The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-06-30
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NOiNO w VIC Vuc great dnOiudif vi tHo
nineteenth century. A government
whose purity of polity, whose princi.
piles born under the scathings of OPP
preston, escaped to this land for free
dom's sake, tried and refined by revo.
utionary fires, embodied in declara,
ton and constitution without peer in
annals of time, boiling every door a.
gainst entrance of tyranny, breathing
forth equal protection, equal taxation
in every page, in every line, to every
man-speaking only benediotions Of
cheer and good will to every interest
and enterprise in this land of ours.
A people thus fortified by constitu>
tion against oppressive rule, is to-day
legislated for by a congress violating
and ignoring fundamental doctrines,
equal protection, equal taxation, the
vindication of which by patriot sires
dissolved the bonds of allegiance to ty.
ranny, lighted them through the
night of revolutionary struggle and
crowned their efforts with liberty and
independence.
A congress legislating under a com
stitution that knows no favoriteism,
that knows nothing but equal protec.
ton and just and equal taxation
congress legislating under a con-
stitution like this, raising from slime
of despotism the badge of royal priv
ilege, and placing it upon the heads
of chosen favorites. The family of
nobility, the privileged class in king.
ly governments are maintained large
by the privileged class is largely
maintained by congress without right,
enabling them to use the fruits of the
labors of the masses. We see no diff
ference, only that in kingly govern
ments this is sustained by constitu.
tional law, and in our government
this is sustained by congress violating
constitutional laws. What an anom>
ally! What fall from eagle heights
of liberty to grabbing in the slime
for badge to put on the heads OF
the chosen to hitch on to royalty!
What degradation of politics In
kingly governments they have hered-
itary privileges or emoluments which
descend from ore to another. In our
government this favoritism in the
same class, seems to be akin to that
which is hereditary, for it has descend.
ed from successor to successor from
time immemorial. And is it fact
that there is privileged class un.
der this constitution, that possesses
claim to hereditary dictinction? 1t
seems SO; for this has continued from
time immemorial, or when the recol-
lection of the mind runneth not to the
contrary. Tolerably good sample, this
of kingly nobility. Whenever con
gress leaves the constitution of a
people out of doors, and violates for
years its fundamental principles, and
slumbers Athenian-like with poppy to
their brows embrace the people and
upheavel of wide disapproval come
not to their relief, gloomy indeed is
the picture. And shall we remain
in this depth, still handling this badge
of slime to distinguish between our
fellow countrymen In the name of
the peoples cause we remand this re>
creant congress with its conglomer>
ated subterfuges, back to the consti~
tuition which speaketh better things,
speaketh of better times for this OPP
pressed, deceived people. Yes, back
to the constitution, SO long left, so
long put aside, and violated, to the
constitution the refutation of the intri-
CUES of misrule, ana the reclamation
of the peoples rights. Fellow far
mers, consumers all men who suffer
most from impolicy and unequal leg
islation, men who pay the taxes, and