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

party of the past, ana tnaC -I~--
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 hardmo 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, leave no doubt
of the faithful persistence with which
the great leaders Of this party have con, 4,
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,
asted greenbacks and all-at time
when they held everything else subor-
dinate to the successes which that party
has achieved, are called upon tq rGAect
If the people now want a sound curren-
.cy, the power to secure it is in then
hands. '"Thc control which the people
have over the matter is through theil
respective legislatures, State and nd
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, ant
has willed it from the first, is the Dem
ocratic party. The Republican party
has willed just the contrary; so tha
the people, sho have got all through
the war and the moral questions per
tanning Ia thewar, have simply to choos
whether they will vote with the part,
which has actively in hand this presen
. practical interest of theirs, or with th
{ party which has ignored and trample,
upon it until it stultifes itself by pre-
tending to have any regard for it at all
Mr.. Benton's declaration that, if h
!, awere to establish workingman's par
ty, it should be on the basis-of bar
} money! hard money party against
paper party not even so pert
nent in his time as tbs now for til
, Democratic party, which has immemc
rally identified itself with the xorkin
: people, is here ranged actively in tn
lists egainst tho worst paper party tha
7 the country eyer saw
t We invite Republicans to a caudi
! perusal of the article which so full
| vindicates the traditional fidelity Of th
t Democratic party to sound=doctmne j
D regard to the currency. Impartial I,
p faction upon this now vital subject cal
k tot full 70 convince thEy09saa 4 who hay
fsberetofore supported the Repphlica
ssSssrty, from ap honest belief that it ws
ina o good and necessary work,