Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1876-08-30

Uhe SlpduIlc mOneyeu corporation
to which they had voted, or nigh
be called upon to vote, enormous
subsidies out of the public lands
q Vice-President of the United
States falling into disgrace because
OF his completely. They had seer
those same members of Congress
with others, at a time when the ma
ton was grooming under an exces
sive taxation, voting thems elve:
salaries for services which they had
never rendered (from $4,000 to S5,.
600 each), and only giving them
back, when they were given. back
at all, with MISUNDERSTANDING
in ambiguous ways that would adj
NIT of future recovery, and at the
rebuke of an outraged opinion and
an indignant press. They had seen
the southern States, recently in re-
volt, seized upon by rapacious
plunderers, who, on the pretext of
protecting the rights of the freed
men, outraged all the decencies of
civilized society, and those once
tlourishing communities, now strug-
Cling to recover their lost prosper
ity, subjected to the degradations
of an eastern satrapy. They had
seen the District of Columbia sur
rendered by the national legislature
to conclave of peculators, who
made themselves rich at the ex-
pense of the people by heaping
debt and taxation upon the people,
through a shameless preversion of
all the duties of office. They had
seen widespread conspiracy for
defrauding the revenue, with its
principal agents in the revenue de-
partments and its accessories in the
White House arrested with difficult
ty by the courts, because of the
intimate relations of the criminals
with high political personages.-I
They had seen an ambassador of
the republic, an intimate personal
friend of the President, connecting
his name as patron with swind-
ling mining company, and so lost
to sense of common decency, not
10 speak of personal and national
honor, as to justify his conduct un-
ii rebuked by a vote of the House
IF representatives. They had seen
! Speaker of the House coquetting
secretly with railroad jobbers, and
'vading inquiry now by disgraceful
hifts and tricks, and now by auda-
ious co,sos detheatre, intended to
'affle and mislead opinions by a [
alse glare of frankness. They had j
cen, in the State of New York, the {
channel of communication I
etween the tide-water and the
,lzes in the hands of combina- I
ion of swindling contractors, pro- |
essedly Of both parties, who levied c
heir blackmail indirectly upon the
nterprise of the merchant and the O
ard toll of the farmer. They had n
zen the custom houses in New |,
oik, New Orleans and elsewhere {,
sed as the asylums of political f,
'iclksters, who harried commerce r.
y false accusations of fraud and r.
prosecutions, as the cita- s
els of soldiers whose arms were il
lrned, at the will of those trick Il
ers, against the lives of citizens C,
no were honestly in the discharge h
their duties as citizens. And, p
1ally, they had seen a Cabinet !
mister arraigned and impeached n
l his own confessions, for conspir- Il
g with posttraders, who skinned
e poor soldiers of the frontier O,
Iat the confederate felons might q
OF in ostentation and luxury at B
q Capitol. d
Well might good and patriotic Fl
en- everywhere ask, in view of o,
ese widespread venalities and ri
oundrelisms, what is to be done re
was suggested that the forma- "a
IN of third party would in time ca
eet the evil, and the conference ca
BOD ready to become the nucleus n,
so forlorn a hope. But the more I'll
nsiderate members, discovering fo
the undisguised dissatisfaction at
both the existing political or T
the signs Of a desire ar
: Improvement, counseled wait as
: and expectant policy It was hs
solved, in the first place, TO make tn
earnest appeal 10 the people, in so
Ter to influence the conventions Sc
out to assemble; and, in the a
,ond place, in tho event that such p,
appeal should'pass unheeded, to Nv
'ort 20 ulterior measures. ~ hi
That there might be no mistake 81,
TO its position, the conference tn
{ forth this declaration, which lee
may call new declaration OF ca
dependence, in every way worthy wa
its predecessor and of this great VIC
ltcnmal year: Er nCrsr no
We therefore declare and call ex
ON all good citizens to join us ed
it. and that at the coming Pres on
ntial election we shall support an
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