The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-11-05
VI THAT BRING GLAD TIDINGs OF GOOD THINGS
NEW ORLEANS SUNDAY NOR MIG, OVEMBER 5, 1876.


/ employ, aud without stint as to money, backed
| up by an army of officeholdera trembling for
| their fate in November we recog nize your sue.
cess as the harbinge of greater triumph and
the salvation OF our liberties. Tie signs of the
| times admonisb US with warning emphasis tn at
our Republic is in danger, and if Capitalization
ehonld now prevail our system Of free self
government will have received mortal wound.
I WAC can moro fully prize the nestimable
| boon of a free and self Cover ning country than
| the exile who, fleeing from oppression in the
| land of his nativity, has found shelter under
the shade of our Republican freedom 7 The OPP
pressed of every country, the martyrs of every
creed, the innocent victims of despotc AFRO
gance or superstltious frerzy ali alike view
with the profouDdest concern any approach of
evil to the fabric of our Institutions. So linked
is our destiny with the peoples of other coun-
tries that no disaster can befall eur State that
does not strike chord of sympathy in the
heart Of Europe.
The misgovernment which for eleven long
years has characterized the National Admins.
tration, telling heavily upon the industries of
our people, has carried it's effects beyond our
shores, ard all Europe in sympathy suffers
uoder our depression and stagnation. 1t is idle
to suppose that any people could prosper under
the party which has held sway ever since
termination of the war.
Our resources have been steadily drained by
governmental taxes and consumption that has
no parallel in history, and which would ex-
haust the faircst ard most fertile country upon
the globe. The policy which has been pursued,
if allowed to contne, can only result in the
suicide of the nation.
The southern section of the &C untry, once the
richest and most valuable in the whole mn ion
of States, has, by continuous process of hos
tile party legislation, been deprived Of the
power of making her snow-white treasures
contribnteble to the wealth of our whole en-
pre. Her laboripg population have been dis
tracted by uuwise councils, and made disoon-
tented. Race has been arrayed against race,
and this unnatural Jealousy and hostility has
oil fnT % nj anli knfr nkrroN
ing party power, and this crime against social
order has been perpetrated against the happi-
ness aud well being of mankind at a time when
the voice of Cancellation and harmony had gone
forth in imploriDg tones from the South and
kind messages had been sent back in return
from many noble hearted citizens in the East
and West.
The solemn covenant of peace and good will,
which was signed in the presence of the whole
country under the shade " of Banker Hill, and
renewed between North and South under the
shades Of the palmetto, on the one hundredth
anniversary OF these two of the most signal
events in American history, has been hagrantly |
violated and seb AZ pauRht by the men at
Washington, who for the time control the |
destinies of our country. By tariff as inge- |
NOUS as it is Ubiquitous, they have driven |
American shipping from the seas and encirced !
our commerce with Chinese wall, closing the
nations al outlet for the sale and consumption of |
the millions Of cereals which abound in the
great West, and by o like process have checked
the manufacturing industry of the East, and
cast them OIL from one OF the most profitable |
markets for their wares.
The equilibrium in the interchange of pro
ducts between the sections has been destroy
ed, 80 that each finds itself with q surplus-the
south of it's staples, the West of its grain and
cattle, and the East of it's manufactures. In
The midst of most prolific production the
West is poor, and with all it's accumulated
capital and skilled labor the East langu shes
md is well nigh bankrupt foil commerce.
must aid depressed agriculture and distressed
industry. TIE most wasteful
md prcf'gate extravsgauce honey combs
very department of the Government, attended
With peculation of the public funds by corrupt I
ficials, which have operated like The seve.
auce of the main artery in our political 81 g.
elm, under which the country has been bleed
ng to death, aud is now very near the point Of {
collapse
The tone Of public morals has been lsmenta- ,
ly lowered under the hand of q vicious and :
icentious administration, and the poison has Z
pread every here throughout the walks of S
"a blic life, communicating the very air and 6
Injecting numbers not Immediately connected I
With thu government, and while South Caro- a
ina has for eight long years patiently submit. 4
sd to q home government tyrannically usurped
y adventurers, supported by the strong arm o
f Federal power, and which for rapaci5y, ig- s
ORANGE and rascallfy IS unprecedented among n
ivilized States, and while suffering under the r.
urden Of these expressions, too intolerabe for q
free people TO bear, and striving to better n
heir condition and lift up their PROSTATE n
tate from tie DUST through the medium of q
air election, all the aforesaid wrongs aud out ri
lges have eliminated i'll the violent intimids- 81
ons of the Federal authority, precipitating al
.oops without cause and in a time of profound ~
eace within the State, for the purpose of -
verawing a free and fair expression of the
ablic will at the ballot box, all of which
.ts, done without the purView aud powers AT
ven under the Constitution, have en- bUldened oh
sd men TO stir up strife which has bat re- or
ntly been attended with the shedding of the St
God of unsrmed Democratic citizsns. These VIC
I'd other enormities committed in this State re
II for redoubled efforts on the part of the
smocracy of the Union to wrench the Gov
nment out of the hands of it's wicked rulers O.
the only safety to tho country and safe -
ard to 8 now oppressed and disgrsoed peo- OF
o. Let Us, while cOngratulating you upon ~
ur pze0paut VfetOEy, and dsploring the cad al
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