Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1875-08-03
From the London Standard, July {.
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ted States Government.
We need not inquire at length how
I far General Schcmck and lis visitors
had reason 10 congratulate themselves
yesterday upon the niHtty-ninih year
OF their Independence. Ome-haif the
country a. least bitterly regrets it
The South is taxed without represen
taLIOn, shackled by Government She
aOhors, denied alike the right of revo-
luton and The right of appeal to the
constitutional law of the land-de-
privcd, in fact, of every right that
KING George III. allowed TO the con
temporpries Of Washington, as well IS
of tie few that they claimed in vain
and every word OF the Declaration of
independence sOunds like a mocking
satire upon the present state of the
country and Oh the means 10y which
the Union IS maintained. The hero
OF the Revolutionary war has been dis
hOnOred in the ravage of his native
State, liz the ruin Of his nearest rep
ICscntGtiyes, III the plumber Of his
property, as well as in the denial Of
every principal for which he fought.
and the suppression Of every right he
claimed fer Virginia aud her sisters of
the South. NOrthWaTd,f TOttenness
peryadcs the entire fahrick Of politics
The governments, the Federal Gov
crnment, Congress, the Executive,
the civil service, the treasury, the col
lection Of revenue, are one and all
STEPPED in bribery, disgraced by spccu.
latiOn, trained in corruption aud dis
honesty. When place Is given to
a trus;y partisan of the PRESIDENT, gen
orally Tor services which a scrupulous
man would not have rendered, it is
understood that he can only hold il for
a few years, and it is matter Of course
that he will use every opportunity Of
making money that those years may
afford. 1t is net pretended that any
part Of the Government is honest it is
scarcely considered worth while to at
feet the virtue 50 VIGOROUSLY wanted.
Even the Judiciary is disnonoreG.-
Corruption has spread down
wards until merchants, and men
Of business. railway directors ard
Officers, every one WHO serves The pub
lie or corporation in the highest or
the lowest capacity. are scarcely bet
ter than the worst federal collector of
III. would have abhurred. in one-half
the Union all rervading dishonesty
and corruption, ut which Walpole or
Newcastle would have shuddered, in
the Other-thCse are the results of nine
ty-nine years of American independ-
ence; these the facts, these
the achievements OF which
Americans yesterday congratulated
themselves, on tile strength of which
they eXulted over England. If there
be man in England who is disposed
To envy them he has only TO visit
America and study the actual work
ing of her government. Among
Americans, there are but few, not ac-
tuai participatoTs in the system of
public plumber, who are not
ashamed and Disguised in their
hearts; and of the better sort 10:
many who would not thankfully ex-
change their elected President. their
elective Senate, their elective Judges.
and their popular sovereignty for the
order, the honesty, and the loyaly of
the Empire from which, last one
hundred years ago, they made their
insane revolt.