The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-04-05

Bureau. In addition 70 this direct aid,
under the reconstruction policy of Re.
| publican Congress, a common school
| system has become part of every South.
ern States policy. Hundreds OF thous.
ands are now attending schools, where
| before there was not one.
These are some Of the principal acts
which the Republican party has en-
| bodied in the laws of the land. No
better record adj rms the brightest pages
of the history of any political party
which has existed since Governments
were established among men. These
acts and resolutions have been passed in
spite of the opposition of the Democratic
| party to them. Dark indeed would
have been the record of the public acts
| had the Democratic party held the
! supreme power in the Government dur
| ing the past ten years. nstead OF being
free people and united nation the
demon Of slavery would have still held
in chains four millions Of our people.
The burdens of taxation would have
been fearfully increased and the inestl-
mable blessings OF civil and religious
liberty and general education would
have greatly imperiled if not destroyed;
the United States of America would
have ceased to exist, and the fairest
portion of our land would have been
under the control of a foreign and hos
tile nation.
The record of the Republican party
should not be underestimated or for
gotten. By the memories of lis past
deeds Of imperishable renown, by the
sacred trusts it. has fulfilled and pledges
it has redeemed, by its unequalled de
votion 10 the promotion of the best in
terest and welfare of the people, let
US, as a National Republican party, 90
on in the good work with renewed
energy and win new laurals in a success
sion of victories over Democratic Tam
many rogues, Ku-Klux outlaws, and all
other enemies of good government
who rally under the banners Of the
Democracy.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY THE FRIEND OF
LABoRING MEN.
At no time in the history OF our Gov.
eminent has labor been so well com
pensated, as since the exercise of politi-
cal power by the Republican party. At
no other time have the laboring masses
so greatly influenced and participated
in the affairs of government. At no
other time have so many laboring men
partaken Of official patronage and per
formed SO important a part in the max.
ing and administration of the laws.
1t was in behalf of the laboring
classes that the homestead law was en-
acted, 10y which every laborer may have
and enjoy free hi, portion of the public
domain-the richest patrimony ever
possessed by any people. This great boon
to labor was persistently withheld byt
Democratic party.
The Republican party made provision
for the construction OF the great trans
continental railroad lines, by which the
whole great mass of the public domain
more than one thousand millions of
acres-has been brought within easy
reach Of the laboring man.
The Republican party reserved for the
exclusive use Of the laboring men, the
remaining public land in the five south.
ern land States-more than forty-fye
millions Of acres-and thus put an end
to the extension of land monopoly in
those States.
The Republican party extended to
the soldiers of the country the right to
Iitcly iltlIt ilOlIItHltdilS upon JAG
public lands.
The railroad grants made by the Re
publican party have been only such as
were necessary TO open up new sections
TO actual occupancy by the laboring
men, and without which, vast tracts Of
the public domain would have been in
accessible, and consequently worthless
TO the poor man.
The Republican party has, IN It's brief
career, lifted the labor Of the country
from actual servitude TO the substantial
control of the public measures and prop
erty, directly affecting the interests OF
labor.
1t has opened to the possession and
ownership of labor the whole area of
the public domain, except the small
portion granted to induce the construc.
ton of roads, wherever and whenever
labor may choose to occupy and improve
the same, at the merely nominal price
Of SO for one hundred and sixty acres.
The extent Of this beneicence to labor
is fully realized when, by computation,
it is seen that there is ample room and
space thereon for more than six mil
lions of families, and thirty millions of
people. What other country or party
ever provided homes for all the people?
Having freed millions and made them
men, having established equal rights for
4 continent, having conducted victori-
0usly the greatest wars, having in the
of finances trampled
upon impossibilities, having solved
With foreign powers the greatest diplo.
matte problem of the age, having res
'ued the republic, it remains for the
party to keep our country
II the forefront of nations.
Such a record and such a destiny will
,utride the surges we hear beating nowl
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