Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1872-04-16
NUMBER Ii.


would, without doing anything else.
impair, if it did not shipwreck, the ma
tional dit.-When payday came, and
an empty treasury failed in the payment
of interest on the national bonds, the
shock to our credit and good name would
be tclt around the world.-All values
here would be unsettled, business would
be deranged and financial disaster would
certainly follow. The Republican party
has never been braver than when it risk
ed its political existence on doing right;
and while it will reduce the burdens
OF taxation (as it has six times since the
war;, as rapidly as the national faith will
permit, the world knows that not for the
most widespread popularity at home
would it risk the plighted faith of the
Republic, or permit its credit to be at the
slightest hazard of dishoner.
No; the time has not arrived ioc its
exodus from power Still, as in the
past. il j. so interwovon with the-5cst in-
,erests of the Republic, that the triumphs
and reverses OF the one will be recorded
by impartial history rs the triumphs and
reyerses ol the other. Not based on
temporary popularity, like house built
on the shifting sands, it has been founded
on such grand principles Of justice and
! humanity that 1t is like u house built on
q rock, against which the waves OF op'
position dash powerless and in vain. IL
can correct all existing abuses and estab.
lish firmly and triumphantly all needed
reforms. IL has terretcd out and punish
cd official dishonesty. It has already
reformed and elevated the civil service
from the debasement OF past admins
uation. 1t has, year after year, attested
It's belief in practical revenue reform by
steadily diminishing the burdens of TAX
alton. 1t has won the approval of mill.
ions ut home rs well as the respect Of
nations abroad. And, with debt lesson
ing, credit rising, taxes falling, and trade
prospecting. it has surely deserved the
approval it has won.
There may be divisions rs to men;
there may be weakening strites and un-
fortunate alterations. But the party is
greater than It's greatest men. Differ
onces among il, millions there must be;
but at that ballot-b box, where American
voters exercise their national sovereign.
+ tv, they prove their devotion TO princi-
plies not ny writing "Republican," or
democrat on their tickets. but by vot-
inc tor those who stand before the nation
and the world rs the fairly chosen rep
resentatiyes OF the principles they pro-
fess Without stopping, however, to
challenge tho conscientiousness OF any
who may dissent from this, there are
SOME persons who cannot afford to allow
Republican ascendency TO be oSerthrown.
The men OF business and OF property,
who desire stability and consequent pros
perity, and do not desire the chaos OF re.
action, cannot afford IT, The laboring
men, whose interests Republcanism has
always protected, and whose wages it
has sought to maintain and advance, can.
not afford it, But, more than all, the
humble aud detcncelcss millions Of the
south, who owe their emancipation and
enfranchsement to the fact OF Republi-
can aseendency over The bitterest opposi-
tion, cannot afford it, On its banner they
see that trinity OF principles 80 priceless
to them-"Liberty lor all, Justice for all,
Protection for all; :" and, till they are as
surcd of that protection against all,
neither they nor those who care Tor them
can afford TO see lis banner lurled in do.
feat - n. Y. Independents.