Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-08-04

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our ssspensibflities and ihst xs are 90
titled to . oontiauancs Of public conf
dencs.
Parties are worthy Of support only 90
long a they advance viss ana patriotic
principles and promote the honest and
Efficient administration Of public af-
fairs and as the Repdblican party is
entitled to the credit of botk; it justly
lays claim to . verdict Of popalar sp-
provsl.
There are many matters OF detail In
which the Republican party differs
from the Democratic but there is one
radical difference which, SO long as it
exists, will render the existence of the
Republican party . public necessity.
That difference consists in the fact
that the Republican party believes that
the United States form Nation with
all the functions Of q National Sover-
eighty, while the Democratic party re-
CARDS the Federal Government as
mere league between the States, which
are each, in its view, sovereign and in
dependent. The Republicans believe
in the indissolubility Of the Union of
the States, whilst the Democratic party
believes that the Federal Government
has no power to protect its own exist.
ence or prevent any State from assert
ing its independence.
This is q difference which involves
the very life of the Government. Wien
the rebellion broke out in 1861, while
James Buchanan was still in Office IS
President, be shrank appalled, from the
duty of preserving the Union intact,
and yielded to the advice of his After
ney General that there was no power in
the General Government to coerce q
State. ffsd that rebellion occurred at
the beginning, instead Of at the close,
of his administration, it would have
been at once successful. Under the
Democratic idea of State rights, Mr..
Buchanan would have been compelled
to let the Southern States &c.
With Che promisence az present given
by the Democratic party to its one DIS
tiuguishing doctrine Of State Sover-
eighty, as opposed to that of National
Sovereignty, the advent of that party
to power in the nation would naturally
bring With it the danger of second
assertion Of the right of States to secede
from the Union. Our previous expe-
rlence of the inability of the Demo.
cratic party in power to attempt the
coercion of rebellious State should
certainly be sufficient to teach the peo-
pie the danger of entruss.ng the Gov
eminent to hands to weak or too un-
willing to protect it.
Should it ever become necessary,
hereafter, to assert the power of the
General Government to promote the
public welfare, in any m after of general
concern, as, for instance, In preventing
local restrictions upon the free trans
portation of persons or produce, or in
removing natural distractions thereto,
the Democratic doctrine, faithfully ad
hered to, would prevent that party from
legislating upon it, Congressionally.
The National Government cannot, in
fact, be carried on successfully, nor can
the necessities of people, with inter-
ests so great and so grand as those Of
The American people, be properly met
and provided for by any party holding
strictly to the idea that Government is
but federal league, of separate and
independent State sovereigntIes.
The Republican party of the Stale
and the Nation stand now, as ever, by
the rights of labor as entitled to the
protection of the Government by uni
versal freedom and universal suffrage
sustained by universal education; by
the public school system, with the tax
alton of all for its support, and opposed
to any division Of the school fund for
any purpose whatever; by the common
law of the nation which interdicts a
third term to the Presidency; BY a
tariff SO adjusted as to be :he least
burthensome aud most favorable to
labor and industry by the financial
legislation which secures free banking
upon sound basis and provides for a
safe and uniform currency, sufficient
for the public wants; by such u revi-
sion of the patent laws as will relieve
industry from oppression and secure to
the inventor a fair remuneration by a
faithful execution of the laws, the sup
preston of lawlessness, and the en-
forcement of the Constitution as it
stands; and by that general polio.
which will preserve the Union intact,
whether assailed from within or without.
We are now entering upon the closing
year of the FIRST century of American
Independence and it behcoves the Re-
publicans Of Pennsylvania, who believe
not only IN the words but in the spirit
Of the DecIar alton Of independence, to
show their faith by their works, and
rally firmly aud unitedly to the sup
port of their principles. We counsel
them, in view of the interests which
are at stake, TO forget all their past
differences to organize actively and
efficiently to present none but good
and true men for local Offices and
standing firmly Oy what they believe
and know to be right, demonstrate their
claim to public confidence. The Sec
ond century Of our national existence
should begin as the first one did, by a
supreme devotion to Republican prin-
ciples, to which only = Republican ad-
ministration, in State or patton, can be
or will be faithful.
The experience of the pas: furnishes
abundant evidence that the best inter-
ests of the people demand the contiu-
aDce of the enlightened and liberal
course of the Republican party in its
well-de6hed and clearly announced pur-
pose 20 foster the agricultural, indus