The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-10-05

al avsy in the pockets Of the perpetra.
fora can not be less than D hundred
million dollars, and every six months
thev make a new demand, which is hon
Iored at the treasury by nm additional
payment. / am told that a late attorney
general counts one hundred nRd eighty
millions rs the sum which the United
States will lose in solid cash directly
taken out Of the treasury. l am not
sure that this calculation is accurate,
but it can not be very far wrong, and it
10 not equal to one-hslf of the whole
steal, for it does not include the value
Of the road itself, nor the land grants,
nor the proceeds Of the bonds 70 which
the lien uf the United States was post
poDed, o the equipment bonds. As
this swindle was the largest 30 it vas
one of the most ineXcusably base. 1t
was perpetrated at q time when the ma
ton wa swamped with debt, when the
people were loaded with taxes. and
when the most rigid economy was i'm
peratively required. All circumstances.
rs well as the direct evidence, show that
it was 10 Sudden act Of thoughtless i'm
prudence, but was willfnfly, deliberate
~ aud corruptly ~prearranged and de
:ermined. There is nothing to mitigate
it !; You can not defend it even by wav-
ing the bloody shirt.
How did the Republican party "pnn-
ish it's own rascais' in this case? Not
a hair on the head of any rascal was
touched. On the contrary, they were
promoted. honored aud advanced /; the
| nNnat nfrtif~ IF A1ovn opn n0n No thAY
were before, the very darlings Of the
party. Even that il not the worst OF
it. These swindlers are periodically
swelling the colossal proportions OF their
crime by taking out of the treasury adj
ditional millions which they claim as
the ''precious results" Of their original
fraud. They have no better title TO
them than q wolf has tn the mutton he
siaughters by moonlight. The legal
remedy against these exactions Is 30
plain that ignorance alone could hardly
miss it. But vour officers have found
out the way not to do it. They permit
the government to lie down and be rub>
bed semi annually, by q corporation
which Tilden would long ago have dis.
armed of It's power, and whose criminal
6btttOIo hC Nouiu wv
penitentiary by scores.
HAYEsIsM ALIA3 GRANrIsM.
Irepeat that l do not blame yon AZ
an active accomplice in this wickedress
But you ought to have come ont from
the evil and corrupt fellowship as soon
rs you saw how evil and corrupt 1t was.
You owed it to yourself, your church,
and your country to break OFF at opce
from political associates capable OF such
indefensibie conduct. But your accep-
tance Of the doctrines planted at Ply
mouth by the Yankees blinded your
Judgment, and made Your C conscience IN
accessible to the principles planted IN
Jerusalem by the people FIRST called
christians at Antioch"
You would have US believe thai Hayes.
if elected, will reform abuse and give
us u pure administration. Your state
ment, and that Of other gentlemen equal
iy -eliable, makes It certain that MI.
Hayes bears an irreproachable character
IN all his private relations. l do not
doubt his possession of that negative
honesty which it is q disgrace to want.
| accord him those tame household vir-
tues which entitle him to the respect OF
his neighbors and the confidence OF his
family bnt he can no more stem the
torrent of Republican corruption than
he can swim against the rapidso OF Niagh-
ra. His whole history shows that he
would not even make an EFFORT to do
so. He has been most happily called
- man of tired subserviency."
A reformer in these times must be-
made of stern material. He mast have
no connection with, and be under au
| obligation to, the authors of the abuses
which need reform. Above all things.
he must not have consented expressly
nr implicitly to the commission OF the
public wrongs which his duties "a q re-
former would require him TO punish.
When he comes to oppose ~wickedness
in high places the consciousness that
he himself is pnyi deiicto will make
even a strong mau as nerveless as IN
fancy.
To show how hard it would be for a
man like Mr.. Hayes to resist the worst
orders of his owr party, l u cite a
case directly in point, and certainly
within your recollection as veil as mine.
In the case Of Milligan, you made an
eloquent and powerful speech before
the Supreme Court for those free prin-
ciples which l. at the same time, sup
ported in my weaker way. You showed
the indestruct BILE right of every citizen
to a lega. trial ;you proved that .h"dn"
Chdrt0, did not perish on the battle
field you demonstrated by irresistible
logic hat the Constitution was as su-
preme after the wal as it was before
You sprrned with lofty contempt the
brutal idea hat law vas e~xtinguished
by the victory of the forces called ont
to defend it ; and you closed with that
grand perforation on the goddess OF lib
ertv, which if spoken at Athens IN the
best DAYS Of her fierce democratic
would have "ahook the arsenal and full
minated over Greece These were not
the words of a paid advocate, for you
had volunteered in the case nor the
sudden emotions of a neophyte. for yon
had read and pOndered the subject well.
You spoke the deliberate OF
your mind, and there is no doubt that
in your heart ofhearts you believe them
to he true this day.
Yet when the reconstruction law was
proposed you snffereu yourself to be
whipped in, surrendered your consci-
ence TO your party. and vo.ed against
vour recorded convictions. fora measure
that nullihed every provision Of the con,
stitntion, whereby ten millions OF peo>
pie were deprived of rights which you
knew to be sacred and ~inalienable.
| If this was the case. what snbservience
may not be expected from Mr.. Hayes.
when the party lash comes to be laid on
his back 2 You are his superior IN every
quality that holds a man true to public
duty. You have beep carefully school
ed in the morality Of the New Testa-
ment, you have lived all your life in the
full blaze of the gospel, you are gifted
with = logical acumen which few can
boast, and with moral courage far above
the average. If yon fell down before
the Moloch of abolitionism, aad gave
mp all principle at once. What act OF
worship will Hayes deny to that grim
idol?
I can not describe to you how I'M
pleasant is the sensation produced by
your profession of q desire for peace.
why do you not give us peace ii you