The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-16

the war was over to advance these notes to par in
coin, and that we could not take advantage of our
own wrong in postponiag the redemption of United
States notes order to pay bonds in depreci-
ated and dishonored paper money; and this princi-
pie was the basis OF the act to strengthen the public
credit, passed March, 1862 Well we have at last
redeemed our pledge to the noteholder, and we
have now paid these very fve-twenty bonds in
United States notes with far greater saving than
1t we had paid them in greenbacks ten years ago,
and with infinitely greater advantage to the pubic
credit.
TDere is now no public debt about which any
question exists as to the terms aud conditions upon
WHICH IL must be paid, and yet it is proposed to
violate these conditions by the wholesale, and
place the United States of America in a far worse
posltloh OF dlshonor and reputation than Missis-
slppi or Louisiana, or Egypt or Turkey.
Ii IL possible to go farther in the road of dishon
OF t1an Is proposed in these platforms? and yet
me democrats OF the state of Maine, members of
Cne ola' powerful organization which for half a
century controlled the DIES inies of the government
are ASKED at the end of great war to su oport and
MAINTAIN dogmas which strike at the public honor
tne puphc faith, and all the cherished principles
AIMS OF mat party in its palmy days. You are
now expected to adopt the crazy dogma of extreme
oPdnlons, al war with everything that was said by
Iene[son, or Madison, Jackson. or any Of your
% Le-nohored leaders. know that it is against
o JUG ent, agalnt the instincts of old-fashloned
democrats to train under such banner and
@PPea1 W tnem now to come to the rescue of their
Coun'Iy -not to be carried by party name or
R~a o@use 70 the dishonor of their county and
4, AaVe sometimes thought that the Democrats of
tne nottnern states have been led through devious
pS'ns enough by the rebels of the south in their
eHorI 10 destroy the government and in their later
noYenenUs to Sap and mine all the great powers of
naIiohal government; but these extreme Green
4Ta as theJ are called, ask you now to follow
rd - voyage more dangerous, upon dogmas that
S 1890 lAoet the plain common sense and reason of
Psttotlc citizens, such as compose the great body
OF LIE Democratic parry
&c NY NJ OF the members of congress from the state
10 m on Hon. G. W. Laid, is reported to have
pald ms attention to me- in speech in this city, in
CAe !oHoWIng language:
Mr. Sherman has sold one hundred and ninety
t1anSn or four per cent. bonds in one day to
ploousuckers who were choking the country, and
"e snQud be 1mpeached."
~ tnls act, in single day. the treasury depart
Sient saved to the people of the United States the
sun ol $l,9O0,000 The "bloodsuckers to whom
1 ne ae4eEs are those who purchased the forty mil
f Hons VI tendollar refunding certificates, who
1o oa4 In long lines in front of eight hundred
tH IN the United States, each demanding
49,; sun Oh one hundred dollars or less of those
GSL9s1ncates in exchange for United States notes,
anu me purchasers of $150,00O 900 United States
n oomuS taken by banks to be sold
SCALE 10 citizens and corporations through
gu. the United States and in Europe, bearing the
3o"est rate of interest at which the United States
n@s ever been able to negotiate it's securities The
ploceeos were, within ninety days, applied to the
payment of bonds upon which for sixteen years the
government of the United States had been paying
I'VE per cent. in gold. These boodsuckers are
among the most prominent and enterprising and
industrious citizens of the United States, anxious
ana willing to trust the government with their
earnings, in the full faith that the promises made
to them upon their bonds and certificates will be
faithfully redeemed al yet they are denounced by
tn1s congressman with terms OF reprOach and l.
tor doing what the law commanded me to do, and
which, proudly say, able to do through
resumption and confidence in the public fath
"deserve impeachment" There must be some
thing, fellow-citizens in this which destroys
the reason of men.
The REPUBLICAN PARTY.
1t is to support such dogmas, my Republican
friends that invited to desert the great party
to which we belong. 1t may be that the Republican
party has made in the last twenty yea s some mis-
takes. 1t may not always have come up to your
aspirations. Sometimes power may have been
abused. To err is human; but where it has erred
it has always been OIL the side of liberty and JUS
t1ce. 1t led country in the great struggle for
union and nationality which than all else
tended to make it great and powerful 1t has
always taken side with the poor and feeble. 1t
emancipated whole race, and has invested them
with liberty and all the rights of citizenship.
1t never robbed the ballot-box. 1t has never
deprived any class of people, for any cause, of the
elective franchise 1t maintains the supremacy Of
the national government on all national affairs,
while observing and protecting the rights of the
states. 1t has tried to secure the equality of all
citizens before the law It opposes all distinctions
amCng men, whether white or black, native nat
uraI zed. 1t invites them all to partake of equal
privileges, and secures then equal chance in
n1es Ii mas secured, the nrSG time IN our n1S
tory, the rights OF naturalZed citizen to protec-
ton agains, claims Of military duty to his native
country 1t prescribes no religious test. While it
respects religion for it's beneficial influence upon
civil society, it recognizes the ht of each lndi
vldual to worship God a:cording to the dictates of
MS own conscience, without prejudice or inter-
ference. 1t supports free common schools as the
basis OF republican institutions. 1t has done more
than any party that ever existed to provide lands
Tor the landess. L devised and enacted the home
stead law and has constantly extended this policy,
so that all citizens native and naturaiz I'd, may en-
JOY, without cost, limited portions of the public
land. II protects American labor. 1t is in favor
OF American industry. 1t seeks to diversity pro-
auctions. 1t has steadily pursued, an object of
national Importance, the development of our COM
merce, on inland waters and on the high seas. It
has protected our flag on every sea; not the stars
and bars, not the flag of state but the stars and
stripes of the Union. 1t seeks to establish IN this
republic of ours great, strong, free government
OF free man. IL would, with frankness and SINGER
ity, without malice hate, extend the right hand
OF fellowship and fraternity to those who lately
were at war with us, aid them in making fruitful
their waste places and in developing their immense
resources, it only they would allow the poor and
1gno ant men among them the benefits conferred
by the constitution and laws. No hand of
oppression rests upon them, no bayonet pc nts to
them, except in their political lmaginings. We
would gladly fraterniz3 with them, if they would
allow US, and have but one credible con-
Stltutlon and laws of our country to be executed
and enforced by our country, and for the equal
benefit Of all our countryE1en. If they will not
accept this, but Il keep up sectionalism, maintain
the solld sout0 upon the basis of the prin of
the Confederate states, we must prepare to stand
together as the loyal NORTH true to the Onion true
to liberty and faithful to every national obligation
appeal to every man who ever at any time be-
longed to the Republican parts, to every mon who
supported his country in the time of danger, to
every love1 of liberty regulated by law, and every
Intelligent Democrat who can see with us tn evil
tend ency of the dogmas / have commented upon,
t, join us in reforming al that evil, all the
abuses of the past aud in developing the principles
and policies which in twenty years have done SO
much to siren then our government to consolidate
institutions, and to excite the respect and adj
mration of mankind.