Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-09-07
"RepubIican Prformanoes.,i


"The issue this fall is between Republican
performances and Democratic promises. ."-Rgffs-
aans Journal Aug. gath.
True We will enumerate some of
your performances since your party
came into power;
II dissolved the union Of the States.
1t inaugurated a bloody, desolatory
and ruinous civil war. 1t has sacri-
feed on its altar of negroism half II
million of men; sent them to prcma-
ture graves. 1t has created suffering,
death and desolation in every neigh
borhood in the land. 1t has created
a national debt of four thousand mil
lions of dollars, and has nothing TO
show for it except on individual ac.
count, like Butler and Grant. II has
destroyed billions of dollars worth Of
private property for no purpose what
ever 1t has increased the annual
expenditures of the government from
about eighty millions TO three hundred
and eighty millions. 1t has created
agrinding, endless burden of taxation,
in order to support a horde of federal
office. holders, unknown to the laws.
II has expended millions of dollars to
feed, clothe and try to educate mis-.
cradle horde Of lazy negroes. 1t has
successfully instituted and carried out
a system of fraud upon the Treasury
and swindling in government con.
tracts to an extent unhcard Of in any
country. 1t has substituted for the
constitutional currency of the country
rags, shinplasters, pasteboards, &c
1t has imprisoned thousands Of citi.
zens without warrant, and without
even permitting them to know the
nature of the crimes for which they
were arrested. 1t has stolen from the
people over two hundred millions of
acres of the public lands and given
them to mammoth corporations, thus
entirely defeating the object of the
homestead law 1t has destroyed the
entire freedom and sovereignty of the
States and greatly encroached upon
the constitutional rights of the cit.
Eens. 1t has suspended the writ Of
habeds corpus, and made the military
superior to the civil power 1t has
made the decisions of .he judicial tri-
bunals conform with the views of the
Radical Aboltiouists 1t has substi.
ted Abolition bigotry for religion. It
has made the white man subordinate
to tho negro; destroyed the purity
of the ballot; tramplcd upon the free
election of representatives to Congress
and our Legislatures. 1t has created
moneyed aristocracy by system
of rOst-bearing, untaxed bonds, by
which the obligations Of citizens are
made oppressive on the poor, aud Of
no binding force upon tho rich. In
short, il has crowned all these per.
formances with ruin and desolation.
mildew and blight, havoc and death.
where formerly peace, prosperity. |
happiness and contentment reigned. |
Such are a few Of the "Repubican
Performances"
The Democratic party promises TO
restore what IL had created, viz: The |
common liberties Of the American
peoples embracing the free, untram-
eled right of suffrage; an unbrokcn
and prosperous union; n liberal, free
and entire American Constitution; a
sound currencyj equal taxation pro.
lection to the poor and compulsion on
the part of the rich to discharge the
duty of citizens; place the proud
white man in his true position in the
government aud give to the negro the
subordinate position TO which God
assigned him; practice economy in
governments encourage industry and
enterprise among the people; give the
Southern States their trne position in
the Union, and again place the coun
try on broad highway of prosperity,
greatness aud renown.