Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-08-27

characters in the moral and material
triumphs Of great people. A nation
redeemed from the moral pollution and
physical prostration inseparable from
human SLAYER, through an almost super
human effort, and at vast expense OF
blood and treasure, and in the very proc
ess lifting itself to position of moral
grandeur and unparalleled material pros
pcrity, is the spectacle presented to the
world by the Republican party as the sign
of its justice, mercy and supreme polit-
lea! wisdom Pointing to this substantial
evidence of invincible prowcss and be-
neficent craftsmanship, the Republican
party may well appeal to the people to
contrast its fourteen years of rule with
that OF its only opponent, the Democ-
racy, confident of overwhelming indorse-
ment Covered with cowardice as with
mantle up to the breaking out Of the
war; degraded by treason during the
conflict for the nations life; smirched
by cold Indifference to the restoration OF
peace and confidence during the period
of reconstruction, and beittled by petty
intrigucs for power these latter years.
the Democratic party stands confessed
as guilty of all the crimes and weak
nesses against which politicians struggle
in vain for success. Conscious of inner
ent depravity, and crushed under load
of Justly-imposed obloquy, the Demo
cratic party, reinforced by bad men
driven from the ranks OF the Republican
party for their political sins, has vented
its impotent spleen, spite and SANDER
upon the Administration and all its prom
inent supporters. Such an avalanche Of
lies was never before poured upon any
party in power. But so prompt has the
Republican party been to punish fraud
in ortice, and to denounce and disown its
individual members proven guilty OF cor
ruption, that there is not so much as the
smell of fire found upon its garments.
The record of the last session of Con-
gress constitutes glowing tribute to the
representative character of the Republi-
can party. No sooner do the people
speak than their servants respond. The
Salary bill was denounced as an extor-
ton upon overburbened taxpayers; a
Republican Congress promptly repealed
the measure. The District Government
was shown to be corrupt; Republican
Congress swept it out of existence and
paved the way for an honest administra-
ton of its affairs. The law providing
for the punishment Of frauds on the Gus
toms revenues was construed to permit
extortion and robbery; Republican
Congress cleared it from the statute
books. The panic of 1878 stranded the
business interests of the people and
shrank the revenues of the Government;
Republican Congress met the emergen-
cy by reduction of thirty millions of
dollars in the current expenditures. The
currency question threatened to become
sectional one, dividing the West and
South from the East, and an intense Bit
terness of feeling arc e. boiling evil to
the Union; a Republican Congress adopt
ed compromise measure which Gained
the sectional excitement and quie ed the
apprehensons of the business men of
the country. These few leading measures
of Congress show both the wisdom and
virtue of the Republican party. An act
undone shows equally the power for evil
of small minority. The Civil.Rights
bill was defeated in the House
by a solid Democratic opposition, sup
p ,rted by few misguided Republicans
No sooner did Congress adjourn than
white leagues began to spring into exist
ence all over the South. The right of
the negro to vote is boldly assaied by
these organizations, and their members
stand convicted before the public of hay
ing inaugurated new reign of terror,
accompanied by prosecutions, scourgings
and assassinations. The assumption that
a Republican Congress did not wish, or
did not dare, to continue longer to shield
with Federal power the negro from the
hate of Southern whites was false; for
the Republican Congre ssional Committee,
in its address, placed the party squarely
ON the platform of protection to all the
civilrights conferred by the Constitution.
Thus the Republican sense of justice Is
as prompt to express itself in solemn
party acts MS Southern hate of the black
man is to seize the first opportunity to
violate the spirit and letter of the Consti.
tuition.
The Republican party has been pitiless
in furnishing its own delinquent members
in Office, stern in enforcing the laws
against those who would violate the
amended Constitution and memorable in
exposing the treachery of the Democracy
to the doctrine of equal rights. Planting
itself on this record it may confidently
appeal to the people for a continued sup
port. Inter Oceda