Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-11-04
Mission of the Republican Party.


GENERAL, MORGAN, a Democraticnomi-
nee for Congress, who has been canvassing
Ohio. says: they (the Union parity 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 remember correctly, was
to rescue the country permanently from the
hands of the Democracy. So long as the
Democratic party has respectable MINOR
ty in any State in the Union, the mission
of the Republican or Union party is not
completed. The Republican party, strictly
speaking, was organized to prevent the De-
mocracy from forcing slavery upon the ter
ritories, and the Republican Union party
was formed to suppress Democratic re-
bellion against the Government. in ac-
comprising these two Objects it emancl-
pated the slaves, incidentally, and then I'M
dertook the work of enfranchising and ed
ucating them, which work it is now sue
cessfully accomplishing. Having prevented
the spread of slavery, overthrown a four
years rebellion intended to destroy the
Republic, emancipated the slaves, and then.
elevated them to citizenship it would seem
that the party had accomplished enough.
But there is yet work before it. si
1. 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 $170,0Q0,00O in
sixteen months The Democratic party
cannot be trusted to pay the debt for i adj
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
flnipn a. u rofn of nearly SD5O 0Ntl 1DD in
five years. The Democracy cannot be
trusted to do this, unless by reputation it
grasses the debt entirely and with it all in
ternal taxation, for the Democratic mem
bers of Congress have voted almost solldly
against the several measures by which the
Republican majority reduced the taxes.
The Democratic party is, therefore, re-
peatedly 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 party to the contrary. To be more spe-
cifc, on the 18th of July last, the Republi-
can majority in Congress passed bill re-
ducing the internal taxes over 55,000000,
against which bill nearly every Democratic
member present voted. The same Repub-
lican majority passed a bill reducing the
tariff taxes $26,000000, against which bin
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 paying 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. 1t clamored after the
suppression of the rebellion for the pay
ment of both war debts and as late as May
last, Mr.. Knott, of Kentucky, q Democratic
member Of the House, spoke on the bill TO
pay 'IoydI citizens for quartermaster and
commissary stores taken during the rebel
lion," and remarked that we owed at least
$3000,000, 900 more to the people Of the
South for supplies taken from them. He
proposed to strike out the word loyal
from the bill The Republican party must
therefore save the nation from an increased
instead of 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.
a. 1t must retain power until the Fiji
tenth Amendment has become so fixed as
part of the fundamental law that it can
not be plucked out. That the Democracy
would 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 adj
vises them to keep this purpose concealed
until they can gain power. Ifa
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 OF the nature of
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 updone
The Republican party, if we may judge by.
the Vermont and other elections thus far
held, has not abated any of its natural
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
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