The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-03-26

party wanted to NEEDLE with them, what
administration wanted to enforce the laws
upon themi What pressure was brought
TO bear upon the Executive or the lcgiSla-
tors when those laws were neglected! The
state stood smoking like Sodom and Go
morrah. Look at the conduct OF one party
and another in the matter Of our helpless
wards, negroes, the Indians and the Chinese.
Where is the generous impulse to rise up
and accept them as ourselves and to say to
them, "You shall not be wrongcd.' Where
was the influence TO defend themI
The great question OF to-day is whether
certain returning boards counted out or did
not count ont certain candidates, when the
fact Is that there is no man but knows that
before the election were frauds perpctratcd
by terrorism and violence; citizens were
robbed Of their rights and suffrage was
made n mockeIy. (Applause) About that
the newspapers forgot, but they awoke
when the odor Of personal corruption arose,
Does any bodydoubt that if Louisiana
had been let alone to exercise her own will
she would have swept this whole question
into the sea. where it never would have
been heard from again, But when it be-
came different matter when the little
board got together and began its peculiar
work, when the question Of two and two
make observation-disclosures up, then the
conscience of arithmetic was aroused. But
as for the conscience, for humanity there
was no demand for any Of that.
PARALYTlC SYMBOL.
NJ Bcecher paused for about half a
minute, advanced toward the right Of his
desk and, lifting ms right hand with ire
ulous and feeble motion, continued If
there be an old, crafty paralytic; if there be
any load". "h" =" g representative Of an eX-
fame; any man who represents
the dying out of IA glorious enthusiasm for
the faith Of our fathers; if any man
who is the representative of cal
culating cunning and craft, hold him up
and say to this nation, "This is the symbol
and the representative of what you will be
come If you have not a conscience about
national morality" Applause,
Mr., Bcechcr spoke of the lack of
faithful enforcement of the laws. He did
not think it wise to make cnactmcnts so
far in advance Of the public sense that
they would be deSpised and trodden tn
der foot. Liquor was sold on Sunday,
while the churches and pastors were dis
cuSSing the question whether an infant
be damned if it died without baptism.
Laughter. DR.. Fulton was an honorable
exception to those alluded to, He was
much abused man, who used the fail Of his
tongue in the cause Of Justice and order.
Look at the laws against immortality and
the respect in which they are held as evil
denced in the houses Of i'll rcpute which
abound in the cities. Whenever the public
conscience, such as it is, goes against the in
tercsts brought to bear upon the. officers
and the magistrates, It is void of effect and
the latter triumphs. The trouble with So
cicty is that the bottom is stronger than the
top; the animal than the angel. Who is il
that cares now that one has burdens upon
him, n, the prophets had Of Old, for the
State, for the Chinese, for the ignorant, for
the temptations on every side to ensnaro
young men and maidcns- burdens that will
not let him rest: Every man is mourning
guilt who does not exert his influence in the
direction of fostering a public conscience,
He has not dou2 his duty when he has vo-
It'd with his party and has supported his
church. He is bound to see TO it that the
Commonwealth sutlersno detrimpnt through
those whom he has elected to Office. At the
day of judgement the power that he has