The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1866-08-02
TIE NesC YORK He,utft's Indictment
Of TIE RepubAcnH Party.

II ssS AH5-tC Il Urn AItttfti6 y ISNfffHtCNt
Of TIE Republican Party.
The New York Herald thus indicts
the Republican party:
AS represented by the Radicals in the
present Congress its policy il, a complete
contradiction of its platforms and pied
ges. Started as a Union party, it has
now become the party OF disunien.
Originally opposed to slavery, it now
ers upon the negroes, who were freed,
not by proclamationS or politicians, but
by the armies of General Grant More
than this, it maintains that anomalous
institution, the Freedman's Bureau, for
the benefit of agents and officials, at
vast expense to the Government, and
connives at cruelties which, according
to the reports of Generals Steednlan and
Fullerton, exceed any ever practiced by
southern slave-OWners. Promising fl
nancial reforms and an economical adj
ministratiop Of the Government, it is
more corrupt than any other party that
ever gained power. While Democratic
politicians stole thousands of dollars the
Republicans stole millions. Under their
gross mlsmanagenent during the war
tive dollars were wasted for every dol
lar necessarily expended. The people
could have endured this with patience,
however for no price is to great to pay
for the Union.
But not only does the public plumber
ing continue, now that the war is over,
but the Union, Tor which we have paid
SO dearly in blood and treasure, is not
restored. On the contrary, the Presi-
dent, whom the Republicans elected and
whom the Republican Congress men
vowed before the people to sustain, is
now denounced as traitor, and perse-
cuted with the utmost malignacy for per-
sisting in the work OF restoration, and
for vetOing the Congressional jobs. Du-
ring the present session alone Congress
has engaged in transparent sWindles
amounting to over two hundred and tif
ty millions of dollars. The infamous
Freedman's Bureau bill, Which the Pres
ident vetoed, would have disl osed Of
fifty millions, and another bill of the
same character, appropriating six mil
liens, is now presented. Ben Wade's
Montana job also vetoed, gave twenty
five millions to u party OF grasping spec
ulators. The national banks are pre-
scented with a bonus Of thirty millions,
drawn from the pockets OF laboring men.
we'd a job OF forty millions. Twenty
millions are to lie bestowed upon the
contractors for building Mississippi le-
v rs, ifthe urgentappeals OF the Radical
organs are needed. Jobs in regard TO Mex
leo, footing up from twenty to fifty mil
lions, are already proposed-One OF them
by Mr.. Thad. Stevens himself.
The Internal Revenue Bill just passed
is crowded with private jobs. The Tar
iii 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 intended to increase the
price of stocks of goods OH hand, and are
openly acknowledged to be designed
for political effect in Pennsylvania.
Such corruption is unparalleled, and
| will be followed by an unprecedented
revulsion in politics.
We have given the indictmentagainst
the Republican party somewhat in de-
tail: but the issues Of the next election
may be generally expressed in two phra-
SEES: the reconstruction OF the Union
cludes eleven States from the Union
when we have sacrificed so much to
bring them back into the Union; that
| legislate for monopolies and against the
working class; that augments the taxes
and spends the revenue in jobs, and that
increases the tariff in the face Of an in
come six hundred and twenty millions
of dollars, cannot retain power in this
country. Conservative Republicans OPP
pose it for its disunionism; the Demo
Gratis denounce it for its corruption, and
even such ultraists as Wendell Phillips
Indignantly repudiate it, because it is
turning its pseudo philanthropy to the
basest partizan pecuniary aggrandiz-
! ment.
| General LOANstreet's Position.
| An exchange says: Gen Longstreet
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