Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1871-08-02
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cessful restoration of peace. sB3
At present. too, it is opposed to the
means necessary for raising revenue to
pay the interest on the public debt, and
secure its steady reduction; is in favor
of a semi-repudiation Of that debt by
paying it in q deprecated currency, if
paid at all; is watching for an opportu.
nifty to annul the new amendments to
the Constitution; and is generally COM
mi;ted to any line of policy which will
remit the country to its condition prior
to 1860. asJ .od ia5 git iaa.-f
It may be urged, here. that the Demo
cratic party of this State. in the ninth
resolution of the platform adopted by its
late State Convention. has acquiesed in
the adoption of the amendments of the
Constitution we have referred to. and
cannot now be charged with hostility
to them. We answer that the acauies.
dence expressed in that resolution has
not itself. been acquesced in by the rank
and file Of the party. Over one-th;rd Of
the Convention voted strenonsly against
it, and the action of the Convention has
since been repudiated by many leading
men and journals Of the party. Besides.
whatever acquiescence has been given,
has been given sullenly and not heartily
AS a matter of policy. springing from
party necessity. AND not from convic-
Of its propriety. Wherever vote has
been honestly given, or voice sincerely
raised for this 'new DEPARTURE ''it may
very properly be regarded as an e1torted
confession that the Republican party has
all along been right in what the Demo
cratic party has steadily opposed and
this confessed, what need is there, or can
there be, for the further existencs of the
Democratic party? 1907 -. b. ". -
When Gen. Grant came into Office, in
1869, he announced his determination to
secure the honest and faithful collection
of the revenue, the steady reduction of
the public debt, and such an abatement
in taxation as was consistent with this
policy. Ir the space of little over two
years this determination, faithfully ad-
hered to, has resulted i'll paying of $780,
100000 of the public debt, and in tine
abolition of nearly all the taxes imposed
under previous laws. b. f..sa sraw bob
In addition to this he has, by his wise
and firm foreign policy, succeeded in set
tling all our outstanding difficulties with
Great Britain, in manner alike honor
able and advantageous to US as people.
The treaty, lately ratified by both ma
tions, which remove all causes of quar-
rel. and establishes peace and amity be-
tween, has commanded the admiration of
the civilized world, and placed the United
States in the foremost rank among the
nations of the earth. This result is one
of which every American may Justly feel
proud. ...r st -
To continue the Republican party in
power is to continue the policy begun.
both in State and Nation. of maintaining
the public credit, paying off our national
debt, reducing taxation, settling interna-
tional difficulties without bloodshed, and
sustaining the great principles involved
in the measures necessarily growing out
of the war. a as'.aH... r.
To restore the Democratic party to
power is to destroy the public credit.
pave the way for reputation, bring in the
old tide of corruption, mismanagement
aud extravaganza, and open up anew all
the questions involved in the -econstruc-
ton of the Southern States, now settled
upon an honorable basis. a.
For present proof of this we refer to
the consequences flowing from the acci
dental majority of the Democrats in the
State Senate last winter. To that fact
we owe seesion prolonged to the mid
die of May, at an extra cost of 100000;
the establishment of the forsaken
policy of employing extra (and useless)
officers in the legislative bodies and
granting them extra pay; an appropria-
ton bill increased beyond all former
bounds, to the extent of half million
the defeat of all measures for calling
constitutional convention at an early day
to put an end to that curse of our State,
special legislation aud, as if determined
to show that this curse should not be re-
moved by their aid, the enactment Of the
enormons number of 1900 local bills
And this is but tithe Of what we
shodld have had to endure had they had
both Houses and the Governor on their
side a ifi l5as
A still further proof of the uu6tness of
that party to be entrusted with power is
to be found in the melancholy history of
the late riots in New York. In that
city the Democrats have undisputed
sway, and through it, in the State. They
had the power in their hands to prevent
this riot and blooashed, but they would
not ,1se il either az the right time or In