New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-07-04

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soldiers whom he led to conquest
The caucus has saved up many millions
by denying the Southern States the rail-
roads, levees and canals for which they
are applicants, and the restoration of the
Mint at New Orleans.
They report supplemental pension
act which will give to Union soldiers and
their representatives anywhere, says q
competent authority, between seventy
and three hundred million dollars. What
is this but futile bid for the vote of the
soldiers? What does it bring to mind ex-
cept the largesses squandered by imperial
demagogues upon the headless thousands
of decaying Rome? 1t will have no ef-
feet to purchase the object of the dona-
ton. The Union soldiers are no mendi-
cants, nor are they like the disbanded
dregs Of European armies. This dis
creditable attempt to bride the men whose
great work d Democratic national COM
mittee reported as ga failure" will be
met with the contempt it merits. The
most decent apology for such an insult
would be to declare it conscience
money, repaid to those whose blood
and service have been accepted, and
whose occasional services were employed
as political capital for the Democracy
North and South. Any Union soldier
may, therefore, accept this tardy confess
sion Of political injustice and justify the
contrition of Demo cracy by voting the
Republican ticket. On the other hand,
the caucus which votes away so many
millions withheld from the just demands
of the South and the public service, has
endeavored to cripple the national SER
vice by cutting down the regular appro-
priations for that purpose.
In these cheese parings it has effected q
wonderful economy. History relates that
the administrative expenses of John
Quincy Adams were thirteen millions
annually. He was driven from power by
the clamor of Democratic reformers, who
were in turn expelled as shameless pre-
tenders to virtue. When the people ex-
posed and expelled the Democracy, after
q fair trial Of some three terms, they
found the annual administration expenses
nearly three times those of the extrava-
CANT Adams, deficiency of twenty-five
millions in the treasury accounts with a
list of defaulting Democrats, who had got
away with three millions Of public money.
The perfection of public theft may be
noted in this fact.
As means of surreptitious assistance
to the ambushed braves of the South
the caucus has attempted to impair the
ability of the executive to enforce law
and order. If the army of the United
States can be disabled then the jay
hawkers who will mutilate and terrify
Republican candidates and voters, would
rule and revel through the South Thus the
House Of Representatives has been used
and operated as party caucus. Public
business has been postponed for false
reputation of economy. The executive
department has been restricted in the
performance of a constitutional duty, lest
the interests Of party should suffer.
The financial policy of the country has
been arrested to avoid possible differences
in the conviction Of party, and the
commercial marine Of our merchants is to
be stopped in our ports, for fear that in
repairing the vessels necessary for their
protection the workmen on the pay roll Of
some navy yard may vote the Republican
ticket. The Democratic party has been
intrusted with the legislative power of the
House. It has perverted its trust. It has
become campaign caucus for the success
of a party, and will be stigmatized in
American annals as the Democratic caucus
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