Show territorial TYRANNY A JL voice from the vicinity vented tented on the Tas vassalage balens Ue Ha lena lens M U T independent the sentiments expressed in our convention address are beginning to find advocates throughout the east when the present iniquitous system of territorial government is once understood all portions of the union in very shame will rise up P agai against ast it and protest against its longer continuance it is a foul blot upon up 0 n our american institutions and andia is in conflict with every principle of liberty fer which our forefathers fought in 1776 tho the following letter published in the washington post of february 1st ast will be heartily indorsed endorsed indor sed by every well informed citizen of the territory to the editor of the post Your article the subject of territorial appointments win will receive the hearty approval of every citizen who is so unfortunate as to be virtually dis franchised by living in a territory ory the whole eye tern tem of territorial government as at present conducted is an outrageous anomaly in our ou r republic ic Any A ay party back after he has been re repudiated by his hi state hie his district or eta hie county after he has become obnoxious to the people among amon whom lie lives and who k know now hg him im to be unworthy of trust or respect may be appointed to rule over the destinies of one or two or three hundred thousand intelligent and enterprising american citizen simply because they live in a terri territory though he maybe may be as ignorant of ia law w aa as a baboon he may bo be made chief justice of wyoming with her people people though he may have been a de defaulting I 1 suiting or embezzling united states marshal in kentucky kentuck beis be is goodenough good enough for governor 0 people in utah though he ma may y have been little bet better ter than be beer r saloon bummer in new york be he is considered fully qualified qu s rifled to govern first class c citizens cit i t eizens in mon tana tans these men go to their posts with no interests feeling feelings or ideas idem in common with the people over whom they are sent to rule they know nothing odthe of the needs of the territories they 11 are re cam commissioned to control their only aim or idea is to grab all they can in the shortest possible time and ana ret wet back to endeavor to buy respectability again among the people who have bays disowned them ills the worst and most moat inex cusa cusi ba ble for form of carpetbag carpet ar t bag government whatever that ever ex existed C wea on th this a continent the spanish viceroy rule was fully as republican and far more respect able scarcely one of these meu men has ever become honestly identified with the r regions io ne or people where they have laen been abent as rulers every principle of republican government is outraged by it no taxation without representation is in a dead letter in all our constitutional textbooks text books whilst bund hundreds reds of thousands of american citizens have no voice whatever in the choice of the men who aro are to control all their most important affairs how flow a president Ident elected by republicans can keep up this utterly publican publican lican and inexcusable custom is hard ard to understand how southern democratic senators who have so lo 10 long n g and so bitterly waged war on carpetbagger carpet bagger and carpetbag carpet bag rule can vote to confirm these worst of all all carpet and to maintain this most unjustifiable of all carpetbag carpet bag government p es any ordinary comprehension the whole system is rotten and in violation of every republican principle of self govern ment the territories abound with abler and better men than ever eyer sent to them under this infamous ill system stem of cuccia cu icia copet baptism ley let t the president act upon the posts advice of this morning and appoint none but residents of the territories to territorial offices putting their peo pie on an equality with other american citizens and he will win the commendation men dation of every right loving american citizen and tb the a gratitude of every resident of a territory A ora jan 30 |