Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1880-07-31

| "i" oho NoodIeS tOSetner. YO
Know as well as I do how absurd it is
suppose that any man or party can sur
port the Union and at the same tim
trampie on the constitution and you ce,
talnly are not ignorant that you and you
| predecessors, from tle earliest times. hay
been anti-constitnticnal in all your prc
cllvltles. Contemptuous disregard c
constitutional obligations is not now IL,
mere germ of 4 doctrine; it is part G
your settled creed. Before the war an
since You have trodden under foot ever
provision contained in the great charte
OF our liberties. do not speak at ran
dom. Ichallenge you to designate a sin
gle constitutional right of the States, O
OF individuals, which you have not a
some time or in some way deliberatel,
violated.
THE CORRUPTION OF TIE PIIAR1sEE.
The oftenses which you are now eupar
Ell IN committing upon the public treasu
ry are the natural sequence ofyour cri mes
against popular liberty. Universal ex.
perIence proves that power usulped will
always be dishonesty used. Seeing that
the Abolitionists were led by men whom
no oath could hold to the con titution
and whom no pledge could bind to an OBJ
servance Of its principles, we had no right
10 expect decent regard for JUS ice in
their administration of the national tinan-
ces. l do not mean that the masses of
yo"f party We're, Or are now, destitute of
common integrity. But that was over.
ruled by the political doctrines Of their
leaders. Having once set aside the estab-
lished law of the land they had no stand
ara by which they could measure the
moral conduct of themselves or others
ana they became incapable Of seeing the
difference between right aud wrong in
public affrirs. The "highcr law'' threw
The reins loose on the neck of all evil
passions. 1t not only abrcgated the con.
st'tut'on. but the decalogue as well, and
the eighth commandment was rullitied
with the rest.
You have consequently made ours the
,orrnp'eso government On this side of
Perhaps you will say
'hls is q mere general assertion. But |
I'm ready to maintain the truth of if
against all opposers. You may take the
r"ttenest monarchy in Europe, 60 over its
history for hundred years, aud produce
ne worst act you can find Of fraudulent |
poiiatlon upon its pc eople, andifI do not
how sonnet hing worse committed here |
lnder the auspices of the part; now in
'ower will give up the case.
am speaking of the government-of
ficials who rule US for their pleasure and
innder us for their personal profis-it
no answer to quote Mr.. Lords speech
efore the Senate on the trial of BelknaD.
lis eulogy was on the virtue and intelli-
ence OF the people, ard he argued from
nat the duty of their servants to behave
18th integrity. He certainly did not
lean to whitewash the administrations
he had meant to do so he could not
ave succeeded, for there was not wash
nough in his bucket to go over the twen-
part of the job.
While you We're hunting for certificates
cha acter among the speeches of i'm
eachmnnt managers, why did you over
ok that of Mr.. Hoar? He said in effect
or l cite him from memory that the one
'odnctlon III which our country ex.els
| Others in the world is corruption of it's
candid witness, belonging to your own y
lrty. who knew whereof he affirmed and
olle directly to the point.
l'ut 1T is useless to cite the evidence of
llvlduals upon great public facts that
felt and seen and known of all men, :.
'thlng was ever more notorious than -,
general disregard of all sound princi-
IS by this administration. No people il
earth are now suffering so much from h
travaga 1T taxation, and no where does a
small proportion of the taxes 60 to @
climate public purpo es or so much to q
rulers themselves and the rings they f,
1ose to favor. Industry is crushed as it Il
yer was before. Labor no longer works Il
itself, since all and more than all of its q
plus profits are exacted and consumed q
The hangers-on of the governmcnt.- "
W, although we call ourselves trecnen O
iAcculell, we are, TO all lCtcntS and | b
rposcs, slaves, so long as you continue Il
make us hand over to you the earnings r
our laher; for the essence of slavery is
lslstsin compelling one man, or class of Ii
II, to work for another without euuiva- fc
t. We are determined to relieve our u
yes of this ntolerable bondage, as far b
s=e can legally and peaceahly, and, if W
l do not help us, you must at least al
Sc to mock us by pretending to be an al
l-Slavcry man upon principle. y,
A PHARISEE'S BEAVADO.
'"u tell us that the Republican party ac
iii punish it's own r:scals." The news b