The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-08-24

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or nearly $500, 100000 per annum. This
does not look like national bankruptcy and
paralysis. -r-
Contrast this with the last imbecile
slovenly, and venal administration of James
Buchanan. During his four years, in a
time of profound peace, the revenues fell
short of the ordinary expenditures S15,-
2ll, ,119, which sum was made up by loans
and added to the burden with which the
Republican party received the Government
in 1861. To enable the government to
live from day to day during the last of
these four years, the 8 per cent bonds of
the United States were hawked about the
markets of the world, and disposed of with
difficulty at a discount of Ii per cent
The Democratic party made the rebellion,
and the rebellion made the debt, heavy
taxes, greenbacks and National banks a
necessity and if its true, as we are CON
family told, that public and private demora-
lzatIon and a long train of evils are the
inevitable consequences of civil war, it is
the very insolence of falsehood to hold the
Republican party responsible for them. 1t
is possible the rebellion could have been
put down at less cost. The rebels say it
could, and that we ought to have whipped
them at one-half the expense and they are
profoundly indignant at our want of economy
and skill in performing the operatian.
THE DEMOCRACY.
In reviewing the action of the House in
regard to appropriations and what they call
retrenchment, no man can resist the impress
sion that it has been taken in total disregard
Of the public interest Nothing has been
done because it ought to be done, or the
public interest demanded it, but as far as
we can see in every case for political capital
or profit. To create the impression of
retrenchment and economy it repudiated
public debt, stinted and crippled the army
and navy, left unfuised public works, left
navy yards to go out of repair and become
useless, withheld from courts the means
necessary to enforce the laws, and reduced
salaries to starving rates Looking at the
House from its legislation we should say
that it is as unfriendly to the Government
as we know the body of its members to
have been few years ago. *
| With a majority of nearly twc-thirds in
the House they have wholly failed for
eight months to produce any plan, scheme
of relief, or policy upon the subject of cur
rency, banking tariff or any other economic
! question. While abusing everything that
exists, they produce nothing, can suggest
nothing. Among the Democratic members
! Of the Houese there are G4 persons who
were officers and soldiers in the Confederacy
/ Overthrown by the North and defeated,
/ they are sourcd and desperately in earnest,
and with whom the Northern sympathizers
and doughfaces will be as clay in the hands
of the potter
The Democratic platform at St. Louis
may be described as an elaborate and extend
ed falsehood, divided into sections. We
may safely defy the most ingenious to find
in it one honest and truthful statement
| In the first section we have this declara-
ton
For the Democracy Of the whole country
we do here rcafhrm our faith in the perma
nency of the Federal Union, our devotion
to the Constitution of the United States,
with its amendments universally accepted
as final settlement of the controversies
| that engendered civil war, and do here
record our steadfast confidence in the
perpetuity of Republican self-government.
When we reflect that nearly one half of
the authors of this declaration had been
engaged in armed rebellion to destroy the
Union in which they had the sympathy of
the other half, we know what they mean
by reaffrming their "faith in the per-
NANCY Of the Federal Union" and when
for more than four years nearly the one
half, with the sympathy of the other half,
had waged bloody war for the overthrow
OF the constitution, we know what they
mean by devotion to the constitution ="
That they love the Union and constitution
as well now as they have ever done, we
can all readily believe Such declarations
1 by the convention, in view of the personal
history of the great masses of its members,
are but hideous mockeries, and intend
ed onl y for deception Again
the platform says:
Reform is necessary to put an end to the
profigate waste Of public lands and their
diversion from actual settlers by the party
in power, which has squandered 100000
600 acres upon railroads alone, and out of
more than thrice that aggregate has dis
posed of less than sixth directly to tillers
Of the soil,
The merit of this resolution will be ap-
preciated when | refer to the fact that the
candidate for Vice-President, Governor
Hendricks, was in the Senate six years,
and during that period when most of the
] public lands were granted to railroads, and
was distinguished for the general hearty
support he gave to such grants and parti-
cularly for his earnest and repeated advo-
cacy of the large share he had in the grant
of about 81, ,000,0 900 acres to the Northern
Pacific Railroad, the most stupendgift ever
made to corporation.
I .a8 ls1at TILDEN- -HENRDICKS. SIS ~
OF Mr. Hendricks, the Democratic can
didate for Vice President, it is not very