The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-15
The RepudiatOTs,

winch tueT parLlSbnS can surely make uO uls-
take, and that cry is "universal repudiation."
Influenced apparently by desire to secure
uniformity in the platform, they declare in
favor Of the reputation Of everything. Debt,
honor, Southern States, negro suffrage, every
thing is alike included, and a general over
throw of all that has been done during the
last eight years is the faith of the TaInmany
Convention. Like Tom Paine, when troubled
with garrulous Christian, they can reply,
ave believe in nothing" Let US look at the
revolution which these men propose to work.
They taror reputation of the national debt
1t is useless to quibble over words. man who
makes note with certain conditions and then
deliberately violates those conditions is guilty
of theft and theft when committed by a
nation is, out of courtesy, termed reputation
This the Democratic party openly avows
itself as being willing to commit. AT the time
of the contraction of the United States Five
twenty loan it was especially stated and agreed
to by those who were authorized by the Gov
ernment to act as its agents, that all of the
loan would be paid in gold. This was a
collateral understanding, and stated at the
therefore part and parcel of the contract
itself. Yet in words bold and clear the Demo.
cracy say that these bonds ought TO be paid in
greenbacks. This is a violation of faith so open
that no suppostions can disguise it. But not
content with this, they go farther. They vio-
late not only collateral undertaking but one
entered into in black and white. 1t was ex-
ly hNyt ha 1a rubi a,,4b
the loans that they should be free from taxa
tion by the Government. In this there was
nothing urgent. The offer was open to all.
The bonds could be taken by any one of the
public. 1t was perfectly fair inducement
held out and one which was initiated by sound
policy. The platform Of Democracy declares
that these bonds ought TO be taTed. Thus in two
instances do they favor absolutely reputation.
They favor the reputation ofthe Southern gou
ernmentS. The close of the war found in the
South handful of white and multitude of
black loyalists and multitude of white
traitors. 1t was necessary that either the old
State governments with their proscriptive laws
and statutes excellently devised to keep the
rebel aristocracy in power, should be reinsts-
nearly four years have We striven to receive a
fair chance of success for the reconstructed
States. The maguancy of the rebels and the
aid extended to them by Johnson and the De-
mocracy, have delayed until spring the con-
summation of our hopes. At last, however,
the cause of our nation was successful, and
justice and loyalty seem now to have tri-
IoI p,,+ i,,sf
our persistent effort the Democracy pur-
poses to repudiate these doctrines. They
favor the overthrow OF the reconstructed
States, they declare that all this work of many
years, all the trouble and toll Of the loyal peo-
pie, shall be utterly cancelled, and in their
place shall be erected the old State govern
ments, subservient to treason, pandering to a
nominal aristocracy, who call the North "infe-
riors." This Convention has gone down on
its knees before the mass of Southern AFRO
gance, and eaten dirt at its dictation. At the
command of its accustomed MASTER it now
tries to insult its fellow Northern citizens, and
would repudiate the work accomplished with
so much labor.
They favor the reputation of all the fruits of The
Uur, Iney not only WOulu cast on tne ueDL,
and replace the Rebels in power, but they
would deprive the black man of all reward
for his devotion to our country. They would
take from him the ballot, his only protec
ton, and reduce him, if not to state of old
time slavery, at least to an equivalent degra-
dation of peonage. He would be helpessly
bound, hand and foot, no doubt, and the old
supremacy would be restored on the ashes o.
the temple of political justice. They
would utterly cast back into the slough
of helpless subserviency the race whict
has been faithful TO the North
and whose only fault is its faithfulness to tn,
cause of Northern principles. Shall We deser
these weak allies Shall we forfeit all claim
to manhood, all claims to power by thus be
trayipg those who have relied on us for pro
tectionH We do not fear to answer. On tn
platform of the Democracy there will be bu
one repudiation accomplished; it will not b
the debt, or the reconstructed States, nor ou
honor to the blacks; il ,0iH be a population 0
the infamous measures Which the Democracy haU
had the auddcityto propose to an honorable people