The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1871-08-03
STROUDsBURG MONROE COUNTY, PA, AUGUST g. 1871

cannot be now charged with hostility to
them. We answer that the acquiescencc
expressed in that resolution has not, it.
self been acquiesced in by the rank and
file of the party. Over one third of the
Convention voted strenuously 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 aud not heartily
AS matter of policy, springing from
party necessity, and not from a conviction
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 extorted
confession that the Republican party has
all along been right in what the Demo
cratic party was steadily opposed and
this confessed, what need is there or can
there be, for the further existence of the
Democratic party?
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 statement in
taxation as was consistent with his policy.
In the space of little over two years this
determination, faithfully adheared to, has
resulted in paying off $3.50, ,000,0 900 of the
public debt, and in the abolition Of near
ly all the taxes imposed under previous
laws.
In addition to this he has, by his wise
and firm foreign policy, succeeded in set
tleing all our outstanding difficulties with
Great Britain, in manner alike honor
able and advantageous to US as a people.
The treaty, lately ratified by both ma
tions, which removes ali causes of quar-
rel, and establishes peace and amity be-
tween them, has commanded the admira-
tion 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.
To continue the Republican party in
power is to continue the policy begun
both in State and Nation, OF maintaining
he public credit, paying off our debt, re-
duciDg taxation, settling international
difficulties without bloodshed, and sustain
ing the great principles involved in the
measures necessarily growing out of the
war.
To restore the Democratic party to pow
er is to destroy the public credit, pave the
way for repudiation, bring in the old tide
of corruption, mismanagemeut and ex-
travagance, and open up anew all the
questions involved in the reconstruction
of the southern States, now settled upon
an honorable basis.
For present proof of this we refer to
the consequences flowing from the ac-
cideutal majority of the Democrats in the
State Senate last winter. To that fact
We owe session prolonged to the mid
die of May, at an extra cost Of 500, 600;
the re establishment of the forsaken pol
icy of emplying extra (and useless) off
GERS In the Legislative bodies and grant
ing them extra pay an appropriation 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 LEGIs-
LATIoN and, rs if determined to show
that this curse should not be removed by
their aid, the enactment of the enormous
number Of 1900 local bills. And this is
but tithe of what we should have had
to endure had they had both Houses and
the Governor on their side.
A still further proof Of the unftness 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 away, and
through it, in the State They had the
power in their hands to prevent this riot
and blood shed, but they would not use it
either at the right time or in the right
way. Why2 Because the party is pos
sessed of no principle which can lead it
to respect the rights of man, be they civ
il or religious. Its sole idea of rights is
derived from the maxim that MIGHT
makes RIGHT. This was clearly evienced
in the debate in our State Senate, in 1869,
on the Fifteenth Amendment, in which
the Democratic leader in the State scout
ed the claim that there were any such
things as human rights. The idea, he
said, was myth and humbug.
And this sentiment of the Democratic
leader in Pennsylvania has been carried
out to the latter in New York. A few
thousand men, in the exercise of their
Constitutional right to assemble together,
inform the authorities of their purpose to
parade the streets on a certain day. An
other body of men, who always vote the
Democratic ticket, and numbering many
more thousands, notify the authorities
that this parade must not be permitted,
and that if it is, they viii attack it and
disperse it, no matter at what cost of life
or limb to the party attacked. The Demo
cratic rulers of New York at once decline
to defend the few against the many in the
evarcisn of ihair Constitutional rio bit