National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-09-16
THE PARTY OF MIsRULE AND REPUDIA-
TON

1uc DemUCIdllC party uds Uccu, sluOO IL
went into the rebellion business in 1861, a
party of chaos. It's leaders in the South,
to man, went into rebellion, and had al
most unanimous following in that great
section of the country, while those of the
North, with few honorable exceptions,
sympathized strongly with the cause Of
Southern confederation, and gave it aid
and comfort. Until the close of the war
the Democratic party that remained in the
Union, in all Its utterances and acts, was
open in its hostility to the efforts Of the
Government to save and perpetuate the
Union. The attempted destruction of the
Government originated in a love for slavery,
a hatred of State subordination to the
Federal power, and purpose to repudiate
national unity, faith and honor. The
Democratic party had been repudiated by
the people, and its great desire was to de-
stroy the Republic and bury the Republi-
can party in the ruins. All faithful his
tory clearly sustains these propositions, and
marks with indelible characters upon its
forehead the brand of misrule and repudia-
ton
Since the war closed, the Democratic
party has been ceaseless in its efforts to en-
barrass and defeat the Federal Govern
ment in its work of restoration, recon
struction and establishment of the nation
upon the principles of equal rights, com
mon Justice and honor. 1t has been iden-
tilted with the South in its resistance to law,
order and right, since the Confederate
States surrendered to the Federal power.
When Congress attempted to throw protec-
ton around four millions of newborn free
men and citizens, the Democracy stood
solidly enlisted in the work of embarrass-
ment, its hands full of impodiments to be
cast in the way of reconstruction and the
establishment of law and order, where
revolution and open disorder was strug-
Cling for the ascendency. Nowhere, in
our recollection, can an instance be cited
where the Democratic party has.openly re-
buked the rebellion, the efforts of the Ku-
Klux and the White Leaguers to keep it
alive, or the indiscriminate massacre Of
black and white Republicans in the South
ern States. The embers of rebellion have
been famed into new life by Democratic
breath. Instead of rebuking, it has ap-
plauded the massacre of the negro for opin-
ion and color sake. 1t regards negro blood
as the seed of the Democratic church, and
it encourages the demon-like pursuit and
murder of the black race, as an important
agency IN establishing itself in power in
the Federal Government. Down to this
moment all the disorders, outrages and muir
ders that have been perpetrated by the late
insurgents in the South have the unquali-
fed approval and open or tacit indorse-
ment of the Democracy of the country.
And while the Democratic party has es-
tablished for itself an eminent reputation as
a party of violence, disorder and misrule,
it seeks fresh conquests in the field Of Re-
pudiatiOn. The inspiration comes from
the South. While that section despises
and abominates the laws of reconstruction,
it would repudiate the national faith and
bring discredit upon currency which its
resistance to Federal. power brought into
existence under dire necessity. 1t failed
to sever the bond of national unity and
bring ruin upon the republic. 1t was
forced to succumb to the Federal power
without surrendering its animosities and
hates, and now these rise up and array
themselves against the welfare of the peo-
pie and the national honor. 1t seeks re-
venge in imitation and reputation, that
nation which it could not otherwise destroy
may be discredited and dishonored in its
faith.
The Democratic party in Ohio and Penn
sylvania have closed hands with their
friends in the late insurgent States in the
cry for imitation, which, properly inter-
preted, is reputation. New York is in
vited to wheel into line, and give strength
and power to this execrable movement
against the national faith, and day or two
more will, no doubt, reveal the fact of its
submission to this dangerous policy of
flooding the country with an irredeemsble
and unconvertible paper currency, which
in the end will be repudiated if the Dem
cratic party shall succeed to power.
In juxtaposition with this party Of infl.-
ton and reputation stands the Republican
party, the only hope left for the national
honor. In this contest and the settlement
of this nomentous issue, history is to repeat
itself. In 1861 the Republican party was
the hope and salvation of our national in
tegrity, and that hope was not disappointed.
The Union was preserved and the Republic
saved. So now, the Republican party
stands between the nation and Its financial
dishonor, and its mission has put on new
form and a newness of life for fresh con-
f1ict with the enemies of our national faith
and honor. Let the issue be accepted, and
be made distinct and sharp, that the people
may understand it, and avert the danger
before it is too late. National destruction
is no more to be dreaded than national dis
honor. The one has been defeated, and
now the people have no alternative but to
rise in their might and preserve the ma
tional faith at the ballot-box,