Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-02-01

ng out the life of the country. The
iream of Alexander HaElIlton's ambi-
ion when be led the old federaiists, has
oeen realized in the financial system OF
he republican party. Under this sys-
;em New England and Wall street own
Ind control the Union. The republican
eaders determined to crystalize their |
power and make it perpetual, by erect
ng q centralized financial despotism.
around which should rally the janizaries |
of tho national banks. and the Pretorian !
cohorts of the bondhelders. Every in |
.erest was subordinated to this giant in |
amy.
The bonds OF the government, inter-
est-bearing and non-taxable, were sold
at ruinous prices, and moro than two |
thousand national banks were permitted |
to deposit these bonds with the govern
ment, draw the accruing interest, issue |
bank notes to an amount only ene-tenth |
less than the bonds deposited and then
loan these notes to the people tor ten
per cent. interest. payable il advance.
The same spirit of contradiction, al
ways locking to the sarae cad. made the |
ponds payable, principal
and interest, in coin, when, by their
terms. the principal was payable in
legal tender notes. The same spirit
afterward made these bolds convertible
into coin bonds, so as b destroy the
identity of the original issle. The same
spirit, in order to make tn, bonds more
valuable; demonetized silver, and, final.
ly, struck down with the a:e of resump-
tion the energies and industries OF the
entire country.
Who demanded resumptinp The na-
tional banks and bondholdrs. 1t has
come by operation Of law, AID ruin has
come with it. Business is paralyzed,
values destroyed, the county full of
tramps, the cities full OF there's, whilst
the people of the west are stating bank
ruptcy squarely in the face. "Honest
money!" shouts the bondholter! The
credit of the government mus be pre-
servedI Yes-so says every honest
man; but to preserve the credit of the
government it il not necessaT to rum
and bankrupt the people. The credit
of the government and the Welfare OF
the people should 60 hand in hnd.
The government is not the master of
the people. It is their property, their
creature, and its only use is to subserve
their interests. With the republican
party. the government has an e.istsnce
separate and apart from the people.
The greenbacks which the peope were
compelled to take as legal tende'. were
refused by the government for import
duties and interest on the pubic debt.
In other words, in accordance With the
menarchial system. based upon central
ization, there has been one morey for
the people, another for the government.
In 1874 the democratic party Of Mis-
souri, demanded in its platform, vhich
had the honor OF reporting from this
stand, that greenbacks should be made
equal to gold, by making them receiva.
BILE for import duties and interest on the
public debt. In the name of the people
we demand now that the ruineus system
of the republican party shall be revers
ed; that instead OF contraction and con
gestion, we shall have expansion anc
healthy enterprise. Let the volume O
currency be increased, its value enhanc
Ell by making 1t receivable for all debts
public and private, the national bank
ing system abolished; and instead of
bank circulation let there be legal ten
der notes issued directly by the govern
ment.
Capitalization is the genus, the pre-
siding dei*J Of the republican party.
psrmeates all its policies and control
its councils. Even the federal judiciary
keeping step with the political depart
ment, has, under one device and another
extended its jurisdiction to every elias
of litigation, until. in the terse and en-
phatic language of Col. Benton, 18th
federal tribunals stand open, like th
gates Of hell, by day and night" En-
boldened BY past success, eminent Leaf
ers of the republican party now propos
to organize national militia, to be col
trelled by the general government, ind
pendent of the states, and in violation
the constitution.
| Why is it to-day that Grant is the vi
questioned leader of the republican pa
ty. and they propose to give him VIII
Washington never asked. and Jeffersc
never aspired to-? 1t is because he
the incarnation Of force and milital
power.
When two years ago the republics
leaders conceived the desperate pr
gramme which seated in the PRESIDENT
chair man fairly and honestly defeat'
at the polls. when an infamy was perp
trated which will live in history as Il
greatest outrage OF modern times. Ora
begun Immediately to move his REF
ments toward the national capital, as tt
legions in the elden time moved iowa
Rome when the empire had been sold
| q oH nj yxyifh,,, ha lypa axulodrrn
the people.
.. The democratic party is denounced
the party of notification, but not O
word of condemnation, or even prote!
has come from the republican pre-
against the extraordinary declaration
Gen. Grant that if silver were remor
tized, he would advise every busine
man and merchant in the United Stat
to refuse it in payment of any debt or t
discharge OF any contract. In other wor
he would nullify an act of congress e
acted in obedience to the overwhelmi
will Of the people.
Is it at all surprising that Gen. Ora
!, is the idol of the centralizationists ?
! to use tie language OF Mr.. Howe,
Wisconsin, "having exhausted the he
oho Va ShO "VoSoAh AC u
!. gone abroad that the east might sta
up to do him reverence"
:, The programme will be consummate
when in a few months he returns throu
the back door OF the republic, and ma
;. ing his triumphal march across the CO
= tinent. attended by the plaudits OF t
: eastern bondholders and gold owner
, shall realize those sonor0us verses
: Homer:
= ''Hark to Tydides, rushing from afar,
As with his golden chariot wheels,
y he thunders TO the war;
3 In nothing, however is so clearly de-
D onstrated the centralizing tendenc
II of the republican party, as IN its
g called reconstruction policy toward t
d south. Under pretenses OF protect
d the colored man. and lnsuring his equ
e ity before the law, the republican les
ers have attempted to strike down I
g system of state government, and to CT
c ate upon its ruins an elysium for t
l. licensed thieves, who, protected by ie
g eral bayonets. have plundered ind
g criminately, whites and blacks, of t
q little left by the war.
: And. here, let me say distinctly a
b emphatically, that no true democl
d wishes to disturb any amendment to t
federal constitution, or to take from a
J. citizen, white or black, any of the rigl
s conferred by federal legislation.
l. the other hand. every patriot must 1t
e ognize the absolute necessity of ma
:, tanning those amendments and OF e
q waiting the colored race to true ctize
II ship by education. and a full guaranl
It for every legal right.