Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-07-29

public credit, paying off our debt, reducing
taxation, settling international difficulties
without bloodshed, and sustaining the
great principles involved in the measures
necessarily growing out of the war.
To restore the Democratic party to
power is to distroy the public credit, pave
the way for reputation, bring in the old
tide of corruption, mismanagement and
extravaganza, 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 accidental
majority of the Democrats in the State
Senate last winter. To that fact we owe q
session prolonged to the middle of May, at
an extra cost of $100,000; the re-establish-
ment of the forsaken policy of employing
extra land useless) officers in the legislative
bodies and granting them extra pay; an
appropriation bill increased beyond all
former bounds, to the extent ofhalf a mil
lion; the detent ofall measures for calling
constitutional convention at an early
day TO put an end to that curse of our State
special legislation; and, as If determined
to show that this curse should not be re-
moved by their aid, the enactment of the
enormous number of 1900 local bills. And
had to endure had they had both houses
and the Governor on their side.
A still futher proof of the unfitness 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 bloodshed, but they would not use it
either at the right time or in the right way
Why? Because the party is possessed of
no principle which can lead it to respect
the rights of man, be they civil or religious.
Its sole idea ofrights is derived from the
maxim that might makes right This
Senate in 1869, on the fifteenth amend
ment, in which the Democratic leader in
the State secuted the claim that there were
any such things as human rights. The
idea, he said, was a myth and humbug
And this sentiment of the Democrtic
leader in Pennsylvania has been carried
out to the letter in New York. A few
thousand men, in the exercise of their con-
stitutional right to assemble together, in
form the authorities of their purpose to
parade the streets on certain day. An
other body of men, who always vote the
Democratic ticket, and numbering many
more thousand, notified the authorities that
this porode must not he normittod and tbo 4
if If IS thev will attack # and disnorso IL
no matter at what cost of I;fe or l;u,L ~, ~,
the Marty attacked Thn Domnnro,;c
rulers Of New York at once dociinn 70 {, dn. il.
fnd tho fa,v oe,a;nst tba ,,o,, ~, A.. w
nrniso of tho;. onnstitmtionoI oht. tti .nJ 49, o
thot thoro 'a0 10 @ s,r ot r;i,t. ;aiI ueiy
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on ;ts sido nnd ~ ~ don,ond 40 las f in IN
u,nb '' forhid i, tho ooIo "v ot unu I ~ 5,l.
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av,'uilotl PLY; pIl,.si VI " eNeiclsc 'iic ll3hts
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puoic ililloli l'tu pceti aroused aI tils
uasc noal,uoitsi,ohV oi tlo clvli rlShIs Oh tne
ps9pie, lne 9'ato autiofl!les steppeu III
hd hnd pelinl..eo Wnst tne Glty autnotltues
ni i','u PLo,ious.y Lotp!uuci' puC lhe mop hau
aeinHaay I itiu'hp,ieu tJo lar 10 ylelo peace
tun'y W tiis f' suuuen cii'n9e,anu thg siauSh-
~ Wiz iolio"o.t 10 a1iiiputnpic c soie'S
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vi plohlpllllS inc paraue, was lhe leSitl-
m may outSroW!n vi tlie principles cohtrolllhS