The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-07-18
Repatriation.

Ii has been repeatedly charged
by The Republican press. and as Of.
ten denied by tie Democracy, that
repudiation ofthe national debt is
one Of the planks in the platform
oflhe Lost cause party, The more
polite members Of that orgapiza-
ton seek to cover mp the damning
fact, and the more ignorant masses
may not be aware that such is the
c0nsummation for which they are
laborirg; but tho INSCRIPTIONS
organs Of that party do not hesitate
10 boldly avOw their designs. TO
take them at their word, place that
party in power and in five years
the bonds Of the United States, the
evidence Of Indebtedness incurred
in the great struggle for the ma
,ion's life, would not be worth the
paper on which they are printed
Indeed, we are not sure but their
predictions Of FIVE J ears ago would
be rea!ized-viz: that "the time
was coming when man would
buy plug of tobacco with a Val
landigham contribution (ten cents)
and have it rolled up in twenty
dollar greenback." Hero is what
the Dayton Empire-Yallandig-
hams mouthpieee, and one Of the
leading organs OF the party in Ohio
has to say upon this subject;
1t has been some time since we
referred, direclly,to the subject of
repudiation of the Illegal debt--iI-
legal in our estimation, at least
created. during the years Of civil
war, by the Federal Government.
We now recur to it again, that the
readers of the Empire may sec the
drift this question of Reputation is
taking in the East as well as in the
West. 1t was thought by some 0;
the moro timid Of our cotcmpOra-
rics, as well as by many individ-
.uals, that, perhaps, We were a lit
tie too fast in mooting this ques-
ton in relation to it as we did
But be that as it may, il has been
our opinion ever since the first H.
legal steps were taken by Abra-
ham Lincoln, as President OF the
United States, in prccipitating this
country into that terrible civil war,
that reputation would be sure to
follow, and VIC have SO expressed
ourselves time and again. The
question is new being thoroughly
canvassed. .
The Metropolitan Record, of New
York another good "Dimmycratic'
organ, also says:
Rcpndiation is just as certain as
the sun shines. The people are
tired Of paying taxes, and already
regard the whole case as swindle.
Five years Yes. three years will
us face to face with the national
debt, and # that blessing is not
cursed, then we don't know the
people. But we think we do know
them, and we think, moreover, that
they will heartily damn the bless
ing and the authors Of it yet.
Every man that has q bond or ;
greenback can understand from tb,
above how the placing of the De
mocracy in power would affec
him. Let each one then build Sc
curely from the ground up--from
township affairs to national ones.
A Democratic paper published ir
the adjoining county of Adams
holds this language in reference tt
the national debt:
There is another very good plar
which we are glad 10 see is aSsum
ing rather respectable dimensions
that Of REPUTATION, which il
} the poor mans wealth. There i
no use talking. We can not strug
gle on much longer with this weigh
upon our shoulders, and we mus
get from under it the quickest wa,
possible, which is by the way o
Reputation.
Thus, one by one, we see the or
gans Of the "great and glo-iou
Dimmycratic party" taking posi-
tion in favor of the abominabl
doctrine of repudiation. Are tn
people ready to see the plighte,
faith of the nation violated at tn
call of these enemies of the coun
/ try? If so let them vote the Dem
ocratic ticket Portsmouth, TribuH,