Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-08-19

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sailors of the union.
They cared for the widows and or
phans.
They found war and restored peace.
They abolished the wildcat cur.
renoy OF the states.
They gave the people the best Sc
cured currency in the world.
They have saved the people from
the loss of millions Of dollars each
year in broken bank bills.
They have saved the people mil.
lions of dollars each year by making
the currency of equal value in every
part of the country.
They have restored the credit of
the government.
They have reduced the interest
bearing debt Of the nation 1927, 587,-
1914.
They have reduced the annual in
terost charges from $I50,977,697 to
S79,633,981-a saving Of $685.
TIC year
They have maintained the national
faith and honor.
They passed the resumption act.
They defeated imitation and op.
pose ''fat money"
They made the greenback worth
che hundred cents on the dollar.
They haYe tostered American in
1ustries.
They have protected American me-
chanics.
They have collected the public rev.
enues at less percentage Of cost
than ever before,
Thoy have handled the moneys of
the government at less percentage
of loss than ever before.
They have secured peace to the
country at home and abroad.
They have made the name of the
American respected in all parts OF
the world.
And all this the republicans have
done in the face of the democratic
obstruction apd hostility.
Why should a party with this rec.
ord be set aside to give place to q
party that opposed and resisted these
measures at every sep, and would,
if possible, have defeated every one
Of these republican acts of wisdom.
to which the country to-day owes its
unity and prosperity?
The republicans have done some
noble things-things that will be re-
membered as long as there is history.
But there are things they did not do:
They did not use an army to force
slavery into Kansas.
They did not fire on Fort Sumpter.
They did not attempt secession.
They did not plumber the nation of
its arms.
They did not inaugurate rebellion.
They did not drive American CON-
merco from the seas.
They did not "huzza" over union
disasters.
They did not 'huzza" over rebel
victories.
They did not mourn over the rebel
defeats,
They did not oppose enlistments
in the union army.
They were not draft rioters.
They did not hang union colored
men in the city OF New York, or burn
their asylums.
They did not rebel against the un-
ion in that city, or require troops and
gun boats to overawe them into ODE.
dience to the law.
They were not "Knights Of the
Golden Circle"
They did not commit the atrocities
of Libby, Belle Isle, Salisbury and
Andersonville
They did not oppose emancipation.
They were not "Ku-Klux."
They did not commit the butchery
at Fort Pillow.
They did not murder Dixon.
They did not butcher the CHS
holm family.
They did not massacre black men
~ AAanUufB.
They did not scourge, and hang,
and shoot men for opinions sake.
They did not organize the Louisi-
ana White League or the South Car
DINA rifle clubs.
They did not drench the south
with the blood Of inoGensive colored
men.
They did not invent the "Missis-
sippi plan"
They did not use the tissue ballots.
They are not "Moonshiners.
They do not resist the national au-
thority.
They did not set their states above
the nation.
They did not try to destroy the ma.
TONS credit,
They did not try to pauperizs the
American mechanic.
They have not been an impedi.
men 10 the national growth.
They have not bsen hindrauoo to
TIE peoples prosperity.
Can the democratic party say as
much ? TIE people can trust a par.
ty that has not done these things, but
they cannot trust a party that in
whole or part did do them.