The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-31
REPUBLICANISM.

Committee Ia the PeOple-Hevtew Oh
the Past-Repu publican and Democratic
Rule CONFERENCE.-The Great LabOrs yet
TO he Performed-The Enforcement Of
the Fourteenth Anne ndme MT IT. forma-
ton OF the Currency-Cheap Transport
tation 10 he Assured.
Washington Cor Chicago Inter ocean,
The Congressional National Republican
| Committee have issued their address. Begin
ming, like the Presidents message, with an
allusion to our foreign relations, it declares
that of the thirty years Of Democratic control
prior to 1861 there is hardly memory left at
which the nation should not blush. In regard
to our relation with Great Britain during that
period the address has the followng
1--WE tamely relinqushed to Great Britain a
portion of eur territory in the Northeast, an
other and a larger portion In the Northwest.
We described the line agreed upon in the
Northwest 30 loosely that Great Britain inn
mediatey laid claim to large islapds on ouI
side OF it. That insulting claim was neither
resisted nor admitted. 1t was compromised
by permitting the claimant to hold armed pos
session of one end OF San Juan, the most
valuable of those islands, while We quietly
squatted on the other end; and while, by sue
cessive concessions, we were constantly adding
| to the area of the Canadas, we stupidity re-
linquished to their products free access to our
markets. as the equivalent of being allowed
to send similar products from the Northwest
markets as they could find on the other side
Of the Atlantic"
After dwelling on the diplomatic achieve
ments of the Democratic government, the
story Of home rule prior to the advent OF the
| Republican party into power is detailed, and
pronounced sadder than that of the foreign
policy, and points to the fact that deficient
! revenues were made up from time to time by
loans, and the prolonged sessions OF Congress
prior to 1861 are denounced az worse than a
waste of time and money. The scanty appro-
priations made under the Democratic rule,
| for the improvement Of rivers and harbors, Ii
| next touched upon. Under this head Is related
| the history of the origin and construction of
the Louisville and Portland canal, showing
| the refusal Of the Democratic administration
| to take charge of it and relieve the steamboat
interest from the clutches of a gigantic mo-
nopoly, submitting to the wholesale swlndle
the corporation perpetrating on the peo-
pie and the Government. Another point Ia
made on the record Of the Democratic ad-
ministration while the rebellion was In its in
fancy. OF the army, 1T says 1t was ofhcered
| by men educated in every soldierly grace save
that Of duty and allegiance. The navy was
scattered, while the doctrine OF State rights
was promulgated far and wide. This subject
is dwelt upon at length, and all the willful sin
and follies of the Democratic rule are laid
| bare, until the greater sin or fermentlng re-
bellion was committed.
| THE TRIUMPH OF THE GREAT NATION.
After pointing out the evidences Of the I'M
| fitness Of the Democratic rule, the address
| takes up the great and glorious course OF The
Republican party since March 4, 1861. The
Union has been preserved, slavery abolished,
human rights have been guaranteed by the
| three new articles added to the Constitution (;
the murderous Ku-Klux organization has been
| exposed. and it's members convicted and pun
| ished. The new era in diplomacy growing out
| IF ha IF WashinptOn H.
ment of the San Juan claim, and the payment
| of the Geneva award, are pointed to az Repub-
| lican triumphs. The establishment OF postal
treaties with every nation on the earth and
cheapening the postal rate is alluded to with
praise
| THg SPANISH DIFFICULTY.
The address says: "When, in October last,
Spanish Vice Consul in Cuba so far forgot
the respect due to the United States as to
seize upon vessel sailing under the protec-
ton of her flag Spain promptly, without the
! firing of gun or spilling drop of blood,
made the honorable reparation which every
| just government is glad to make for wrong
done"
! The increase of inland commerce, extension
of railway lines in every direction, and the IN
crease in population are effects to be traced
to the benitcent administration of the Gov
eminent under the Republican rule.
REDUCING THE PUBLIC DEBT.
Under the Republican administration the tax
es and the debt of the nation have been ma
teraly reduced The appeal to the people be-
| gins as follows: You are about to select
| Representatives to a new Congress We
earnestly entreat you to send the truest and
| ablest Republicans you have; but we entreat
you to send Republicans and not Democrats.
| You will send one or the other. No matter
what the individual may call himself, or what
| disguise he may wear he will be Republican
or a Democrat There is at present no room
for any other style in our politics. If you do
not mean to retrace the past you will select
Republicans and not Democrats. If you
mean to go forward i'll the future you will Sc
| lect Republicans and not Democrats.
This paragraph points directly toward the
Southern members who voted adversely to the
! Civil-Rights bill.
THREE GREAT LABoRs
are pointed out as demanding present consid-
GRAFTON.
1.-The Fourteenth amendment to the Con-
| stitution is not yet enforced by appropriate
| legislation. Millions of American citizens are
denied even the common law rights of LOGO
motion because they are black. If such
wrongs are to be redressed, the Republican
party alone can do it.
1.-THE CURRENCY
is in an abnormal condition and must be re-
formed. 1t is undoubtedly true that the Re-
reform; neither is the Democratic party.
Neither party, such, yet sees clearly the
right way. But there are two reasons for be-
heving that the Republican party rather than
it's rival can best treat this great question OF
the finances. First, az the former has hither-
to found the true way through graver difficult
ties than this, so we believe it il more apt to
find the true way through this. Second, you
have abundant assurance that when Republic
cans discover the true way they will pursue it.
That assurance has not yet been given by the
other party, while the Republican party has
given undoubted evidence in the past that it
will protect the national credit and honor.
CHEAP TRANSPORTATION.
On this, the third great point, the address
says: " Our internal commerce demands nd.
ditlonal and less expensive facilities The
volume of that commerce has grown in these
lusty times to enormous proportions Great
as has been the increase Of transportation ia
cilities since the advent of the Republican
party, they have not kept pace with the de-
mand for them. Not only do immense bulks
seek movement. but they require to be moved
over vast distances. The surplus products of
those almost unlimited basins-that between
the Allegheny aud Rocky Mountains and that
between the latter range and the Sierra New
adas-require to be dipped out into the ocean
on either side. Production is not only so vast
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