The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-14
COMPROMISE FATAL TO FREE GOV.
EMINENT.
Editor of the New Orleans Bulletin ::

EOltOr OF the new orleans Bulletin
" Lord Bohngbrooke says that "History il
Philosophy teaching by examples" We propose
to give some OF this Philosophy" in relation tt
compromises, and their effect on free govern
d ment and the South, in the United States.
Before We were free people we had to en-
OF Great Britain. The first related to the ac
levying duties tea, glass, painters colors, ETC.
G etc. The British Government proposed that
| they should repeal the duties on all the other
taxed articles, excepting tea, and we in consid-
n Grafton thereof should pay the duty of three
pence pound on tea.
This compromise our ancestors fatty refused
r to agree to. They said that paying the duty on
tea would be recognition Of the right of Great
| Britain to lay that and all similar duties. They
) denied the right of the British Government to
lay any taxes on them without their being repre-
scented in the British Parliament. To be free
people and to rule themselves, they must tax
themselves. The British Government, neverthe-
less, tried to enforce the collection Of the tax,
and occasoned cargoes of tea for consumption,
to be sent to different ports Of the Colonies. The
tea was seized, put into warehouses, or thrown
into the sea. This commenced the war of 1776-
war for a mere abstraction; for little or no tea
was consumed in the Colonies. The abstract
right to tax the Colonies. without representation
in Parliament, was the only issue.
After the war commenced, the British Govern
ment proposed new compromise to the Colo
MES, through Lord Howe, the British General.
The compromise was that, if the colonists would
deslst from their resistance to the government of
Great Britain, they should have representation
IN Parliament. Upon conference with the
American Commissioners. it was soon found out
that the representation the British Government
proposed to allow the colonies would bo totally
inadequate to protect them from unjust taxation
| Between taxation without representation and
taxation with representation inadequate to de-
| termlne the taxes they were to pay, there was,
practically, no difference. Our ancestors, there
FORE rejected this compromise, fought the war
through for seven years, and won their indie
pendence and liberties.
The Colonies. having declared themselves free
and Independent States, and the British king
| having recognized them as such in the treaty of
peace and amity he made with them. the States
then tree, sovereign and Independent, formed
between them the compact of the Constitution !
| OF the United States. 1t WAS the grandest COM
pact probably, the world ever witnessed It's |
| theory was that the States-sovereign and indie |
pendant as they were-should grant such powers |
as were general and common to all the States |
to one central agency, to be welded for the |
common benefit Of all. 1t was presumed |
that in the exercise of these general powers, the
interests Of all would be sufficient protection to
all, and all would practically rule themselves.
One section, or one interest, could not Cypress
another section or interest, without expressing
themselves.
All local and sectional interests were reserved
exclusively to the States, where the States would
rule themselves and enjoy the blessings Of free
government The fate of this grand compact is
well known. From tho commencement of it the
people OF the North endeavored to break down
Its conditions and to change it from limited
free government to consolidated government,
which must be a despotism possessing all powers.
In their efforts to accomplish this end, before its
contamination could be reached, various COM
promises were made between the North and the
South.
The first Was on the tariff in 1916. The war of
1872, by the prohibitions it produced, occasioned
many factories to arise in the Northern States
The manufacturers opposed the reduction of the
war taxes laying duties on imports, on the
ground that the foreign articles would underseu
them, and ruin them and their factories. They /
proposed gradual dmnution of the duties for
eight years; so that at the end of that time they
may bs able, by their practical skill, to undersell
the foreign producer or withdraw their capital j
from the enterprise of manufacturing. Congress-
accordingly, passed the tariff of 1916 for their t
benefit but it was not very long before the South
understood that the gradual reduction of the
duties was mere ruse. They only awaited time, |
and never intended that the taxes should be re-
duced. They got the reduction from time to il
time arrested, and, in 1924 came to Congress for
an increase OF duties for their benefit. The
South IN States that they were cheated and
when another increase of duties took place in 4
1928. South Carolina nullified this tariff il
This produced another compromise the COM
promise OF the tariff of 1888, in which the game C
II prospective reduction $ again entered into
md became successful on the part of the North
The result was the same, in this compromise, as S
With the compromise of 1916. The South was
again cheated, and the tariff Of 1910 stored the
reflective policy. Il
In the meantime, in 1922, the Missouri COM r.
promise took place. It prohibited the Southern a
people from colonizing with their slaves any
II the Territories OF the United States. lying So
legrees 80 minutes north latitude. This was
imply surrender on the part of the South al
ND, accordingly, the Supreme Court of the C,
United States pronounced this compromise to be CT
The South was thus again
heated. h
The fourth comnromise was tho admission If
california into the Union. This compromise al
vas begun by a General of the United States 10
rmy, without any legal authority whatever,
ssuing a proclamation ordering the people of al
california to meet in convention, to prohibit m
layery from entering the Territory. This al
PROCLAMATION of Gen. Riley's the precedent
Il all the proclamatlons issued within Southern lii
tates in the process Of reconstruction since the
var. The qualification Of electors. and all the to
lection districts and places Of election, we're al
rescribed in this most audacious and unconsti-
utlonal exercise OF military power. The COM
romise consisted in the admission of California pl
lto the Union, and the rendition of fugitive pe
layes in the Northern States to their masters in
he South. al
OF course, this compromise was again violated dc
y the North, and the South again cheated.
with the North clearly meant &C be
uistion by patton, fraud and cheatery. And tb
hen, finally, sectional president was elected lir
n sectional issues, the Southern people realized
le fact, which by concessions they had so long uI
espotism, instead Of the free government the Wa
OF the Unte3 States established, or an
Ike their fathers, seek liberty in independence
y separate government.
The war which followed by the invasion of the as
orth, soon produced the offer of another COM
romise. It might have been supposed that tel
uhbilty in the South had reached its last ex-
austion, but it had not. The Congress Of the of
nited States passed, with almost entire una
unity, resolution proposing to the people of th
10 Southern States, that if they would give up
leir policy of separation and would again enter in,
le Union Of the United States (the preservation
which was the sole object Of the war;. they tro
lould be received, as they were before, with all
leir rights, privileges and immunities con.
rred or guaranteed by the Constitution of the sci
pited States Realizing the total inconr,ntencv loy
the government Of the Confederate States to Pl'
'mpel an acceptance Of this compromise, the
'uthern people left, or refused to enter the
'uthern army, in thousands and tens of thou. ga
nds and thus forced on a termina tion Of tbe col
ar. How the faith of this compromise has be en- are