St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-07-28

struction of the constitution: it is violation
#0f it. 1t is not case OF misunderstanding tHe.
constitution, but of assault aud battery--ori
MAIN and murder of homicide and assassina-
tion-cOinmitted upon it. Never has sucn
daring outrage been perpetrated--n d--neNer sllcn a
bare-face departure from all the purposes iof
which a community OF States bound them
selves together for the defence, and cot Tor the
plunder, OF each other.''
Such were the indignant terms In
which these two illustrious Democratic
Statesmen, with their Democratic asso-
ciates in Congress, denounced this
scheme Of political stock S-jobbers, gam.
blers and foreign bondholders, in 1910
and 1S41, to trample upon the constltu--
ton, plumber the Federal Treasury, and
under the miserable .pretext OF reiiev-
ing the State, fill their own pockets.
Iican party, put forward by the Penn
sylvania republicans, is in origin, char
acter and purposes. precisely the same
as that of the bills Of 1910 and 1871 only
the plunder will be on a yaster scale,
and hence we may expect to see 1t
pressed with greater vigor, and by Tar
more varied and widespread Influences.
We shall find it urged in the next can.
vass in behalf of the sacred cause OF
education, of the MANNED and disabled
and patriotic soldiers of the Union, and
as relief to the people from local
State taxation. Later, we may expect
to find the South appealed to by red
mouthed Republicans and politicians,
who helped few years ago to degrade
and plumber her, to support this meas
ure for the payment OF the Confederate
debt, and the maintenance OF the honor
OF a reconciled Union. Nay as the
surplus of the revenues from the rob-
berry of the working people accumulates
we shall not be astonished to have
these same politicians and jobbers, In.
sanctimonious phrases, speaking OF the
duty of the common country to provide
for the soldiers of both sections, and OF
making new appropriation OF the sur
plus for pensions to Confederates. !,
| But under any and all pretexts and
ldisguises the scheme is the same de
tested thing" which Mr.. Calhoun called
lit in 1S41, scheme to violate the con-
stitution, and to tax the producing and
consuming classes of the country fol
/ the benefit of the manufacturers and
Ibondholders, and to establish the doml-
nation Of the money power and the he
publican party. That party" which
may be titly characterized i'll Mr.. FEN
toms language, as one "whose inH hnct
/ is debt and taxation-whose passion Is
waste and squander-whose cry is thai
of the horse leech, give! J! give Whose
call is that of the grave, more more
i We do not exagerate the meaning o.
the little cloud which appeared IN tht
| political horizon at tIfn 3aPennsylvanis
capital. A measure R3ich our grea
political prophets denounces as fraugh
with danger to the constitution ant
liberties OF the country. when the he
public was in its heyday of youth AM
patriotism, is of much more ominou
import now, when the civic spirit is la
less high and when the money powe
has attaineda power and influence II
! the politics and legislation OF the coun
try which fills every true mans hear
: with apprehension and sorrow. 5