The union Democrat., 1868-08-08
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forced 20 eay thai last year they spent, b!
r.pnrt- af Committee on Wuys aud deans,
s35a l7s. 600 81, and t!i- is In the thjrd year
OF .eace Well. say our wen meaning he
nubllcan frleuds We suppose the interest oi
The debt took most Of Is. On, no, that took
Sl49. .4lS,3S 81, not quite much as was
snenr by the War ana Navy Departments,
which was Sl49,472, los 35, aud besides
this, we spent $50, ,292.5l3 IA for other
things. Why, that is so. .000, 900 more than
the Democrats spent for army and navy anu
nj. rbe expenses Of Government put Together
But why do you spend S25, ,6l3, ,673 53 on the
navy when it formerly cost only Sl2,oOU, ,0O0
annually ? Has American shipping grown
90 much that We have TO keep up vast navles
10 protect it? Oh, no, our tariffs have swept
away American ships from the ocean We
have lost the carrying trade-the British
have got that. Then Why don't yeu give the
builders of merchant ships the. money spent
on the navy, by way of drawback on duties
Would that start work in our shlpyards? Oh,
yes, half the cost would do it. Then, why is
1t not done? We do not think Of it, really,
we have been 80 busy with the impeachment
and negro questions that We forgot our sail
ors and mechanics. But we see that The
War Department this year spent Sl2S, ,85S,
466, when the year before it spent only
about S95, 900, 600. The longer we have
peace the more the army costs. How is this?
Well. it costs great deal to keep soldiers
and Freedmen's Bureau agents, and to feed
aud clothe negroes, at the South. But why
do we do it? Let the negroes support them
selves as we do. You make the laborers of
the North work to feed and clothe these idle
Africans. True; but by SO doing we get
Nha; ,ko
agents 20 Congress We shall get twenty Sen.
ators in this way, while a majority of the
people Of the United States, living in nine
States. have only eighteen. The people may
vote as they please, but they cannot get the
Senate. nor repeal any of the laws we got
through for our advantage 1--we have managed
1t so that one quarter of the people have
more power in the Senate than the three
quarters. We now own the negroes of the
South. Did we not buy them by your blood
and money We now see where the money
goes we now see why the credit of our coun
try is 80 tainted ; we now see why the val
&c of our paper money is sinking-it was
only ut q per cent. discount in 1866, and it
is now at discount of about 90 per cent.
we now see why our laborers and pensioners
are cheated by false dollars. If the mechan
ic cares to know why he works so many
hours, let him study the reports of the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury. II is clear why busi-
ness is hindered and business men perplexed.
We know why the public creditor is harrass-
ed by our dishonored credit, and the tax
payer is hunted down by the tax-gatherer.
SHALL WE PAY OUR DEBTS OR KEEP UP THE
NEGRO POLICY.
The negro military policy Of the Republi.
can party is ut the bottom Of all these trou.
bles. We now get at the real issues between
parties. The Republicans. by their nomina.
'tions and resolutions, are pledged to keep up
the negro and military policy, with all its
cost and taxations. These will be greater
hereafter. The government of the South is
to go into the hands of the negroes. We have
said they are unft to be voters at the North.
The Republicans say they shall be governors
at the South. We are clearly opposed to this
policy. We have seen how much it costs the
tax payer. the bondholder and the laborer in
the past three years. 1t will be as hurtful
in the future. We have also seen how our
policy of using the money to pay our debts
would have helped the tax payer, the bond
holder and tho laborer, in the past 1t will
do ~ much in the future. The whole ques.
ton is brought down to this clear point Shall
We use our money to pay our debts, relieve
shV t0A HuyOit maAO iHOucy Souu lbC
hands of the laborer or pensioner, and help
the bondhoder or shall we use it to keep up
military despotism. feed idle negroes, break
down the judiciary, shackle the Executive,
and destroy all constitutional rights?
CONCLUSIONS.
have said nothing in behalf of. or against
the views of any one who is spoken of as u
candidate for the Presidency on the Demo
cratic side. | have only said what each one
agrees to and is in favor Of, No man has
been named who is not in favor of reducing
expenses and then making our paper as good
as gold NJ man has been canned who il
not IN favcr of cutting down military expen
ses. M man has been uamed who il nut in
favor OF using the money drawn from the
tax payers t. paw the public debt. No man
has been named who is not in favor of a
general amnesty to the people Cf the South
No man has been named who is not an up
hnlder OF constitutional rights. No man has
been named by the Democratic party whose
election would not help the tax payer. the
peusioner. the laborer AMI the bondhalder
On the other hand, the candidates of the
Republican party are pledged to their past
policy. which has sunk the value of our
currency more than eight per cent. in the
past two wears. The discount upon our
now about % per cent. 1t will continue to
60 down under the same policy. As it
sinks il will increase taxes. it will curse all
labor and business. it will eudanger still
more the public credit, for the greater the
premium on gold the harder it becomes to
pay specie to the bondholder and his claims
become more odious. What claims have the
Republicans upon our soldiers? They take
away from him ne.quarter of bis pension.
by paying him in false money, which is
worth less than seventy FIVE cents IN the dol.
lar. A wise and honest Administration would
have made it worth its face in gold. What
right have they to call upon the mechanic
and laborerf They have heightened out the
hours of their toll to feed swarms Of Office.
holders at the North. and to support armies
ard hordes of negroes at the South. How
can they look the tax payers in the face,
when they have wrung from them so many
millions upon the pretext that the debt CON-
PEELED them to do so, while they were us ng
the money thus collected to support standing
armies and to trample upon the rights and
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