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

II whicn, so lar from being punished, is pre-
O tected, encouraged and rewarded by tn
}. highest authorities. You have set you
o faces like flint against all Investigate
: ons tending to expose rascality. Proa
r of that, if proof were wanted, would b.
@ found in your own denunciation of til
J. present Congress for pushing it's ;rquirie
f into those regious where venaliry ant
Q corruption might otherwise have dwell
f in safety.
1 In all your Southern measures you i1av,
= shown n l ositive abhcrance of homes
r government. You forced into all place.
: OF power men whose characters were no
= toriously bad, and maintained them while
r they perpetrated the most shameless rob
{ berries. You resisted every effort of the
oppressed people to throw them off, and
when those efforts were successful in
some OF the States, yon mourned the fall
or the felons with sincere lamentations
Just look at the crew of goddess wretcbes
by whom Louisiana has been almost tles-
olated! In the face Of constitutional in
terdict, yOnr administration at Washing
ton repeatedly sinterfered to shield them
from Justice, and to uphold them in the
possession of ofpower to which they had no
manner of legal claim. At this moment
they ale preying upon the PROSTATE peo-
pie OF the State, under the protection of
Federal bayon ets. Is that what you call
punlshirg your own rascals!
You may answer that the white people
OF Louisiana, being conquered, are right
fully enslaved, according to the PRINCIPLES
! planted at Plymouth, and, therefore, it
is not for The like of them to invoke the
protection of law and justice. I will,
therefore, call your attention to another
case to which Dahomeiaa rule does not |
apply, and in which the failure of the |
Republican parry to punish its own ras-
Gals has been equally sigral; 1 mean the
frauds of the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany and the Credit Mobiller.
''TlIE MOST UNKiNDEsT CUT OF ALL"
You will pardon me, am sure, for re-
ferring to this affair; you are the last
man upon whom 1 would make q person.
al point, ond 1 could not Go it here if l
would try: for the conviction I have Of
ten expressed remains unchanged that
your integrity was not stained by such
!
But we both know that it was the most
gigantic fraud that the history of modern
times dlscloses. The magnitude of the
inlquity almost exceeds belief Tho en-
tire amount of the booty already taken
from the public and slowed away in the
pockets of the perpetrators cannot be
less than one hundred million dollars,
and every six mouths they make q new I
demand, which is honored at tho treas d
ury by an additional payment. 1 am
told that d late Attorney General counts
sos, 200, 900 as the sum which the United
State will lose in solid cash, directly talk I
Ell out of the treasury. l am not sure
that this calculation is accurate, but it Il
be very far wrong, aud it is not
equal to one half of the whole steal, for II
& does not include the value of the road !"
tself, nor the land grants, nor tho pro-
leeds of the bonds to which the lien of d
he United States was postponed, nor Ii
he equipment bonds. AS this swindle II
vas the la gest, so it was one Of the IN, st "
base. 1t was pcrpetrated at "
time when the nation was swamped 1
With debt, when the people were loaded y
18th taxes, and when the most rigid ccon- u
my was imperatively required. All cir ''
as well as the direct evidence VI
how that it was no sudden act 'of q
houGhtless imprudence, but was wilIfnlly, "
e'iberatsd and corruptly pre-arranged }"
nd determined. There is nothing to nit le
lgate it; you cannot defend it even by L
'aving the bloody shirt. "
In hn Ran, nj, E,>,, :,I, I
$ own rascals' il this case? Not a at
air Oh the head of any rascal was touch he
Il. On the contrary, they were promot- III
d, honOred and advanced; the most W
uilty of them are now, as they were be- d
're. the very darlings of the party. Even i'll
lat is not tho worst Oft. These swim til
lers are periodically swelling the colos- ia
II proportions of their crime by taking | NJ
ut of the treasury additional millions Ii
hich they claim as the ''precious results" al
their original fraud. They have no in
etter sitlc to them than tic wolf has to
le mutton 10 slaughters by moonlight.
he legal remedy against these eXactions
go plain that ignorance alone could Al
trdly miss it. But your officers have NJ
und out the way not to do it. They C.;
,rmit the government to ]ie down aud 81,
} robbed semi-annaally by n corporation Al,
hch Tilden would long ago have dis on
med OF it's power, and whose crlninnl ii
,ettors he would have swept into the tu
by scores. ot
j repeat that l. do not blame you as an oJ
tive accomplicc in this wickedness. pr
1t you ought to have come out from the fir