The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-09-27

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1872 Observation-Disclosures. fS3 M eco
100 .s.ss.'..t.-.,,..ss.'s' leviSSvVu
1874 f9i 1iSM0
$50 s......s,f.,. al os1VvV
1876 1854 81 0sN
1871. 1ti,209t 10
ISL lS 600
The appropriations from 1871 to S76inclusive
were made by the Republican Congresses and
those of 1877 and 1878 by Democratic House,
The Republicans run up these expenditures
from Sl50oOO,0O0 in 1872 to an average OF
nearly Sl7s, 900 for each Of the four Years
thereafter; while the Democrats reduced the
expenditures for the two last years OF
the report TO but little over slSaoo0,000
per year, making an annual saving Of over
S,uOpNo. II rs true that for 1879 the Demo-
Gratis increased those appropriations to $57,-
000uO0. and for 1880 70 slG0, GOO, 900; chief
part of which increase WAS claimed by the adj.
minietration to be necessary because the Dem
ocratie House Ind cut down too much OF tho
appropriations for the preceding years. But
take the whole average of appropriations and
expenditures for the four years OF Republican
rule, from 1873 TO 1876 inclusive, and the result
Ia as followa: That tho Republicans expended
an average OF 177,74S, ou0 for the net ordinary
expenditures of the Government, while the
Democrats appropriated an average OF slag,-
20l 600, bong saving TO the people by reason
of Democratic economy of 81, 547, 900 per
year, or Sll4,l9S,0O0 in the four years
Mr. sherman, in replying to my Lancaster
speech, asserts that 80 far from this economy
being forced upon the administration by tho
Democratic Congress, we actually appropriated
more than the departments asked for. Here
the Finance Minister of our Government Ia
equally at fault For the year 1877 the ad-
ministration asked little over $500, 125, 900 for
its ordinary expenditures; we gave 1t S145,
$4,000 For the year 1878 the administration
asked sl7G, 926, GOO; we gave it sl552l3,000
For the year 1880 II asked s164, 1871 200; and we
gave IL Sl60,9l90O0. So that the Democratic
Congress has in four years prevented tho ad-
ministration from spending over sl2o, 100000
moro than was necessary for the ordinary OK
penses of the Government / say more than
was necessary, for Mr. Sherman says that,
during the four years of Democratic control
over appropriations, "the administration has
felt no restraint from insufficient appropria-
tions 10 the great branches OF the Government !"
Mr.. sherman, in explaining the enormous APP
preparation OF 600 for the ordinary ex.
penses OF the Government in 1874, says that
" the appropriations for that year were pur-
posely largely increased as means OF relief
from the effect of the panic" Sympathetic Mr.
Shermani How good 1t was in you and your
party to come to the relief of the struggling in
dustries of the country But the fact is. the
appropriations for that year were made at tho
session of Congress which ended March d.
1S73-sx months before the panic occurred
iic tACbeoNo hplIOpiihuOu WIS uuB, blbTD-
fore, to extravaganza, and not to sympathy for
the people.
Messrs. Sherman and SEIZURE are distressed
with apprehensions Of danger 10 the Govern
ment from the Confederate Brigaders They
cry out against the caucus, as though II was nm
invention OF these Southern men TO control the
Democratic party and thus rule the country
They have themselves sat in more cauonses
than they have hairs ON their heads. What
danger is there from Confederate BrigadersY
Not one of them has proposed any measure in
Congress to impair any settlements of the war.
They have over and over again declared that
they and their people accept those settlements
as final and never to be disturbed. tn
What more is demanded? Nothing The
Republican party has not asked for more. The
outory against the Southern people for sending
to Congress men who fought in the Confeder-
ate army is senseless and shameful. They have
no other men OF large experience and capacity
to send. Would you force them to send only
negroes and carpet-baggers2 Would you nm
do the work Of pacifcation which the Presi-
dent has done? Would you revoke the trade
contaminated by Mr.. Foster, by which Pack
ard, who got more votes in Louisiana for Gov
ernor than Hayes got for President, was count
ed out and Hayes counted inY Recollect gen.
tlemen OF the Republican party, that the South
has not the same largo choice Of non-combat-
ants to select for high offices which the Repub-
lican party has. All her men and boys had to
go into the Confederate army to meet our over
whelming numbers, while tho North did not
send half of her men. In this respect the
Republican party las the South at big disad-
vantage. They can select such men as Mossrs.
Sherman and Foster, who quietly stayed at
home, while the unfortunate South has no nom
combatants to prefer over her soldiers for high
public honors eHif l9i4g4 81
at the Soldiers Reunion, at Steubenville the
other day, that when the South will consent
that the Government shall be conducted
on the accepted fact that the North
was right and the South was wrong on the great
Issues of the war, then sectional strife should
cease. The southern Representatives Lave adj
mitted it. They do not admit, and we have no
right to expect them to admit, that they were
false to their convictions of duty in asserting
and maintaining the alleged right Of secession.
But assert that there is not one man from the
South in eithor house Of Congress who does
not accept the decision of the war as the final
settlement Of that question, or who does not
agree that all the amendments OF the consti-
tuition made TO give permanent effect to that
settlement ehalt be respected and obeyed and
executed by appropriate legislation. In view
OF this it il mean and uDpatI1otic In the Repub-
lican leaders to keep up the senseless clamor
against the South, and prevent the restoration
OF harmony and good will, without which the
sacrifices OF the war were all in vain.
Neither Mr.. Schurz nor Mr.. Sherman has
word N 4ay Justifying the use Of troops at the
polls, for which they and the administration
fought so vigorously. They know that it i, a
power that is an alien and foe to our repub-
Iican system of Government, and that the de-
termination Of the administration to retain
that power will meet the Interpretation of the
people. T..
But Mr.. Schurz attempts to ridicule the stern
demand of the Democracy to have that odious
power wiped from our statute books. He says:
HIlDa3 M think fbfq ad mi at rot inn
capable of sending the Federal soldiers to tho
balot-D box to overawe the freedom OF the
electorsg y The President withdrew
the Federal soldiers from the legislative halls
of the Southern States" ne
Yer, sir; that was when the President was
playing the role Of conservatives; that was
when he had just been put into power by a
truck and dicker arrangement, got up by Mr..
Foster: that was when both of them were cry
ing ont against Federal interference with State
Legislatures and State elections, and were
anxious for the flag to float over States, not
provinces" But change has come over the
spirit of their dreams. Mr. Foster pleads the
"baby act" and the President has taken up all
thelow fellows in the Southern States whom be
tramped down in getting to power, and given
them high stations and good salaries. He is
stalwart now; has made up with all whom he
offended by Withdrawing Federal soldiers
from the legislative halls OF the Southern
States" and is as lion melted as Zach Chand-
Ter. But whether he would or would not abuse
the power, as Grant did, is not the question.
The question is whether any President can
constitutionally be given, or should have, the
power to send troops to keep the peace at the
polls, or to, in any way, intermeddle with State
elections
Mr.. Sherman does not attempt to justify the
Marshals and Supervisors law as either consti-
tutional or expedient Its unconstitutionaliiy
is demonstrable to any man of common intelli-
gence, whether lawyer or layman. When the
constitution was framed the whole control Of
elections Of members of Congress was reserved