The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-10-14

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the officials who rule us for their pleasur
and plumber US for their personal profit
and 1t is no answer to quote Mr.. Lord'i
; speech before the Senate ON the trial
Belknap. His eulogy was on the yirtu,
and intelligence of the people, and hi
argued from that the duty Of their servants
to behave with integrity. He certainly
did not mean to whitewash the admins
tration. If he had meant to do SO ht
could not have succeeded, for there wal
not wash enough in bis bucket TO 90 ovei
the twenty thousaudth part of the job.
While you were hunting for certificates
Of character among the speeches of the
impeachment managers, why did you
overlook that Of Mr.. Hoar? He said 10
effect (for cite him from memory that
the one production in which our country
excels al others in the world is the cor
ruption Of its government. There was
the testimony Of a candid witness belong
ing to your own party, who knew whereof
he affirmed and spoke directly to the
point.
But it is useless to cite the evidence Of
individuals upon great public facts that are
felt and seen and known of all men.
Nothing ever was more notorious than
the general disregard of all sound princi-
| pie by this administration. No people on
earth are now suffering so much from
extravagant taxation, and nowhere does
SO small portion of the taxes go to legit-
innate public purposes, or SO much to the
rulers themselves and the rings they
choose to favor. Industry is crushed as
it never was before. Labor no longer
works for itself, since all and more than
all Of its surplus profits are exacted and
consumed by the hangers-on of the gov
eminent Now, although we call ourselves
freemen we are to all intents and purposes
slaves, so long as you continue to make US
hand over to you the earnings of our
labor; for the essence of slavery consists
in compelling one man, or class of men,
to work for another without equivalent.
We are determined TO relieve ourselves
from this intolerable bondage, as far as we
can legally and peaeeably, and if you do
not help us you must at least cease to
mock US by pretending to be an anti-slavery
man upon principle.
You tell us that the Republican party
"will punish its own rascals." The news
paper report of your speech says that this
was greeted with laughter from the Re-
publican side of the House. Certainly it
sounds like the broadcast Of jokes. Ifyou
meant it in earnest, please to say what
you found this claim Of impartial justice
upon, You will hardly prove it by show
ing that Bristow and Wilson succeeded,
with much tribulation, in convicting Ger
tain manufacturers Of crooked whiskey,
and thereby got themselves turned out of
Office. 1t is vain to deny that there is,
and has been general system of dishon-
esty pervading oil ranks Of the civil ser
vice, which, so far from being punished,
is protected, encouraged and rewarded by
the highest authorities. You have set
your faces like flint against all investi-
cations tending to expose rascality. Proof
of that, if proof were wanting, would be
found in your own denunciation of the
present Congress for pushing its inquiries
into those regions where venality and cor
ruption might otherwise have dwelt in
safety.
ln'all your southern measures you have
shown a positive adherence Of honest
government. You forced into all places
OF power, men whose characters were no.
| toriouslv had and maintained than wb;la
they perpetrated the most shameless rob
berries. You resisted every effort Of the
oppressed people to throw them of, and
when those efforts were successful in some
Of the states, you mourned the fall Of the
felons with sincere lamentation. Just look
at the crew of goddess wretches by whom
Louisiana has been almost desolated In
the face OF a constitutional interdict, your
administration at Washington repeatedly
intertered to shield them from justice and
to uphold them in the possession Of power
to which they had no manner Of legal
claim. At this moment they are preying
upon the PROSTATE people of the state nm
der the protection Of federal bayonets. Is
that what you call Furnishing your own
rascals?
You may answer that the white people
Of Louisiana, being conquered, are right
fully enslaved according to the princi-
pies planted ut Plymouth, and, there
fore, It is not for the likes Of them to in
yoke the protection of law and justice. /
will, therefore, call your attention to an
other case 10 which the pshomenian rule
does not apply, and in which the failure
Of the Republican party to punish its own
rasoals has been equally signal. | mean
the frauds Of the Union Pacific Railroad
company and the credit mobilier.
You will pardon me, l am sure, for re-
ferring to this affair; you are the last man
upon whom | would make personal
point, and l could not do it here if l would
try, for the conviction have often ex-
pressed remains unchanged, that your
integrity was not stained by such connec-
ton as you had with that business, But
we both know that it was the most gigan-
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