The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-11-03
Facts and sssues.

And the Democratic party only
lack the power, not the will, to car
~ out the dogmas they then enun-
ciated. Let every Republican look
well to the vote he is to give at the
coming election. The Democrats
try to hide the issues by loud cry
about corruption and dishonesty in
official position bat let us not be de-
ceived, especially when we have be-
fore us the late address of the Third
Congressional Central Committee
of Kansas, wherein they recon-
mend the Greenbeck candidate for
the suffrages of the people, and ar
raign the Republican party because
they say that we are "Nation."
They revive the same old State
rights doctrine that hurled our ma
ton into war, covered the land with
desolation, and declared the gov
eminent to be q league, with no
power 10 coerce a sovereign State,
or enforce the laws of the Union.
How much palmer was the rebel yell
ever given. 1t only goes to prove
that the grand pivotal idea in this
campaign is, care we or ore we not
a Nation 2" and is it the duty of the
nation to protect the rights of hu-
manity ? But heCentral Democratic
Committee, in endorsing the Green
back candidate for Congress, thought
it necessary to again promulgate the
important doctrine, that emo gov
eminent ever was Q Nation until they
ceased to be a Republic" Let us ask
how much stronger secession doc
trine than this did John c. Calhoun
ever enunciate? And what more
than this did the south ask for
For what was it, but to vindicate
the unity and idea of nationality,
that we went to war? Every State,
as she went out of the Union, re-
pudiated the idea of this being a
nation, and upon that issue the
greatest war of modern times was
fought, and the Republican party,
in defense of national unity, claims
to have shed more lustre on the
American name, and done more for
the cause of humanity and civiliza-
ton than all the parties or organi-
that have ever existed. But
with this declaration and q Demo-
Greenbacker astride of it, the votes
of Republicans are asked. The Dem
ocrats have only been little holder
here. Its the central idea around
which all their politics revolye ev-
cry where. In whatever else they
may have apoststised, in this, at
least, that we are "not nation"
they have for the last twenty years
been consistent followers of John
G. Calhoun and Alexander II.
Stephes, and the southern portion
have faced death for it. But
strangest Of all that Republicans
men who thought that they did
right when they put down this
principle on the battle-field-win
now assist the Democrats at the bal
lot box to that which they lost at
courthouse and that,
too, under the plea Of disordered
finances, when all Democratic ira
ditions and teaching point to them
as the persistent foe of our whole
money system. The leaders of the
Democratic party in Congress de-
nounced every measure of our
finances, and never ceased their OPP
position till the danger was passed
hat made it necessary to establish
Dur present system Of finances.
When the danger was past, then,
for the sake of popularity, they be-
came the great champions of green
packs. Elect Democrats to strength
IN the national credit, when they
1on't believe in q nationl Elect
hem to guarantee equal protection
If the law, when they don't believe
n the equality of suffrage or civil
,ights,or that any one has ever been
in the south, and if they
we're that each State is sovereign,
Ind that the Federal government
;annot interfere to secure the cleo
ion franchisel Suppose we have q
Democratic administration, what
nducement have you to believe
hat we will not have @nother rebel
ION when they are called on to give
place to another party? Contem-
,late for a moment what would
lave been our condition, if the gov
'rnment had adopted the Democrat
C theory in 1864, when they asked
! withdrawal of the armies. Instead
If our hearts swelling with pride
It seeing our country leading the
ran of civilization at the great love-
casts of nations at Philadelphia, we
would see our Union to-day in war
ing discordant fragments, no ma
ion, no name, no common flag, for
ign States and foreign people, and
luman progress rolled back hun
lred years on the dial plate of time.
Remember that in entering on the
Iecond century, there is to be no
movement. The bugle
blasts of FREEDOM sound the onward
march of Republican progress.
Eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty" and let as bless God for it.
Close the column let the watch
word of Liberty and Justice run
long the line, and as the ranks of
teel advanced against rebellion In
Sc, so let the united Republican
inc advance against the same prin-
iple and to glorious victory on
he 7th of November. UNION.
A Sound Currency.