American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-10-04

tuition to the Convention, he also said, speak
ing of the American Senate, that it should he
on the same model rs the House of Lords in
England, and that no temporary Senate would
have hrmness "to carry out its proper func-
TONS.
These principles of Alexander Hamilton,
and of the Federal party mt the formation of
which lac descended the principles of the so
called RepuhIIt.l: party of our times, princi-
TO the self-respect of the pc,,p,S offensive to
every sentiment of manhood, and IN o,52osi-
ton To the spirit and the letter OF the Constitu-
ton. | have heretofore foretold some things
i'm the political world which have come TO pass.
l predict now that the coming issue i'll the near
i..iItiv L. IL ne Dctw the broad principles or
Jefferson ON the one hand and the monarchical
doctrines of Hamilton on the other: the latter
supported by all the monopolics, banks, and
boarded tcrest-gnthering wealth in the land.
jefferson announced that he who feared To
trust the people WIS Il tory by nature. That
was his mode of describing an enemy to free
government, and we are rapidly finding out
now who are tories. or enemies of free govern
mcnt, by the same rule.
The leaders Of the Republican party insist
that you ought to surrender the principle of
enlightenment, ahd OF free elections in the
North, in order that the bayonet may be used,
according to the forms of law, at the polls in
villainous legislation inspired by the hearts of
designing men who believed in dcspotisIn and
not in the people, the South is held up and
rallied mt an al-sufficient cause. If the peo-
pie are TO he shorn of their most sacred rights;
curtailed of their freedom and insultcd in
their homes. you are told that something in
| the South imperatively demands it. If. in
decd, 1t was true that To govern the South we
had to give up the Constitution, deprive our
selves and our posterity OF its protection, our
condition would be most dcplorable: but 1
deny that any such necessity exists. We cam
not, nor are we called on to, govern one part
of this country one way and the other part
Union exactly as Ohio is. Whenever dis
tincfions are made between States or the peo-
Pile of States the Union and the Constitution
are both destroyed. But you are told by the
great political Phnrisces of the times that the
people of the different Southern States are
I nor iIft ION cor
tain subjects. and therefore you should cast
away your own liberties in order to regulate
by force their domestic affairs. You are also
stimulated to this course by n constant stream
of SANDER poured out on an entirely helpless
h hnae s0p Every
al amendment and to every other her
Government has imposed upon them. 1t
rs to the interest of the Republican party to
SANDER them Every fault they have is not
only set down in malice and conned by rote,
but it is magnifed and multiplied by all the
lens power of party machinery An actual
have happened every day and every hour
| since the human race began, is sweet morsel,
a delicious item. savory paragraph, over
which the Republican editor rubs his hands in
keen enjoyment. A thousand murders may
and do occur in the Northern States, but how
flat and insipid they appear when dished up in
our morning papers at breakfast i'll COMPARE
place its motive that comes to us. hot and
sensational, upon the breezeS of the South!
You live in law-ahiding state, as much so as
any other in the Union, and more SO than some
of the loud-pretending States of New England,
yet doubt if there is n county in Ohio in
which blood has not been unlawfuly shed in
the last twelve months. The same may be
said of the great State of Indiana, and perhaps
of every other Northern State. Crime is inhe-
rent in the heart of man, and it prevails every
where. 1t is without quarantine 1t pene.
every climate 1 hold that the people Of the
North, and the people of the South, on the
average of conduct and motive, are neither
opinion the statistics Of crime In proportion
to population will amply sustain me.
The trouble, however. is that the lead
ers and newspapers of a powerful party in the
North are deeply interested in making you be
| are. When actual offenses do not occur fire.
| quently enough to answer the purposes OF an
featured for the occasion. Recently two prom
| tnent Democrats in Mississippi, both candi-
dates for office, became involved in trouble,
| and Mr.. Dixon shot and killed by Mr..
Barksdale- This is a deplorable event, and
sincerely hope the survivor will be punished,
cause. But It's is homicide of this kind SO great
| a novelty to the Northern mind that we are to
About three-quarters of a century ago there
| was very noted homicide in the streets OF
WeR Mr. Sa' OF KeG
Austin, Democrat, and from that time to this
more than twice ten thousand cases of killing
| have been occasioned in the Northern States
alone by political feeling and luminosity. There
is hardly a man in my presence who cannot re-
call one in his own recollection. Yet such
| events have caused but brief comment, for the
reason that heretofore no political party has
| been so debased as TO thrive on crime, fatten
on murder, and hence be interested in pro-
| claiming its prevalence where it did exist. and
in forging ITS calendar where it did not. But
n few days since l saw in II leading Republican
| paper of your State the following Jubi-
| liant announcement: " The best Republic
she Hf oh, Oh 6 6h%Raf
| pi." That editor wants any number more
| such Republican speeches made in this and
| subsequent cam paigns. He wants more Kill
| ings to take place in the Southern States 1t
matters mot on What Provocatioad IN man m,is Is
| rivers, every such item will be so much party
capital to that editorv he will make suicide
| from financial embarrassment political muir
| der. And when actual murder runs short, he
| will supply the political market; he will meet
| the demand; he will kill them himself; he will
| transform himself into a moster of murder on
paper. for the sake of party success at the mp
Pr"dnng onGu intcr s inv
| there you ought to look for his tracks. This is
certainly safe rule by which to judge politi
| cal party. The Republican party is the only
party on earth whose interests are advanced
| by riot, violence, disorder, resistance TO law,
| bloodshed and murder in the South; and
| therefore charge that now, heretofore, in
| the supremacy of carpet-bagism, every plan
party is on the side of lawlessncss and crime
| in the South; ON the side of their own mani
mind Would you believe a witness under oath
| in one of your courts on question OF con
tract or damages, If he was as much inter
| leaders and newspapers are in making you be
| licVc that the people of the South are a horde
| of savagcs, who need military force constantly
| at their throats2 do not think you would
But are now saluted on all hands by the
| Republican leaders with n noisy and affected
g!cc over what they call a resumption OF specie
ma, mcuts and an imaginary revival of bust
neG g ne RRes OF Ont 1f sns
the Secretary of the Treasury announces that
specie payments of debts are a fixed fact and
have come to stay. DO you think that is truei
| Do you think the debts of this country. public
and p, iy.te are being paid in spcGie when de
way You owe your neighbor hun
dred dollars and on. the day it fall
due you have hundred dollars in the
notes of II National bank just across the street
Your ncighbor has been to hear Sherman o.
I Foster, and he believes specie payments arr
here, and he demands specie. You have also
heard that erybody has resumed specie pay
ments, and you go mt once to the bank, pre-
sent its notes, and ask for specie across thu
counter. With Il slight grin of contempt fo
your ignorance the banker will hand you $40
in grecnbacks in redemption of the bank
notes you tender him. That is all you will ge
there. You commence then, seriously inquir
ing where you can get the specie with which
to make a specie payment to your neighbor
who is still waiting. 1 will tell you how vol
can get II. There is place in the city o.
New York where, if you can present the righ
amount of grecnbacks, you can lawfully de
mand coin. If you will, therefore, take thu
place when you reach there, and policeman
to protect you from being robbed in thu
vicinity of Wall street, you will be in fail
way to enjoy the luxury OF making one specie
payment If you live to get home. What pre-
cious boon this is to you! How devOutly
thankful you ought to be that the currency
shrunk nearly one-half in value and the very
vitals of all the great industries have beer
torn out in order to reach such a glorious con
will compensate the country for all its lossei
and sufferingsi Sherman and Foster and theiI
kind of people say it will. Seriously, do you
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