmen or Republican party leaders have
defined the fearful fortunes of the United
States, and at last their condition becomes
absolutely intolerable. The Democratic
party, thus far, is responsible for nothing
of evil, and claims no honor for aught of
good supposed to have been achieved.
Whatever of prosperity, of hopefulness and
of perfect blessedness prevails should be
ascribed to Republicanism exclusively, and
whatever of suffering, of poverty, of want
of employment, of scarcity Of money, of
thieving in office, of extra7sgance in taxa
ton practiced even here-whatever of these
evils may be operative must be charged to
the account of Republicanism. The deficit
in its account with the American people is
enormous. 1t is needless to add to the
''wrong side" of this balance sheet the vast
sums stolen by the petty thief of Louisville
who killed himself last week and only rob-
bed taxpayers of $75, 900. The sums stolen
by the Credit Mobilier, by the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, by Boss Shepherd. by
the whisky rng,' the cotton stealing ring,
by the proposed San Domingo swindle, by
the Freedmen's Bureau bank, and the
twenty millions stolen annually from tax
payers by the national banks-it is needless
to name these little incidents of knavery of
daily recurrence while custom houses exist
as an organized system of robbery that the
deluded people may be perpetually robbed
and never dream of the extent of losses to
which they are subjected. For all these
incidents of horrible government the Repub-
lican party is wholly responsible. Worse
than all these calamities, and worse than
the iniquitous governments set up in the
South; worse than Governor Bullock's inim-
table knavery in Georgia, when he stole
millions In the very face of the whole coun-
try; worse than the depravity of that foul
mob which preyed upon South Carolina !;
worse than Warmoth's and Kellogg's enor-
mites done in Louisiana, or Spencer's name
less crimes in Alabama, where negro legis-
latures were bought and sold in market
overt; verse than the fortunes of Missis-
sippi, where black savages are rapidly de-
stroyiug, in wide districts, every vestige of
civilization, and where citizen and soldier
of Maine employs yellow substitute to
| discharge the Office of chief magistrate
of the once proud commonwealth-wors
thousand fold worse, for the whole people
of all these States is the scheme of unpar-
alleled wrong by which these Southern and
Western communities are to become the
"a
two thousand three hundred millions of
old-bearing bonds. African slavery ele-
waited the. race that was imported by our
benefcent New England forefathers, and
sold to us, when no longer profitable to
themselves, under the operation of beauti-
full prospective local emancipation acts
but these bonds make us slaves for whom
there are no prospective emancipation acts,
for whom there is no redemption. Through
all coming time nearly One-third of the
whole proceeds of our toll must be an
nually converted into gold, and trans
mitted to our task-masters, the bond
holders OF the East. Slavery blest the race
that endured it, but this slavery to which
the West and South must bow in abieci
humiliation robs and impoverishes and de-
grades forever. 1t is paper debt to-day.
Those who love us tenderly, and now
propose to enfranchise us, would make
it debt payable in gold. While we
are shedding tears of gratitude that the
carpet-bagger is unhorsed, the bondholdel
mounts in his place, and we are to be lashed
and spurred, and made beasts of burden
forever. But why are the people to have
paper, and nothing but paper, for all that
we brought out of the war, and why shall
they who endured none of its woes have
gold and nothing but gold? What peculiar
sanctity invests the persons and property oi
these remorseless bondholdersl
OF all crimes done by Radicalism, and
they are numberless; of all woes endured
by the poor and imposed by the rich; of al
deprivations of right and impositlons O.
intolerable, never-ending wrong, none car
compare in duration and magnitude and
outrageous incidents of despotism and sci
fish knavery with this which makes clas
of States mere provinces of an empire
their revenues to be dispensed in be
half of those whose wealth was coined o
tears and blood and of the anguish o
broken hearts.
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