New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-19
Observation-Disclosures

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The Democratic party reorganized itsel1
after the war upon the sole basis of cap
turing the government and dividing the
spoils. Il did not preserve single one
of iu antecedent principles. It had &C.
cepted the constitutional amendments. I,
had denounced the paramount right Of the
States to decide in the last resort upon
the construction Of . constitutional act
| and to determine for itself the mode and
measure Of redress. In further avowal oil
ibis abandonment Of doctrine the Demo-
cratic party dropped its name, and its
members nominated Horace Greeley.
There was another great principle main
tanned BY the Democratic party during its
existence. It was that the Federal gov
eminent could do no act beyond the writ
ten limit of it's powers This, with the
right to construe these powers reserved to
the States, restricted Federal legislation
within very narrow limits. Under this
schedule the Democratic party opposed
national paper currency; the use of
national credit in transferring prod
ucts from one part of the Union to
another. 1t denied the power of Con-
gress to protect American manufactures,
and likewise excluded from Democratic
States all Federal appropriations for any
work or any way which promoted the ma
terial welfare or commercial intercom.
munication among the States.
We have found the Democratic opposi-
ton to these measures disappearing with
the submission to the new dispensation Of
the war. It has, indeed, in some instances
taken ground in opposition to its own
protested principles. and reprosches tho
Republicans for standing to-day where
the Democracy stood. Thus the Repub-
ican party having fixed Q day for re-
Stunning specie payment in ito st. Louis
platform Democracy denounces the fixing
. day for resumption - . hindr,nce, and
says 1--WE here demand repeal" This
repeal would mean the faah money
policy Of Governor William Allen and his
wild oat allies.
The spectacle Of Democracy rushing
into the committee rooms and Hobbies to
demand public lands and public money
for railroads. levess and other works Of
improvement Is . sufficient re-
Of the doctrines of Calhoun
and Hunter.
1t IL, however. in regard to the enact
ment Of . tariff for protection that The
Democracy has given thsmost signal svi-
dence Of its abandonment Of principle, |
bag and baggage. In the st. Louis plat
form We ind the following:
We denounoe the present tariff. leviad
1pon nearly four thousand articles. a = /
masterpiece Of injustice, inequality and
alse pretonse,
And after . paragraph Of indignant pro-
est, thus declaring anew the principle of
Incient Demooracy-
We demand that all customhouse tara.
ion shall be only for revenue.
When it is remembered that after hav.
ng held for four months q majority in
lie House Of Representatives, the Dem |
cracy had done nothing in reduction Of
be tariff, and that after the publication
( this solemn avowal Of principle, Con-
ress continued in session for three or
'ur months more without SO much as
'uching this great question, those who
'ok to the platform of party as guide
its action will have been astonished to
nd that neither in the action of Con-
ress, nor in the presidential issues, have
le Democracy taken one single step to.
ard reforming that masterpiece of ,
Justice, inequality and false pretense."
either have they reduced nor attempted |
reduce ''all Customhouse taxation" to
% revenue standard.
There is even more fragrant violation {
this gas meter assurance heralded in .
9 St Louis platform. The Democratic +.
ouse of Representatives has elected as :
Speaker Hon. Samuel Randall, of 4
an advocate of The pro- \
tive principle as approved by Clay, =
eeley and Kelley. With no PROPOSE =
N for repeating the protection on these :
early four thousand articles" cata- \
'ued in the present tariff; with neither :,
'e nor disposition to consider anything :.
Q except the possibilities of evading the -
uit of . constitutional election or :,
owing the government into anarchy, =
one can anticipate during the present N
sion the review, modification or repeal \,
a tariff denounced by the Democracy "a
h in principle and in application. m
What remains of Democracy? What =,
D, North or South, dares stand upon 3,
ancient and honorable doctrines? -
Mt to an avowed nullifer or secession. =,
Designate Democratic advocate of ~
'ery, or u Democratic opponent of the n,
cation and the suffrage of all? Can e.
find Northern Democrat who would -
re to repeal the avowed protection tn
N cotton, wooden, silk or iron goods? ~
'e we Southern Democrat among us -,
has the temerity to oppose national o.
eidV of milliono for Tia ,.~....:o o.