The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-06-03
The Issues In November.

COMMANDED the army at Belmont, al
'DOnnelson," "Vieksburg," aud "Rieh-
mond, " in 1924, whether it was vel
commanded or not, or the degree Of reward
that should be bestowed upon the successful
General. As to the latter, who can deny
that the reward has not been great? Ii,
has the highest position in the army-s
position tia, Vas never. filed By but one per
son, aud that was George Washington. liz
hadt for life. In its salary and perquisi;es it j
equal to s20,0 900 year. Has not GcRera
Grant been pretty well taken care of ans
can he say, it he IS not elected President
that the American people are ungratefur
Why take him out OF the military office
with which he is acquainted, to place him
in civil trust, about which he knows moth
iDG? But as we have said, these are not
the questions to be decided in November.
The questions are infinitely more important:
Is General Grant in favor Of negro sut-
frage?
Is he in favor of forcing it upon the
States, by the Federal Government, at the
point of the bayoent?
Does he want the South Airicqnized, as il
will be, under the Radical. Congressiona
policy?
Does he believe that the horde Of negroes
lately slaves, in the South, are fit to be in
trusted with the direction of the Govern.
ment in that section, and from there be
connected with the Government Of the ma
ton?
Is he in favor Of paying the people green
backs for their debts, including the soldier
ard the pensioner, yet believes ttat this
money is not good enough for few bond
holders to taxi? Is he in favor of paying
the fve>tweDty bonds in gold at hundred
cents on dollar, when they ere bought al
forty or fifty cents on the dollar, and when
the holders were never promised gold, but
are legally payable in greenbackS? Is he in
favor of perpctuating the National debt al
permanent institution, saddling the peo.
pie with an annual interest Of one hundred
and twenty millions Of dollars in gold, i'm,
peyerishing and beggaring them in then
resources? Upon mono of these issues does
General }rant occupy the right position.
He is pledged to negro sufl age, and he is
pledged TO the bcndhoIdcr against the peo-
pie.
The New York HcrdM understands the
nature of the questions to be decided at the
rnsurirg election, aid writes thus honestly
about them in Its issue Of the Goth;
There is still another clause in this sug-
gestcd Chicago platform, which distinctly
proposes to hold this national debt as a bur
den upon the country for generation to
come, in proposing to call in none Of the
loans till fully due, twenty or forty years
hence, within which time, it is assumed,
the currency OF the country will rise to the
value of gold, unless the enemies of the
public credit shall meanwhile destry it. -"
The people, we say, desire noting so indefi-
mite as this, looking to the end ofthis debt
They want to see the beginning of the cud,
and with the present generation Of our tax
payers we believe this idea, or, we may say,
this purpose prevails--that they will subs
stantially he relieved of this debt before
they pass offthe stage. Any financial policy,
therefore, which looks in practical way to
this great consummation will attract the
masses of the peopls against the eyasive
and do nothing policy foreshadowed as the
Presidential platform Of the Republican
party.
''For instance, here are the National
banks, with their three hundred millions OF
currency in circulation, for which the Trea.
sury pays in Interest some eighteen millions
year---an item which would be saved by
simply substituting greenbacks for this bank
currency. Next, here are fourteen hundred
and forty millions of bonds, touching the
redemption Of which gold i not mentioned
in the contract and is not in the spirit OF
the bond, according to the construction OF
the Law by many Of its most intelligent
trainers Let, then, the Democratic Praty,
in addition to the universal negro suh'raIe e
question, make the redemption Of these
bonds in grcenbacks their ultimatum, in
connection with feasible plar for the rapid
reduction Of the principal of the national
debt, against the Indefinite pcstponemcnt
policy which will doubtless be adopted at
Chicago, and we may have on this subject
some surprising developments of public
opinion in the impending Presidential con-
test with any man Of fair national record
as the Democratic candidate. We arc in
rined to think that the money question
may be put into shape by the opposition
which will be stronger than General Grant. "
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