The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-07
NORTHERN DEMOCRATS.
what the People of the south owe to the
Northern Democracy.
jackson miss. J Clarion.l

People are prone to complain of others. The
world over there Is nothing 50 much sought
after as a sCapegOat. just now it is fashion
able to abuse the Northern Democracy. A
spicy editorial or rafting congressional
speech, arraigning the Northern Democracy,
will 90 the rounds of the press and receive
plaudits that will awake the echoes. The
latest cause of complaint Is that the Northern
Democratic leaders are not as liberal as they
might be in voting subsidies fol-. Southern
enterprises and for the payment OF Southern
claims.
They who indulge these complaints seem to
forget the sacrifices which the Northern DEM
oCrats have constantly made IL running
counter to the sectional current anC opposing
the v1ndictive measures originated by the
Radical party Tor the prescription OF the
South. When the South had no voice in Con-
gress and it was popular in the North 10 VII
lily and prescribe her, the Democratic kepfe-
sentatives of that section risked everything
in ChampiOning her cause. The only OppOsi-
ton which the bitter reconstruction policy, OF
the Radicals encountered in that section
came from Democrats.
In opposing Southern claims and subsidies,
since the bloody shirt slogan has lost It's
potency the Northern Republicans have
found their chief stock in trade. 1t figures
in all Their platforms, and is the staple OF
their campaign speeches. Ii the Southern
| Democracy are to break with Northern DEM
Ocrats on that question, where are they to go
not find it In the Republican party Of that
section which parades its opposltlTn to what
| are called Southern schemes on all occasions
and relies upon it for success IN the next Con-
gresSiOnal ami Presidential elections 49,
| A thing to be remembered to the credit OF
| the Northern Democracy, besides their course
upon reconstruction is their constant opp0sl'
| ton to the ruinOuS financial policy OF Jhe he
publicans. The very men who are now as
! sailing them on the claims anu SUBSIDY queS
| 4; = bn 4uty n 6nIiypra
| from these measures is in union OF North
ern Democrats with the South. Look at the
Northern Democratic record on these ques'
tons We have found it so well presented Dy
the Hon. George G. Vest, OF Missouri, that w
| will avail ourselves OF Gne IOIloWIuS eAIIdG
from a recent speech OF his:
When the bill was submitted taxing thu
government bonds and securities neld by TN
banks In the different States, the Democratic
party in both houses voted LII mass III laVo
Of the measure, boldly taking the ground tina
the refusal to tax this Immense sum
So, 500 600 600 was an unrighteous act, oppres
Sive, unjust and unconstitutional.
! Again, on July Z, 1870, when sherman
proposition to increase the amount OF natlona
bank note circulation at the expense OF u
greenbaCks was before congress, Cne VoGe Il
the House stood four for it and f0rty-t0ul
again. lust previous to this, on June IL, 1916
Randall the present Speaker, 0ftered sup
stitute for ShermanS bill, which SUBSTITUTE
proposed to issue $500, OOo, 900 in greenbacks t
take up the national bank no, nose3, IN v tni
proposition the Democratic vote sIood' liza
~, nays 5. l.. ,r.o,,
Democrat, of Ohio, offered g substitute re
pealing the national bank act, providing fo
the issue of S4OO,OO0,00O to redeem the ma ma
tional bank issue, and prOVldlng LhaG I'd
greenbacks should be receivable for every
Thing. The Democratic vote On this prop(
sltion stood: For the substitute, 81; agalns
it, 8.
Again, January II, 1870, McNeely, Demo
: GRAFT, offered the following resolution:
ResotUed That the Committee on Bankin
I and Currency be and they are hereby i
J structed to report, at an early date, 81
, providing for withdrawing from circulate
the national bank currency, and tor lssuln