Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-09-07


ward the creditors of the American
people in q manner which can stand
side by side with the great feat of the
abolition of slavery. To the. predi-
cate ''free and great" the nation may
now add ''true and honorable" |
know, from my own experience, dur
ing my recent sojourn in Germany,
how highly this American policy OF
honesty is valued. There was not
perfect assurance that free people
must also be u honest and honorable
one. But now the proof has been fur
nished. With feelings of exhalted
joy 1 have heard this recognition ex-
pressed, and never was pIouder OF
being an American citizen.
now proceed to the.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
As / propose to make my observa-
tons on that, sine ira ct studio, shall
not lift the vail which covers its past
Let the dead bury their dead. 1t is
with a certain feeling Of well-wished
with which meet her in her partially
new garment.
In its last platform its obstinate re
sistance to the achievements of the
Republican party is given up, and the
amendments to the Constitution ia re.
gard to slavery and negro suffrage,
are recognized; rs existing at least in
fact if not cf right. that it to say, we
but good face upon bad bargsin.
If that is meant honestly, and without
mental reservation, it signifies for the
Democratic party, whose chief essence
was always rooted in slavery, q great
progress. But the subsequent sem
tences (sactsaetze) in the platform
show unequivocally that such mental
reservation exists in order to eyade
the execution of the constitutional
amendments-and, when Circumstan
ces permit, to return to the old love
of Niger hating. On the ground OF
this nominal new departure, the
Democratic party can claim ali the
less confidence, inasmuch as it is q
notorious fact that the greater number
of Democrats openly and without re-
servation pronounce this departure
as not binding, un Democratic and q
heresy. Only of the greater number
of German Democrats, who in their
hearts really never were Epro slavery
men, it may be assumed that they
honestly adhere to it.
AS matter of course there Is no
longer any reason TO apprehend that
the Democratic party, even if it had
the dominion, would attempt to re-
store slavery, but it would not pre-
vent nor be able to prevent the rebel
and ku-KluX spirit, now manifesting
itself in all the former slave States,
from being famed into bright flames.
The black race, if no longer protect
ed by the Republican government,
would be maltreated, oppressed, rob-
bed Of its rights, and replaced in n
condition that would be worse than
slavery.
Let US now contemplate the finan-
cial ulark IN the platform of the Ohio
Democracy, to which 1t odstinately.
although in contradiction to their
Eastern brethren, cli.ngs. 1t has an
ugly sound, tie sound o. reputation.
1t looks to us like fata.. destiny
when Democratic leaders, in tie en-
deavor to set the half-sunken vessel
nfioat, burden it with a ballast which
must inevitably drag it to the bottom.
Fraud against the holders of Ameri-
can five twenty bonds is here boldly
made the party demand.
1t is sid to behold that party of
public morality can offer such q thing
its originators being driven
by the unive rsal indignation of the
people from the scene of their dema-
yogic doings. This is the same party
Of which it mig ht with reason be
in case it rose to power
again, that it would saddle ou the ma
ion the rebel debt and indemnity for
slaves.
Mr.. Ewin, Jr, goes so far rs to at
.empt to illustrate the correctness of
Mr. Pendleton's greenback theory
l moderin Cagiiotro--who throws the
Did one deep into the shade. The
former made gold out of nothing
Mr.. Ewing makes nothing by gold.
To pay the United States debt with
paper slips, i. e., with nothing, thati is
,ne of the most modern tricks of art.
That surpasses my friend Habelman,
who avowed himself to be a commu-
MIST and opposed to all existing insti-
.ution. He went to work more radi-
cally and more on principle. by sim
all theories of national econ
omy in this way: he advocated the
abolition of all money. Mr. Ewing's
magic mode of procedure is this: He
gives the holders of the four hundred
md fifty million Five twenty bonds,
yreenbacks of an equal amount, ire
ieemable and not bearing interest.
Whoever can make use of the latter
has the right to exchange them for
.hree per cent. certificates of inde-
Otedness, and when he would like to
De rid of them again he can convert
hem again into greenbacks. This
and ingenious process of
)restidigitatiOn every one can con-
.inue until the day ofhis dissolution,
lnless he prefers to rid himself of his
Ewing slips by forteiting one half or
.hree .fourths ofhis claim As regards
he point of loss Mr.. Ewing makes
himself easy by the reflection that the
bought their bonds at
cheap rate.
What do my German Democratic
'riends say to these doctrins of Dem
1crat leader who at the very time that
ne sanctions frauds, sheds crocodile
.ears over the. tax-riddcn masses"
the poor men," and over the dishon-
esty and prohigacy of the Republican
party.
Fie upon such demagogic hypo
critics who have their mouths always
full of their faith while their hands are