, 1876-11-06

THE COST OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY,
In lis Wall street speech, on Saturday last,
Secretary MORRILL, stated that tho entire cost
Of the Governmental the United States, sinco
1789, had been about 31', o00, 600, GOO, and Of
this sum $11 ,0oo, ,oo0, 600 had been expended
during the lust sixteen years. Tint was tho
coat TO the country OF the "Solid South,"-
Of Mr. TuDEN's friends aud supporters.
During the long period from 1888 to 1861
the Government had cost in money less than
$1,000, ,000, ,000; but in 1861 tho Democratic
paEty,undor tho legal opinion Of SAM T1npza,
had taken up arms To assert the doctrine TINT
tho United States were not q nation
and that each State WIS sovereign.
aud at liberty to snap the merely
conventional tie that bound it to the Union.
That war by tho Democratic party to 1paiu-
tain the right Of any State to dissolve tho
Union bud cost tho Government elovon
billions ($ll, 900, ooo, ,000) during the lust
sixteen years. 1t had plunged tho country
into dobt, and had neceesitated taxation
which would survive the present century.
Not contont with this cost of $11,000,.
100000, the same Democratic party in six
teen States was now clamoring for the cleo
tion of T1Inxa, that through Ills election the
people Of these sixteen States shall DO paid
two billions and q half (s2, ,600, ,UO0, ,00O) more
from the National Treasury.
The people OF the North have for sixteen
years been paying tho most oppressive taxes
in order to pay the interest OH tho debt and
to reduce tho principal; now the Same party
that forced tho country into that dolt do.
mand TINT thoso who waged WAT upon the
Union DO paid g., 600, 600, ,0U0 to compensate
them for theirlosses In their own rebellion,
having forced tho country into the euor-
nous expenditure OF eleven billions ($11 ,000,-
o0o, ,ooo) insixtesn yeara, they now de,naud, as
bounty for bearing arms against the Gov
crnment, to be paid two aud q half bilious
($., 800, 600 ,o00).
They arc laboring for Tt1pxH's election 10
secure this enormous bounty.
Falling to get this, they propose ii TIL
DEN DO elected to withdraw from tue Union,
taunting the country with ssyou elected
T1LpEN, who denies the existence Of q Na.
tioual Government, and who deniea the power
OF my Government to compel State To re-
main In the Union, or to use force In any
why against State or its people. You will
not pay III, and T1IDrx will not permit any
war upon2s; therefosa we will reorganizo cur
confederacy, re-establish cur property in
slaves, aud lot tho North run ita own Govern.
ment md pay ita own dobts."
This same Democratic party in sixteen
States is seeking to elect Iupxa that It may
demand through lin tho payment Of - ,500,-
o0o, QUO to cover the losses Of those engaged
In the Rebellion, or leave the Union under
TIIpxA's Presidential protection, leaving
T1lpxa In the meantime to propose to tho
North that 1t is cheaper to pay these clains
than to dissolve the Union or prosecute an.
other war.
Thesa Democrats who laye cost the coun-
try IN ths last sixteen years $l1, ,000, ,0,D, 600,
and who now demand D., ,5o0, 200, 600 for
c1Alms, know that ItLpkA will prosecute no
war 70 enforce the uationM authority, nor
permit ono to bs prosecuted during his term,
and they know that II HAYES bs elected he
will meet secesaion prscissly ~ It was met
In 16V1s hepcs. they want Tsr,nv~ xvbo -