The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1866-07-26
The New York EHerald's IndiCf-
ment OF the Republican Party,

The New York HeraH of Monday thus
indcts the Republican party:
AS represented by the Radicals in the
present Congress its policy is complete
contradiction of its platforms and pledges
Started as Union party, it has now be-
come the party of disunion. Originally
opposed to slavery, it now attempts to i'm
pose Northern slayc-drivers upon the ne
groes, who were freed, not by procamations
or politicians, but by the armies of General
Grant. More than this, it maintains that
anomalous institution, the Freedmen
Bureau, for the benefit of agents and Off
Gals, at vast expense to the Government,
and connivcs at crueltics which, according
to the reports of Generals Steedman and
Fullerton. exceed any ever practiced by
Southern slavc,owners. Promising finan>
cial reforms and an economical admins
tration of the Government, it is more cor
rupt than any other party that ever
gained power. Where Democratic politi>
clans stole thousands of dollars the Repub-
licans have stolen millions. Under their
gross mismanagement during the war five
dollars were wasted for every dollar
necessarily expended. The people could
have endured this with patience, however,
for no price is too great to pay for TIE
Union.
But not only does the public plundering
continue, now that the war is oyer, but
the Union. for which we have paid so
dearly in blood and treasure, is not res
tored. On the contrary, the President,
whom the Republicans elected and whom
the Republican Congressman vowed before
the people to sustain, is now denounced
as traitor, and prosecuted with the ut
most malignancy for persisting in the work
of restoration, and for vetoing the Cons
gressional jobs. During the present sess-
ion alone Congress has engaged in trans
parent swindles amounting to over two
hundred and fifty millions of dollars. The
Infamous Frcedmen's Bureau bill. which
the President vetoed, would have disposed
of fifty millions and another bill of the
same character, appropriating six millions,
is now presented. Ben. Wade's Montana
job also vetoed, gave twenty-five millions
to a party of grasping spectators. The
national banks are presented with a bonus
of thirty millions, drawn from the pockets
of the laboring mel. Jay Cooke consoli-
dation scheme involved job of forty
millions. Twenty millions are to be be-
slowed upon the contractors for building
Mississippi levces, if the urgent appeals OF
the Radical organs are needed. Jobs in
regard to Mexico, footing up from twenty
to fifty millions, are already proposed
one of them by Mr.. Thad. Stevens him,
self.
The Internal Revenue Bill just passed
is crowded with private Jobs The Tariff
Bill now under debate takes from thirty to
forty millions from the poor laboring men
to make manufacturers more wealthy
Some of its provisions are obviously in
tended to increase the price Of stocks OF
goods on hand, and others are openly
acknowledged to be designed for political
effect In Pennsylvania. Such corruption
is unparalleled, and will be followed by an
unprecedented revusion in politics.
We have given the indictment against
the Republican party somewhat in detail
but the issues Of the next election may be
generally expressed in two phrases the
reconstruction Of the Union and financial
reform. A party that excludes eleven
States from the Union when we have sac.
rifced SO much to bring them back into
the Union ; that legislates for monopoles
and against the working class that aug
meuts the taxes and spends the revenue in
jobs, and that in ,reases the tariff in the
face of an income of six hundred and
twenty millions of dollars, can not retain
power ID this country. Conservative
Republicans oppose it for its disun;onism /;
the Democrats denounce it for its corrup.
ton, and even such ultraists as Wendell
Phillips Indignantly repudiate it, because
it is turning its pseudo philanthropy to the
basest partisan pecuniary aggrandizement