The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1880-08-04

knoWn of all men. Nothing ever wa;
more notorious than the general dis
reeard of all sound principle by this
administration. No pee pie on earth
are now suffering 81 much from ex
lravagant taxation, and no where
does so small portion of the take.
go to legitimate public purposes, o,
so much to the rulers tLems selves
and the rings they choose to favor
Industry is crushed as it never was
before. Labor no longer works 70,
itself, since all and more than all Of
It's surplus profits are exar,ed and
consumed by the hangers on of the
government. Now, although we call
ourselves rreemen or freedmen, we
IRE, to all intents and purposes,
slaves, so long as you continue t..
make us hand over to you the earn.
lnos Of our labor; for the essen Of
slavery consists in compelling one
man, or class Of men, to work fol
another without equivalent. We arr
determined to relieve ourselves from
his intolerabe hunAage, as far a.
we can legally and pcaupabIy, and, ii
You do not help US, you must al,
least cease to mock us ny pretending
to tie an anti-sIavery man upon
principle.
A PHARIsEE's BRAvADo.
You tell US that the Republican
party "will punish its own rascaS.
The newspaper report OF your speed
says this was greeted with laughte,
from the Republican side Of the
House. Certainly it sounds like the
broadcast of jokes. If you meant il
in earnest, please to say what GU
found this claim of impartial justice
upon. You will hardly prove it by
showing That Bristow aud Wilson
succeeded, with much tribulalion. in
convicting certain manufacturers of
crooked whiskey, and thereby got
themselves turned ont of office. II
is vain to deny that there is, and has
been, a general system of dishonesty
pervading all ranks of the civil ser.
vice, which, so far from being pun
ished, is protected, encouraged and
rewarded by the highest authorities.
You have set your faces like a flint
against all Investigations tending to
expose rascality. Proof of that, if
proof were wanted, would be 70, n
in your own denunciatlon of the
present Congress for pushing it's
inquiries into those regions where
venality and corruption might other
wise have dwelt in safety.
In all your Southern measures you
have shown positive adherence of
honest government. You forced in
to all places of power men whose
characters were VIGOROUSLY bad, and
maintained them while they perpe-
trated the most shameless robberies.
You resisted every effort of the op-
pressed people to throw them of,
and when those efforts were success
full in some of the States, you
the fall of the feIons with
sincere lamentations. just look at
The crew of goddess wretches BY
whom Louisiana has been almost de-
In the face of constitutions
al interdict, your administration at
W Washington repeatedly interfered to
shield them from justice, and to up
hold them in the possession of pow
er to which they had no manner of
legal claim. At this moment they
are preying upon the PROSTATE PEG
pie of the State, under the protection
Of Federal bayonets. Is that what
you call Furnishing your own ras-
Gals? You may answer that the
white people of Louisiana, being con
quered, are rightfully enslaved, &C
cordiug to the principles planted at
Plymouth, and, therefore, it is not
for the like of them to invoke the
protection of law and justice. l will,
call your attention to an
other case to which Dahomeain rule
does not apply, and in which the
failure of the Republican party to
punish its own rascals has been
equally signal; I mean the frauds of
The Union Pacific Railroad Company
and The Credit Mobiier.
THE MOST uNK1NDEsT CUT OF ALL"
You will pardon me, l am sure, for
referring TO this affair; you are the
last man upon whom I would make
4 personal point, and I could not do
it here if would try; for the con
viction 1 have often expressed re
mains unchanged, that your integrity
was not stained by such connection
IS you bad with that business. But
we both know that it was the most
gigantic fraud that the history OF
modern times discloses. The mag
nilude of the iniquity almost ex
ceeas belief. The entire amount of
the booty already taken from the
public and slowed away in the pock-
cts of the perpetrators cannot be less
than one hundred million dollars.
and every six maaths they make a
new demand, which is honored at
The treasury by an additional pay
mant I a,r tod ihnA L.. 49,