Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-06-13

3 That We are In favor of the speedy consruc-
ton of railroad 20 the Pacific.
Buncombe and nothing more
10. That the national faith. pledged for the
redemption Of the public debt. must be kept In
violate, and for this purpose We recommend
economy and rigid responsibility in the public
expenditure and vigorous and Just system OF
taxation that IL i the duty OF every loyal State
TO sustain the credit and promote the Use Of the
national currency.
Therein Is the most severe blow at the Ad-
ministration which the ingenious devisers Of this
platform introduced Public faith The history
OF broken pledges. violated promises. taxes on
taxed goods. tariffs on bonded goods, bonds
issued in direct opposition 10 promises, gold
pledged to a sinking fund wasted. acts of Con-
gress devised 10 catch merchants and squeeze
money out of them-all this is so we'll known
that the business community have but weak
faith in the promises or pledges OF the Admins
tration. We ourselves have more faith ia them
than the business public have, and We have again
and again sought TO persuade the people to trust
the good faith Of the Administration when the
want of confidence was appalling. There have
been times when it would have broken down en-
tlrely but for our urgent support. No thanks did
we get, aud none did want. But the truth
may as well out, that the weakest and most dam
aging supporters of the public faith are men who
profess 10 be strong Administration men. Per
haps such men got this plank into the platform
Finally, however:
III. That We approve the position taken by
the government, that the people of the United
States can never regard with indifference the at
tempt of any European power TO overthrow by
force, or to supplant by fraud the institutions of
any republican government on the Western
continent. And thatthey will view with extreme
jealousy as menacing to the peace and independ-
ence OF this our country the efforts OF any
such power to obtain new footholds for mon
archlal governments, sustained by foreign mill
tary force in near proximity TO the United States.
| Applause
What did they applaud? The unspeakabe
ingenuity of the resolution Or the ghost of the
dead Monroe doctrine, which for Il moment re-
appeared in il? There is none of the living
Monroe doctrine in it, that is plain. "Can never
regard with Indifference, is very diplomatic
way of saying. go on we do not intend TO OBJ
ject. "View with jealousy" is another way OF
phrasing the same idea. There is in that resolu
ton nothing whatever but craven. cowardly
submission TO the aggressions of France and
Spain, an absolute yielding up OF the American
supremacy this continent.
We rather think that resolutan does exactly
/ lndorse the policy OF Mr.. Lincoln. How they
will laugh at il il they read it ia France, as they
pour their egiOns into Mexico! How they will
sheer at it in Spain, as they think of Arguellcs
and send navies to rob PERU
Was ever such an appearance presented by a
political party in America as thsg Scarcely one
word of their platform can be sustained by their
candidate. He will, if he continues as he Ia:
gone on. ignore and violate each and every prin.
/ ciple for which they pretend to have reverence
solely excepting the negro. There he will dc
their behest and while the rights and immunite:
of the white race, of commerce, labor agricul
ture, arts in short all the material interests OF
the country. by which it is to support war, OF
prosper in peace, are to be disposed of by these
hypocritcal resolutions on paper, the election j:
manfestly to be contested wholly in the interest:
OF the negro, for negro equality, and practica
supremacy, even at the cost of American indie
pence as to foreign powers, and freedom as e
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