Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1869-09-01

party of the past, ana tnaS 49,
cratic party is the party of the present
and the future. The mission of the. Re-
publican party was to enforce the abo-
lition of slavery through war. This it
has accomplished The mission Of the
Democratic party is to enforce equal
rights for all men and a hard-mo ley
currency for the people This it has
not vet accomplished the great work
is still beforeit. The Republican party
came into power. and flooded the coun-
Try with deprecated paper currency,
which thrust gold and silver rapidly
out of circulation and made them arti-
cles Of speculative merchandise: The
plain and convincing record, printed
elsewhere in our columns this morning,
proves that the Democratic party, in
and out of power, has consist .ntly up
held metallic circulating medium, and
fought with its might against what Mr..
Madison called that ghost of money"
paper promise to pay. The citations
made from messages, and speeches Of
Jefferson Madison, Jackson, Van Buren,
Polk, Benton, Pierce, Buchanan, Silas
Wright, Seymour, and others in the line
of Democratic statesmen, leav, no donbt
of the faithful persistence with which
the great leaders Of this party have con, on,
tended for an equitable currency for all
classes of citizens.
Ifthe people, said Mr. Silas Wright,
support and elect those men who are
in favor of an unsound currency, they
must expect to suffer the evils of de-
preciated paper" The people who sup
ported the Republican party-depreci-
ated greenbacks and all-at time
when they held everything else subor-
dinate to the successes which that party
has achieved, are called upon IA rGlloct.
If the people now want sound curren-
cy, the power to secure it is in their
hands. '"The control which the people
have over the matter is through their
respective legislatures State and ma
tional. If that control be exercised
in favor of q sound currency. there
must and will be sound currency, be-
cause both the Government and people
will it,"
The only party which will it, and
has willed it from the first, is the Dem
ocratic party. The Republican party
has willed just the contrary SO that
the people, who have got all through
the war and the moral questions per-
tanning tq the war, have simply to choose
whether they will vote with the party
which has actively in hand this present
practical interest of theirs, or with the
{ party which has ignored and trampled
upon it until it stultiies itself by pre-
tending to have any regard for it at all
Mr.. Benton's declaration that, if he
"were to establish workingman's par
, ty, it should be on the basls-of hard
, n6loney-a hard money pdrty against {
paper party not even so peril
nent in his time as it is now (; for thu
Democratic party, which has immemo
rally identified itself with the working
people, is here ranged actively in thu
) lists against tha worst paper party tha
7 the country eyer aaw,
{ We invite Republicans to candle
! perusal of the article which so full,
1vindicates the traditional fidelity Of tn
Democratic party to sound doctrine il
D regard to the currency. Impartial re
p faction upon this now vital subject can
( Nut fail "a convince thpsa who hay
fsGeretofore supported The Repphlica
i, Ssarty, from an honest belief that it wa
3ae' ing a good and necessary work, Q