The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-10-20
HOW THEN:
The Possible Results 10 Flow
frOIa a Democratic VIctery.
Aud IDS EHecIs.On the Business
and Credit of the Country.

Aud its Effects On the ASusiRes
and Credit of the Country.
New York Tribune, Independe MT.
National dishonor and financial ruin
Iollowlng the. success of repudiatin!
democracy, would make it utterly i'm
poss lDIe for the nation ever to suppress
another rebellion. Destroy the public
credit, and Texas alone might raisl
the flag OF. secessiOn..with safety; thu
Union, after breaking its pledges e
those who have trusted iE thus far
would be powerless to restore the
Constitution. Public credit is at onct
the most vulnerable and the most vita
point OF the national life. AS long al
the Union could command money Il
keep its armies in the field, it was ir.
resistable; without credit it would be
WITHOUT POWER.
1t is well to reflect upon these things
since q Solid South seeks the election
OF MIR. Tilden. 1t matters little whelh-
er he is sincerely q Union man, OIL
whether at heart he sympathiZed with
secession, If the triumph of his party
would make it impossible for him or
any other President to quell rebellion.
should that time come, another rebeli-
ION would surely occur the desire for
separation, however dormant at the
South, would wake again at once. The
impotence of a nation without credit
would Immediately appear the rebel
lion of one State would be followed by
others; the Lost Cause would triumph
at last.
THESE ARE NOT WILD FANCIES.
The danger is not less but the great
CT Ior The fact that those whose policy
eahs virtual repudiatien are, in most
eases, ignorant of the consequences
Mnich would probably follow. The
SOnthern leaders, we presume, do not
no" Indulge any hope of breaking
Inc Union, for they do not
comprehend how fatal the tri-
umPh of the Democratic party
"ouId De to the public credit.
Inc first step would be the repeal of
Ine resumptiOnj act. This would be
reputation in itself, and it would
SNAKE pubic credit to degree which
cannot now be estimated. But it
would be swiftly followed by other
steps. The South rules the Democrat
lc party. The Southern States want
railroads., canals, levecs, and look with
intense feeling to the prosperity which,
As Chey suppose, has been mainly pro-
uuced at the North by the public aid
granted to such Improvements. They
Gry "De just, and give US some shareH'
Inc cry will not come in vain to
democratic party, if lifted to power by
Ine votes of Solid South. The treas
NY Is empty, but bonds and bills can
De issued, and the western lunacy of
I0nAttnTn Sof
munger for improvements. Paper
money by the hundred millions would
Oe issued, and Southern roads and ca
WOULD BE CONSTRUCTED.
Then would come war claims. Who
ian tell what amount of such claims |
would be granted, by Congress con-
.roilec by the South, and having pow |
er to issue paper money in abundance. |
u has been estimated that $4,000, 0OO,-
)OO would not cover the claims which,
I any losses by other than Union men |
or destruction of property at the |
south are to be paid, would be pre-
my man believe that Southern mem
oers, from districts in which nearly
very white voter lost some property
uch claims? Is there a man who
believes that, the Southern members
payment, the Democratic
Iarty would refuse?
Presently, then, the debt would be
doubled, the currency enormously
inflated, the public credit broken.
These results would come more surely
because no single audacious act, but
My series of Weddings to popular
ceiling and individual greed, would
produce them. A doubled
eDt means double taxes. Presently
ONE Southern States would perceive
hat by secession it might escape its
hare of burdens, grown too heavy for
ndurance. At the same time it
you'd be sure that the credit of the
JniOn had been so impaired that a new
evolution would destroy it alto gether.
he desire and the opportunity would
latch. Live coal and powder would I
leet. Every memory of the four '
ears struggle for the furled banner
'ould start up.
REVENGEFUL PASSIONS
rould give intensity to the excitement.
Without set purposes, without deIib. I
rate plan, revolution would come
Ike the Chicago fire, resisCless, sweep :
e all before it. In a month the :
,ruggle would be over. The Union I
'Ould cease to exist. Those who had {
,usted the Union would be left to q
rosecute, as best they could, against 8
eparated States. The CONQUERED
would triumph in its :
engeance over those who had helred +
y their faith in the Union to insure b
8 success. n
Every thoughtful man knows that o
lese results are possible. They are
le more probable because no one ex-
ects them; no one Is definitely and y
working for them. Mr.. n
ilden's ablest friends do not mean to
estroy the public credit, nor to dis
live the Union. Neither did the ?
ritish misistry mean to cause the d
merican Revolution. Neither did g
lie Gironde nor Robespierre mean to n
I'd their lives on the scaffold. We e
IN not afford to act in defiance of the .
VS. of human nature. Democratic :
Glory tends rs directly and clearly :
wards destruction of the Union as
would have done in 1868 or 1864. II
Mr.. Davis, of Eureka, has found
1t that a man can't run for Con- 4