Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-09-30
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: record of the Republican partv. wbir
has been written on the brightest nae.
= of our nations history. Amid eve7
possible embarrassment and sti1mbIine
block, It has gone on its noble work
liberty and humanity, of Justice and n
4 form, advancing progress and nations
: development. Three years of the te
!, since it won its national history. recre
ant President so shanefuIIy welded th
q executive power, that mistaken conf
! denCe and sad assassination had Give
him, against the party which ha,
honored him by its bestowal, as to VIII
o5 votes for denomination, and an en-
dorsing resolution, from National Con
vention of the Democratic party tha
four years before had SO bitterly oppos
ed his election. War, for which it wa.
not responsible, had filed the land witt
graves, loaded it with debt, rendered un
popular taxation necessity and check
ed the national growth and its stately
stepping toward its magnificent future
But IN spite of all these drawbacks. what
has It done for the Republic?
Look at the contrast Tys3 years ago
men mobbed and hung for Saying they
preferred Freedom to Slavery. To-day,
liberty enthroned in cur land. Ten
| years ago, the overseer, the lash, the
COffle, and the auction block. To-day, a
race lifted from bondage into self-reliant
manhood and womanhood. Ten years
ago, an arrogant oligarehy breathing
! threatenings against all who resisted
/ their purposes. To-day, none so poor
as to do them reverence. Ten Years
ago, nation divided by conspiracy and
treason, and hostile government in
augurated on our soil. To-day, a na-
ton united and more powerful, because
more free. Ten years ago, a Constitu-
ton recognizing property in man. To-
| day, regenerated Constitution guaran-
teeing equal rights, and national protec-
ton to the poorest.
Look, too, at the position our land oc-
| cupies among the nations of the earth.
With all the croakings of our enemies
as to the burdens of taxation, the Iega-
cy of the Rebellion in which our last
National Democratic Administration
ended-with all the false charges that
the poor are unjustly oppressed
there is no nation in all the world to
which the hearts and hopes of the poor
in every country turn, as they do toward
our Republic. Go to the banks of the
Shannon or the Rhine, to the Baltic or
the Adriatic, upon the Alps or the Ap-
pennies, and to what land does the poor
man look, with longing in his heart,
hoping that he may there make for him
self, and the family that God has given
him, home, and enjoy civil and reIig-
iOus liberty? All around the world,
from nation to nation, and continent
to continent, you may ask this question,
and the eager, earnest answer is always
America Whenever the poor
or the oppressed seek to better their
condition, their thoughts, their hopes,
their eyes, their hearts, are all turn
ed toward this Republic of ours |
Who can dispute or misunderstood this
testimony Of the tOiling millions of every
nation and language and creed? And |
is it not an irrefutable answer to every
charge that the Republic has been injur-
ed under the Government of the Repub- |
lican party?
And for all who come with their
hOusehould goods, to become of us and |
with US, to share our destiny, to endure |
our trials or to participate in our pros |
perity, to secure by their toll home, to /
live and rear their children in the true |
spirit of devotion, to our free institutions, !
there is room and to spare. Our noun
tains welcome them to their mineral /
wealth, without fee or reward. Our
Western plains beellon them to the free
farms and free homes Republican legis-
lation proffers to all who will come and /
possess and cultivate the land. Or, if
they prefer to live in the older States, in
the workshop and factory, they will find
faithful labor remunerated far beyond
the rates it commands in the Old World.
The future history of the Republican
party can be judged by its past and its
acts show what that future will be.
L 1t will surely and resolutely main
tain its work of enfranchisement, of re-
of making all citizens equal
under the protection of our supreme law,
against all hostile attempts-so that by
the final settlement of these questions,
so happily ended and so faithfully to be
the nation shall have stabiI-
ity and peace, and this once exciting is
sue be regarded as decided for all time.
?. The work of retrenchment of our
national expenses-of the abolition of
all needless offices, of the elevation and
of the civil service, and of
the saving of every possible amount to
the people-will go on as faithfully as
during the past eighteen months.
3. The pledge of the National Repub-
lican platform that taxation shall be
and reduced as rapidly as
the national faith will permit, will be
carried out, as already inaugurated by
the undivided Republican vote of the
recent Congress and, as the national
diminish the burdens of tax
ton, increased as they were during the
war expressly to meet these obligations,
will be Justly reduced.
4. The Debt viii be funded at a lower
rate of interest, and "having been con-
tracted for the preservation of the Union
for all time to come, will be extended
over a fair period for redemption" less
ening largely, without doubt. the pres
ent monthly amount of its reduction, so
that the same generation shall not be
to fight the battles of the Union
and also to pay off the entire cost of its
preservation, by bearing heavy and op-
pressive burdens needlessly.
5. The revival of our American
Commerce-the development of our
vast resources-the completion of the
work of Amnesty to the fullest limits of
the liberal proffer of the National Repub-
lican platform-are all subjects worthy
of, and will doubtless receive, the full
est consideration and the wisest legisla-
ton.
mus dClIIlS IdlllIul-IO the country
and Tits interests-faithful to the Union
and its integrity-faithful to the people
whose confidence and support has sus-
tanned it in all its trials-faithful to its
brilliant record for the highland faith
full to every pledge on which it obtained
power, a Republican Administration
and a Republican Congress will go for
ward in the work intrusted to them, and !
the nation, under their legislation, will
go on, Prospering and to prosper.
SOME POINTED QUESTIONS.
From the Marion independently
Holder charges that Gen. Beatty has
made 500, 900 since he went to Con- |
gress and desires an explanation.
We give the explanation
Ist It is falsehood made out of
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