The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-07-24

: sums, and were ot great importance, not
only for the convenience Of oil classes Of
Q Our people, but to interest them In the al.
yantages and stability Of the public debt.
0 Within two days the whole $l5O,OO0,OO0
/ bonds were sold upon the terms stated,
. and offers were made for the whole OF the
. refunding certificates, which offers were
declined, and the certificates were sold BY
postal money.order Offices throughout the
United States, and were eagerly taken In
sums OF one hundred dollars. This closed
oil the refunding operations authorized by
law, for there are no other bonds that can
now be redeemed, except by purchase in
the open market ct their market value.
The annual saving In the interest.
charge, effected by these refunding opera
tions, since the lst OF January last, Is
s.. SIC, 1853, and since the lst Of March,
1877, to the present time, $l4,297,l77. He
also summed up the returning prosperity
70 every branch OF business, and answered
at length the arguments ot the opponents
TO return to specie payments. He paid
his respects to the Ohio GreenbacEers,
and exposed the fallaCious dogmas OF their
platform, and showed wherein their tinan-
clal policy would be hurtful TO the inter.
ests Of the country.
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY.
II isto support such dogmas, my Repul.
liCan friends, that we are invited to desert
the great party 10 which we belong, IL
may be that the Republican party has
made In the last twenty years 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 1t has erred II has always been
on the side OF liberty and Justice. II led
our. country In the great struggle for union
and nationality, which more than all
else tended to make It great and powerful,
It has always taken sides with the poor and
the feeble. II emancipated whole
race, and has invested them with lib
ertY and all the rights Of citizenship. II
never robbed the ballot-box. Ithas never
deprived any class OF people, for any
cause, OF the elective franchise. II main.
talns the supremacy OF the National Gov.
ernment on all national affairs, while OBJ
serving and protecting the rights Of the
States. 1t has tried to secure The equality
Of all citizens before the law. II opposes
all distinctions among men, whether
white or black, native or naturalized. 1t
invites them all to partake OF equal privi-
leges, and secures them an equal chance
IN lie. It has secured, for the first time
In our history, tho rights OF a naturalized
citizen to protection against claims Of mill
tary duty to his native country. It pre-
scrlbes no religious test. While It respects
religion for its beneficial influence upon
civil society, 1t recognizes the right Of each
individual to worship God according h
the dictates OF his own conscience without
prejudice or interference. It supports free
common schools as the basis OF Republi-
can institutions 1t has done more
than any party that ever existed to
provide lands for the landless. 1t devised
and enacted the homestead law, and has
constantly extended this policy, so that all
citizens, native and naturalized, may en-
Joy, without cost, limited portions OF the
public land. II protects American labor.
1t Is in favor OF American industry. II
seeks TO diversity productions. It has
steadily pursued, as an object OF national
Importance, the development OF our com.
merce on inland waters and on the high
seas. 1t has protected our flag on every
sea; not the stars and bars, not the flag OF
a State, but the stars and stripes OF the
Union. 1t seeks to establish in this Re.
public Of ours great, strong, free Govern.
ment OF free men. Ii would with frank.
ness and sincerity, without malice or
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, il
only they would allow the poor and igno.
rant men among them the benefits con.
terred by the Constitution and the laws.
No hand OF oppression rests upon them.
No baYonet points to them except in their
political imaginings. We would gladly
fraternize with them IL they would allow
US, and have but one crced-the Constitu-
ton and laws oil our country to be exc
cuted and enforced by our country, and
for the equal benefit OF all our country
men. II they will not accept this, but
will keep up sectionNlisn, maintain the
solid South upon the basis oi the princi-
pies Of the Confederate States, we must
prepare 10 stand together as the loyal
North, true TO the Union, true to liberty,
and faithful to every national obliga-
ton. appeal to every man who
ever, at any time, belonged to the Repub-
iican party, 10 every man who supported
his country in its time Of danger, to every
lover of liberty regulated BY law, and
every intelligent Democrat who can see
with us the evil tendencies OF the dogmas
! have commented upon, to join us in re-
forming all that is evil, all the abuses Of
the past, and In developing the principles
and policies which in twenty years have
done SO much TO strengthen our Govern
ment, to consolidate our institutions, and
TO excite the respect and admiration of
mankind.