Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-08-22


refunded at four or five per cent /;
the increasing resources Of the
country will enable us to greatly
reduce the taxes, perhaps, place the
necessaries of life on the free list,
without materially reducing the ag-
gregate revenue; the principal of
debt will be reduced at a rapidly
increasing ratio, for the sum saved
in interest will go to swell the fund
set apart for paying the principal
and long before this generation
shall have passed away, the debt
will be paid, or the sum so reduced
that the payment will be matter of
Indifference.
| 1t is the mission Of the Union
Republican party to accomplish all
these things, and should that party
retain the power Of the country in
its hands for ten years to come,
these anticipations will become ac-
complished facts so sure as those
years shall come and go. We have
accomplished more difficult things
in the face of Democratic OPPOSITION
and contrary to Democratic pradic-
tions. A few years ago the Cop
per Democracy told us that we could
never whip the South-neger. We
have finished that job to the salts
faction Of the South, the Democra-
cy and all the world. They told us
that greenbacks would, within five
years, be worth less than so much
blank paper, and that government
bonds would be of about equal val
ne. Now no one is more eager to
fill his pockets with greenbacks
than your Copper Democrat. Three
years ago the old proyerb of "the
fool and his money" was held to be
applicable to all who furnished
means to the Government to pay
the soldier and prosecute the war,
and received the bonds Of the Gov
in payment. Democrats
3neeringly said that the patriotism
Of such men was admirable, but
heir discretion was as much below
par as their securities would be ina
very few years. Now the holders
If these bonds are denounced as a
noneyed aristocracy, absorbing to
all the wealth of the
In every instance they did their
est to make their predictions como
rue, They organized as "Sons of
and knights of the Gold
n Circle" in aid Of the armed enc
MES Of the country; they discour-
ged enlistments; they essayed to
emoralize our army and induce
ur soldiers to desert; they decried
ne credit Of the Government, and
id their utmost to break down the
The failures of Demo-
ratio efforts and Democratic pre-
lotions are sufficient to make even
le Devil blush. Yet these proph-
is of evil, after consulting their
ing oracles, have now the brazen
npudence to appear in public, and
gain predict ruin and disaster
hey tell us that our efforts to re-
onstruct the disorganized elements
f Southern society will be a failure;
nd that we shall fail in our efforts
, solve the financial problem and
ley are laboring might and main
make their predictions good
hey are trying to persuade the
,ople of the South . to reject the
rms of peace and reconciliation
fered them by Congress; they are
deavoring to SOW the seeds of
scord and disaffection among the
opIe of the North; and are doing
cir utmost to embarrass the gov
nment, and bring on financial ruin
d commercial distress, in order to
ecipitate a political revolution
lich they hope will restore them
power.
May their efforts be in vain; and
ay the failures of their lying
opheeies, in the future as in the
st, cover their faces with confus-
40. s. LourWdh
The Democratic Platform.
What are the planks of the Dem
ratio platform ?