The Hartford herald., 1879-07-23

iip lhiit bI tilc teacllillS OF the Demo
. cratic party, and gentlemen who are 81
busily engaged in circulating that the
questions that We're settled by the war are
being revived and agitated anew by the
T honest party that have the honor to
be member of, are simply circulating
and giving credencc to Il falschoOd and
cOncocted story and well-knOwn To he
such by them. We contend for State
rights, for Il strict construction of the
Constitution of the United States, and
say that at the first session of Congress,
after the formation of the Constitution
in l7S1, that it was declared 10y way of
amendment, and afterward ratified and
became a part and parcel of the COnsti-
tuition. "That all power not delegated
to the United States by the Constitu-
ton or prohibited 10y it to the States, is
reserved to the States respectively OrtO
the people" For this we contend; and
because We dO 80 we are charged with
reviving the issue of the war: and the
willing organs of the Radical party and
the shade-trec politicians overlook the
supervisors of elections, deputy mar
shals and test Olths, and talk about
revolution" and with that sort of
clap-trap, think to continue the malad-
ministration of the affairs Of this Gov
ernment, and If possible, yet To accom-
plish its ruin and overthrow. What is
the state of this country now? Al
though score of Years have elapsed
since the Republican party came into
control OF the affairs of the Govern
ment, and although the God of Heav-
en- has caused His rain and sunshine to
fall upon the sol, and the fields to groan
with rich and abundant harvest: and
although this party has heaped upon
the country Il system of taxation so on
erotls and oppressive as to be almost
unutterable, still We have u debt hang
ing over us of billions of dollars, the
pride of self-impOrtant, blOated bond
holders business Is stagnant and dis
treSs is all over the land, and our once
pure and honest Government is neither
respected mt home or abroad. Think of
it. Other nations have been at war
France and Prussia for instance-ap-
prOXimating the ''late unpleasantncss,
costing millions of lives and billions of
dollars and they have paid off their
war debt, and we are so manipulated
and have been for fourteen wears of
peace by this corrupt Radical party, as
to he but step removed from where
we were at the close of the war. We
are in debt, and general bankruptcy
has swept over the country. Mr.. Lin
coin asserted that the mere fact of Sc
cession did not dissolve the Union, vet
Republican Congress went to work
and actually iegislated out of the Union
the seeded States, which, for time,
made those people aliens and strangers
to the Union, till they We're restored by
their nefariOus, reconstruction laws.
What was this done for, and why this?
What was the effect of this reconstruc-
ton policy? Ii was to Over-rm these
States by Northern carpet-baggers and
tramps, who lOr,led il over those people,
and ut II time when they thought to
build up the shattered fortunes and des-
olated homes which had suffered from
the blighting influence of devastating
war, they Were plundered by those
vaSabOnds, and inflicted with IL curse
that no great or chivalrous party would
ask an enlightened and christianiZed
people to endure. Those States that
had shed such renown upon the nation,
that had given their bravest and best
men to form and perpetuate the glory
and honor of the country for more than
three quarters of a century, denied Il
voice in the affairs of the Union and
surrendered to the ignorance and cupid
ity of negroes and scallawags. The re-
construction business served the pur-
pose of this corrupt party admirably,
until the young men who had nothing
to do with the war, grew to be voters,
and cast their lots with the liberty
loving old Democratic party, and the
wheel of fortune began to change, and
these tramps, scallawags and vaga-
bonds found that this young America
meant To have "a voice in the affairs of
the Government and so acted, they
folded their tents and quietly stole
away, barely leaving enough to fill the
post offices and do such little dirty work
under the corrupt appointments of
political party whose vile work they
We're eager to do, and returned North,
very sOlemnly whining, "intimidation-
shotgun policy" yet they had been so
tyraniZing and domineering over those
States, by the use OF the cursed super
visor-deputy marshal = test-Oath law,
as to cause the very Goddess of Liberty
to crimson and blush at such mOckery.
What do YOU think of the whisky rings,
the Babcocks, the Belknaps, the SAN
born contracts, the Credit Moblier, the
Bank Swindlers and the Returning
Boards? ? Not only have the people been
robbed i'm their fortunes and insulted i'm
their dignity, but they have been cheat
ed out of the right of suffrage-the
dearest right of the citizen-and IA man
thrust into the Presidential chair, who
had been rejected at the polls by them,
and who does now insult and iuiure
them and add to their already lengthy
catalogue of woe, by withholding his
assent to laws enacted by their Repre-
sentatives In Congress-, and the Justice
of which and the demand for which
the common honesty of all men ought
to dictate. Although the Congress has
made ample provision for the army and
the maintenance of the Government
and the support of its officials; still this
X. Is. Hayes, Returning Board Hayes
has sent in five vetoes and about the
same subjects, and assumes TO say that
he can dictate to the Congress how
much money shall he appropriated
while the Constitution declares that the
Legislative branch of the Government
Is vested in the Congress. and the En-
ecutive and President has no such
power or authority. This dc .fdctO Pres
ldent does not put his veto message ON
any idea of the uncOnstitutiOnality of
the laws, for they were constitutional,
but because they abrogated their SUI
pervisors of elections and nipped the So
called deputy marshals, in their cor
ruption, this misunderstanding
psalm-singing President, braced up by
such stalwarts as Zach Chandler, who
have in their minds vision of the de-
parture of their power, without such
dirty rascality, came to their rescue
with his veto power, and the lesser
lights call this ssstar1-ino tho Gnx-.r,,
ment." Who starves the Governments
The Congress has done il duty by
maElnA apiFli,riatiuns TO defray the eX-
Bense OF the Government for the cur
rent year. This Fraud and his aiders
and abettors, this great National Repub-
llcan party, are those at whose door the
chArue tnllS Where tho Into nxtr., ..o..in,, =