The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-07-15

specie The plan of making currency as gooo as
gold by contracting its volume carries with 1t great
distress and suffering But if lift up its value by
getting rid of the faint upon the national credit it
harms one; it blesses all
"If the $500, 900, 900 had been duly and honestly
used to pay debit to-day the taxpayers would have
been relieved, the mechanic, laborer, and pensloner
would be paid in coin, or money as good as coin, and
would not be cheated of onequarter OF their dues
by false dollars. There would be no question how
bonds should be paid, for this question grows out of
the foes of those in power, and will disappear when
they disappear from the places they now hold. The
bondholder would no longer stand in odous light
He would not be charged with the taxation which has
been used to hurt, not to help, his claim. If wise,
and honest use of the public money would have done
this good in the past it will do it in the future. But
the Republican party at Chicago pledged ITSELF by its
nominations and resolutions, to keep up its negro
policy 1t is impossible to give untutored Africans at
the South uncontrolled power over the government
the property and laws of the people of ten States by
! excluding white votes without military despotlsm
You cannot give to three millions of negroes more
Senators than are allowed to fifteen millions OF white
men living in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
Illinois, Wsconsins, Iowa. Kentucky, Missouri, and
Michigan, without keeping up great standing armies:
Without general amnesty, and the restoration OF the
suffrage to all the whites in the South great stand
ing army must be permanent institution. In order
to the South with military despotism negro rule
and disorganised labor and industry they cursed the
farmers of the North with taxation, the mechanics
with more hours Of to-laborers and pensioners with
debased paper the merchant with shifting standard
and the public creditor with dishonored national
faith 1.-THE Republican policy of selfish ambition and
sectional hate is put down country start will upon
new course of prosperity and all classes will reap in
common the fruits of good government. This is the
question to be determined in the November election
and upon these issues that the Democracy appeal
| to the entire country"
HThe Chicago convention is pledged to contnu.
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peal to all classes of interests throughout the Union
let us 90 before the people with these facts and we
will make change which will sweep the wrong doors
from their places We say to the bondholders and to
the aborer who has put his money into savings bank
/ We do not wish to harm you we do not seek to give
you bad money but to get good currency for ALL 1t
will not help US to break down the credit of your
bonds; it hurts u.s. it keeps up our taxes by making
pay higher interest," but we ask you to help save US
as taxpayers from the cost of the negro and military
policy at the South 1t is despotism than debt
which makes taxation SO heavy. The judiciary must
not be trampled under foot The executive should
not be deprived of power to punish crime, and to
protect innocence. Strike down the congressional
policy, and all will be right"
EVERY man who is not blinded by hate or bigotry
looks forward with horror to the condition of the
South under negro domination. The bad faith to the
public creditor and taxpayer in thus unsetting our
Union OF keeping the South in condition where it
cannot help the national prosperity, but is made
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debased credit. The taxpayer was told the burthens
put upon him were to pay the debt; but the money
was not used in good faith him. for the debt still
stands; in good faith to the creditor, for he
not paid what he should have been; but it used
in way which harmed both, in way that tainted the
nations credit kept up taxation by keeping up the
rate of interest," while it sank the value of the bonds,
and with them carried down the paper currency, and
thus wronged the laborer and pensoner But for the
policy of bad faith, of partisan purposes mad folly,
we could to-day borrow money as cheapy as Great
Britain; but we have cursed the taxpayers the Ia
borer the pensioner the public CREDITOR for the sake
of cursing the people of the South with military des-
potism and negro domination. Every one must see,
if we had paid off one-fh of our debt, had kept down
the cost of government had given peace Union
had built up industry and order in the South not
of the evils which now afflict us could have existed
| Our whole condition would have been changed. We
demand that our currency shall be made good as
gold, not by contracting the amount but by contract
| ing the expenses of Government We against
measures which will pull down business credit and
call for those which shall lift up the national credit
When we stop the waste, which forces US to pay
usury of ten per cent. and take course which will
enable us to borrow money upon the rates paid by
other nations, shall add to the dignity and power
| of our Union. When rive value to our bonds by
using the money drawn by taxation to the payment of
debt, and not to the military and negro scheme,
we shall relieve the taxpayer the bilholder and give
strength and value to the claims of the public creditor
We have seen the mischief wrought out by the policy
of the past three years. 1t will be as hurtfu in the
future it has been in the past. Yet the Republican
party has approved it, and is pledged to it. We have
shown how the policy of using money to pay our
debts would have helped in the past 1t will do the
same for US in the future. To that policy we are
pledged There is not man.of our party in this
broad land who doubts upon this point It never
charged that single Democrat in these United States
ever favored the military and negro policy upon which
the credit of the country has been wrecked. Our
remedy is to use the public money to pay the public
debt 1t is simple, brief, but certain remedy for
our national maady. Our ailment is debt, aggravated
by despotism."
"The longer we have peace under Radical rule the
more the army costs. How is this? Well, it costs
great deal to keep soldiers and freedmen's bureau
agents. and to feed and clothe negroes at the South
But why do you do it? Let the negroes support
themselves as do. You make the aborers of the
North work to feed and clothe these idle Africans
True, but by doing get their votes, and they
will send our travelling agents to Congress; we shall
get twenty Senators in this way, while 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 advantage
we have managed it so that quarter of the people
have power in the Senate than the three quarters
We now own the negroes of the South"
I'VE now know why the public creditor is harrassed
by our dshonored credit and the taxpayer is hunted
down by the taxgatherer The negro military policy of
the Republican party is at the bottom of all these
troubles. We now get at the real issues between
parties. The Republicans by their nominations and
resolutions are pledged to keep up the negro and
military policy, With all its and taxations These
will be greater hereafter. The government of the
South is to 60 into the hands of the negroes We
have said they unfit 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 taxpayer the bond
holder, and the labore- 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 taxpayer the bondholder and
the iaborer in the past. 1t will do as much in the |
future The whole question is brought down to this |
clear point: shall money to pay our debts, |
relieve taxpay make money good in the hand
OF the laborer pensouer and help the bondholder
or shall we use it to keep up military despotsm feed
idle negroes, break down the judiciary, shacke the
executive, and destroy all constitutional rghts?"
If our policy is to triumph and the country to be
rescued from Radical rule and anarchy, then let the
East and West the North and the South, the soldier
the sailor, in ships in the field, the taxpayer and
the bondholder by one united effort drive from power
the common enemies of liberty honesty, honor rights
and constitutional laws. Loud applause.l
TRIBUTE TO THE REGULAR ARMY.-Mr Burwell ed
tor OF the New Orleans Bulletin, and of DeBow's
- on how Ifan,