Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-07-31
md with infinitely greater advantage to the public

credit
There is now no public debt about which any
which It must be paid and yet is proposed to yio
late these conditions by the wholesale, and place
the United States of America in far worse position
Of dshonor and reputation than Mississippi or
Louisiana, or Egypt or Turkey.
Is it possible to 60 farther in the road of dshon.
or than is proposed in these platforms?-and yet
the old, powerful organization which for half
century controlled the destines of the government,
are asked a: the end Of great war to support and
maintain dognas which strike at the public honor,
the public faith, and all the cherished principles
and aims of that party in its palmy days. You are
now expected to adopt the crazy dogma of extreme
opinions at war WITH eve5ythng tnat was 81 sa:a ny
time -honored leaders, know that it is against the
Judgment, against the instincts, of old-fashioned
Democrats to train under such banner, and ap-
peal to them now to come to the rescue of their
country-not to be carried by a party name or q
party badge to the dishonor of their country and
the shame of their children.
have sometimes thought that the Democrats of
the northern states have been led through devious
paths enough by the rebels of the south in their
effort to destroy the government, and in their later
Of the national government; but these extreme
Gre enbackers, as they are called, ask you now to
fellow them in voyage more dangerous, upon
dogmas that cannot meet the plain common sense
and reason Of patriotic citizens, such compose
the great body Of the Democratic party.
One of the members of congress from the state
w.
paid his attention to me, in speech in this city, in
the following language:
"Mr. Sherman has sold one hundred and ninety
millions of four per cent. bonds in one day to
he should be lmpeached."
BY this act in single day; the treasury depart
he refers are those who purchased the forty mil
lions of ten-dollar refunding certificates, who
postofices in the United States each demanding
the sum of one hundred dollars or less of those
certificates in exchange for United States notes,
bonds taken by banks to be sold
again to citizens and corporations through
out the United States and in Europe. bearing the
lowest rate of interest at which the United States
has ever been able to negotiate its securities. The
proceeds were, within ninety days, applied to the
payment of bonds upon which for sixteen years the
five per cent. in gold. These " "bloodsuckers y are
among the most prominent and cnterprising and
industrious citizens of the United States anxious
and 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
this congressman with terms Of reproach. and 1,
for doing what the law commanded me to do, and
which, proudly say, was able to do, through
resumption and confidence in the public faith,
deserve Impeachment" lnere mu;t W sH,nv
the reason of men.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
1t is to support such dognas, my Republican
friends that are invited to desert the great party
to which we belong. It 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. 10 err is human but where it has erreu
it has always been on the side of liberty and JUS
tice. 1t led country in the great struggle for
union and nationality, which more than all else
tended to make it great and powerful. 1t has
always taken side with the poor and feeble: 1t
has tod
with liberty and all the rights Of citizenship.
It never robbed the ballot-box. It has never
deprived any class of people, for any cause, of the
elective franchise. It maintains the supremacy of
the national government on all national affairs,
while observing and protecting the rights of tho
states. 1t has tried to secure tho equality of all
citizens before the law. It opposes all distinctions
among men, whether white or black, native or nat
uraIized It invites them all to partake of equal
privileges, and secures them an equal chance in
life It has secured for the first time IN our ms
ton against claims Of military duty to his native
country. 1t prescrbes no religious test. While it
respects religion for its beneficial influence upon
civil society, it recognizes the right Of each indi-
vdual to worship God according to the dictates of
his own conscience, without prejudice or interfer-
ence. 1t supports free common.schools as the
basis Of republican institutions 1t has done more
than any party that ever existed to
provide lands for the landless. It devised and
enacted the homestead law, and has constantly ex'
tended tbs policy, SO that all citizens native an
EHeES uIVef8n pfUuuCeron5s
pursued as an object of national importance. the
DEVELOPMENT of our commerce on inland waters
and on the high seas. It has protected our nag 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 Ct free men. 1t would,
with frankness and sincerity. without malice or
hate extend the righ hand Of fellowship and frater,
nitv TO those who lately were at war VITA US, a!u
them in making fruitful their waste places ana IN
developing their immense resources, II only tney
would allow the poor and ignorant men among them
the benefits conferred by the ana laws:
No band of oppression rests upon them NO Dayoue1
ponts to them except in their political lmagnngs
We would gladly fraternize with them II they
would allow ue and have but one creed-the con,
stitut;on and laws of our country to be executed
and enforced by our country, and tor the equal
benefit of all our countrymen. 1t they Will not
accept this but will keep up sectionalisn, maintain
the solid South upon the basis OF the Irlnclpes OF
the Confederate States, We must prepare to stand
together as the loyal North true to the Union, true
to liberty and faithful to every national obgatlon'
| I appeal to every man who ever at any time De-
louged to the Republican party, to every man VINO
supported his country in its time OF danger, 70
every lover of liberty regulated by law, ana every
intelligent Democrat who eau see with us tue evl
| tendency of the dOgmas I have commented upon
| to ioin us in reforming all that is evil, all tne
amses of the past and in developing the principles
and policies which in twenty years have done se
much to strengthen our government, TO consonaa.t
| onr institutions and to excite the respect ana al
| miration of mankind.