Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-08-05

the great work of reconstruction, and the
President was not happily fitted to criticise
official misconduct. But the present Ad-
ministraton has no exemption from that
work If II is not attended to now, the
Administration, AMI not the times, must be
held responsible. But it is attended to 1t
is prosecuted with that innexible energy
which has characterized every labor led by
President Grant Some offences have been
exposed And every time a rogue has been
punished the opposition has shouted See
bow corrupt Republicans are" It's as if,
whenever surgeon removes tumor from
his pa lent the mob should shout, How
very rotten the doctor must be So this
untiinching reform is prosecuted at the
risk OF this twoioid peril; First. Every
time we remove n rascal we lend plausibilty
to Democratic calumny. Second Every
time we punish one we make Democrat.
For a few years that party has been re-
cruited, not only by those knaves we have
dismissed fcom Office, but by still larger
number who have been unable to get office
1t is not impossible that by this process
they may in time recover majority Good
men can not, without uneasiness, contem-
plate the possibility Of the country once
V,
when, in addition to the devils which
always parslyzed it for any noble effort it
shall have been re-eaforced by all the un-
clean spirits expelled from the Republican
party.
INTERNAL REFORM.
The success which has attended the effort
of this Administration to effect internal re-
form is forcibly indicated, but only partially
measured, by these facts:
First. In thirteen years it has not once
been forced to resort to loans except by the
eXigencies of war. Our rivals in popular
favor, as had been seen, repeatedly resorted
to loans in time of peace
Second. In six years taxes have been
RENTED at various times amounting to
more than three hundred Millions annually.
Third. The principal of the public debt
has been reduced in the same time bV tn
sum of three hundred and ffty-fye million
dollars.
Fourth. The Treasury note has been APP
preciated from 76 2-l0 per cent. its gold
value in March, 1863, to SO 2-lO per cent,
its gold value in March last.
Fifth In spite OF the financial disasters
which overlook the country in September,
1873, the public debt WAS diminished nearly
five millions during tho fiscal year just
ended
Sixth The cost Of the Government, ex-
Guiding expenditures for improvements and
disbursements made necessary to meet obi
cations imposed on us by the rebellion, was
less per capita during the last fiscal
year than during the year ending June 80,
1860.
Bad men, doubtless, ara still left in the
Republican party, as bad men are in the
Democratic party. SO good men are in both
parties The difference is this In spite of
the bad men in the former, it has in thirteen
years raised the country higher in true
nat onal greatness than any country was
ever raised before in the same length of
time while, because of bad men in the
other party, the country constantly declined
in character and dignity while it had cou-
troll. A party better than either loftier
in its aspirations wiser in its methods,
holder in its endeavors, is unquestionably
desirable. Such a party mi ght be attained,
if the wise, the upright, and the patriotic in
the Democratic ranks would unite themselves
with the like in the Republican organi-
cation. But it is impossible to frame
such party by re-enforcing the etfete
Democracy, which has not achieved single
noble end, nor set before the country n
single noble aim in forty years, with all
the reckless Adventures and hungry place
hunters who in former years hocked to the
Republican party, not to aid its enterprises,
but to patten on its strength.
ELECT REPUBLICANS.
You are about to select Representatives to
a new Congress. We earnestly entreat you
to send the truest and ablest Republican
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 dis
guise he may wear, he will be a 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 in the future you
will select Republicans and not Democrats.
our MISSION NOT ENDED.
1t is sometimes said the mission of the
Republican party is accomplished. If by
that no more is meant than that the party
has discharged every trust heretofore COM
mitted to it, we admit it. 1t has been
thought when one was found faithful over a
few things that was a good reason for trust
ing him with more things. Can you do
better than be instructed by such IN
example? Especially since you must en-
ploy either the party which you say has
fulfilled every trust, or employ that only
other party which has betrayed every trust
or employ that only other party which
has betrayed every trust.
The occasion for political effort has not
passed. American progress is not ended.
Other labors lie before you, lighter perhaps,
but not light.
First. You have to see that what is done
shall not be undone. Republcanism offers
you the best security against retrogression
Second. You have to see that the work
of reform goes forward. Three great labors
demand your present consideration.
The fourteenth amendment to the Con-
stitution is not yet enforced by "appro-
pirate legislation" Millions of American
citizens are denied even the common law
rights of locomoton because they are black
If such wrongs are to be redressed, TIE
Republican party alone can do it.
THE CURRENCY.
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