The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-07-30
Republican Address.

dress Of the Union Republican Congress
sional Committee and would like tC
publish it in full were it not for its length
1t is document of much interest and one
which should be in the hands Of every
voter in the land. 1t gives sketch Of
the History of the country under Dem
ocratic rule and then contrasts it will
what the Republican party has done fol
the Government and for humanity. Ii
speaking Of the war it says:
When, in 1861, the standard of rebel
lion was raised, and State after State
wheeled defiantly into the ranks OF re
volt, it was perhaps not SO very surpris
ing that onchalf the Democratic party
Joined the revolt, while the other hall
exclaimed it could not be resisted-not sc
very surprising that the six per cent
bonds issued in February, 1861, were solo
at discount of six per cent, and not SC
very surprising that Great Britain should
have proclaimed the rebels to be lawful
! bel,igerents, before she know gun had
4 been fired.
But it was surprising that President
of the United States should address a
special message to Congress to persuade
1 the public that, although the rebellion
was illegal, yet the Government had nc
right to suppress it; for by that act he
introduced to the world Government,
the like of which had never before been
4 seen--a Government ogatnst which it was
unlawful to suppress revolt. Such a
Government is described nowhere in po-
/ litical history, save i'll the message OF
President Buchanan.
Such was the stvle of administration,
to which the Republican party succeeded
on the 4th Of March, 1861.
The Uniou was preserved
Fellow citizens, when YOU committed the
Union 10 the keeping of the Republi-
can party, it seemed on the verge of dis
solution Many hoped and some feared
I it had received an incurable wound. We
present the Union to you to-day every
/ whit whole. The Republic is at peace
through all her borders; she is at peace
with all the world. Her rightful authority
is disputed nowhere. She stands in the
very vanguard Of sovereign States. We
challenge history to produce another in
stance of a country raised from such hui
initiation to such grandeur in SO short q
time. And this transformation has been
wrought not merely without the aid Of
the Democratic party, but in spite Of il
utmost hostility
/ One of the principal arguments of oul
opponents is that we should not be fight
4 ing old BATTLES over again, going bcfuIe
the people with old, dead issues
1t is often flippantly said that all these
crimes and horrors are past and, it is alb
surd to attempt to maintain political
party on the memory of them. Perhaps
So But would it not be insane to trust a
political party that could 50 readily forget
4 them. 1t is not magnanimouS, ii IS indeed
hardly manly, to prosecute men for sins
of which they have really repented. But
/ that is not repentance, it is Hypocrisy,
+ WHICH processes to repent Of sins and does
not forsakc them, but embraces worse
! ones. Such is the anomalous repentance
/ displayed by the Democratic party. 1t
/ never ceases to denounce the Republican
/ party for what it has done or is trying to
do, but il straightway thunders with tiercer
denunciations Of what the party has not
done and is determined shall not be done
The moment Democrats forget to decry
Republican policies they begin to belle
Republican motives. For twenty years
they deemed it sufficiently opprobrious to
call Republicans "Radicals;" now they
claim to be radicals themselves and de-
nounce Republicans as rascals.
The Republican party stands promi-
nent and alone as the only political or
ganization Of our country that has had
the courage to punish offenders within
the party lines. But the Republican
party has not shrunk from the task how
ever unpleasant it might be.
This untlnching reform is prosecuted
at the risk Of this twofold peril: First.
Every time we remove rascal we lend
plausibiity to Democratic calumny
Second. Every time we punish one we
make a Democrat For few years that
party has been recruited, not only by
those knaycs we have dismissed from
office, but by a still larger number who
have been unable to get office 1t is not
impossible that by this process they may
in time recover Il majority Good men
can not, without uneasiness, contemplate
the possibility Of the country once more
falling into the control OF that party,
when, in addition to the devils which al
ways paralyzed it for any noble effort, it
shall have been REINFORCED by all the
unclean spirits expelled from the Republi-
can party.
| All the great reforms of the past ten
years have been originated and carried
out by the Republican party.
In thirteen years it has not once been
forced TO resort to loans except by the
exigencies Of war. Our rivals in popular
favor, repeatedly resorted to loans in
time of peace.
In six years taxes have been RENTED
at various times amounting to more than
three hundred millions annually.
The principal Of the public debt has
been reduced in the same time by the
sum of three hundred and fifty-fiye mil
lion dollars.
The Treasury note has been apprecia-
ted from IS 2-lO per cent, its gold value
/ in March, 1869, to SO 2-10 per cent, its
gold value in March last
! Ia spite of the financial disasters which
overlook the country in September, 1873,
4 the public debt was diminished nearly
five millions during the fiscal year just
ended
| We have had it hooted in our ears for
some time that there are no issues be-
tween the two old parties: the mission OF
Republican party is fulfilled, and the
party must 90 down.
If by that no more is meant than that
the party has discharged every trust here
tOfore committed to it, we admit it. II
has been thought when one was found
faithful over a few things that was good
reason for trusting him with more things
Can you do better than be instructed by
such an examples Especially since you
must employ either the party which you
say has fulfilled every trust, or employ
that only other party which has betrayed
every trust
I The occasion for political effort has not
passed. American progress is not ended
Other labors lie before you, lighter per
haps, but not light.
4 We would like to quote more fully
from this article had we space but thu
above must suffice for the present.
There has probably been no campaign
Tor the past ten years more exciting, es
pecially as to our State and county cleo
tons than the coming one promises TO be
and it behooves every Republican t
stand BY his colors and vote and act wit
the party Of progress and reform.