Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-11-04
Mission Of the Republican Party.

MissiVh vi tne hepuDllcan Partys
GENERAL MoReAN, n Democratic nomi.
nee for Congress, who has been canvassing
Ohio, says " they (the Union party) live
only IN name, the object being accom-.
plished for which they were organized" /
The main object of the organization of the |
Union party, If we remcmbercorrectly was |
to rescue the country permanently from the |
hands of the Democracy. So long as the |
Democratic party has n respectable minori- |
ty IN any State in the Union, the mission !
OF the Republican or Union party is not !
completedi The Republican party, strictly !
speaking, was organized to prevent the De
m9eEry from forcing slavery upon the ter
ritories, and the Republican Union party
was formed to suppress n Democratic re-
bellion against the Government In ac-
complishing these two objects, it enamel
pated the slaves, incidentally, and then un.
dcrtook the work of enfranchising and ed
ucatiRg them, which work it is now sue
ccssfully accomplishing. Having prevented
the spread of slavery, overthr0wn four
years rebellion intended to destroy the
Republic, emancipated the slaves, and then
elevated them to citizenship, 1t would seem
tliat the party had accomplished enough
But there is yet work before it.
Il. The enormous debt inflicted upon the
country by the Democratic rebellion must
be honestly paid as it is now in process of
liquidation at the rate of $170,000,000 in
sixteen months. The Democratic party
cannot be trusted to pay the debt, for 1t ad-
vOcates reputation and has vehemently
opposed the several steps by which the
present Administration has so rapidly re-
duced it,
q. In paying the debt it must reduce the
taxes as a Republican Congress has been
doing at the rate of nearly $252,000,000 in
five years. The Democracy cannot be
trusted TO do this, unless by Reputation il
erases the debt entirely and with it all if
ternal taxation, for the Democratic mem
bers of Congress have voted lmost,soldly
against the several measures by which the
Republican majority reduced the taxes.
The Democratic party is, therefore, re-
pBatedly upon the record against such re-
duction, and no statements of Mr.. Brooks
or other Democratic leaders to the effect
that had the Democracy been in power the
REDUCTION of the public burdens would
have been greater STILL can avail anything
against the deliberate and recorded acts of
the Iarty tostlIe contrary. To be more spe-
cific, b1tthe 18th of July last, the Republi-
1 can majority in Congress passed bill re-
duOng the internal taxes over 500, 100000,
against which bill nearly every Democratic
member present voted. The same Repub-
liean majority passed bill reducing tlfe
tariff taxes $4,000, ,000 against which bill
the Democratic members voted almost to a
man.
3.,The Republican party must not only
pay the National debt, but must save the
country from paving the rebel debt, or in
other words from indemnifying the rebels
for losses sustained by the war which they
made upon the nation. The Democratic
party can be trusted TO undertake this in
case it gains power, however remote such a
scheme may appear It clamored after the
Suppression of the rebellion for the pay
Ihent of b0N war debts, and as late as May
last, Mr.. Knott, of Kentucky, a Democratic
member of the House, spoke on the bill to
pay "l0ydI citizens for quartermaster and
commissary stores taken during the rebel
lioR,'e and remarked that we owed at least
$3,000,000, 900 more to the people of the
South for supplies taken from them. He
proposed to strike out the word loyal
tom the aiH. The Republican party must
therefore save the nation from an Increased
instead ofa steadily reduced debt, for there
can be no doubt that had the Democratic
party the power, it would entertain and
pay great numbers of these rebel claims.
Il It must retain power until the Fif
teenth Amendment has become so fixed as
apart of the fundamental law that it can
not DluckCU out. nat Inc DpnlOCTuCy
w0Hld-declare the Amendment void had
they the power, and that they would
deprive those who vote under it of the
ballot, is as certain as that the Democratic
Legislature of Ohio attempted to withdraw
the States ratification previously given.
In sections of the South now, there are
movements under the name of white
Mans Party" the object Of which is to
prevent the operation of the Fifteenth
Amendment and deprive the blacks of the
ballot Some of the Southern journals
avow. this so distinctly that the more pru
dent Democratic leaders are forced to re-
buke them, and the New York World ad
vises them to keep this purpose concealed
until they can gain power.
e We might add a number of other special
objects which the Republican party has to
attain before its mission is fulfilled. We
= submit to General Morgan whether it is
according to history or the nature ol
things for the conquering party, the mo
ment, it has attained its object, to resign
its power into the hands of the conquered
party so that the work may be all undone
The Republican party, if we may judge by
the Vermont and other elections thus fal
held, has not abated any of its natura
force, and has no intention whatever of re
leasing its grasp of the government and the
hearts of the people until its ballots have
ratified the death which its bullets dealt the
Democracy-IOle Bldde.