North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-10-03
FOURTEEN REASONS FOR ABAN.
DOMINO THE RADICALS,
BY AN UNCONDITIONAL UNION MAN.
Fro m the Patriot and Union.

From the Patriot and Union.
Fellow CouNTRYMEN: The writer OF
these lines has been an earnest, he might
| almost confess, FIERCE Union man all
| through the war. He was three years and
half in the military service of the conn-
try, and can establish claim To VERY I'M
PoRrAxT services rendered, and repeated
exposure of life in the Union cause He
never held, and never expects to hold,
civil office, and has never been an active
partisan. He was jealous and active in
putting down the rebellion. But now that
the war is over, rebellion crushed, slavery
dead, and all danger of a revival of the fol-
ly of secession forever gone. he feels that he
has some right to plead for PEACE, for RES
roRATIoN, for ECONOMY of public expendi-
ture. for return OF confidence and good
feeling. for MAGNANIMIrY, for UNION !! =
And he respectfully asks every fellow citi-
zen whose eye may fall upon these lines to
ponder with cANDoR, and in the light of
Truth and PATRIOTISM, the following FOUR
TEEN REASONS why the radicals ought to
fail and the conservatives ought 20 succeed
at the coming election:
l. The radical wing of the Republican
party have abandoned the great objects of
the war, as laid down by Congress and
President Lincoln at the outbreak Of the
rebellion, Those objects were 10 maintain
the Government and PRESERVE The UNION,
but the radicals are trying to prevent the
restoration of the Union. The radicals
ought to fail.
2. Because they are opposed to the pol
icy of reconstruction laid down by Presi-
dent Lincola and which he had partially
iuaugurated before his death. His
messages and proclamations all clearly "
prove that his policy was the same that
President johnson now recommends, and
: Mr.. Seward and all Mr.. Lincoln's conf-
Dental advisers now declare that it was.
3. Because the radicals aim to prevent
the restoration, FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF
PERPErU ATING THEIR PARTY SUPREMACY
thus sacrificing COUNTRY at the shrine
PARTY,
4. Because Congress and Mr.. Lincoln
declared that State COULD not aud SHOULD
, not 90 out Of the Union, and sent armies to
maintain that position. The armies did
| Udlnldiil IL, dtIu h'PC lHC othtCs
, IN THE UNION bt the radicals say they
did not-that the war failed of its object,
and that secession was accomplished
5. Because the radicals say that eleven
f States were ont of the Union, and prac--
tically a FOREIGN NATION that they are a
CONQUERED nat on, and To be treated as such
, They thus make Davis and his cnmpeers
| PATRIOTS, struggling for their country, in
stead of TRAITORS, and place them BEYOND
THE REACH OF PUNISHMENT for the laws
, of nations will not permit the military and
the MAG .stracy of CONQUERED NATION TO be
punished ~ TRAITORS.
6. Because the Radical majority of Con.
) orr IS have passed laws TO swell the public
debt, with a recklessncss never heard of in
all past history. This increase was demand
, ed nv no public neceSsity; but millions up
on millions have been voted away under
pretext of improving rivers. harbOrs and
, the like. but really to afford pickings for
their favorites. And whilst the people are
. groaning under crushing BURDENS of taxa
ton, these men shameIessIy increased their
burdens bv voting an increase of their oUn
! pay When elected TO Congress,it was
upon the implied contract thai they
would serve FOR the ten months usually oc-
cupird by both sessions of Congress. for
the sum of $4,000 bnt they viokated the
contract and added $4,000 to their own
paw. making it $4,000, or about $1,000
, month! Will the people send these
mer back, or men who approve of their
own course?
I. Because, while increasing the public
of paving it, viz: the public domain. They
voted away, tG railroad comp mics and 9TH
er specnlatIng organizations, millions Of
acres of the pnllic lands. These lands
ought to be sold to pay the natioaal debt
and diminish taxation; bnt this Congress
has squandered vast portions of it. And
whilst doing this they attempted to saddle
the country with a Freedmen's Bureau
system, that would have cost from twelve
to fifteen millions every year. No citizen
can read the journals Of Congress without
being startlcd at the utter recklcssncss with
which they squandered the peoples money!
8. Because the radicals have violated
and insist upon continuing to violate the
great principles of civ liberty involved in
oar Revolutionary struggle ami set forth
in the Declaration of Independence One
of these principles is, "No TAXATION WITH
OFT REPREsENTATroN;' and yet the radi-
Gals insist upon taxing ten States of the
Union whom they exclude from r"presen-
tation in the Legislature that laws the tax.
The men of 76 say in the Declaration !:
1--WE hold this truth to be seli-evident-
that all governments derive their just DOW
nrs FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOvERNED;"
and yet the radicals propose to amend the
Constitution, the fundamental law cfthe
nation. whist they excluded eleven Stares
of the Union from the C 'ngress that pro-
posed fhe amendments. thus imposing up-