Year: 1879

top, and they want to stay there. They have
the advantage of the millions below them and
they want to keep it By the plan presented
by Hamilton the Senator'S were also to hold
office for life This was intended to create an
aristocracy in the management Of the Govern
ment similar to the House of Lords in England.
As to the States and the people of the States,
they were to be trusted with nothing The
National Executive Committee, with theiPresi-
dent, was to appoint the Governors of the
various States; the Legislatures Of the States
were to be permitted to enact laws, subject,
however, to revision and entire repeal by Con-
gress; and all the courts of ihe State, for
the determination of all matters of general
concern were to be created by act of Con-
gress. And even this vast scheme Of consoi-
dation fell short Of the wishes of Hamilton and
his followers, as it does now, perhaps, of the
more advanced and stalwart leaders of the Re-
publican party. Hamilton boldly stated that
1t by no means came up to his conception OF
model Government In discussing the proper
executive head of q Government he said: THE
English model is the only good one on this
subject The hereditary interests Of the King
were SO interviewer with those of the nation,
and his personal emoluments 80 great, that he
was placed above the danger Of being corrupted
from abroad, and at the same time was suf-
ficiently Independent and sufficiently controlled
to answer the purpose of the institution at
home.D In presenting his draft Of constitu-
ton, he also said, speaking of the American
Senate, that 1t should be on the same model as
the House of Lords In England, and that no
temporary Senate would have Shrmness to
carry out its proper functions


These principles of Alexander Hamilton, and
of the Federal party at the formation of our
Government, show the fountain from which
have descended the principles of the so-called
Republican party of our times; principles mo
narchical in their tendencies, repugnant to the
self-respeet of the people, offensiye to every
sentiment Of manhood, and in opposition 70 the
spirit and the letter of the constitution I
have heretofore foretold some things in tine po-
litical world which have come to pass / pre-
dict now that the coming issue in the near
future is to be between the broad principles of
Jefferson on the one hand, and the monarchi-
cal doctrines of Hamilton on the other, the
latter supported by all the monopolies, banks
and boarded interest gathering wealth in the
land. Jefferson announced that he who feared
to trust the people was Tory by nature. That
was his mode Of describing an enemy to free
government, and we are rapidly finding out
now who are Tories, or enemies of free govern
msnt, by the same rule.


The leaders of the Republican party insist
that you ought to surrender the principle Of
self-goyernment, and of free elections in the
North, in order that the bayonet may be used,
according to the forms Of law, at the polls in
the South. For every piece Of wicked and vii
famous legislation, inspired by the hearts Of
designing men, who believed in despotism and
not in the people, the South is held up and
rallied at as an aII-sufficient cause If the peo-
pie are to be shorn OF their most sacred rights /;
curtailed of their freedom, and insuited in
their homes, you are told that something in
the South imperatively demands it. IT, indeed,
ii was true that to govern the South we had to
give up the constitution, deprive ourselves aud
our posterity Of its protection. our condition
would be most deplorable; but deny that any
such necessity exists. We cannot nor are we
called on to, govern one part of this country
one way and tho other part another way. A
Southern State is in this Union exactly
as Ohio is. Whenever distinctions are
made between States, or the people Of
States, the Union and the constitution are
both destroyed. But you are told by the great
political Pharisees of the times that the people
of the different Southern States are not con-
Quoting themselves properly On certain sub
jects, and therefore you should cest sway your
own liberties in order to regulate by force their
1ofdestfc sI1affA." fou sfs afso sod 10
this course by 3 constant stream Of slander
poured out on an entirely helpless and submis-
slve people, people who have submitted to
every constitutional amendment, and to every
other condition of reconstruction which the
Government has imposed upon them. 1t is to
the interest of the Republican party to SANDER
them. Every fault they have il not only set
down in malice and conned by rote, but it is
magnifed and multiplied by all the lens power
of party machinery. An actual offense against
the laws in the South, such as have happened
every day and every hour since the human
race began, is sweet morsel, q delicious
item, o savory paragraph, over which the
Republican editor rubs his hands in keen
enjoyment A thousand murders may and
do occur in the Northern States, but how
flat and insipid they appear when dished
up in our morning papers at breakfast in
comparison with any act of crime, however
commonplace its motive, that comes to us, hot
and sensational, upon the breezes of the South
You live in a law-abiding State, as much 80 az
any other in the Union, and more so than some
Of the loud-pretending States Of New England
yet 1 doubt if there is county in Ohio in
which blood has not been unlawfully shed II
the last twelve months The same may be said
of the great State of Indiana, and perhaps OF
every other Northern State. Crime is inherent
in the heart of man, and it prevails everywhere
1t is without quarantine. 1t penetrates every
latitude, every longitude, and every climate.
hold that the people of the North, and the peo.
pie of the South, on the average Of conduc
and motive, are neither better nor worse thar
each other; and, in this opinion, the statistics
of crime, in proportion to population, will
amply sustain me. The trouble, however. If
that the leaders and newspapers Of a powerful
party in the North are deeply interested
in making you believe the Southern peo-
pie are worse than they are. When actua
offenses do not occur frequently enough tt
answer the purposes Of an approaching cleo
ton, fictitious ones are manufactured for tht
occasion Recently two prominent Democrats
in MISSISSIPPI both candidates for office, be-
came involved in trouble and Mr.. Dixon wal
shot and killed by Mr. Barksdale. This is {
deplorable event. and sincerely hope that the
survivor will be punished, if he took the life o.
his adversary without cause. But is homi


eide of this kind 30 great novelty to the
Northern mind that we are to be thrown int
commissions on its account? About three-quar


ters of q century ago there was very noted
homicide in the streets of Boston. It grew ou


of political quarrel in which Mr.. Selfridge, |
Federalist killed Mr.. Austin, Democrat, ant
from that time to this more than twice tel


thousand cases of killing have been occasionet


in the Northern States alone by political feelin.


and animosity. There is hardly mai
in my presence who can not recall one II


his own recollection. Yet such events hav,


caused but brief comment, for the reasol


that heretofore no political party has been q
debased as to thrive on crime, fatten on muir


der. and hence been interested in proclaimin


its prevalence where it did exist, and in forg
ing its calendar where it did not But a fey


days since / saw in a leading Republican pa
per of your State the following jubilant an
| nouncement: sThe best Republican speech O
the campaign thus far-the shooting OF Dixon
| in Mississippi" That editor wants any mum
Der more such Republican speeches made i


this and subsequent campaigns. He want
more killings to take place in the Souther
| States. 1t matters not on what provocation


man is killed south of the Potomac and tn


Ohio rivers, every such item will be so muc


party capital to that editor; he will make sui


eide from financial embarrassment pc
Utica, nurdvf. Ana when actual mui
! der runs short he will supply the polite,


market; he will meet the demand; he wi


kill them himself; he will transform himsel


inio a monster of murder onpaper, for the saR


of party success at the approaching election


once heard it said that in whatever directio


mans interests lay there you ought to loo


for his tracks. This is certainly safe rule b
which to judge political party. The Republ


can party is the only party on earth whose il


terests are advanced by riot, violence, disorde


resistance to law, bloodshed, and murder


the South, and therefore charge that now,


heretofore, in the supremacy of carpetbagisn


every plan, scheme, prayer, hope, and purpol


of that party ls on the side of lawlessness an
| crime in the South; on the side of their ow


manifest gain, if they can thus infiaIne Il


Northern mind. Would you believe witnei


under oath in one of your courts on a questio


of contractor damage, if he was as much inte


ested on one side of the case as the Republic,


leaders and newspapers are in making you b


lieve that the people of the South are hort
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