Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-09-08
Of the Central Committee
Of the National Green
back-Labor Party
by it's Executive
Committee.
TOGETHER WITH THE PLAN OF ORGANI.
zATION AS REVISED.
Also Statement of How Peter Coop
er's Generous Donation OF
Four Thousand Five Hun
dred Dollars is to Be
Distributed.

There are certain fundamental prin-
ciples necessary for the government of
mankind, which, when strictly Observ-
ed, insure the permanent welfare of
society. These principles are essential.
ly embodied in the constitution of the
United States AMI the union, and when
practically enforced by appropriate leg
islation, promote the peace, liberty,
happiness, and prosperity of the people,
but when disObeyed or violated, bring
multiplied woes on individuals and
communities. History tells us that
however perfect civil governments may
be in their inception, mans proneness
to go astray renders reform in all ages
IN imperative necessity. 1t, therefore,
behooyeS tie American people at this
time to calmly and dispassionately in
yestigate the causes about which uni
Versal complaints are made, and to pro-
vide remedies TO correct such evils.
Political parties and public officials,
long intrusted with legislative power
and with the administration of the
laws, are prone TO abuse their privi-
lege, and use tie power placed in their
hands for selfish, or for party purposes,
and when once they have served the
ends of government, seldom, if ever,
correct their own abuses, but continue
their enOrmties until displaced by the
sovereign will and organized power of
the people.
The Democratic party in 1860, on
account of its corrupt, and party-blind
administration of public affairs, was
swept from power by such an organized
effort for civil and constitutional re-
form.
The patriotic citizenship Of the cOun-
try, recognizing the Indifference and
cOntemptuous regard in which their
Individual rights and public institu-
tions were held, inaugura,ed, and push
ed to success, measures which resulted
ia the final overthrow of party whose
imperious will had controlled the des-
TIMES of the republic for near forty
years.
A civil war involving the perpetuily
of the union enSued as the consequence
of the passions and violence engendered
by party spirit and personal ambition.
The Democratic patty was succeeded
by the Republican party, TO which was
intrus' ed the duty of preserving the
union.
This party has by its long continu-
ance in office, by its usurpation of
power, by its greed for spoils, by the
grasping avarice of its leaders, by its
passage of laws the aim of which was
to plunder the people, demonstrated its
umworthincss, and the necessity for its
expulsion from power and authority.
We therefore arraign these two par
ties as principal or accessory for their
criminal abuse of public trust.
For their imperfect, partial, and vic
ious administration of public affairs,
state and national.
For their delinQuencies in the car
dinal virtues of true craftsmanship,
and unworthy of the continued conf
dence and support of a free people.
For the personal and sectional strife
engendered and fostered by them.
For causing and exciting domestic
violence and insurrectiOn in theintercst
of their respective parties.
For making party fealty the test of
political and social worthiness.
For their fragrant disregard of the
known or expressed will of their con-
stituency.
For voting to their representatives
higher salaries and for their wantOn
profiigacy in the public expenditures
For their costly splendor in the ad,
ministration of government.
For having created a multitude of
new Offices in both state and national
governments to pension men for party
service.
For appointing biased and de.
pendent judiciary for partisan pur,
poses.
For neglecling TO enforce the Grim
inal laws when violated in the execu
tion Of party schemes.
For bringing law and government
into contempt by licensing crime and
legalizing fraud and rascality.
For their disregard of tho sacred
rights of suffrage, by intimidation, cor.
ruption, fraud and violence at the bal
lot box.
For exempting funded wealth and
corporate property from taxation
For the imposition of every form Of
taxation on the properties of labor de
visable by the ingenuity of man, tc
make the rich richer and the pool
poorer.
For class legislation and discrimina.
tion in behalf of aggregated wealth
and corporate monopolies.
For making usury in all its varied
forms the honored rule of "those who
feel power and forget right"
For systemizing oppression, to dc.
prive the poor of many of the comforts
of life.
For nominating, electing, and ap-
pointing to offices Of public trust and
profit, national bankers, railroad officers
and agents, and attornies of other cor.
porate monopolies.
For depraving honest labor by pros
tituting the system of convict labor Ia
the greed and avarice of speculators
For investing railroad companies
national banks and other corporate
monopolies with the regulation and
control of interstate commerce.
For permitting robbery and Other
criminal offenses committed by these
favored classes to 60 unnoticed, while
treating the misdeeds Of the weak and
more humble as crimes to be vigorous
ly punished.
For giving the public lands to rail
road companies.
For the transfer of the property Of
the many to the few, through the in
strumentality of usury, extortion, and
taxation.
When the war closed the people Of