Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1866-03-22
gradford geporter.
Towanda, Thursday, March %, 1866.
A CONTRAST.

NOJnllS Is more common tnan ID near
copperheaded democrats tell what wonder
ful things the democratic party has done
for this country. Why, according to the
accounts these benighted people give of
our nation, it is very doubtful whether we
would now be in existence as a govern
ment, at all events, not as free people if
it had not been for the democratic party
and so often has the story been repeated
that the great growth in population, in de-
| veloped resources, i'll material wealth, in
the arts and sciences, in short, our entire
progression in civilization and national
greatnes, was altogether attributed to the
fact, that the democratic party generally,
that the whole party believes this to be
the truth : yet a greater falsehood was
never crammed down the thrOats Of guilt
BILE devotees. Besides the fact that the
early administrations of the government
were under the rule of Federalists, it is
we'll known to those familiar with our po-
litical history, that federalists ruled the
democratic party, and through it the coun-
try, from the Presidency of Gen jackson
to that of James Buchanan, in whose ad-
minstration the policy of the party culm-
mated in rebellion. This is the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth"
Nor will any well informed man, who is
free from democratic prejudices, gainsay
- h. IL,
son tricked the Legislature Of Virginia and
Kentucky into the passage of his famous
resolutions, for the purpose of bringing
odium on his political rival and making
himself President, the democratic party
carried the elections Of the country through
popular frauds. The Washington Globe
newspaper, for many years the organ of
| the democratic party at the Federal Cap
itOl, in important election contests, was al
ways issued twice in day. The one is
sue being for the Southern democracy, and
the other for the Northern democracy, be-
ing essentially different, and made up to
suit the respective localities, 1t was by
'i'SN0 "a 'hi9 u00SiiPliOH; PiaStu uPoH tnc
people of the country that the democratic
party managed to keep the ascendency.
1t is well settled axiom in political
economy, that in order to facilitate the adj
vancement of a people in material pros
perity, the laws of trade must be uniform,
and must encourage the industrial arts :;
and perhaps no government Of the world,
at least no modern government, has been
more vascilating, has trihed more with the
interests of the people i'll these matters,
than has ours. In saying this, we desire
to be understood as blaming the political
opponents Of the democratic party as much
as the democrats for this mismanagement.
Some Of this doubtless grew ont of a
want Of experience, and some out of the
political animosity of the times. Still
with an i'll digested, ricketty financial
| system, of uncertain value, and differing in
each locality, and tariff of imports on for
! egn importations, which was hardly alike
I alike in any two years, our country grew
:
tribes in all the elements of national great
ness, has been the marvel of the world.
/ And why this amidst so much misgovern-
ment? Simply, and positively, because
we were, during all this time, the most in
/ genious, and the most industrious people
/ of the world. That is, more profit &C
crued from our genius and labor combined
! than was ever before ACCOMPLISHED by the
same number of people, in the same length
of time. Despite therefore, of unwise leg
islation, and political wrangling of law
makers, the country prospered Politicians
did nothing to advance its interests. Nay,
they only threw obstacles in the way of its
advancement They were all hinderance,
no benefit, except that they kept the ship
of state on the great land marks of free
government marked cut by the Constitu-
ton. The thrift of the people was the cause
of the thrift of the government, and not as
is alleged, the corrupt Vaccinations of the
democratic party.
Strangely, and strongly in contrast with
this past history, stands the republican
administration of the government during
the four eventful years of the war made up
on it by the slave-holding democracy OF the
South Besides achieving an acknowl-
edged and unmistakable triumph in a mil
itary contest which has had no superior, if
an equal, III the worlds history, and in the
midst of its progress, q financial system
was created, giving a national stable and
secure circulating medium to the country,
Of almost incalculable value. When it's
uniformity, safety, cheapness, and convcn-
ience are placed in contrast with the old
State Bank system of democratic origin and
memory. and the horrible condition it
/ brought the country TO in a number of in
/ stances, and particularly the crisis running
! from 1886 to lS40, we wonder that the
! people bore with it. If our people could
have had such currency as the present,
during the long rule of the democratic par
ty, our people and country would have
been the entire amount of our national