The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-10-28
anyways WRONG.

t ALWAYS WRONG.
Fur tho. last twenty years it has seemed
FsWpossiblc for this Democratic organiza'
tion asa party. to get on the right side Of
any issue, new or old. When Border
Rufians drove tho people Of Kansas from
their polls. and by frauduleutSasss elect
ed pro.slaVcry Legislature, aud finally
sought to impose hateful constitution es-
tablislling slavery on the people, who al
most unanimously denounced II, tie dem
ocraticparty championed this wickedness.
When the bred Scott decision, intend
ed to make Slavery national aud ull.pow-
orful. was proclaimed, they cordially Gu
dorsod il.
An through ,howar. every measure to
strengthen the nations arm and weaken
tho cncmy's, whether conGscalion, or
emancipation, or colored soldiers, &C., in
their opinion, was all wrong orauuconsli-
tu,ional, and ftit only TO be denounced. -
When the war closed aud tho questios
csno up, whether the insurgent States
should be restored to tho rule Of tic very
men who had used their Executive Legis-
lative and judicial powers to organize tho
Rebellion and to raise its armies, or
whether every effort should be. made on
the contrary, to organize them on a basis
loyal to the Union. the Democratic party
instiuctively insisted on the former.
When tax-bills and draft laws became
aneecssity to tho preservation ofsthe gov
.crnment, they wafTed upon 81 their de-
tails as, wicked md tSrauuical. When
the interest on tic national debt. could on
" be honestly lessened BY showing the
world that our sstiona, credit would be So
eredly maintained at the highest point by
all parties. theirispeakers and presses do
nouuced those who had lent US tho meney
as il they were swindlers, and in every
possible way sought to poison the public
mind against them. When our groom
backs whose ultimate value they had for
.mcrly discredito1, were rising in value to
ward gold, they clamored forissuos Of hun
dreds or thousands of millions to verify
thor anfuldiled prophecies of ell vabou
them.
When President Grant commenced pay
ing of the debt with the surplus revenue
thathis honest and efficient officers hat
collected, they denounced lis buying til
bonds at their current value in the mark
cts of tho wstld.
When Republican Congress passed
bill reducing taxation over $50, 100000
year, they voted to man againsti..
When tho ssno Congress passed bi'
to honestly reduce the interest on on
bonds, by a mutual arrangement with gu
creditors, or by paying of our old bond
with the proceeds Of the new, they vote
against it.
Whom it passed a bill 10 enforce th
XVIII aud XVII Amendments, with pen
altos only against evil deers and offend
ers, they resisted it with ycheneacc an
zeal.
when it passed laws for the restoration
hoi rcbelsstatcs to representation in til
Union, the Democracy condemned thci
provisions and fought them to the bite
end.
Wien 4 lawSto guard The hallot-boE a
nat;ondi elections wss passed, punisliiol
illegal voting, shameless repeating an
fraudulent counting, they denounced u
and its penalties, as il the,qcts It fpnishe,
were not tho wickedess Of crimes sgaius
tho government and fepublieah iasdtu
tious. 9i
And, finally when q war broke ogt il
Europe thasoutraged the moral scntimcp
4 Of tho world, and without ptoyocat;ou
Germany was compelled to arm for y
& protection Of tho 9atAetlaGd from inyssist
aua dcspoilment; their leading organs, d
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