The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-08-11

over Twelve hundred Republican Deputy
Marshals appointed to preserve order at the
polls. These Deputy MarshaIs were the lowest
type If humanity. Many of them had Just
lore the election these SUPERVISORS issued war
rants for B. 100, and election day they arrest
ed over one thousand men charged with intent
to commit frau1-in attempting to vote with
out having made proper application for nat
uralization papers or, in other words that
They were torn from their fam
lilies, placed In prison cells. and
Court where in every instance their natural
iZati0n papers were pronounced genuine But
they had lost their votes and they had been
cruelty defrauded OF their liberty ana kept
| from exercising their rights as voters. Can
anything be more alarmiI z and in more di-
rect violation of the spirit of our Govern
mentf know of nothing to equal it, except
the action of Napoleon alter the revolution In
France. he made as loud pretense of fairness
and honor and honesty as do the leaders of
pie should have a fair chance to vote. He
himself was candidate, and he had his army
al the polls with the same appearance OF fair
ness that the Republican party had their Mar
shals at the polls TO see that the people had a
fatr chance to vote. When the voter was for
Napoleon he was all right, but when he pro-
posed to vOl e against Napoleon he was taken as
the Republicans took our friends in New
York; and locked up in prison. say TO you
now, my fellOw-citiZans, that III there Is not
stop put to this there will eventually be no
voting done in this country, except by the
friends.
The acts of the Republican party during the
last Congress ought TO be sufficient TO alarm
poses are. The Democrats, curing the extra
session, made great efforts 10 repeal this cleo
ton SUI ervising law, but they were defeated
pJSed at every sep till they lost hope of re-
pealing the law, but TO despoil the act of its
political effect and to keep the law from be-
they sought to amend it. Tn ! II r
amendment provided that no more than three
persons should be appointed as Deputy Mar
shaIs at any one voting place; that they should
be divided between the political parties; that
they should reside in the District composing
the voting place, and that they should he men
of honor and character. This amendment was
voted against by all the Republicans in Con-
gIess, and vetoed by the President when
passed by the votes OF Democratic members o.
Congress. Now, can we understand anything
else than this, namely, that the Republican
parry don't " ant ms N of good character as Mar
sbals: that they don't want men as Marshals
who live In the voting Ward or Precinct, Al d
that they dOn't want fairness at the polls? But
| that they do want the law as 1t now is, under
| the provisions If which the scum of the earth
can be appointed to supervise honest voters
and impose upon them and insult them as
| born fellow citizens in New York City, Rnd be
sustain ed in such outrageous conduct by the
army of the United States.
Mr.. Porter says in his speech that the doc
| trine of state rights and slavery we1t down
| together with the rebellion. We Dem 1crats
understood the war to be TO maintain the
rights of the States. Secession was against the
rights of the states. 1t never was regarded as
| a State rights doctrine, except by very few.
The war was for the maintenance of the
Union, and not for the destruction of S avery,
# MIR Lincoln Is to be believed. Slavery, he
said, could not be maintained, and the Union
preserved, and, in order to preserve the
Union, he emancipated the slaves. 1t was a
necessity, ss he said, which we Democrats in
dor ed. No man in Indiana, or but few,
would have shouldered musket and
the Tsn' rights 'O of the states as Mr. s Porter
says, or to liberate the slaves either.
II that was the real purpose of the war, the
people OF this country were kept In ignorance
of it, aud knew but little of what they were
| fighting for.
| General ] sckson was the first President who
| ever asserted the superiority of the laws of the
Uni, ed States ovet State laws. In the case OF
South Carolina, where she sought 10 nulltfy q
| law passed by Congress, he asserted the
supremacy OF the latter, and was going 10
United states. He acknowledged the right of
State to petition for redress, and to carry the
que ton to the Courts, but denied her right TO
nulllfy law of Congress.
REPUBLICANS ADOPT THE EXPLODED DOCTRINES
OF THE FEDERALIsTs UNDER HAMILTON.
The Republican party has shown their
contempt Tor State lines and State laws, as the
| original Federalisis. hesded by Alexander
Hamilton, expressed theirs. The leaders of
| the Republican party say they want a strong
Government, with all power in the Federal
Government. So did the Federslists OF long
| ego, neaQ6Q MI. hHfnllton, IN
| the National Constitutional Convention, on
the 18th day of June, l798, said:
ave must establish a general and National
Government, and annihiliate the State & is
tinctions and State opera ions; and unless We
ds this, no good purpose can be answered"
He said also:
"Let one body of the Legislature be con-
stituted during good behavior or life. Let
| one executive be appointed flor lifel who
dares execute his powers. All
State laws to be absolutely void, which con-
Il ho m no
| appointed In eacn State to have q negative
| on all State laws. All the militia and the APP
| Government. 3 The people are grad
| ually ripeniDg In their opinions of Govern
| ment; they begin . tire of an excess of De-
| p ges l32-lS.
Fellow citizens, compare the views expressed
| by Mr. Hamilton, the leader of the old FEEDER
| Rlist party, with the practices of the Republi-
| can party in the Southern States, and poiL
/ out the difference.
| THE BONDED DEBT CHANGED AND MADE PERMA-
NENT.
| Leading Republicans and their candidate
i for Governor claim much credit for the man
/ agement OF the bonded debt of the country
/ They have managed that debt so as to consol
i idate the wealth OF the country In the hands
of the few, as they have managed to concen-
i trate the political power of the States In the
/ hands of the Federal Government The thou
sands that have been bankrupted and the tens
| OF thousands Of tramps made by them, hold
/ their policy IN contempt. During the war the
| very widest schemes of imitation were
| adopted. and values were greatly enhanced by
| such initiation. The war debt was made al
| least twice as large as it would have been had
| 1t been conducted upon gold basis. Oul
| bonds were issued and exchanged for this de-
| preciated money. Designing men il
| the Republican party designing
| ly depre ciated them. Greenbacks. wher
| first issued, were convertible into $40 bonds
| which would have kept them of equal value
| with the bonds, but eeing that the Repubi
can party repealed the law, although they
| never refused to take that deprecated money
for the bonds.
After the bonds bad been bought with th,
| deprecated money nothing could be gained
by keeping IL deprecated, and their next effor
was to appreciate 1t by contraction. w,
| Democrats opposed that, and in 1868 declared
In favor of paying off the bonded debt IL
greenbacks-the money, and the only money
we got Tor them-unless the law under whicl
they were issued, or the bonds themselves
provided otherwise. This alarmed the friend
| Of the concentration OF wealth, and the,
hastily passed a law through Congress declar
ing that the bonded debt of the country shoulC
be paid in concealed the law of 1863 Mr.
Garfield supported that law. and when In tn
Forty fourth Congress a resolution was of
fered in the House of Representatives declar
ing that S5,O0OtO0 had been spen
| on the floor of Cong ess to secure the pass az
| of that law, Mr.. Garfield was one of the drs
men to take the floor against the passage O
the resolution. The resolution asked for al
| investigation. He wanted no Investigation.