The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-09-22

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as one of the conditions of her admis
sion into the Union again2 The Re
publican party. What party declared
that a State could not sccede from tht
Union, and made n wa to carry ouI
that idea? The Republican party
What party forced the South out o
the Union, and TO- ut the point o
the bayonct, prevents her return? Tho
Republican party! What party is the
tue rcpuliator of contracts, public
faith and national Obligation? Clear
ly, the Republican party.
"Thc reconstruction policy must be
overturnc'." Very well. Nothing
would contribute more to the peace
and safety of the country. 1t has
been q fraud from tho beginning 1t
had its origin in political lust for pow.
CT. Ithas been carried on by system.
attic tyranny, deception and perjury.
1t means consolidation, absolute power
for the President, when he agrees with
Congrcss-othcrwise, it means a law
less Congress, helping itself to plum
der by disorganization. When lin
COLIN was President, he was the Gov.
ernmenti When ANDREW JOHNSON
was Pre-idcnt, Congress was the Gov
eminent! Congress was "A mob
Congress was a repetition of the French
Assembly on the rise of the first Ma
PoLEeN, owing allegiance to none
but its own selfish ambition.
Again:
"Those who advocate an enormous
issue of greenbacks to pay the bond.
know that i'll three years they would
DC worth no more than the French rs
si9ncts, which had Il better security,
and that when deprecated to n mere
ly nominal value, the next step would
be to sweep away the whole mass a.
rubbish, as was done with the Trench
paper. The r'pudiators know exactly
how the result can be reached Through.
Che specious policy of Mr.. P1lldlcton,
and how deadly blow it will be to the
credit ola Government that they hate
A good deal Of this is mere assertion,
without a shadow of proof. The Pen
DLETosIAN theory, as we understand
it, is, to pay the bonds according to
the law creating them. We have al
ready cited high authority for saying
they were to be paid in illegal curren-
cy;" in other worIs,-in "greenbacks.'
The people arc determined you shall
not r~epudiatc this contract; and arc
MS firmly resolved that the contact
shall be carried out to the letter, viz:
i'm grccnJdcks y nothing. Tic deb;
was contracted i'll Deprecated paper,
and if greenbacks depreciate, the one
is as good as the other.
mo man who favors n financial pol
icy that will increase. confidence in the
credit of the Government and gradu-
ally advance its notes and obligations
to Il coin standard. can vote for Mr..
Pcndlctou-"
Funding the national debt, and fix
ing it upon the country for all time, Is
| here meant. The bonds and interest
are to be paid in gold! 1t is no part
of the Republican programme to ever
pay the national debt. 1t is TO be
transmitted rs n legacy to our child.
rcn, and after generations. To cher
ish this policy, We find Mr.. Boutwell,
increasing the burthcns of the people,
by offering a gratuity of twenty cent
premium on the dollar in gold to the
500 bondholdcrs! Thus Mt ono dash
our national debt would be enlarged
nearly six hundred millions OF dollars
This is paying off the national debt,
and reducing taxation with 4 ven
geance. Mr.. PESDLEToN, opposes thi:
theory-Mr. HAYES, is its advocate
This is the policy that is TO strengthen
the credit of the Government, ant
grind the tax payers! We dcnounc,
it, and its authors as unworthy the
confidence of the people, and hope tc
SEQ the day when that financial noun
tebank, and those who favor his theo
rics, shall he driven from place ant
power, hy the ballots of u free people
mo man who desires TO see TIN
question of reconstruction speedily set
tied, the States in their places in TIN
Union. and the results of the war safe
ly secured by constitutional provision
can vote for Mr.. Pendleion."
The Republican party has now beel
about five years settling the question
of constitution; and it will probabl.
be ten more before they reach thei
nltimatum. They have required th
Southern people, as subjugated serfs
; to sacrifice their manhood, to submit
to a reign of satraps and politica
scoundrels, unequalled by the blackes
days OTTOMAN conquest; and they nol
ask that people TO submit to the furth
or degradation of being ruled by tn
. besotted and brutal African rs well a
to submit to the disfranchisement G
every citizen, who fought Toward Of