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

| ISuu6Fti Unpopular laAhJlOn Heccs-
sity anu checked the national growth
and stately steppings towards its
magnificent future. But, in spite of
all these drawbacks, what has it done
for the republic Z?
Look at the Contrast Ten years
ago men were mobbed and hung for
saying they preferred freedom to
slavery. To-day, liberty is enthron-
ed in our land. Ten years ago, the
overseer, the lash, the coffin, and the
auction block. To-day, race lifted
from bondage into self-reliant man
hood and womanhood. Ten years
ago, an arrogant oligarchy breathing
threatenings against all who resisted
their purposes. To-day, none SO
poor as to do them reverence. Ten
years ago, nation divided by. con-
spiracy and treason, and q hostile
government inaugurated on our soil.
To-day, q nation united, and more
powerful because more free. Ten
years ago, a constitution recognizing
property in man. To-day a regener-
ated constitution guaranteeing equal
rights and national protection to the
poorest.
Look, too, at the position our land
occupies among the nations of the
earth. With all the croakings of
our enemies as to the burdens, the
legacy of the rebellion in which our
last National Democratic admins
tration ended, with all the false
charges that the poor are unjustly
oppressed-there is no nation ia all
the world to which the hearts and
hopes of the poor in every country
turn, as they do toward our repub-
lie. Go to the banks of the Shannon
or the Rhine, to the Baltic or the
Adriatic, upon the Alps or the APP
pennies, and TO what land does the
poor man look, with longing in his
heart, hoping that he may there
make for himself, and the family that
God has given him, a home, and en-
JOY civil and religious liberty? All
around the world from nation to ma
ton, 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 turned toward
this republic Of ours. Who can dis
pute or misunderstood this testimo-
ny of the toiling millions of every
nation aud language and creed =?
And is it not an irrefutable answer to
every charge that the republic has
been injured under the government
of the Republican party?
And for all who come, with their
household gods, to become Of us and
with us, to share our destiny, to en-
dure our trials, or to participate in
our prosperity, to secure by their
toll home, to live and rear their
children in the true spirit of devo-
ton to orr free institutions, there is
room and to spare. Our mountains
welcome them to their mineral
wealth, without fee or reward. Our
Western plains beckon them to the
free farms and free homes Republi-
can legislation proffer TO all who will
come and possess and cultivate the
land. Or, if they prefer to live in
the old States, in the workshop and
factory they will find faithful labor
remunerated far beyond the rates it
commands in the Old World.
ruY rrrIDp on rur DrptruTrcAN
PARTY.
The future history of the Republi-
can party can be Judged by its past /;
and its pledges and its acts show
what the future will be:
/. 1t will surely and resolutely
maintain its work Of enfranchise-
ment, Of reconstruction, of making
all citizens equal under the protection
of our supreme law, against all hos
tile attempts-so that, by the final
settlements of these questions, so
happily ended and so faithfully to
be maintained, the nation shall have
stability and peace, and this once ex-
cited issue be regarded as decided
for all time.
2. The work of retrenchment OF
our national expenses-of the aboli-
ton of all needless offices-of the ell
ovation and Improvement of the civil
service-and OF the saving of every
possible amount TO the people-will
60 on as faithfully as during the past
eighteen months.
3. The pledge of the last National
Republican platform that taxation
shall be equalized and reduced as
rapidly as the national faith will per-
nit" will be faithfully carried out,
as already inaugurated by the undi-
vided Republican vote OF the recent
Congress and, as the national obi
cations diminish, the burdens of tax
alton, increased as they were during
the war expressly to meet these OBJ
legations, will be Justly reduced.
4. The debt will be funded at q
lower rate of interest, and "having
been contracted for the preservation
Of the Union for all time to come,
will be extended over a fair period
for redemption" lessening largely,
without doubt, the present monthly
amount of its reduction, so that the
same generation shall not be requir-
ed to fight the battles of the Union,
and also to pay off the entire cost Of
its preservation, by bearing heavy
and oppressive burdens needlessly
3. The revival of our American
commemorative development of our
vast resources-:he completion oil
the work Of amnesty to the fullest
limits of the liberal prefer of the
National Republican platform-are
all subjects worthy OF, and that will
doubtless receive, the fullest consid.
Grafton and the wisest legislation.
Thus acting-faithful to the coun.
try and all its nterests-faithfu ia
the Union and its integrity-faithful
to the people whose confidence and
support has sustained it in all its
trials-faithful to its brilliant record
| TOR the right-and faithful to every