The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-09-30
THE CAMPAIGN.
An Able Review of the Situation.
What the Republican Fart, has
Accomplished.
Careful Consideration OF the FL
nancial Question.
Civil Rights-AIl Men are Born Free
and Equal.
sound Views upon the Temperate
Problem.


Alta large meeting held at Union City, Satur-
day General Thomas NJ. Browne said:
FELLOW CIrTzEss-The American citizen occu-
pies most important relation to his Govern
ment. for he fashions its laws appoints its agents
and executes its mandates. Tho Government is
what he mikes it; its statutes are the embodi-
ment of his ideas of right-they are bat the reflex
Of his intelligence and civilization. By his vote
he equips the nation for its career of usefulness;
by his ballot he eorrects its errors and reforms
its abuses. To him political victory should be
OF no consequence unless 1t brought with it i'm
proved conditions OF the people. No man can af-
ford vote wrong simply to crafty his party
pride or his party leaders, for in politics as in
morals. there is an iEfexible law of retrIbution.
1t is as true to-day as it was eighteen hundred
years ago. AS ye sow. so shall ye reap;
In view of these facts. of our interests and re-
sponsibilitles as citizens of the Republic let Us
seem to divide us into political parties. In the
consideration q these great questions may we
consequences to party. to write it in our creeds
ana platforms anu put 1t INTO our political con
duct.
i am. as you. my fellow citizens know. Be
publican. With that party have been identified
from its beginning, and each year has but served
increase my devotion to its principles and adj
jay that. in all the long and tumultuous years OF
Cts power, il has committed no mistakes, for it is
poor human nature. 1t has had to deal with the
most diaicult problems that ever ehallenged the
attention of statesmen in the world annals; and
Il sometimes it has not been equal to the immense
crisis thrust upon IT, should we be snrprisedf In
dangers that have surrounded it, the difficulties
It has met, and the momentous questions i has
seldom biandered, n It's work. We must not ex
feet, shall have ceased to be men and have be-
come GODS
Perhaps there is question in politics that so
deeply concerns the people at this time that OF
finance. TO find some royal road out of our
present embarrassments. and to point out a pla
TO prevent their recurrence. have been. for
months past, taxing the Inventive genius of our
theorists and statesmen. Innumerable methods
have been suggested BY their State platforms
the Republican and Democratic parties are IN ac-
cord in this: that We should have such LEGISLATION
t n,t 70 Of Isgfaa '1u s
commerce. The Republican party insists that
this desirable result shall be reached by keeping
the volume of treasury notes within the limit
fixed by the act OF June, ls64, and by making the
the Democratic party. in the platform Mr.. Vor-
hees made for it, iayors the repeal of the law
authorizing the National banks. wholly with
drawing their, circulation, ami substituting for
this the legal tender notes of the nited
Dem ocratic party is in favor of returning to specie
payments and of the redemption of those govern
backs. Tins is the enocratie plan. 1t has the
merit of novelty. in at least one important re-
spect. 1t proposes TO conduct the finances OF the
country so skiilfully that shall have specie
able paper ut the same time. Specie payments
is in great favor with the Democrats OF the old
regime while imitation and reputation is the
pet hobby of the younger growth Expansion of
grcenbacks and return TO the specie basis is the
consistent and comprehensive creed of the Indi-
The desire to return to specie payne nts, Says
continues. are the real standard of values is u
Democratic sentiment not now nor hereafter To
declaration can not make paper currency equal
to gold and silver. 1t can net make ny hank
emphatic deelar ations in favor of coin curren-
ey. and the necessity for the ultimate return a
were made. too. with this platform before him.
committing him and his party to an almost I'M
limited expansion OF paper currency that IS
for the present. irTedeemable-a currency which
experiences has abundantly demonstrated depre-
ciates rs its volume increased 1t a. return to
specie payments is desirable, II coin Is the only
circulating medium should have uniformity in
value, il we ought 10 adopt policy that will
convertible into gold and silver, and if a congress
eional declaration viii not secure these results for
ume OF the paper currency unwise? How does the
expressed dosre to return to specie basis stand
millions of iFredeemable paper to pay so many Of
ment? When will this golden era, 50 sincerely
desired BY Governor Hendricks and the party he
ushered in, If the policy of infatien. foreshad-
owed in the July platform, should be accepted by
To-day we have over $3.50 .ooo, 900 of money. of
legal tender notes at that. in the hands of our
people. which the nation pledges itself to redeem
due on demand: it has been circulating for ten
years and more; wanderins up ana Gown the
and is confessedly unableto do so. The policy as
tion IF Il Known aEg a he bonds to
quite one-half of the national debt means an in
means to u axe . coin currency simply inpossi-
bic during tnis generation. These rhapSodies on
the beauties OF gold and silver are meaningless
was TO resume but to-day tho way to resume IS
10 postpone. am not insisting shat Immediate
bat am ende9voring to show that all this slit
is mere fGstan STRIPPED Of lis
then. the subject o. specie payment. the plat
sues on the subject CT finance: the payment of
that portion of oar public debt SHOWN as the
go bonds in treasury notes, anu the abolition OF
Why should the $50 bonds be paid in LEGAL ten
OF the Law by which they were created these bonds
are payable in the lawful money Of the United
law fii money. II Is also insisted TIA. the bonds
were purchased and paid for in, these notes at
that if The EreenbacE. bearing interest, is sub
.stgsd for @ s n S me sUm
we seriously examine these prepesltous and as /
esry IN hs Sranns has tss
OF juno. 1854. did not guarantee the payment off
msnt. as to persons who bousht these SECURITIES /
during the existence of this act, ght have, with
"a tntsd se than CON-
stands the question to-days Is the statute OF ~
In March. ls6s, C2nsress. By public statu.e.
coin. or is equiysisns.. ~ ri, set ths nasion
nations, to the German, to the English and TO the /
French: "Ali the obligations of this republic are
payable in gold: It's faith is pledged, and If yoa
invest your capital in them any of them. We
xolemnly agree to redeem them in coin or that
v hich is equir alent it. The laws OF Congress
may have been . mistake. that question will
not now consider. but ii was passed and is IN force
It MAS thonght necessary to strengthen our weak
ened public credit and to give stability 20 dis
turhed and EuctuatinE currency. Since the pas
gage Of thi. law OF March. ls. we have paid MIL
lions ef money IN CON toward the redemption Of
dem ption in specie was begun. Il is estimated
that moi less than $50 eoo.o0 of these have been
paid altogether. and every dollar of this vast
amount has been paid in gold. Having paid this
m uch in gold or its equivalent, shall we pay