Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-01-15
THE PUBLIC FAITH.

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= ~ - 81 us JAY COOKE"
Mr.. JAY Cooke is the greenback Jay whom
nobody knew before the war, but whom Sal
mon P. Chase, while Secretary of the Treasu-
rv. appointed to negotiate and sell U. S. bonds,
by which that lively Jay amassed fortune OF
sl2, 100000, besides what he divided with the
Secretary; and now Mr.. Jay Cooke is pow
er in the land with his weighty money bags
It was he who said ga National debt was a
National blessing" So it is, to Mr. Jay Cooke,
for he has his stupendous fortune in the Bonds
which pay no interest, and the millions of
working people in the Nation toll for his ben
eft. Now, Jay puts forth the sentiment
"Public faith should be as sacredly preserved
as that of the individual" So it should be.
But does Mr.. Cooke or his Radical party live
up to the sentiment 2 Let see
In March and July, 1861, Abraham Lincoln,
both as an individual and the Chief Magistrate
of the Nation, solemnly declared that he had
neither the intention nor the legal right to in-
terfere with the institution of slavery in the
South In September, 1862, and January LIST,
1863, he proclaimed all slaves in nearly every
portion of the South to be free.
Again, in July, 1861. Congress solemnly de-
clared, by Joint Resolution. that the war was
not waged for the conquest or subjugation OF
the South but simply for the restoration OF the
Union under the Constitution; and that when-
ever this object was accomplished, the States
then in rebellion should be secured in oil their
original rights and immunties. The South
surrendered in April, 1865, and the very same
Radical leaders in both Houses of Congress
who voted for and passed the above mentioned
Joint Resolution, in July, 1861, have since
passed Acts over the veto of the Executive,
to completely subugate the people of the South,
and they have declared their determination to
hold the South as conquered country ana It's
citizens as disfranchised mass as vassals, IN
fact until those States shall be so reconstruct
ed that the loyal population-the blacks, and
Northern whites emigrated there since the war
for spois and office--shall always be dominant.
We need not here refer to the numerous,
shameful, and audacious violations of their
public (partisan and Officially pledges which the
Radical party has been guilty of since 1856
its advocacy then, and in 1860, OF the doctrine
Of State Sovereignty, which it now declares to
be reasonable heresy; of its championship
then, and early in 1861, of secession aud dis
union, which it now calls rank treason, aud
attempts to fasten upon the Democracy-who
who never advocated neither; OF the right to
free speech and free press, which 1t then
clamored for, when both were most unlimitedy
assured to all under Democratic rule, and oil
its gagging Of the one ard suppression OF the
other, which commenced with the first year OF
Radical misrule, in 1861, aud has been prac
ticed down to the present year. Nor need We
specially refer to the almost total disregard
and violation of the Constitution, and of their
sacred official oaths, since, 1s61 of every Rad
ical office holder in the Federal Government
!. from LlncOia GOWN I'd llde-Wal1eE, inciuuitk
especially the Cabinet officers, the Senator:
and Representatives in Congress, and some o.
the Judges of the Supreme Bench aud o.
every Radical State officer, from Governor Il
member Of the Legislature. All have outrage
ously, purposely, wantonly, frequently broken
their official oaths, violated the public faitt
pledged by themselves as public officers, and
displayed the utmost disregard for either party
pledges or official oaths, whenever it was {,
: their own or their party's interest to do SO.
But yet, every Radical organ which favor'
the non-taxation of U. S. Bonds, and the pay
] ment of these Bonds in gold, repeats Jay
Cookies sentiment" above given, and devotei
. space and time to show how necessary it is Il
! the 'life and honor of the Nation" that tn,
r public faith shall be sacredly preserved-in re
8 gard to this matter of the Bonds; in nothin.
!. else, however, it seems, must the public faitl
be preserved. Mr. Jay Cooke cares nothin.
about the sacredness of the public faith pledged
upon any other matter than that of maintain
, ing the Bonds free from taxation, and payin,
!, them In gold. Let the Government do this
and observe Punic faith in every other thin,
. it stands pledged to, however sacredly, and W,
will warrant that Jay Cooke and his follower
will continue to trumpet the fact that the Gov