The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-08-18
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near their end, but the last remains
and the people are beginning to cry
in regard to it 90 Lord how long,
They are not yet aware, it is true, flu
ly of the malign influence which that
parsonage exerts upon them and theil
interests, but like sleepers afflicted
with nightmare, they are conscious OF
a something evil and oppressive which
weighs upon their faculties, and fills
them with disquiet, and with the in
stinct of self-preservation they strug-
gle to free themselves from the load
AS to which of these affections is in
itself is the greatest it might seem
difficult to decide, but the Question is
one to which little time will bring
its own solution; for any long contin-
uance of the last of these wonld GER
tainly bring recurrence of both the
others, since it is beyond the range
of moral possibility that the Ameri-
can people could for any considerable
] time submit without resistance to the
present head of the Treasury Depart
ment and his methods. To suppose
that they would do SO is to suppose
them bereft alike of all regard for
their own int, re It's and the honor of
their country.
Displaying, as he does, at a time
when distress and suffering are almost
universal, the greatest alacrity in put
ting into operation any engine at his
command for extorting money from
the people to pay to foreign and other
holders of our obligations, the pay
ment of which they do not desire,
while on the other hand he resorts TO
every paltry device which unscrupu-
lous cunning can suggest to avoid
paying any other demands however
| just, and however fully established,
not hesitating in doing so to disre-
gard the most carefully considered
opinions and decisions Of the law and
accounting officers, the solemn Judge
ments Of the courts, the plain require
ments of the statute laws and even
his own express and reaeated prom
Use.
He doubtless imagines that because
the extortions, which effect ALL are
practical under the forms Of law, he
will not be held accountable for them
and that the wrongs inflicted on the
comparatively few will be overlooked
or applauded by the many who profit
by them, while the whole people will
join in shouting his praise for econo-
my of his expenditures, and his sue
cess in reducing the public debt. He
dreams that for this they will be in
duced to elect him to the office of
President.
Once again he is mistaken. The
people of the country are neither so
simple nor so selfish as he believes
them to be. They are both keen
sighted and just; they arr. quick to
detect imposture, they despise all,
sham, and they hate all oppression
and injustice though practically in
their names and ostensibly for their
interest Let Mr.. Sherman look
back on the history Of the country
and point if he can, to one man who
has ever won and kept the favor of
the people by the means he has chos.
en- to adopt. On the contrary those
to whom the people have given their
lasting confidence and on whom they
have bestowed their highest honors,
have invariably been men of large
hearts and broad views, who despised
all little arts and crooked ways, and
who won the love and confidence
of their country by always APP
| pealing to their noble qualities, ever
acting upon the conviction that the
only way to their favor was in cour-
ageously doing what they believed to
be right.
tt is true that these have not been
wanting among our public men those
who have endeavored to rise to high
positions by the arts of the charletan
and demagogue; by processing great
zeal for the interests of the people or by
appealing to their base passions and
prejudices, and they have sometimes
appealed to meet with temporary sue
cess, but where are they now? They
have persisted, and their names arc
forgotten, or are only remembered
to be despised or execrated.
| Let Mr. Sherman take warning, for
to follow their example will be inevi-
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