The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-24

political purpose, are empowered in every
county In the United States 70 appoint one or
to execute their process and carry out their
edicts. And how astounding and Incredible
that these innumerable deputy commission
ers, these irresponsible sublessees OF unconsti-
words OF American law, the authority to sum
mon and call to their aid not merely the By
@ snS tne % tba sn o M s
forces OF the United States or of the militia as
they may consider necessary to the PERFORM
Here are the plain words of the law, and 10
one will gainsay my statement. Who are these
people on whom the most tremendous powers
known to human governments have been so
lavisnly bestowed? l have no word OF dis
paragement for United States comnii ssioners.
appointed to perform the legitimate duties of
that useful ofice. but for political instr uments,
thrust by partisan hate and ambition in that
neither res pect nor forbearance.
Yet OF such AS these are made the command
Government; to these miserable, cringing
camp fellows OF any party In power, occupy
Ing as they do, the lowest and most disreputa-
fare, the proudest plumed shieftain, the most
peerless warriors on land and on sea, must bow
some one tell me how sherman, bearing
higher rank than even washington ever bore,
States Win som spo one poSnt
on to me how, under the law as 1t now stands,
Sheridan, Hancock. or the secretary OF war
cooperation to any offspring of the political
sewer appointed by a United states commits
cess for the arrest of q citizen charged with
an offense ag ainst the election laws?
These are the laws which caused the recent
extra session OF Congress. The Democratic
representatives of the people in both branches
OF Congress determined they would not lay
taxes ia on the :, voting population OF the country
them. The Republican leaders, going some
what beyond the practices Of highway men.
TSey money n a
preparation bills, to be used in depriving
meg%Sers and Senators topes
issue on this felonious demand. A more
glorious issue on behalf of mans capacity for
infamous issue against freedom and right on
the other, has not been known in human
principle. every tendency OF thought and
struggle put forth by the representatives Of
extra session Of Congress was
on the side of mans natural right to govern
the Declaration of Independence; in harmony
with every aspiration of down trodden men
tos os On ade con-
effort of the leaders of the Republican party,
not only during the extra session. but for
many years before, has been to introduce
mid Osons into
of that party have chung to the
bayonet with which to rule free people in
time of peace. They lean upon military force,
and not upon the consent OF the governed II
there Is man here to-day VINO sincerely
believes in that doctrine lin the doctrine that
he and his countrymen ought to be managed,
regulated and supervised on election day by
soIdiers-I pass him by. have no argument
H % a nas to t %ses 70 part him IN the HE
Government which our fathers made.
He was born to be a slave, and ought to have
lived in Rome wnen a depraved emperor be-
slowed upon his horse higher privileges than
the citizens of Rome enjoyed But to the free
to you L appeal in the deathless spirit of self
government, the eternal spirit of liberty.
shall the army T1e your ts or will gon
call out the guards to the polls,
is not q monarchy in the world where even
qualified suffrage prevails, In which the en-
lican party would not create a revolution.
Nearly hundred and fifty years ago the PEG
PIE S sy hs by
not no under ,,e,n. any, circumstance es.s or
election Day. From that hour to this no
people speaking the English tongue, on either
tary interference at elections, until these evil
and degenerate days-eYil and degenerate In
the fact that they have produced a party mis-
calling itself Republican, which is foe TO free
Institutions.
ORDER TO APPLY BAYoNEr RULE IN THE
SOUTH?
that you ought to surrender the principle of
self government, and OF free elections in the
North, in order that the bayonet may be used,
according to the forms OF law, at the polls In
the South. For every piece of wicked and
villainous legislation, inspired by the hearts
of desi zping men, who beieve in despotism
and not in the people, the south Is held up
and rallied at as an all sufficient cause.
tine most Fights of theft
freedom, and insulted in their homes, you
are told that something in the South i'm pera-
to govern the South we had to give up the
constitution, deprive ourselves ana our pos
be most depiorabie: but / deny that any
such necessity exists. We can not, nor
are we cal called on ono to govern era
other part another way. Southern State is
In this Union exactly as Ohio is. Whenever
people of states, the Union and the constitu-
ton are both destroyed. But you are told by
the great political Pharisees Of the times
Southern so n' states sp'' are not conducting
themselves properly on certain subjects. and
liberties in order to regulate by force their
domestic affairs You are also stimulated to
poured out on an entirely helpless and sub
missive people; people who baye submitted
to every constitu.onsi amendment, ana 70
the Government has imposed upon them. 1t
is to the interest of the Republican party
to SANDER them. Every fault they have Is not
only set down /, malice and conned by rote.
but 1t is magnified ana multiplied by
all the lens power OF party ma
chinery. An actual offense against the
laws in the South, such as have happened
every oay and every hour since the human
race began, Is a sweet morsel, a delicious item,
a savory paragraph, over which the RepubH
can editor rubs his hands in keen enjoyment
A thousand murders may and do occur
Ii the Northern States, but how
fiat and insipid they appear when
dished up In our morning papers at breakfast
in comparison with any act of crime. how
ever common place its motive. that comes to
us, hot and sensational, upon the breezes Of
the Soulful You live In law-abiding State
as much so as any other in the Union, and
more SO than some of the Ioud-pretendine
| states of New England, yet doubt L there Is
a county in Ohio in which blood has moi
been unlawfuly shed in the last IL months
| The same may be said of the great State o.
| Indiana, and perhaps of every other North
| ern state Crime Is Inherent In
| the heart of man, aud 1t prevails every where
1t is without quarantine. Il penetrates every
| Latitude, every longitude, ana every climate
| I hold that the people of the North. and the