The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-10-08

/ Can you find 10 good motive for the sup
/ port of this policy? In deciding upon rs
merits Is it not to be considered that III any
/ possible view the substitution will save to
/ the people and their treasury over so, 000,-
/ 600 every YEAR, And YOU aud | can not be
/ Indifferent to the fact that the enormous
wealth brought by the National banks under
harmonious management now seeks to con
/ troll the politics Of the country IN defiance
! OF the viii of the people. Please tell me
/ how II was that in this State, but one year
4 ago, the chairman of the Republican State
/ committee did venture TO demand Of the
/ banks money 20 control the election. Is it
not enough that enormous sums Of money
are raised for each election by the detestible
/ practice of taxing the immense army Of
| officials? Must there be added contribu-
/ tiOns from the profits made upon four hun
| dred millions Of bank capital? When these
| two streams unite 10 corrupt the public
morals the party in power will become
| secure in its hold upon the patronage and
! treasury Of the nation. 1t need not then
again resort 10 returning boards and the
attendant crimes of perjury and forgery.
The anxiety of the Ohio Democracy was
| reasonable: it became patriotic sentiment
when here, and against themselves, the
banks were called upon for money. Who
bames them, that in such a crisis they bend
the ear to the teachings of jackson and
heed his admonition to guard we'll the rights
aud liberty of the people when the banker
Is found in league with the partisan. His
admonitiOn was the expression of anxiety
at 4 consolidation of wealth inconsiderable
a compared with the enormous millions
now under harmonious management.
What say you TO the cry, "A solid North
against a solid South ?' Is it not the cry of
hatred, of separation, of treason? 1t should
startle US as " fire bell in the night" None
should utter it who love a united country
better than partisan rule. Leave that cry,
my countrymen, to those who seek wicked
| gains, and who for gain would barter the
! love Of country. Party policy made the at
titude of the South inevitable. You RepuO-
! licans would despise the men of the South
did they not resist you. You established
and sought to maintain over them the worst
governments in the world. You first taught
the colored men to distrust and hate them,
| and then to rule them. You gave the bal
| lot to the colored men and took it from the
whites. And you placed the colored people
! themselves under the control and manage
ment of adventures. linus the control OF
public affairs came into the hands of bad
men, who were in no way identified with the
people or section, and were strangers in sym
| pathy and purpose. The public good ceas-
ed to be the object and purpose of govern
ment. Plumber of the people reigned SUI
preme. The increase of State Indebtedness
| became irightful. Taxation threatened to
swallow up not only the earnings, but also
! the accumulatiOns of the people. Men con-
! tempated approaching ruin with horror.
! At length large bodies of the colOred voters
turned against the Generalization and mis-
rule, and State after State was recovered,
| reclaimed, restored. The restoration of the
! Democratic party in those States became in
| dispensible to the recovery and protection
/ of popular rights, the security of property,
and the welfare of labor. Political union
for protection and safety against plumber
and ruin made the South a political unit.
And at once the price of wages and the
price of lands advanced, and valuable pro-
! auctions increased. Is there any man
among you whose hatred toward the South
| is so malignant that he would tear down the
present authority and restore the vampire
governments of 10 years ago?
Your fears and prejudices are now address
ed because of the character of the represen-
tation in Congress from the South. You
are told that i'll a large degree it Is made up
| of brigadiers from the Southern army. Is
| that disagreeable TO YOU ? Then perhaps you
will find comfort in the fact that the evil
will decrease as the years roll by. The older
men will pass away, but dare not say that
the Young men who will take their places
will be more agreeable to you, | think they
will not be- But the offense to you is not
that they were brigadiers. 1t is only that
| they are Democrats, and stand in the way of
the partial and unfair purposes of your party.
You know this to be true. 1t does not
offend you that brigadiers are now in the
cabinet, in the Federal courts and in high
offices of government. They are of your
party and you are content. But if there
| be an evil of which you have right to COM
| plain in this matter, it is tOnnd i'll the con.
| stitution itself Yea, back of that-In the
principle of popular representation. 1t Is
| because under the constitution each State
shall choose its own Senators, and eack dis
trict shall select its own representative that
we find the Houses Of Congress constituted
as they are. If we are to have a free Re
public, then each State and district must
| he absolutely free in its choice and without
any restraint whatever. Will you men OF
Ohio allow New England, or the Gulf
States, or the Pacific slope to question your
| elections? Because your delegation in Con
| gress may be by one of these sections, are
YOU to be called to account? Shall it be re-
| garded as a cause of offense, or a ground
of antagonism against you? Because Ohio
| will not support what she believes to be a
/ heresy in doctrine, or a corruption in meas
ure, can another State, or section, in the
spirit of our Union, assume hostile atti-
tude toward her? As you are true Union
| men, answer me that question:
For four years the Democrats have had
the majority in the House, and you say that
the South has controlled that majority, and
therefore you will array the sections in hos
tility. The step you propose is too respon-
sible. You can not take 1t. 1t is toward
renewed strife and disunion. Let me assure
YOU that you have been misled; that the
Democrats North and South constitute one
party, aad that within the organization
neither section dominates the other. But
please tell me to what do you object? What
measures has the House adopted that were
partial toward the South or unfair toward
the North The payment of Southern claims
that had grown into giant evil and Ma
tional fraud, has been checked and almost
entirely suspended. The public expendi
lures have been reduced, so that the saving
in the four years of Democratic control, as
compared with the prior four years, exceeds
500, 000, 900. The saving to the State of
Ohio is nearly 81 ,000, 900, and to each con
gressonal district nearly $350,000. The
saving each year has been more than the
average annual expenditures during the adj
ministrations of Adams and Jackson. What
does the reduction of $50, 100000 in the
yearly appropriation by Congress signify
1t means that in the expenditures there shall
be economy and honesty. 1t means thai
that much money shall be left in the chan
nels OF trade and COMMERCE; there 10 stlmu
late business and enterprise, and 10 give
employment to labor. Will you bear il
mind that these great reductions have been
made over the opposition of Republican
Senate and administration.
A Repu blican House demOnetized silver
a Democratic House restored it. The silver
money now flows into the channels of trade
J and commerce, and, like red blood in the
veins and arteries, gives life and strength.
For while there vas the curse in the
Federal courts of juries organized For parti
: san verdicts. That was through the Law
permitting the test oath. A Democratic
Congress repealed the law, and now the ju
ries may be of good and true men,"
OF these four leading and important acts
do you condemn either? Would you agaiI
: open the doors Of the treasury to trumped
mn war claims, in favor OF tEGmRed-up 10y
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