The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-01-07

pleuty OF almost every COIN
that commands money-iu prosperous
times, but there is not enough Of cur
rency with which to buy and. to pay
debts. Business is congealel-frozen,
as il were-whils in full tide. Con-
fdence in the future and in each 9th
err seems to be gone from our midst,
and there Is an ominous dread of
something worse to come.
The causes of our troubles, as we
conceive, are the uncertainty in re-
gard to the operations of those who
control the national finances; Unequal
ity of taxation; the effort to return
too speedily to specie payments; the
obstacles to reconstruction caused by
demagogue President; excessive
profits in the form Of high interest
and unreasonable exemptions from
the public burdens of United States
bondholders and National Banks; and
a tendency toward extravaganza in
public expenditures and personal
aggrandisement by many of those in
Office, and the building up of mon
opolies and privileged classes calcu-
lated to prey on the people and eat
out their substance.
Having the fair fame and welfare
of the Republican party at heart, we
are unwilling that those partisans
who condemned and attempted to de-
preciate the greenbacks, during
the rebellion, should now seem to be
their only and peculiar advocates.
Our National Treasury notes were
good enough to put down the rebel
lion with, and we insist that they
are good enough to help the country
out of its present difficulty There
never has been better paper curren-
cy, aud, as the great mass of the peo-
pie are calling for more Of them, we
demand that our legislators should
heed that voice. A reissue of them,
equal to the quantity that has been
retired by Secretary McCULLocH, and
the substitution of others for the Ma
tional Bank currency to the greatest
extent possible, will go far to help US
out of our financial troubles. A fur
Their measure of relief, itseems to US,
would be to make greenbacksr aad
bonds mutually convertible, at the
pleasure of the holders. 24LI1
We believe that in the following
propositions hundreds of Republi-
cans in this county will concur:af
IA cessation of the ruinous poll
cy .1of contraction ofsthea currency,
which has been slowly but surely
bleeding the country to death, and a
speedy and regular increase of treas
ury notes and Their. substitution for
National Bank notes as the sole cur
rency until specie payments can. be
safely resumed, -la.
2s5A 5dirttaafhlmgdts of the 9aandd1ds
power, special privileges aud excessive
profits of the National Banks and
the laying Of the burden of taxation /
upon all classes alike. asETl
s. Condemnation of official extor-1
ton, NIL administration, and e9rrup-
ton by whomsoever praetioed also,
the tendency to- the building up of
monopolies and corporations with ex-
traordinary and unreasonable grants /
of privileges and immunities.
4. Disapproval Of the schemes of
all cliques and rings through
which the public isrmade to.sufer for
the benefit of selfish individuals.
5. The completion of reconstruc-
ton in the South. and admission Of
the late rebel States to fellowship and
representation in the Union, 50 soon
as the people there accept the sit
uation that they have placed them
selves in, and guarantee equal and
exact justice, political aud civil
rights, and protection to all persons
alike.
6. Insisting on the exercise of a
rigid economy in the disbursement of
the public revenues, and the reduc-
ton of all taxes to the lowest point
consistent with the prosecution of
necessary public in pr r-m"nts and
an honest discharge of all public in
debtedness, according to the plain
provisions of the laws.
The rnavment Of limited G+ator