Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-10-04

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Jeff Davis INDUCED his wrathful ex-
pletives at the employment of col
ored soldiers to help put down his
treason, they were Democrats who
echoed his inveotive; when JEFF
Davis mathematical the emancipa-
ton, they were Democrats who
echoed his anathema and when left
Davis slandered Lincoln as q mons.
ter, &c, they were Democrats who
repeated his invectives. Thus in.
stead of thoroughly united North,
which could have crushed the. con-
spiracy in year, we had divided
North, and for this prolonged war,
with its terrible losses in blood and
treasures those who acted as | have
stated were responsible.
For our debt, therefore, and our
taxes, they have solemn RESPONSE
bility and cannot escape it. No
show-cards, no sophistry, can relieve
them from it. and while taxes re-
main, every stamp you put on a
deed or mortgage is sticking
plaster to remind you of a Demo-
cratic acknowledgements in it's
origin and officers-Democratic in
all the aid and sympathy it received
in the North-and sorrowed over,
when it was crushed by our gallant
armies, only by Democrats.
In fact, for the last twenty years
it has seemed impossible for this
Democratic organization, as a party,
to get on the right side of any issue,
new or old. When border rufiians
drove the people of Kansas from
their polls, and by fraudulent votes
elected n pro slavery Legislature,
and finally sought to impose a hate
full constitution, establishing slavery
there on people who almost unani-
mously denounced it, the Democratic
party championed this wickedness.
When the Dred-Scott decision, in
tended to make slavery national and
all powerful, was proclaimed they
cordially endorsed it. All through
the war, every meas ure to strength
en- the nations arm and weaken the
enemy's, whether confscation or
emancipation, or colored soldiers,
&C., was, IN their opinion all wrong
or unconstitutional, and fit only to
be.denounced. When the war closed
and the question camo up, whether
the Insurgent States should be re-
stored to the rule Of the very men
who had used their executive, legis-
lative, and judicial powers to organ
.ize the rebellion and to raise armies,
or whether every effort should be
made, on the contrary, to organize
them on basis loyal to the Union,
the Democratic party instinctively
insisted on the former. When tax
bills and draft laws became a neces-
sity to the preservation of the ma
tional existence they warred upon
all their details as wicked and tyran-
nical. When the interest on the
national debt could only be honestly
lessencd by showing the world
that our national credit would be
sacreGly maintained at the highest
point by all parties, their speakers
and presses denounced these who
had lent us the money as if they were
swindlers, and in every possible way
sought to poison the public mind
against them. When our greenbacks
whose ultimate value they had form
erly discredited, were rising in value
toward gold, they clamored for is
sues of hundreds or thousands OF
millions more, to verify their unful-
filled prophecies Of evil about them.
When President Grant commenced
paying off the debt with the surplus
revenues that his honest and efficient
officers had collected, they denounc-
ed his buying tho bonds at their
current value in the market of the
world. When a Republican Con.
gress passed a bill reducing taxation
eighty millions q year, they register
ed their votes as a party, against It,
When the same Congress passed a
bill to honestly reduce the interest
on our bonds, by mutual arrange
ment with our creditors, or by pay
ing off our old bonds with the pro-
ceeds Of the new, they voted against
it. When it passed q bill to enforce
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments, with penalties only
against evil doors and offenders
they resisted it with vehemence and
zeal. When it passed laws for the
restoration OF rebel States to repre-
sentation in the Union, the Democ
racy condemned their provisions and
fought them to the bitter end
When law to guard the ballot boz
at national elections was passed
furnishing the illegal voting, shame
less repeating, and fraudulent count.
ing, they denounced it and its pen
altics. as if the acts punished were
not the wickedest crimes against
free government and republican in
stitutions. And finally, when a wal
broke out in Europe that outraged
the moral sentiment of the world
and, without provocation, Germany
was compelled to arm for the pro
lection of the Fatherland from in
vasion and despoilment, their lead
ing organs, MS instinctively as in the
other cases have cited. took the
wrong side. 1t is this party-s
party of reaction, of negotiation
of partisan opposition-whose lead
ers seem determined that it shall
ever be on the side of wrong which
appeals to the people to-day t.
clothe them with the national power
THE REPUBLICAN RECORD.
| turn from this record, which i
has given me much pleasure to re
view, to the record of the Republi
can party, which has been writer
on the brightest pages of our nation
history. Amid every possible EN-
barrassment and stumbling block, i
has gone on its noble work Of liber
ty and humanity, of justice and re
form. Of advancing progress and ma
tional development. Three years o
the ten since it won its national his
tory, recreant President so shame