The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1854-02-22
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THE REPUBLICANS AND RESUMPTION.
For myself. and believe that speak for the great
majority of the Republican party. intend take
no -oackBard step. We propose to stand by the
capitalist foin further fuctuation and loss BY
an irredeemable paper currency. The Republican
party created the greenback in the face OF Demo-
cratic denunciaton and opposition, and they pro-
| ppse to maintain il in honor now when it is
threatened BY the dangerous and and reckless cham
pionship of its late enemies. It is all the
| necessary that Republicans should do this when
hard money Democrats, who have hitherto aided in
sustaining the public faith. falling away from its
support One by one they are Joining the ranks OF
the 1n1iationists or dropping over lnto the wilder
surprise of such hard money Senators Bayard and
herman when they read the late speech OF Senator
Thurman their honored leader. shall be sur
prised if some of them DO respond to him in his
own words which he used in the Senate on the 26th
Mr.. President, Notwithstanding the pressure
have stood here in obedience % the dictates OF my
pgeEqls and disastr ri the glrre9ey;
I'll are $50 10
zt1e1Ih ef some words ia Se book OF job who're
e EeDrosehss bis friends. which itseens 10 me may
- Ny brethren have dealt deceitfuIiy as brook
and as the stream OF brooks they pass away: which
snow is hid. What time they warm they, van
lsn anen 1t Is hot they are consumed out OF their
| place
I tAnd so, sir, when it has waxed hot under the
eloquence of my friends from Indiana and Illinois
shes out OF It's place and abandous the theory that
there should be no initiation. =" o
| Zone by one 'they are consumed out of their
place and agree to for moderate Increase OF the
| currency Well, Mr.. President, do not know but
that this might justify me, mere sergeant or Pri-
have abandoned the flag, too, might not stand up
in its defense" Congressional Record, first session.
Whatever others may do, let Republicans continue
to stand up in its defense
! DEMOCRATIC ASSAULT ON AMERICAN INDUSTRY.
| The Democracy OF Ohio denounce the present law
for the protection of American industry, and demand
tariff for revenue only. 1t is admitted on all
hands that the present revenues of the government
can not safely be diminished yet the Democratic
House OF Representatives seeks to reduce the
whisky and tobacco, and voted almost unani-
inousy for bill which would have fatally crippled
our leading manufacturing interests. Pretend
! ing that it was tariff for revenue only, their
bill largely increased the duties on several leading
Southern products, and heavily reduced them the
leading Northern products. For exefnple the pres
ent productive duty on sugar is 62A per cent adya
/ lorlm. This makes the sugar product OF Louisiana
| possible and profitable Without it not ton could
/ be produced Yet the Democratic House in the
20 per CEN. almost prohihifofy duty and .then
slInen 9 me 9ss @ 3
would not only hag cT ppied The owners but would
have thrown out of employment half the artisans in
the mills forges. and factories of the country. am
not a believer in prohibitory tariff; but do be-
can industry which will enable our people to clothe
themselves, to make their own implements OF indus
try 10 be- in short selsupporting and self-relian
nation. Twenty-Five pei cent of all the laboring
men of the United States engaged in mining and
manufacturing; and as member of the Committee
of Ways and Means, I do not hesitate to
say that the tariff bill which Democratic House
sought to impose upon the country would have
thrown out of employment half OF al this great body
| OF American laborers. 1t was defeated by the al
most solid strength of the Republican party and
Democracy. in their platform this year. denonnce
the protective policy without stint or qualification
and then have the effrontery to declare that the
Democratic party is the champion OF laboring men.
| "9f ~ ECONOMY.
During the last three years Democratic friends
have hay been loud in Their PEetensions OF economy
/ boast Of great reductions Of expenditures. They
! have made some reductions for which they are en-
enSad e 9 ae e o
/ what yKnew we're peeessary appropriations. and
form Of hgiency bills. The resull is as stated by
i senator u lAdom. Chairmsn Is Of the Senate
and extrayasahees oi Tie present House have IN
creased the for the current year SIS
ing the great pretense Of economy made during the
frst TWO years Of the Democratic rule in the House
is l9Eand tss fSs those
made during the last two years OF the Republican
| House.
In discussing the question of economy Senator
| Thurman has contrasted Democratic expenditures
previous TO the war with Republican expenditures
since the war, and seems to imag inc that by leaving
Hus @ IrGhn oSt @ 10y gu Tue S 10, d % on
| basis for comparison. He omits to notice the fact
that year since the war have paid large sums
tor bounty anu back pay to soldiers, and for claims
growing out OF the He omts the fact also that
many Of the civil departments OF the government OF
necessity have been greatly enlarged in order to
transact the vast increase OF business which the war
| imposed upon them.
1t is hardly becoming for Democrats to make such
acomparson when they remember that nearly all Of
the increase of the public burdens under which the
| country now suffers was made necessary by the
bellion in which no Republican took part,a rebellion
born and nurtured in the Democratic party and sus
| tanned only by its members
| THE DEMOCRACY AND THE PUBLIC PEACE.
| Just now more than at any recent period in our
history, the two great political parties called
upon to exhibit an and steadtast courage
in resisting the dangers that threaten the honor and
| peace OF the nation. Never before have the old
| ening demonstration in this country. But now we
| passing through period of unusual peril, in
which the foundations OF civil order are threatened
and the dearest interests OF society imperied.
| How has the Democratic party met these dangers?
In the face OF the alarming facts OF July 1877, when
10 COO 600 Americans trembled in the balance of
certainty for davs, not knowing whether the torch
and blood would mark the pathway of anarchy
would rule; in the face of the fact that in great
group of States extending from ocean TO ocean the
lives and property of many millions OF citizens
| rescued from sudden and imminent peril only by
the prompt and efficient response ofour gallant little
aid in the face of all these facts the present Demo
| cratic House OF Representatives sought by every
its effectiveness They wasted many days in assaults
| upon the military academy, upon the army and its
would have cut the army down by 5000 enlisted
| men and 500 officers. Even as the
appropriation bill finally passed, the House insisted
l
| now doubtful whether he could in a sudden emer-
gency protect the great interests OF the country from
mob violence. This course was not pursued i'll obe
dience to any popular demand, for during the last
eight years not petition has been sent to Con
gress praying for the reduction of the army. But
during our late session numerous petitions came from
the boards of trade and from leading citizens of our
great cities asking for its increase to insure the pub
tic peace against the growing spirit of mob violence.
All the warnings and entreaties resisted by the
Democrats of the House, and several speeches were
made either in apology defense of the late riots.
| DENOcP A SECTIONAL
have no disposition to reawaken the passions
and preudces of the war; but it is just to say that
the country ought to hesitate before it places in
| mower party whose councils are ruled by who
| were lately in rebellion. Twothrds of the Dem
ocrac members OF the present House OF Representa-
yes are from the Southern States and year by year
| the Union Democrats OF the South have been
dropped and their places in Congress supplied by
men who gave their best efforts TO the destruction
| Of the Union. l say amin the Republican