The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-07-22
ron GOIERNOR,
Franklin Smith,
OF WATERVlLLE.
is THERE DANGER OF REPUTATION ?

OF WAIERNll-LE.
is THERE DANGER OF REPUTATION /?
The charge of IN intention to repulate tho
national obligations, so false, but so persist
emily urged against the Democratic party il
the late Presidential election, is returning tC
plague the inventors. In their distress at the
enormous and unequal taxation, the people
are really beginning to weigh the matter in
its various aspects--to put the hardship and
undenied injustice OF the taX-eNemption and
high interest in one scale with the shame OF
dishonored obligations in the other, and not
ING the posc Of the beam. The suggestion
of such an idea as reputation, by radical
presses and speakers, has created demand
for it by wronged and overburdened people.
| If such a banner shall be raised it is impoSsi-
bic to say that ii will not have Il very large
following. made up from the deceived and
outraged rank and file of the late republican
party.
We have seen the strongest republican
town in this county, deliberately vote against
raising money to meet its indebtedness. be
cause of bond-eNemption. and the act boldly
and ably defended in the columns ofthc local
republican paper, by a correspondent. Could
such thing have been possible three years
ago? or two? or one? The radical papers
are just now very extensively circulating the
following paragraph
A New York newspaper 1.-THE Commercial Advcr-
tiser, Rep. having said that sit is plain the
nose mans face that the Democratic party will
boldly enter upon the next national campaign with
reputation emblazoned upon their banners the
savannah Republican, edited by rampant OK
REBEL replies. ''and it might have added that after
the campaign is over those banners will be borne
alOtt in triumph"
1t is impossible to say whethcr the radical
leaders have toreseen that the great danger
of an ignoring OF the national debt lies in
the South-but Democrats certainly have
Whether toreseen or not, the radicals have
acted as though they desired to irritate that
section as much as possible on this question.
There are many Just claims against the GOV
eminent by persons in the South who adher-
ed to the Union during the war, and whose
property was DESTROYED. One Of these-that
Of Sue Murphy-was brought up at the late
session of Congress. 1t was endorsed by
Gen. Grant, as being just, and that the lady
was always a friend to the government; but
Congress refused to pay it. We think it
would puzzle radical to say why this claim
is not as valid against the government as any
other-why this lady should not be paid a.
well as he who holds government bond II
payment is denied, is it not Reputation?
But as d matter Of fact, while all claims Of
this class are refused compensation, the other
class of government creditors, the bond-hold-
crs, are paid in gold, with high rate Of in
terest, and exempted from taxation And
Congress, which enacts this injustice, is ruled
and controlled by those who hold the bulk OF
" of the country. 1t is their creature and
servant, to do their bidding.
1t would not be strange if, snaring under
these wrongs, a party OF reputation should
spring into being in the impoverished South
1t was threatened by Southern radicals when
the Sue Murphy claim was voted down last
winter An examination of the elements OF
society there will show a very promising
community for such a scheme. The old rebc]
element, our radical brethren are of course
ready to believe will be for it, The South
ern loyalists, or radicals, whose Just claims
are secuted, will join it, as they have already
threatened to- And the free negroes who
were tattered that by emancipation they
would be introduced into an earthly paradise,
where like Jack Cate's commonwealth, it
should be ''felony to drink small beer are
finding that in laying down the shovel and
the hoe, they have not laid down all the cares
of existence. Made to understand that bro
gans and whisky will be cheaper through re-
pudiation, Sambo becomes a rcpudationist
When Montville and Montgomery march one
way on this question, what may not happen
! The principles Of justice are immutable and
eternal. Neither nation nor individual can
violate them without harmful consequences
And they are daily violated in the financial
affairs of this country-grossly, glaringly VIC
lated. Retaliation is natural to mankind
Even Gen. Grant, the embodiment of all rad
ical virtues, said that if others should be I'M
just to us, we must ''lollow their precedent "
Shylock says-'The vilainy that you teach
me l will execute And replying to the
heading of this article, we say there is danger
of reputation