Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-08-15

costs about $4,000. The State officials were
paid salaries 90 a par with those now paio ~
the suallcr New Eaglaud States, and lodlVl'
dually performed the duties of their respective
Offices.
Now the taxable property Of the State, BY an
cx,rayacant assessment of lands, Is Sl4O Ooo''
900 and South Carolina is st down 10 the oen
sus as thirtieth State 10 taxables Yet the
animal State tax collected is 81 800 ,OUO. Inc
Legislature, sitting for months, and each mem
Der paid $500 and m!!age, costs the otate
100000. The public printing costs S5o ooo'
and, for several years, $l5O00O. The State
officials are now heads OF departments and em'
ploy clerks to do their business Ohces are
| mult.plio d and salaries largely Increased tor the
benef, OF crew OF political bummers and cor
morauts feeding on the people. Inc otate
government, in addition 10 the expense OF the
| Legislature, now costs 10 the hei2nooluoou VI
! $500, 900 annualy.
Sipca 1868, wheu this party got possession
Of the government, t;lc am0uGt u taxes col
lec.ei l1r State and county purposes has been
SIS OOu 600 Duriua the fTsr three years, ID
addition to The 4 III OF five " TX million dol
lars funded 10 1869 $4,000. 900 Of bonds aud
81 COO, 900 were issued; and IN 1871, Sl2,-
| OOU, 900 we're repudiatcd absolutely CT py fund
| iUg al hlty cents 90 the dollar. with a lev
exceptions the counties are all 10 debt, and their
checks are at heavy discount, und the people
| of the Stale are in ahjcct poverty.
Ii BarEum or the Centennial COMMISSIONERS
would collect and exhibit at Philadelphia Tor a
! few weeks the Legislature OF this State 10 scs-
sion the sp1cracle would draw. The rcpubi.
can government of South Carolina, 10 the
! United States OF America, IN the year OF our
LORD 1876 and the l0O;h scar OF the Uhlon,
would sngck the civliz ,;9n of The world.
| Every hurest republican ot the North would
stand agiisst at the horrible mackery OF Tree
government aud would become reiormer, as
| am.
The Herald wants to be rid Of sectional ques-
tons, wlnt- the Southern people TO reform
their politics." to throw over politics alto.
gether," 10 support The republican ticket,
1t complains of "coGr line aud race issues.
| But who made them; who keep them upI
They were made By the republican eml-sarieS
of the Frcedman's Bureau. Itey are Kept up
| by the carpet baggcrs and scalawags These
are the stock 10 trade of the ra3ica! party, ard
| without them their occupation w@u!d be gone.
| Scuthcrr white mcp arc compelled 10 sclt-dc-
| fence to try aud protect their property from
! coufscation, their civilization from debauchery
and their liberties from political slavery. Does
| the Herald expect them, in he face OF such an
| invasion, to pu: their hands on their mouths
and their heads iu the dust, aud surrender free
ly the property left from the wreck OF the war
aad the eleven years worse than war which
have followed? Are they to give up all, and
then thauk God they are radicailzed aod Atrl-
carizcd Is that the negro equality lncul-
Gated by the Herald, 'tbe peace which VIII be
peace, indeed the "repoSe' We have not and
do not exhibit
But the Herald suggests that iuauce, free
trade, cuntralization the constitutional relations
If the States to the general government re
form, civil service and general Improvement
ure he Questions that should become matters
for discussion aud for popular suffrage Now,
on all these questions the people OF the South,
whom represent, oppose the republican party,
and iu principle aud policy agree with the demo-
cratic party Therefore, without the slightest
relerence To the "lost cause, the war r"War
issues" and accepting the inev table" as men
O! ocmmon soDsc and practical politics, they
purpose to support Mr., T.lden and the demo,
cratic party As to the allegation thar the
Southcrncrs 'have stTiveo to b:lug the Union
to US very iar.fctchcu and, if | may be par.
douod, fabulous. With the aboshmcnt of
the slave institutions of the South, the over.
wreck of "a terrible four years war, and the
waste and destruction of the last nine years of
negro radical domination, to talk about this
section exercising the power 10 the Uulon she
formerly did is to coujure up phantom and
ghost of the past, forever gone ln the lau
puage of Daniel Webster, Northern men
''shouid DOT be carried away by fancies, of gor
cons, hydras aud chimeras dire, to the utter
disregard OF all that is substantially valuable,
important and essential ln the administration OF
the government.
The people of the Southern States believe
that the liberties Of tree people are embodied
ip their fundamental law, and that co05tltlnnal
limitations ofpower can alone establish freedom
in governments. Those who assume for the
general government at Washington the reserved
rights guaranteed to the States through the
constitution, and would, by construction, COO
vert the States into mere convenient circles for
minor local legislation, possessed OF no potica!
poyer, practically strike out the States. Then
there are DO States and nc union OF States, and
nothing is left but centralized, constltutlonless,
absolute power 10 the hands of a majority 10
in Congress, ruling the country by secret party
oaucuses. So far as the minority Is concerned,
such government Is utterly irresponsible aud
leaves theul without protection or remedy.
Whether Injustice or oppression oe pos't NY
one man ut headquarters ia the form OF Caesar
ism or by ignorant and irresponsible numbers
scattered in remote sections of vast coultry,
the burden is Just IS heavy and hard to
bear. And as the passions of agrandizc.
mept. ambition or prejudice may dictate, u
centralized government administered by the
majority on the principle of the general vel
fare overriding all checks and overruliog all
limitatians embodied 10 the constitution Will
subject the helpless minority to all manner OF
Injuries fatal to their oerues and their pros.
nSritv, Such are the PRINCIPLES and policy of
the the REPUBLICAN party, And, looking wholly to
the the future, the people of the South held them
to be Incompatible With the existence OF free
aoyernmept 1t is easy to understand how
those OF the North, whose politics are controlled
by short sighted sec!ional greed, ambition or
| III feeling, can sustain the republican party.
| But it is hard TO comprehend how men eau
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