Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-05
THE ADDRESS
Of the Union Republican Con-
greSsionaI Committee.

To the People Of the United States

To the People Of the United States!
You will soon proceed TO elect your repre-
sentAtives for a new Congress. The occa-
sion invites US 10 submit for your inspection
the record Of Republican achievements
since that party was called to the admin
istration OF national affairs. We seize the
opportunity t. avow that record, not to
apologize for it, We challenge your APP
proval, not your pardon.
The obligations of govern cent and peo-
pie, like the obligations of servant and mas
ter. are mutual
The government, the like servant, owes
faithful service. But the people, ike the
master, owe honest recognition OF faithful
service. Every thoughtful employer knows
that he can not with impunity decry faith
full labor. lie who does 90 habitually will
soon have no faithful laborers. The faith
ful servant will not submit to be treated as
a faithless one If 50 trested, he himself
will become fnithless, or he will give place
to one who is taithless.
DEMOCRATIC sTATEsMASsHIP.
1t is thirteen years since the Republican
party was first called to the administration
of the National Government For more
than thirty years previously the Govern
ment had been almost uninterruptedly un-
der Democratic control OF that control
there is hardly memory left ut which the
nation should not blush. Seemingly, it
was inspired by but one amhition-the bad
ambition to make our foreign policy as ig-
noble a, our home policy was shameless.
Our intercourse with Powers weaker than
ourselves was spirneA enough. We bUlliei
Austria ont # q Hungarian refugee. We
despoilei Mexico of II portion Of her terri
tory. We demolished Greytown. We jim
gled nil i,ns in the ears OF Spain as Il lure
for Cuba and the bride was spurned.
In 1904 three of our Ministers abroad a.
sembled at O.tend and issued a manifesto
in which they declared. After We hall
have offered Spain price for Cuba t,r zee
yond irs present value. and this sh@ll have
been refused d, then it will be time &, con-
slider the question Does Cuba IL the pos
session of Spain seriously cnd1ugcr our
Internal Drnce and the existence OF OVr
cherished UaiOn2 Should this question
be answered in the affirmative, then by
every law human and divine We ,hall be
justified in Wrestling il from Spain if we
possess the power
II dlNa Illil AAtN ~ lltN tAlltIA 10 hi'.N
that two Of the ambassadors who in 1854
could think If no way OF .aving Sc our cher
ished Union, bat 10 wrest CIhn from Spain
were Pierre Soule and John Y. Manson.
The third was James Buchanan.
But during all trul time and in spite Of
all that rascunade lhrr- was to, sirgl.
naturaliz-d citizen VINO could "a ely revisit
his birthplace, for there was no. one whose
citizenship was not absolutely denied by
the sovereign under nh Sc dominion he was
born.
No American. native or naturalizei,c could
send "a .ctter abroad except upon onerUus
conditions We had then formed postal
conventions with but seven fore On couu-
tries.
Toe lowest rate of postage 81 pulated in
those conventions was t-u cents for letter
weighing not more than one-half ounce.
The highest rate of postage on the same
letter was thirty cents.
We tamcly relinqui,hed TO Great britain
portion of our territory in the northeast;
another and larger portion in the north
west. We described the line agreed upon in
the northwest so loosely that Great Britain
imme iiately laid claim to large islands On
our side of II. That insulting claim was Meth
er resisted nor admitted. 1t was compro
missed by permitting the claimant TO hold
armed possession OF one end Of San juan, the
most valuable Of tho-" Islands, while we
quietly squntt.l On the other en-. And
while by successive concessions, We We're
constantly adding TO the area Of the Cana
das, we stupidity relinquished 10 their pro
ducts free access to oar markets, as the
equivalent Of being allowed to send similar
products from the Northwest through Can
adian channels, to such preoarioUs markets
Atlantic.
Such were the achievements of our d.
plomacy, during those years Of Democratic
supremacy.