Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1880-08-26
OUR PARTY,
AND THE RECORD OF ITS ACTS,
UPON WHICH IT CLAIMS THE SUI
FRAGES AND SUPPORT OF
THE PEOPLE.

pOSeQ by hostile ana rebel Govern
ment; the army and navy of the Union
were disposed; the arsenals were deple-
ted; the Treasury was beggared; the
credit of the Government was destroyed,
and all this was the work of the Demo-
cratic party. The Republican party
proved equal to the perilOus situation.
They denounced Southern nullihca-
| tiOn.
They declared secession impossible.
They affirmed the supremacy of the
Nation.
They called out the militia to sustais
the laws.
They raised enormous armies and ma
Vies to suppress rebslliOn.
They encouraged enlistments.
They raised money to Ssstain the war.
| They emancipated the slaves.
They armed the negroes.
They sustained and upheld President
Lincoln.
They conquered the rebellion.
They preserved the Union.
They were merciful to the conquered
rebels
They diSbanded and restored the vast
army to peace footing.
They adopted the constitutional amend
ments giving freedom, the franchise, ana
civil rights to the slaves,
They cared for the soldiers and sailOR
of the Union.
They cared for their widows and o.
phans.
They found war and restored peace.
| They found slavery and they gave free-
dom.
They abolished the "wildcat" curreR-
cy of the States.
They gave the people the best secures
currency i'll the world.
They have saved the eople millions
of dollars each year by making the cur
rency of equal value in every part Of the
country.
They have restored the credit Of the
Government.
! They have reduced the interest-bear-
ing debt of the Nation $6S7, ,537, ,194.
They have reduced the annual interest
charges from S15O,977,607 to S79,63S,9S1.
saving af SS1 ,343, ,716 year.
| They have maintained the National
faith and honor.
| They passed the resumption act.
They defeated the intlattion and OPP
posed fiat money"
They made the greenback worth 100
cents on the dollar.
They have fostered American indus
tries.
They have protected American me-
chanics.
They have collected the public reve-
nues at less percentage Of cost than
ever before.
They have handled the moneys Of the
Government at less percentage Of loss
than ever before.
They have secured peace to the eouA-
try at home and abroad.
| They have made the name American
respected in ali quarters of the world.
They have secured for the Union
foremost place among the nations Of the
earth.
And all this the Republicane have
done in the face of Democratic obstrue-
ton and hostility.
Why should party with this record
oe set aside to give place to a party that
opposed and resisted these Republicaa
acts of wisdom, to which the country to-
day owes its unity and prosperity?
WHAT TIE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS NOT
DONE.
| The Republicans have done some no
bic things-things that will be remem-
bered us long as there is history. BUT
there are some things they did not do:
They did not use an army to force sfa-
very into Kansas.
They did not fire upon Fort Sumter.
They did hot attempt secession.
They did not plunder the Nation OF
its arms.
They did not inaugurate rebellion.
They did not drive American COM
merce from the seas.
They did not "huzza" over Union dis
asterS.
They did not "huzZa' over rebel victo-.
ries.
They did not mourn over rebel defeats.
They did not oppose enlistments In the
| Union army.
They were not draft rioters
They did not hang Union colored meR
in the city of New York, OF burn thoF
asylumS.
They did not rebel against the Union
in that city, or require troops and g1n'
boats to overawe them into obedience TO
the law.
They were not knights of the Gold
Gil Circle"
They did not commit the atrocities OF
Libby, Belle Isle, Salisbury, and AndeN
sonvilis.
They did not oppose emancipation.
They were not "Ku-Aux.
They did not commit the butchery at
Fort Pillow.
They did not commit the horrible
massacre at New Orleans
They did not murder Dixon.
They did not butcher the Chisholm
family.
They did not massacre black men 40
Hamburg.
They did not scOurge, and hang. and
sho.t, and murder men for opinions
sake
They did not organize the louisiana
White League or the South Caroilna IT
tie clubs.
They did not drench the South with
the blood Of inoffensive colored men:
They did not invent the MISSISSIPPI
plan"
They did not use tissue-bsllots,
They are not "moonshiners.
They do not resist the National au-
thority.
They did not set up their State above
the Nation.
They did not try TO destroy the Ma
tiOn's credit.
They did not try to pauperize tho
American mechanic.
They have not been an impediment TO
National growth.
They have not been hindrsnce to the
peoples property.
Can the Democratic party say -
mucL? The people can trust pTa
that has not done these things, but theE
can not trust party that in whole "r IN
part did do them.