The Plymouth weekly Democrat., 1869-06-10
Radicalism Responsible for Commercial
Duilncss.

A few weeks previous to the November
elections, the editor of the lVeshiche Post
predicted the infallible revival of trade
immediately after General Grants cleo
ton The Republican at the time express
ed its doubts, and appealed to the opinion
of our merchants. The Post replied in an
article full of spite and venom, as if it
were an act of disloyalty to doubt its hope
full prophecies Now, if the Radical fra
ternity have eyes for anything besides Of
fees and public plunder, they cannot have
failed 10 abserve a constant spread Of dull
ness all over the country To about the low
est stage OF inactivity known in the an
mails of our commerce. We cannot accuse
the administration as the cause of il.
General Grant did not invent our finsn-
cal system He found it in full operation
when he went into office, and he is power
less against its consequences. The terri
BILE schemes by which the rich become
richer and the poor poorer are not to be
charged to him and if under his admins
tration the evil grows SO fast that the mid
die classes In our cities are almost ruined,
We may regret that the President was
forced to lend his power to the nefarious
end, but reasonable men will never look
upon him as the willful propagator of the
evil.
1t is different with the responsibility of
Radical partisans While the President is
only the hand on the dial of our public
affairs, the Radical party is the moving
spirit. Universal stagnation in politics
and in business interruption of the course
Of our national expansion; instability in
our relations with foreign powers, evident
ly belong to the fruits of our victories v
If the Radicals can pride themselves ON
having killed King Cotton, they may
glOrify themselves also on having Obliter-
ated the specie-standard. The Almighty
American dollar has taken up its residence
at Frankfort-On the Main; the Radicals
have driven it out of the country. In lieu
of this rule, which, bad as it may have
been, nevertheless was Democratic rule,
and established equally for the rich and
the poor, they invented the omnipOtence
of monopoly and cOrporated wealth. BY
this rule the whole national labor is made
subservent TO the accumulated wealth OF
companies and manufacturing monopolists.
Individual energy and wealth succumb in
their struggle against the new rulers. Ii
the Radicals ask credit for the destruction
of State rights and the Capitalization of
the peoples sovereignty in Congress, they
cannot refuse the responsibility for the
concentration of the nations resources in
the hands of a few The rapacious politi-
cal and financial aristocracy which runs
Congress dictates imposts and duties ac-
cumulates the interest due by cities, States,
and the Federal Government, and con-
tracts every branch Of commerce and
national production is the creation of the
Radical party. If the laborer can no
longer think of economy if in spite OF
amply sufficient crops loaf of bread is
smaller and dearer than it ever was before
II the middle class merchants can n
longer calculate on a legitimate prort oi
the goods which they ma. sell. II c,u ,
the day after they Law ii their SOCK IA.
| dry goods and hardware princes reduce
| the price of their IN. &c andise: if small
manufacturers, VINO would be content with
small profits, can NJ l'nger count even on
these because of the sudden changes in the
money market and the caprices of Wal
street spectators if distrust has taken the
place of our former belief in mercantile
honesty If, in one word, we are blessed
with all the amenities of perpetua
crisis, the Radical party alone de
serves the credit for it. They made
chance and caprice the law of the country
whilst commerce and industry require
order and system to flourish; they have
created an immense amount of unproduct
i've capital, which, without any labor an(
without taxation, cOmpetes victOriously
with an iDfinitude of small fortunes, anC
swallows them as the shark feeds OF
legions Of smaller fishes They have en-
riched small number of people to th
detrlment of the many; given privilege
to certain sections of the country to tn
disadvantage of others, and, under tn
hypocritical cry of equality of rights, the,
have established an inequality of condi
tions which make masters of one portion
of the citizens and dependents of the grea
majority. Under such circumstances ther
can be nothing like brisk business-Ms
sostri Republican, June Sd.