Year: 1872

EaHzgazzHurs
honor of the nation suIlied-for what ?
10 further personal scheme of the
Presi ient, in which nobody took any
but a negative interest; neither the
Cabinet, nor Congress, nor the Ameri-
can people-nobody but the President,
his aides de camp, and few spectators
OF dark reputation. What the Presi-
dents motives were in so violently
pushing this scheme | do not know
Certainly the main reason with which
he advocated it in his message, that the
productions of Santo Domingo would
pay the national debt was so supremely
childish as to make the very school
boys laugh. But he wanted it and
and neither the Constitution, nor the
dignity of his high office, nor the honor
of the nation should stand in the way
of thing he wanted.


THE LIFE OF THE REPUBLIC THREAT


Ask those who in that party honestly
strove to arrest the current of usurpa4
tons and corruption, and they
will tell you that they found themselves
running against combination Of des-
potism and submission as against a
wall, deaf to the appeals of reason,
and inaccessible to shame. AS one on
the floor of Congress myself, and !
know whereof | speak. | have stood
there, startled at the stolid cynicism
with which to shield those in power,
the most evident facts were denied,
the most obvious conclusions rejected,
the light Of truth itself turned into
darkness. | have stood there, amazed
at the cowardly courage born of dcsper-
ate causes with which, 70 justify the
abuses and misdeeds Of the Govern
ment, principles were set up aud doc
trines adanced such as would make
every friend of popular freedom grow
pale, aud the fathers of the republic
turn in their graves have stood
there, overwhelmed with shame and
sadpess at the very degradation of man.
hood | saw before me. | have stood
there, bowed down by the conviction
that under the pressure of influences
the struggle for good government must
become vain folly, aud that we shall
soon have to tight for the very existence
OF Republican institutions. Such is
the rule which at this moment controls
the Republican party, and through it
the American people, and this rule we
are asked 20 continue As for myself
| shall not help in doing it. can
not do it. have been an humble and
faithful worker in the Republican ranks
from the beginning of my public life
and my political associations were dear
to my heart. But this servi!c organi-
zatlon is not the Republican party
which had my allegla nee. came to
this country from foreign land to
enjoy the blessings of republican gov
crnment, and to live in the moral pride
of free man | cannot sacrifice both
to party which has become false itself |
have always believed tha. true progress
grows out of free and manly contest
Of opinions, and cannot aid in tight
cnlng round the American people that
network of organized selfshness, that
snaklsh coil Of power, which is to stifle
every free aspiration and to bind the
people down to will not their own
1t is my profound conviction that this
network must be broken through, this
despotism must be destroyed, the peo-
pie must be inspired once more with
the breath OF independent opinion
We must have the emancipation of
of political consciousness, and now is the
time to strike for it. Have you thought
of it, how a condition of things such
as now surrounds us could develop
itself Z 1t is not new story.


ANOTHER GREAT ENGINEERING
WoRK.--A contract has lately beer