The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-11-04

have opposed every thing the Republican
party has done without regard to its mer-
its, and been on all sides of all questions
only having in view the best means Of catch
ing votes by which they might hoist them
selves into power and obtain control of the
Government. Is it any wonder then, that
for sixteen years, the people have been
afraid to put them in control of the offices
of the Government, and is not the question
of why they have been only hanging on to
the skirts of the Government during that
time easily answered. But say my Demo-
cratic friends, we are in power. And |
reply, you only hold one branch of the Ma
tional Legislature. How did you get there
( What have you been doing since you have
been there What new evidence have you
given that you are more capable of manag-
ing the affairs of this Government, or more
worthy of the public confidence, than in
the past sixteen years. What new policy
have you to offer? What kind of candi-
dates and what kind of platform do you
offer, with whom and upon which you in
tend to lead us to a political millennium?
Now the Democratic party came into power
during a financial crisis, world wide in its
operation. 1t was brought about here by the
extravaganza of the people in their ordin
AIRY living. superinduced by desire for spec
ulation and greed for gain not common
surate with the capital of the country and
the needs of business All our industries
had been overproducing, until our markets
were full of commodities without purchas
ers. The rottenness of the whole system
of trading was exposed when the !orce of
circumstances broke the banking house of
Jay Cooke q Co. Failure after failure
occurred, our manufactures were stopped,
men were thrown out of employment by
the hundreds. There was nothing for the
anchor of hope to cling to, but it dragged
along, bringing ruin, misery and despair
upon all. Men looked to the Government
for aid and the party in power for relief,
but none came, for it was beyond the reach
of any Legisture to stem the tide of disas-
ter. Although the Republican party was
no more responsible for this panic than
was the Democratic party for those of 1887
and 1857, which occurred under Democratic
administrations, yet men began to blame
the party and demand change with the
hope of relief.
The Democratic leaders ever on the alert
for any thing whereby they might over
throw>the Republican party fostered and
encouraged these ideas among the people,
and by the most specious promises of re-
lief and reform, managed to secure ma
iority of CongI essmen elected in the Fall
Vi ICif. L uty Cltpl lHlO IHe udllS Oh con
gresS by stealth, aud not from any inner
ent virtue in the party ITSELF and the Sc
quel shows whether or not they were false to
their promises. They could not be any thing
else, for good times they knew could not be
necessarily legislated. Trade must right
itself, and the the commercial world regu-
late this matter, each man doing all within
his power to restore confidence and pro-
duce something, for money does not grow
upon trees, nor can the Government issue
it except upon value received. How much |
better off are we to-day as the results of
legislation by this Democratic House than
before it began its first session. each man
can answer, and in the negative
The Democrats during the whole session |
of Congress never offered one measure for
the alienation of the business of the coun- |
try but by constant tinkering at the Re- |
sumption act, only unsettled it the more. |
They gave no evidence of a change of pol |
icy. but spent the whole session of Con-
gress in such partisan legislation as they |
thought would best give them political cap
ital IN this Presidential canvass. They
never reduced the number or salaries of |
the officers of the House, but created new
committees and new places, in order to
throw more loaves to the hungry crowd, |
which had FASTENED to the Capital upon |
the advent of that party to power in the !
Lower House.
No, fellow citizens, they studied how they |
might insult the patriotism of the country |
and the majesty of the law, by turning out |
of office crippled Union soldiers, to give
blatant eX-ConfederateS places, who. Fltz- |
hugh-ike, grew so great upon this Grant.
IKE 1000 refused TO Cnion soldiers. And
lVe oi Inc plincipai CLERKS appointed oS
lhe De,ioo'" aug parry were u'sciaigea ioI
'hCaPacilS anu u'nno"es'y' DuI they coulu
'euuce 'ne hu'h"e' anu Sdidi les Oh Oo'ern
niehe iaoolers ana clerks III the several
oepaftn ln because they were hepuoii-
cans. lheS re'uSeu Tue Ordinary ana ne
cessary expenses Oh Tue rost- once depart
ilieh'' Until al our la>' 'n,ouSh mans nave
oe,neu " ~" 'n'i ''e ", !" 'ioie was
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'ne senate ana the ooiu ana manly protest
OIL secretary riSh, wen nieh nave destroyed
our cors"i r anu uipioma'rc service. anu oil
ms Nv. iioni =" spl,'' VI eooiony "ione;
.ios ~ 80, p of pSo y. p W. 10.
uepai l'i1nOe VI "uy 'nii'''i ".o''' ou,
'n"' uiioe' INC I'y vi i''"s "l'oo anu anu
cottuPtion' 10 50 oeclouu Ineir reason ana
mlslead the people, thaC they might lose
thelr confidence III the republican party
ana lts leaders, ana the Democratic party
be holsted INTO complete power upon It's
ruins. say misIead, 1or, notwithstanding
they mad appointed thirty three commit.
tees ana each Democrat mad constituted
hImsel sPeclai uetecti!e lot ehe purpose
OF thoroughly investigating Ihe aunlhls-
tratlohs unoer the hepuollcah party, yet
they were not able to discover one dollar
that had been lost TO the government
These Star-chamber Investigations were
conducted IN manner that would destroy
the Sanctlty OF the domestic relations OF
life, undermine the privacy OF all business
affairs, and overthrow the conildentlal re-
iatlODS existing between men all the