Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-04
Il REPETITION OF HISTORY.

A hundred and three years ago to-day a
body of American citizens assembled at a
public hall in Philadelphia and formulated
what they denominated Declaration of In
dependence. In that document the person
who assumed to govern the country-King
George III. of execrable memory-was ar
raigned for outrages committed upon the
rights of the people. It is little singular
that after the lapse of SO long time, the
same Indictment, with but few omissions, is
applicable to the man who now rules the
country. No severer condemnation of the
policy of Mr.. Hayes and his partisan back
ers could be framed than the words of the
declaration as applied to King George:
He has refused his assent to laws the most
wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has made judges dependent on his will
alone for the amount and payment of their
salaries.
He has created multitude of new offices,
and sent hither swarms of officers to harrass
our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among US, in times of peace,
standing armies, without the consent of our
legislatures.
He has affected to render the military indie
he has combined with others to subject us
to ajurisdiction foreign to our constitutions,
and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his
assent to their acts of pretended legislation.
He has deprived us, in many cases, Of the
benefits of trial by jury.
He has cut off our trade with all parts of the
world.
In every stage of these expressions we have
petitioned for redress in the lost humble
terms; our repeated petitions have been an
swered only by repeated injury. A prince
PRESIDENT whose aracter is thus marked by
every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to
be the ruler of free people.
1t is said that history repeats itself. No
hetter illustration of the fact could be had
than a comparison of Mr.. Hayes course with
the counts of the Indictment framed by the
founders of the government against the
king of England, quoted above. Mr.. Hayes
refusal of his assent to needed laws has in
volved the country in a protracted and bitter
political strife, and necessitated a large out
lay of money. He denied the judges their SAL
aries except on condition that Congress
would obey his will. He and those associ-
ated with him have created myriads of Offices
and filled them with the vilest offscourines
of the cities. Men to whom the liberty of
the citizen is entrusted have no recommends
ton to the place save their capacity for
showing indignity to their betters,
or the favor of the marshal who
appoints them. He has maintained armies
here and there and endeavored to con-
tinue them for all time, but was happily
frustrated in his designs. Half of the
time of the extra session was consumed by
his endeavor to make the military superior
to the civil power. The jurisdiction to
which he has attempted to subject us that
is foreign to our constitutions is the juris-
aiction of the federal over the State author
ity. Only by the most vigorous effort was the
right of trial by jury restored in the South
ern States. With such an array of crimes, all
to Mr.. Hayes or to the party he
represents. is it any wonder that half of the
people of the country are nearly disposed to
believe that the men who fought against tyr
amy fought and died in vain? Is it any
advantage to escape from the clutches of a
foreign tyrant only to be seized by a domes-
tic one, and made to suffer quite as acute in
dignities.
new rebellion is needed-not one of
arms but one of moral force to right the
wrongs under which the people suffer.
The people have petitioned for a d.
minution of taxes; for the right to govern
without military or federal in
reference; for the right to have a currency
such as the needs of the country require; for
the right to express their will at the ballot
box, and have thnt will respected; and though
those petitions have thus far been of no
avail, we do not dispair of success. The
person who now occupies the
Presidential chair will soon be powerless for
harm, and if the people are but true to
the Fourth of July 1881 will
witness the completion of peaceful revolu-
ton almost as grand in its results as that of
1776, for it will mark the complete and per-
petual determination of despotic power or
pretensions on American soil.