The Lake Charles echo., 1876-11-16

crusade against u seSbAoH UtVeA1y NolSt''O"
in war, and anxious only to be completely
reconciled in peace. @'
For eleven years the power OF the men
who have seized away the control of their
party from the hand of its statesmen and
founders has been supreme in almost
every department of the federal govern
ment.
Discarding the hope Of proIOnging
their domination by benefcent public
measures, they have created and traf-
ficked upon public calamities. The pol
icy they adopted has been worked out.
It's failure has been absolute.
In place of past performances these
same corrupt and selfish leaders now
proffer promises already broken Gs their
titles to further trust.
Having prsstrated our manifold ir-
dustries by the vast aggregates and the
worst methods of federal taxation, they
now again solicit your confidence as the
instruments of retrenchment and reform.
Having debauched the public service,
and having just now, in the face of open
day, assessed their army of a hundred
thousand officeholders-the peoples ser
vants--paid by the peoples taxes-in
order to create immense corruption funds
to Illustrate the peoples will, they now
profess to be the champions of civil
service reform. Having imposed upon
the southern states the rapacity, fraud,
and plunder of the carpet-bag govern
ments, having almost ruined the pros
perity of the south, baving created
terror, uncertainty, and confusion in all
the productive industries of the south,
which furnish most of the exports of our
whole country, keep in motion the COM
merce and manufactures Of the north
and east, and furnish market for the
agricultural products of the west, they
now propose, by renewal Of the same fatal
policy, to prolong their own power in
the hope of concealing their misdeeds,
and for this purpose they do not hesitate
to renew the cry of intolerance; to re-
vive the dying memories OF fraternal
strife, and to appeal to the fears and
preiudices of the timid and the ignorant
FeIlow-citizens, these men and their
measures have been completely tried and
have completely failed. An oppressive
taxation, an exhausted south, an inn
poverished north, fuctuating currency,
the enterprise of an industrious people
locked fast in the paralysis Of hard times
such is the outcome to their political
policy, such are the achievements of
their long supremacy. Your ballots in
November can alone dictate a change Of
measures and a change of men. Shall
not the uprising of patriotism along the
valley of the Ohio 90 on to a complete
and beneficial revolution in the admins
tration Of the government of the United
States. VIII you not, by the voice of
overwhelming majoritieS at the polls,
proclaim your invincible faith, after all
these years of corruption and passion, in
the high immortal principles of govern
ment by the people for the people, in
simple honesty and strict economy, as
the supreme wisdom of public policy, in
Justice as the mother Of power, and in
civil freedom as the be-all and end-all of
a true republican nationality?
Will you not build up new prosperi-
ty for all the people on the old fOunda-
tions of American selEgovernment, on
peace, reconciliation, and fraternity be-
tween all sections, all classes, and all
races embraced within our system of
American commonwealths on the fru-
gality and economy in all governments:
on honesty and purity of administration,
and having lost your prosperity through
governmental misruie, regain that pros
perity through governmental reform?
We commit this great issue to the Amer
lean people, with an unfaltering trust in
the wisdom and justice of their decision.
BY order Of the national democratic
committee. ABRAM S. HEWITT.
Chairman.
FREDERICK o. PRINCE, Sec'y.
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