The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1857-11-03
The Crisis Politically Considered.

TIE Buchanan organs of this State are
reduced to such an extreme state of destitu-
tion. in the way Of legitimate political
capital, that they seize upon every occur
rencc, however irrelevant to tho occasion,
and endcavor to turn it to account as re-
Election upon the honor Of Republican Off.
GERS, or upon the wisdom Of Republican
policy. In their desperation, they are just
now recklessly laboring to make use Of the
disastrous effects of our present financial
difficulties, and thus convert public mis-,
fortune into source of political profit
This spirit ends fighting rebuke, in the
truthful and appropriate language of tho
Philadelphia american:
''We are in the agony Of financial cri-
sis chiefly provoked by the policy of this
Democratic party, which has successfully
warred upon our own domestic industry, and
pcrsistently encouraged tho cheap labor of
Europe. Their policy led to the most O.
pormous importations Of foreign fabrics, a I'd
to The expectations Of those precious met
ais which would have beefi distributed H.
mong the industrial classes at home, but
for the ruinous system which depleted
and damaged the country at the same
time.
"That extravaganza and its attending
excesscs, after having run their career,
brought on the monetary reyglsiop which
we. arc now suffering, and thus closed up
mills, mines, manufactures and workshops,
by which tens of thousands of men and
women have been thrown out of employ
ment at the approach of winter, and with
little if any provision made for its urgent
wants. For the effect of this policy has
been injurious in evory aspect, since it not
only brought into the country hundreds of
millions of foreign goods every year, and
carried out of. it our gold at nearly an G.
quail rate, but it raised prices to such a
degree that even while there was no pres
ure, the working man, with rigid ccono-
my, could save nothing for wet day.
Democracy is not only answerable for the
troubles that now surround us, but it is
directly responsible for the misery that will
be scattered broadcast, before many months
among thousands of families whom its
measure swill have consigned to penury and
suffering. And now when this party has
thus, against the light of all experience,
saddled such an affliction upon the people,
by refusing the most reasonable protection
to American labor, and by building up the
looms, and manufactures, and poor hous
es of England and Franco and Germany,
at the expense of our own most important
interests, its managers here circulate revo-
lutionary addresses, in tho hope of escap-
ing the moral penalties which they have
incurred. And in order to do this effect
ually, and to blind the ignorant or dcsper-
ate, they appeal to the worst instincts of
mob spirit, and, in plain terms, urge their
reckless instrument on to violence ard out
rage. They who are thus engaged, are
unconsciously sowing seeds which, like the
teeth of the dragon, will spring up in arm
cd men, who may in time turn their weap
ons upon the present investigators, and in
fiict upon detected troachcry its deserved
punishment. Tho people are beginning
to open their eyes TO the gross frauds
which have been practiced upon them, and
to discover that, of all tho evils which
have scourgcd this country under delusive
DISCUSSES, miscalled Democracy has been
the worst and most fatal to all those ma
terial interests which chiefly concern the
welfare and the elevations of the toiling
masses. Its whole profession has been ono
Of devotion TO the people, and its whole
practice has been one of unmixcd and
prostrating injury, as this crisis practically
proves"