Maryland free press., 1866-08-30
Indictment Of the Republican Part,

AS represented by the Radicals inIthe present
eohgress its policy is complete contradiction of
Its platforms and pledges. Started as Union
party, it has now become the party of disunion.
Originally opposed to slavery, it now attempts to
impose Northern slave-drivers upon the negroes,
who were freed, not by proclamations or poiti-
rians, but b. the armies of General Grant. More
tal this, 1t maintains that anomalous institu-
tion, the Freedmen's Bureau, for the benefit o.
agents and officials, at q vast expense to the gov
ernmcnt and connives at cruelties which accord
'erton, exceed any ever practiced by Southern
flsve-owners. Promising financial reforms and
an economical administration of the Government
Is more corrupt than any other party that ever
gained power. Where Democratic politicians
stole thousands of dollars the Republicans have
stolen millions Under their gross nsmanage-
NJ ent 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 the Union.
But not only does the public plundering con-
tinue, now that the war is over, but the Union,
for which We have paid SO dearly in blood and
treasure, is not restored. On the contrary the
President, whom the Republican Congress vowed
before the people to sustain, is now denounced
Rs traitor and prosecuted with the utmost ma
lgnslcy, for persistng in the work of restora-
tiohi and for ve.oine the Congressional jobs Du-
fHg the recent session Congress has engaged in
transparent swildles amounting to over two
hundred and fifty millions of dollars The in
famous Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which the Pr s.
issnt retcedswoald bave disposed of f.ty millions
and another bill of the same character, appropri-
ating H1 millions, is, now presented. Ben
Wade's Mostana job, also vetoed, gave twenty
five millions to party of grasping speculators.-
The national banks are presented with bonus OF
thirty millions, drawn fran the po ockets of the
laboring men. Jay Cooks consolidation scheme
involved u job of forty millions. Twenty mil
lions arc TO be bestowed upon tho contractors for
building Mississippi levecs if the urgent appeals
Of the Radical organs are needed. Jobs in re-
gard to Mexico, footing up from twenty TO fifty
millions, are already proposed-one of them by
Mr.. Thad Stevens himself.
The Internal Revenue Bill just passed is crow
ded with private jobs. The Tariff Bill takes from
thirty to forty millions from the poor laboring
men TO make mar uficturers more wealthy. Some
Vi its provisions obviously intended to increase
the price o. stock of goods on hand and Others
are openly acknowledged to be designed for po-
ltical effect in Pennsylvania. Such corruption
is unparalleled, and will be followed by an un-
precedented revu'sion in politics.
We have given the indictment against the Re
p iblcan party somewhat in detail; but the issues
of the next election may be generally expressed in
two phrases; the reconstruction of the Union ard
financial reform. party that excludes eleven
States from the Union when we have sacrificed SO
much to bring them back into the Union; that
legislates for monopolies and against the working
class; That augments the taxes and spends the
revenue in jobs, and that increases tho tariff in
th, f,ce of an income of six hundred and twenty
millions of dollars, can not retain power in this
country. Conservative Republicans oppose it for
Its disunionism; the Democrats dcnouncc it for
corruI tion, and even such ultraists as Wendell
Philips Indignantly repudiste it, because it is
turning its pseudo philanthrophy to the basest
partisan ,pecuniary agsrandizement.--New York
Herald.