The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-02-19
REPUBLICAN UsURPATEON.


never find Judgment or footing in this
land, and that although disagreements
and political differences may arise and
rage, there can never come time
when liberty can possibly be forced
down under any stronger force than
the peoples will.
1t is true that as long as the lion is
awake, and on the alert, he cannot be
ensnared in the meshes of the net and
rendered helpless, but it is equally
true, that whilst he sleeps, the meshes
may be woven about him, thread by
thread, enshronding every limb and
muscle, until his power is unavailable
and his ftrcngth is as helpless as that
of the lamb.
The Republican party have under
taken the process of weaving the
meshes around the American people
thread by thread, until they have al
most reached the point of confidence
that the lion is helplessly ensnared
and the time has come when hi swak-
ening will bode no danger, that hence
forth centralism will find no bar to its
progress, and that the giant will be
helpless in its bonds.
The last act of the Speaker of the
House Of Representatives was suffi-
GENTLY alarming in its intentions, to
arouse the people to a sense Of the
possibility, nay, probability of the
coming autocracy and their subsection
to the tyranny which follows. The
usurpation of power by the majority in
Congress to overthrow the rules adopt
ed for the protection of of the minority
and which have remained fixed for a
century as the law of the land and the
only means possible to adjust the bal
ance, is enough to arouse and alarm
every lover of pure republican form
of government and excite a we'll
founded apprehension that exigencies
may arise at any moment when the
fatal errors incident to supineness and
carelessness on the part Of the people,
will plunge them hopelessly into a
state of helpless servitude under the
authority of an INSCRIPTIONS and am
bilious oligarchy.
The persuasion of the people to
watchfuIness aod vigilance of their
: rights does not partake of pessimism
and croaking, when on every hand
they are threatened with robbery and
+, pillage by an Inscriptions majority,
5 and it cannot be denied that the his
tory of the government establishes a
e steady depletion of the rights of the
. people and the transfer of those rights
into the hands of the Federal gov
eminent.
The late war settled tbs question Of
certain rights of the States and took
from them an inheritance of principle
Following came constitutional
amendment which poured into the
body of American electors a new ele
ment of citizenship never before
:, dreamed of, even by the great emanci
pator himself, and which has proven 6
more aggravating cause of sectiono
hatred than even slavery itself was
The pride and arrogance of powe
l. has then reared itself to the proportion
d of plan for the control of elections
" for Representatives in the severa
n States by the Federal government
o until finally the Speaker of the Hous'
p of Representatives has assumed to die
e tate to his peers and decide agains
d their protests, that they had voted, il
% the face of declarations to the contrary
l. Such apprehensions may be laugh
le ed to scorn, hut the measures whicI
ct give rise to them are full of ominou
1t porrent to the true lovers of the coun
try, and those who cling to the Amer
can theory that all power legitimatel
" lies in and springs from the people
= who, if they are carless of it and no
watchful of the stealthy usurpers, vii
;, =, some day awake too late to recogn
~ ton of their loss.
:" The hope of defense and protectio
= lies in the Democratic party in its dc
" TERMED and aggressive policy, its ur
e. firing effort to overcome the aggrar
es diziag strides of Republicanism and a
3 arousing of the people to their DANCE
+. Il Natchez Democrat.
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;; has spread all over America an
w doubled the death rate,i our most poi
ss ulous cities, but if every planter
+ America will use the improved 81