National Republican., 1878-08-13
ANOTHER REBEL YELL.

wrestling with the grave problem What
makes hard times and low pricesP" and
its initial effort is worthy the most brilliant
of JIM ANDERsoN's achievements before the
POTTER committee. After placing tabular
figures in all sorts of shapes to suit its own
purposes, the worst feature presented being
that the Government has prepared itself for
preserving the national credit when re-
sumption comes by virtue Of law-it ex-
claims through its horn of virtuous indig-
nation: "Isn't II about time to rescue the
Country from the hands Of such wreckers MS
"these ?" No doubt such is the grave and
deliberate opinion of jim ANDERSON, based
upon the intimate knowledge Of public
finance which himself and his coadjutors in
defending the Democratic fhith have ac-
quircd during years Of patient arithmetical
study at the most eminent seminaries Of SCI
ence at St Louis, Harrisburg, aud else
where.
The present and previous Administrations
have been most deyotedly engaged in re-
ducing the public debt, thereby relieving
the people of an interest burden Of taxa
ton. They have sought first the credit and
honor of the nation, and then rs wide q
measure of popular relief as was possible
Congress, in compliance with public senti'
ment declared by statute that the paper
money Of the country should be redeem
able in coin on the lst day Of January, 1870,
1t became the imperative duty of the Ad-
| 90, tIa md
for redemption, that the national credit
might he preserved from the disaster of &
failure. To have neglected this duty wOuld
have been criminal. To have made it am
pie Is but the part of wisdom, and to hay,
overstepped the line of necessity in reach
ing point which is not clearly defined OF
that line is far from reprchensible. Th'
"wreckers" referred to by our co
temporary are the statesmen wh'
have fortified the national credit by
carefully making resumption possible
and failure OF it impossible when the
hour of trial shall come. OF course tn,
country should be rescued from sucl
"wreckers," under the call Of the horn
blowers of party which attempted t
break up the Union. These same wreck
" crsn are the men who came 10 its rescu
when the Democrats made war upon tn
Union with arms in their hands. In 1856
the Democrats attempted to rescue tn
country from these "wreckes" but failed
In 1865 history repeated itself in like man
ner In lS72 the most desperate attempt
with the aid of the Liberals, was made Il
rescue the country from these "wreckcrs,
but the failure was equally signal. Ther
in 1876 the Democrats Of the South armed
themselves with rifles, while those at til
North and West were armed from TTLDEN'
bar'l o money, and they again endeavore'
by intimidations and assassination
on the one hand, and bribery, cor
ruption, and ballot-box stulling on til
other, to rescue the country from tn
wreckers" who had stood by 1t faithful
and stcrnly through evil as well as good re
port since 1850. And again these murder
Gus and corruptly bribing resGuers wer
f driven back from the full subjugation of til
Government to their neiarious purposes, an
they have since been biting their nails il
vexation and chagrin.
Now the cry against the true friends o
the national unity and welfare is raise
| again by the same party, and its horn
blowers and gong-beates. The oflense noN
is that these statesmen, who are the custo
, dans of the national credit and honor O
. this crisis, are true to their trust in proyid
ing wisely for the emergency. Hence the
, are wreckers," and the country should l
rescued from their hands and placed IN tn
4 tender care of those who fought throug
four years of bloody war to destro
t our national identity. Do these politica
q hyenas, who are swapping and snar
: ing at the doors OF the Nationi
c Treasury, inspired in their howlings by
R seventeen years fast, suppose that tn
, people are forgetful Of history and do nj
" preserve the record of their lives and pol
cies in recollection? Ii SO, they pay po,
IS compliment to the patriotism and intell
5 geuce OF the average American citizen whc
ii they call upon them to rescue the countr
IS from the "wreckers' who have Isaved /
$ life, and are now engaged in preserving il