East Saginaw courier., 1866-05-02


ie9 The Republican Party. :,
\ O. oilV sointn9fFrou ths N. 7. world-l
The Republican party Of to-day, Z
what there 10 left Of It. ris the mo-
dangerous party that has come int
power in the United States. It orig
mated in faction, and faction being a
ways dishonest, il ever dangerous
Its original elements were-- ~ on
l. Disunion abolition fanatics. -
2. Radical abolitional Wings the
defeated Clay in 1874, and broke u
the Wing party ihoqI SGi .ist %
8. Freesoil men who joined to &c
Office. II iav. Z II bisIla
InChicago, in 1860, this conglomer
ate concrete, composed of odds an,
ends of all parties, united on one plat
form. 1t was disunionIl lsyHli
War followed its triumph Wa
inaugurated, multitudes Of Republi
can shoddy contractors, peculators, dis
honest army contractors, camp follow
ers, and public agents, set IN % ror
the Government, believing the strug
gle would not last over three TO 81,
months. About thousand millioni
of dollars, OF one third of the public
debt, perhaps more, is entailed 0upoI
the country by those, dishonest Re.
publican speculators. These men feai
national Congressional investigation
into their extortions, and therefore
support q local or "Rump" Congress-
leaving eleven States without repre-
sentation. ai14 7lad5 % q
The profits Of this war has gone
into Republican pockets. A few rem
egade Democrats only desiring in
sharing in these thousand millions OF
spoils, became Republicans and OBJ.
tanned their share Of the public plund-
er. .4eles iuC1 1lle 10
y. That party keeps the currency de.
moralized to promote speculation, by
giving to the people dear goods and
food-the tariff furnishing the dear
goods and the currency the dear food.
Corruption, like other plaques, has
its run. Capital accumulated in the
city of New York by unclean nation.
al Legislation combines and makes up
a shake-purse Of thousands Of dollars,
by subscription, to buy rich man a
seat in Congress. How much of his
own money did he use9 He is de-
feated at the polls in spite OF his cor
ruption Of the purity Of the elective
franchise. But Congress endorses
this moneyed election by seating the
minority member. Since the time
that Wilkes, in England, was driven
from Parliament to make room for
Luttrell, who received less votes than
Wilkes, no such bare-faced attempt
has been made. rr-..- .,,, E ~
In the year 1856, the country was
terrified when it was discovered that
corrupt election judges used ballot
boxes with false sides and slides, TO
defeat elections. Men were hung,
FOR this SfRGSSjhsffbdsNff NffaSSd." Rev \ ork
city said amen, and at once obtained
glass globe ballot-boxes, etc, etc.
But how much easier is it to suborn,
with blood money made out Of the
war, voters to sell their suffrage to
capitalists in New York city, than the
employment Of false ballot-boxes at
the polls ? Thousands of Republic
cans throughout the country who vote
with their party, high taxes and all,
are honest. The masses in all coun-
tries are always honest, but are often
deceived 1t was SO with those who
ignorantly supported Danton, Robes
pierre and Marat in the French Rev.
olution. 1t is so with the masses who
support the Republican revolutionary
leaders now. ~ fh I
How long can this state of things
endurep But few months since an
English member Of Parliament was
ignominionsly expelled from his seat
for using money to elect himself to
that body. On the heels of that salu-
tary precedent and example, mi
nority member of Congress is foisted
upon the citizens of New York, whom
capitalists furnished thousands Of dol
lars to. To purchase his election -
n Congress owed it to itself not to
have it go to the world that we are
now sunk lower in our system, if such
things are to be, than the old, corrupt
rotten borough system in England
This transaction will be cited asanoth-
er evidence of the failure Of Republics