Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-08-24

ed as war measure, in 1852, they
were violently opposed by the en-
tire Democracy as unconstitutional,
which they held as to every thing
calculated to put down the rebellion.
MIR. Hendricks stated in 1863 that the
paper of the State banks was bet.
ter currency, when be knew the wal
could not be carried on with that pa
per. In 1867, after the war was ov-
err, Mr.. Pendleton conceived the Idea
OF adopting he greenbecks and issu-
ing enough to pay the national deo t.
This would at once repu1iate the
debt and destroy the greenb acks
and kill off two of the hated agencies
in putting down the rebellion. Hen.
bricks accepted this idea, and made
his race upon it for Governor in
1868, as will appear by his speech in
convention on the 9Th of January OF
that year. La 1870 Chief Justice
Chase delivered the opiuion of ma
jority of the Supreme Court of the
United States that the legal-tender
feature Of the greenbacks was uncon-
siitutional. The Democracy again
bobbed around and hailed the decis-
ion with delight. The next year a
Majority of the court reversed this
decision, ard the Democracy with
ono accord charged Grant with hav-
ing packed the court to sustain an in
famous war measure. After that
they again bobbed around and said
that greenbacks were the best cur
rency the country ever had 4; that
tho banks ought to be abolished and
the Government alone furnish money
to the people.
The letter of Gov Tilden treats
chiefly of the finances, and cannot be
read by any impartial mind without
the conviction that it was Intended to
satisfy men whose ideas are exactly
opposite to each other.
REPUBLICAN ACTION.
The Republican party has been,
and still is, in favor of return to spe-
Gle payments. 1t regards gold and
silver as the standards of value, and
has looked forward steadily and hon
estly to the time when the paper
money Of the country would be at
par value. That there has been, and
is to-day, diversity of opinion in the
ranks of the party in regard to the
manner and time of resumption is not
to be denied but there has been q
general concurrence as to the necessi-
ty of resumption, and the Importance
of adopting practical measures look
ing to that result. 1t was in this spir-
it that the act of January, 1875, was
passed, fixing the 1st of January,
1870, as the time when resumption
should take place by the redemption
of greenbacks in coin, and for that
purpose authorizing the Secretary of
the Treasury to reserve the surplus
gold in the Treasury and to sell bonds
to procure the additional gold that
might be necessary. Whether these
preparations are sufficient, and that
additional legislation may not be nee.
essary, and whether, in fact, the time
fixed is not premature, is doubted by
many who are the earnest friends OF
specie payments.
UPON WHAT PROSPERITY DEPENDS.
The prosperity of the country de-
ponds upon the continued administra-
ton of the government upon the true
and tried principles of the Republican
party. The proposition of the DEM
ocratio leaders to make good times
for everybody if the government is
put into their hands, is like the adver-
tisement of quack medicines to cure
all the ills that flesh is heir to. The
st. Louis platform resembles the We
racious publications of Bulls sarsapa-
rilla and Brandreth's pills, which are
warranted to kill or cure, as the case
may be. The political quacks who
made the st. Louis prescription are
among the most deadly in the profess
sion, and have extensive graveyards
in all the Southern and in most of the
Northern States.
sLAUGHTERS IN THE SOUTH.
Five, ten, or twenty negroes are
killed, and sometimes one white man,
is the common report, but every an
nouncement is followed by the stereo-
typed lie that the negroes began the
attack, and the whites were acting in
self-defense. The negroes, poor, I'M
trained, almost unarmed, and unskill-
ed in the use of weapons, are repre-
scented as precipitating themselves up.
on their well armed, skillful and in
trepid enemies, and procuring them
selves to be shot, for no other reason
than to make little political capital
for their Northern friends.
HAMBURG
The murder a few days since Of six
negroes in Hamburg, S. c., under
circumstances of extraordinary atroci-
ty, is but the opening of the Tilden
campaign in that State. 1t was the
beginning of the work of intimidation,
terrible blow to strike terror into
the hearts of the colored people.
Upon very mean and scandalous
pretext about 800 white men suddenly
assembled in the little town, inhabit-
ed almost exclusively by colored peo-
PIE, perpetrating the foul murders,
sent the women and children to the
woods in deadly fright, and searched
and sacked their humble homes.
Had band of Sioux Indians sud
denly pounced upon a peaceable
white village and inflicted such hor-
rors the cry for determination would
have gone up throughout the land.
1t is openly proclaimed that the Re-
publican majority of $1,000 in South
Carolina is to be overcome and the
State carried for Tilden; and this can
be done only by frightening colorcd
men from the polls, or compelling
them by force or fraud to vote the
Democratic ticket.
WHY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CANNOT
BE TRUSTED.
The Dem ocratic party cannot be
safely truSfed with the control of our