The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-21
GENERAL TELEGRAMS.
TENNESSEE DEMOCRATS.
A Long and Stirring Set of Resolutions.

and adopted the following resolutions:
In the name of the democratic party of
sembled, solemDly arraign the radical repu0-
ncan party, national and state, before the bar
fortunes which now Cypress and threaten the
people. Protesting its friendship for federal
union, it sought to destroy 1t in centraliza-
tice ii trampled it under its feet. To insure
domestic Tranquility its pG proclaimed ID
hate and filed the land with blood,
misrule and anarchy. Pretending TO provide
for common defens cit fruitlessy squandered
millions OF the peoples money. Affecting to
promote the general welfare, it betrayed the
public veal. Affirming its design to secure
the blessings of liberty to ourselves ana pos
terity, 1t forged for the people chains OF per-
petual slavery. Ostensibly the financial agent
Of the people, 1t was in fact the plant tool OF
the money power. II betrayed It's trust when
1t converted non-interest bearing debt into
an interest bearing debt, which Is a blighting
public curse. 1t betrayed its trust when 1t re-
undated a contract dischargable in treasury
notes, and substituted a coin contract TO the
Re1Sd1iness OF %be1 the PeUR dPet syer
and forbade payment to the public
creditors in the cheaper metal provided for in
the contract 1t betrayed its trust when II or
ganized a d ivileged class into a close banking
corporation, usurping all banking power,
anu tnEesIeo us t re T hi & Sor-
erty of the people. 1t betrayed its power when
il fixed an arbitrary period for resumption.
1t has squandered public wealth by donations
to powerful corporations. 1t mas wrung enor-
nous taxes from the people and applied them
TO unworthy partisan purposes: Under the
X has Systematically robbed the many in
the interest of the few. By unfriendly
from the high seas and utterly destroyed our
foreign commerce. 1t made the army an IN
strument in the annihilation of republican
government in the south. BY the use of the
army il put the people of the United States in
fear ana robbed them of the presidency. 1t in
suits the labor ng people OF the country by de-
mandlnQ Increase
avowed purpose of a standing menace to them.
BY levy OF
EXCESSIVE EXCISE DUTIES
upon tobacco and alcoholic productions it has
ing the revenue Service it has turned
bioodthirsty " men en- who Xii and MAIN
and destroy property al VIII, and confeSSing
the want of the jurisdiction In the federal
courts to punish them, yet it refuses TO allow
these enemies to society to be challenged any
where for their crimes. Acquiring power by
accident, II has peFpe uated 1t by fraudulently
deceiving the ignorant blacks of the south
and misleading the credulous masses of the
north, and IT has uniformly abused its power
by administering the government in the inter
est of the creditor and against the debtor class,
in the interest of the tax consumer and
and against the poor, in the interest of
the strong and against the weak, in the inter-
est OF the few and against the many. As the
legitimate fruit of its IN 4ladmin istratlon, ii
has paralyzed all industrial pursuits, has de-
strOyed the value of our property, has de-
prived labor of employment and reward, has
Impoverished and bankrupted the country,
has denied the poor an opportunity to earn
bread has filed the land with unrest, diScon-
tent and agitation, the unmiStakabie precurS-
ors of revolutionary resistance to oppression,
injustice and wrong. For these crimes against
humanity and good government We denOunce
the radical republican party as
UNWORTHY OF THE TRUST AND CONFIDENCE
of the intelligent and patriotic people. As re-
representatives. of the democratic party we con-
graduate the people that our party has at last
won victory for them over the radical repub-
lican party and its allies, monopoly and the
money power. Through the labOrs and poll
cies of the democratic party domestic govern
ments, republican in spirit, as well as in form,
have been restored to the southern states, and
these states replaced in the federal
circle with functions and rights co-equal with
the other members OF the Union. For the ac-
complishment of this great work this political
organization deserves the gratitude OF the
south and the respectful consideration of the
whole republic. he gratitude OF the former
Is due because it was the direct recipient of
the blessings OF restored political and civil
liberty. The respectful consideration of the
national republic is due because by success of
democratic policies in this regard the sword
was ELIMINATED from its internal administra.
ton, Capitalization arrested and the ancient
forms and methods of the federal system re-
established. We pledge the people that our
party will never lower its banner, nor take a
step backward until the prosperity OF the
whole people shall be held TO be the supreme
law Of political administration. In the name
of democracy we denOunce.
AN INTEREST BEARING PUBLIC DEBT
a public curse. We denounce protection a
public robbery. We denounce monopolies
hateful and destructive to public liberty, and
demand that they be put away from among
the people. We demand tue restoration of
the federal government to the Constitutional
limits and the return of its administration to
its original economy, sim 1licity and imrar-
TALLY. We demand that the military shah be
subordinate TO the civil authority in fact as
well as in theory, the repeal of laws which
have destroyed our commerce, the
repeal of the declaration that the
shall be paid in coin, and the payment in
treasury notes of so nsuch of said bonds as may
be found due after deducting the Difference
between the value of gold aud the currency
due thereon, according to the contract; the
unconditional repeal Of the resumption act;
that the odius national banking act he re-
pealed, and greenDacks be substituted Tor the
circu alton OF the national banks; that treas
ury notes be made receivable for all govern
ment dues; that no more interest bearing
bonds be issued; that all loans required by the
government be raised by the issuance of nom
interest bearing treasury notes; That the coin
age of silver be made unlim tied, and while
it is the cheaper metal, that il be
paid to the public creditor exclusively upon
an bonds Jus Iy payable in coin; that the
value Of all foreign silver coins be regulated
and made receivable for all government dues
TO its creditors; the repeal of all laws which
deny TO the people OF several states the right
to determine for themselves whether they will
authorizs banks or not; that capital In every
form be required to bear the burdens of the
government equally with labor and produc-
ton; that the present financial policy of the
government TO contract the circulation of
treasury notes, disparage silver, magnify gold
and national bank notes be reversed, and
every legitimate mode adopted TO swell
the volume of our currency with silver
and treasury notes for five years
The national republican party upheld
and protected an irresponsible minority IN the
usurpatiOn Of our state government, and per-
mitted them TO waste the substance of our I'M
represented ana impoverished people by bur-
densone taxation and the issue and sale at a
discount of millions of bonds, the proceeds of
which, IN great part, were converted to the
private use Of its party favOrites, and when
the control of the state government was re-
covered by our people, they We're threatened
with a~military government If they presumed
to question the validity of the bonds so issued.
We undertook to provide for these bonds as a
part of our public debt AS democrats we point
with pride to the fact that since the accession
OF our party to power IL has not created dol
lar of debt but has paid millions upon exist
ing debts IL has steadily reduced the ex-
penses OF the administration of the state gov
eminent; IL has attempted to meet all obliga
tons Of the state, just and unjust. By reason
of circumstances over which we have had no
control we are longer able now to meet