The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-10-08

A siberia.
:, ~ sou:b wishes to become Siberia, |
- 49, vote scr GARFIELD. In speech IN
- uonse Of Representatives few years
Ngo be said;
~ sevoy 4 stroug government with an
>~u ione enough % reN<sh out and strike
6n~n tyreuny whewvec found. want
srvereneut that win project the humosc
essro ia Mississippi ss well as vardcrbHt."
ira .ssoux arm will mach more Sreba-
0,v Re stretched ont to strike down TIE i'p-
~fttes 81 tbe pedese than to preses those
nh>x1tex, People are seldom cr never OPP
pvssss1 by hcme-rulers. ftey ore 10 no
;lsur<r a beng unlAwfu'iy sEreaed or Id
h.vnxAy or cruelty punished BY the au-
ehmtxses Il tAc town OF CITY IN which
shey reside, nor by vhc ~fbciass OF
sbe prcsinse, In wsfch 'cscb man Is
Known 70 so many Of his fcliow-citizens.
Yhss reniwk. made, a. we hNe made v, 70
include Ne people u foregn countries,
may beextended In speaking Of this ccun-
rrv 40 rs to include the word States"
which ,sss local sad technics meaning ia
vbc Urltcd States different from Its general
mcarsug. Our Ssatcs are the homes OF the
neorjsr. In then should zoe placed the trust
.of every citizea- TheSsate is inhabited es
his ueighbos add 1f!fnds, contro''ed by
mis- own aad tteir VOTES, and is tue pro-
xsrtor OF his rights and the desenaer
OF his liberties. IN OF bis property rs
held by a elite sfrsm the State. AS
husband. as a father, MS a son, he has no
rights not guarantecd TO him by his Stare.
n IL NOT Ia beffesred that he will ever lose
mis- propery, or hss liberties, or any 81 his
flights as q ciitzen, In consequence OF un-
lawful. uuconstitsf ional. and Unauthorized
acts on the Part of the rulers Of his own
State.
But It Is eiastrent with a government
whose seat Of rower Is far removed from
the citizen. Ut Is liable at any time to De-
come Russia and the citizens State to be-
come Siberia. Whoever would see Gov
.ernor BoLRs0AY can do SO apv day,
and ut almost any hour or minute,
and can bring 10 bear upon hiE
that sort 81 neighborIy, and friendly and
social inilusace which it is almost impossf-
die to resist, and which ought not to be re-
sistcd when such cases as we are supposing
shall have happened. But how many peo-
ple out of fifty millions can ever hope TO
see the president OF the United Statesy
Let us suppose that the unhappy victim Cd
Mr.. GaRyiELD's "loug arm" resides in
tbe West-pot on the Pacific ocean, nor bali
way out to San Francisco, but in Illinois or
Indiana. Can he afford to 20 to Washing
1onY When he gets there, can he see the
President? Not unless one OF the ono
.bility" "a congressman accompanies him.
A citizen OF North Carolina once waited
in vain in Washington city for two
weeks, trying 10 secure an interview with
ANDRgw JOHNSON. The "long arm" OF
the Federal Government may be Invoked
to-day TO protect the pets OF the present ad-
ministrators OF that Government, but let II
become the custom for that "iong arm to
be stretched out over the States, and 1t VIII
not be many years before each Federal Of
fetal in Washington will he able to boast
with Mr.. SEWARD that be can pull bell
wire In his Office and in five minutes have
any man in the United States locked up in
a Federal bastle. Even now citizens OF
Georgia are sent to New York TO be i'm
prisored, where they anguish and die, far
from home and friends, and cut of from all
sympathy by being surrounded by strangers.
Whoever, therefore, wishes the Govern
ment OF the United States to grow up into
a consolidated despotism, crushing out tue
powers of the State governments, and en-
dangering, and in the end destroying, all
the liberties Of the people, will vote for Mr..
GAHRIELD. Whoever wishes TO see the
great iron wheel OF Federal power moving
and controlling all the "works" OF our
local State governments will vote for GAR
FIELD, aud thus aid in putting an end to
free government ia this country. Whoever
desires TO convert Texas into a Siberia will
sustain Mr.. GARFIELD's Russianizing creed.
But let no friend OF the people, no one
who values free government, countenance
the man who as President would stretch
out the "long arm" Of a consolidated GEN.
= tral despotismin order to control the States
and make their free citizens the subjects
and victims OF aIfalse system OF government.
Mr.. GARFIELD teacbes the most dangerous
OF heresies. He would, IL elected, practice
alpon them. "Let no such map be trusted"
The -"long arm~ which be would now
stretch out for the protection Of the negro
wound soon be extended over the States
and its hand would clasp in its grip the
mauscles OF an enlaved people.