The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-10-19
The leal Issue.

The Heal Issue.
1t is perfectly rstcnt to every discerning
man that there > only one issue in politics
in this country. IAN other questions resolve
themselves into this one: Shall the few rule,
or the many9
Is the doctrine Of Jefferson true, that gov
ernments derive their only just power from
the consent Of the governed; or on the
other hand is the oligarchic doctrine true,
that the few areborn booted and spurred to
ride the saddled many by the grace of God 2
For ourselves, we are Republican. We
appeal to the people.
Where stands the Republican party9
The Republican party freed four millions
of colored men, the mode of whose emanci.
patton Jefferson foresaw when he exclaimed,
II tremble for my country when I think
that God is just and that his justice will
not sleep forever I''-of whose emancipation
Washington approved by saying, that when
ever political party should be organized
for that purpose his vote should not be
wanting.
By thus breaking the letters of these OPP
pressed ones, the Republican party took
from labor its odium, and placed slave and
non-slave holder on a political level with
white-handed and silk-stockinged gentle
men of leisure,
The Republican party gave to the country
the national homestead law, whereby the
poorest may BED . land owner, and
whereby landed bpoly is made an i'm
possibility. Thus again the Republican
party thrust its shield over the laboring
masses.
The Republican party, by wise policy
of internal improvement, has covered the
country with network of railroads, thus
preventing the Capitalization of capital, and
making it possible for the poor mar to ride
in the same carriage side by side with the
lordliest nabob
The Republican party has so distributed
the burden of taxation that men of small
incomes pay no income tax whatever, thus
wisely throwing the public burden upon
those wealthy gentleman who have accumu-
lated fortunes through the toll of their less
fortunate neighbors.
The Republican party has taken $4,000
600 of tax from the laboring mans tea, cof-
fee, and sugar, in one year-a tax that was
only made necessary through a war made
upon the poor mans government by the
rich mans party.
The Republican party has established a
system of free schools in every State where
it has power; in this State in particular ms
king the University part of the public
schools, so that that institution shall no
longer be supported by the poor, for the ex-
elusive benefit of the rich.
The Republican party in this State has
established homestead law, whose provis-
ions are such that while prudent man may
secure decent home, there is no shelter un-
der it for the wealthy knave who might
wish for an extravagant one. 4. 81.
The Republican party in this State show
ed its sympathy for the people by elevating
to the gubernatorial chair, W. w. Holden,
a man whom the oligarchy hate for his
plebeian extraction and the stain of labor
on his hands.
The Republican party ofthe United States
elevated to the Presidential chair Grant, the
tanner, who within ten years earned his
living by selling cord wood in the streets of
Saint Louis !
The Republican party has thus shown its
devotion to the doctrine that governments
should be conducted in the interests of the
hard handed many and not of the aristo-
cratic few, by its honor of labor in, the
manumission of slaves, by its homestead
laws, by its wise system of internal improve
ment, by its systematic removal of tax from
the shoulders of the poor, by its provisions
for popular education, by its elevation to Of
fee of such self-made men as W. W. Holden
and Ulysses S. Grant.