The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1880-10-20

or 10 such an extent. If there be one thin
which the Republican party ought to
more ashamed ofthan another, it is the mont
, revolution they have put Us through fro
gold To paper and then back again fro
paper to gold.
THE NECESSITY OF DISHONEST NONE
In answer to this we are told that the w
made 1t necessary to abandon the use
honest money and resort to a dishone
system Of finance. / deny that any acIu;
necessity ever did exist or can exist for dC
+ ing so huge a wrong. They have no rigf
TO say that a just and honest plan Of rails
ing money for the war would have bee
unsuccessful, for they did not try it, n
doubt they thought it necessary to adopt
false financial policy in the same sense tina
/ 1t was and Is necessary for them TO do man
other evil things, such as kidnapping fre
citizens, suppressing newspapers, squander
ing money on fraudulent jobs, giving ava
the public lands, fastening thieves on tin
state governments, fabricating election re
/ turns, bribing Legislatures, and screening
convicted offenders from punishment. Ne
cessity is the knaves's plea as well as th
tyrant's.
THE REPUBLICAN RECORD OK FINANCE.
On this subject more than any other our
enemies habitually do us gross injustice. In
all our platforms, from Jefierson's first inau
gural 20 the last declaration of principles
at Cincinnati, the preservation of the public
aIth was acknowledged a fundamen tai
part of our creed, and they dare not deny
that we have opposed every national meas
ure tending towards reputation. But here
again they charge us with offenses Of which
they themselves are guilty. Under their
legal tender law all public debts of every
class were paid with inconvertibe paper
worth sometimes 80 and sometimes not more
than 80 cents on the dollar Surely it will
not be denied that this was reputation
qu0ad hoe. When we opposed this law on
moral and constitutional grounds, they
would not listen. When we besought them
to repeal it they told US it was not conve-
nient. When we appealed to the Supreme
Court and got it declared unconstitutional
they packed that tribunal with anti-consti-
tutional Judges and reversed the decision.
But that Is not the worst of 1t. They put
into the fourteenth amendment provision
the Southern States to repudiate
a certain portion of their debt, which was
| do not say whether constructed for a good
purpose or not, but as binding in law
and honor as any debt that was ever due
from the State of Pennsylvania And
this amendment was forced upon them by
military violence and by the basest frauds
1t being just to their creditors and true to
their own integrity was torn from them
amidst their cries and struggles to retain it.
Does it become the men who have done this
10 charge us with reputation They know
very well that all such accusations are false.
We give them credit for making the debt,
md we double the credit for making it
vice as large as it needed to be. We will
not deny them the honor of flooding the
with deprecated paper-but assert
hat it was the productive labor of the
country which paid the debt and redeemed
heir greenbacks. If we had not given our
earnings for this purpose their bonds and
notes would have been as worthless as waste
PAPER.
REPUBLICAN ELECTION FRAUDS.
There is one other thing which you must
Tot omit to notice. ! mean the propensity
f our opponents at all times and under all
heir different names to cheat at elections
call it the anti-constitutiOnal party as the
My one that fits them through and through, |
tut it has long string of aliases and many
Iisguises. In all of them, however, it shows |
ut one plain, broad mark of identity; that |
5 its utter contempt for the rights of free |
utfrage. | think that nobody now denies |
hat Packer was elected Governor and |
ounted out in 1866; nor can it reasonably |
'e doubted that the majority against us in |
has been enormously swelled |
" the frauds of every year. In the South |
rn States no pretense was ever made by the |
party of a decent regard for |
he rights of the legal voter. Under acts of |
congress, which that body had no more |
light to make than the town council Of |
'ork, nearly all the qualified electors were
creed from the polls, and others without |
how or color Of lawful rights were brought |
p to stuff the ballot boxes with Admins |
ration tickets. 1t was by intimidation, |
utlianism and false counting that the car
ct bag governments kept themselves in |
xistence for ten years. But the incorrup-
bile Democracy was equal to all this. |
Tnawed by influence and unbribed by gain
ley elected Tilden and utterly routed the
The majority of the white
eople was a million, reduced to 100000
Y the black vote. OF the electors duly APP
ointed there was a clear majority of TWEEN
y-three against them. No man was ever
ected to any office in this country if Til
en- was not elected President of the United
tates.
THE FRAUD OF 1876.
Then came that enormous outrage which
ade the name of our opponents infamous
rever They fraudulently altered the
We Hayes a majority of one, and on that
aud they put him in. The corrupt knaves
lat assisted them are biletted on the
leasury as a reward for their crimes, and
{, the people, are taxed to pay them for
heating us out of our birthright. There
as no excuse for this that can be accepted
ven as mitigation of the crime-no pre-
nse of any excuse at all that was not
FUNDED in perjury and forgery which ag
awaited its baseness thousand fold. |
'nfess | am disappointed in the effect of
lis upon the popular mind. | believed
lat the thunders of universal condemnation
ould break over the heads of the men who
nd done this thing. But they took the
oral measure of their party better than |
id. Doubtless there are many thous-
ads who have determined in their hearts
Of to trust such criminals any lon
ar; doubtless the confidence of many
len heretofore acting with them has re-
lived a shock from which it will never
scover; but their organization is nearly
compact as it was before, and most of
leir leaders move With step alert as
Ter in support of a nominee who made him
If especially conspicuous in the perpetra-
on of that great wrong. But the cheated
illions that we had before are with US still.
he immense majority that voted in 1876
n State independence, honest government,
opular liberty, peace between the sections
nd equal justice to all men, will vote again
the same way. To these will be added the
lousands in every part of the country whose
1nscience forbids them to support the par
cular kind of fraud to which this Admin
tration owns its existence. Still further
i'll the great majority be swelled by enthu-
astic love for the great Deliverer who dis
lterestedly stood by the cause of liberty at
he time of it's EXTREMIST peril. The oligar
ny that prosecuted and sneered at him then
hall painfully feel
"What freemen can do when their hearts are
on fire,
For the hero they love and the chief they
admire"
OF course We will elect Gen. Hancock as
lrely as we elected Mr.. Tilden, and by a
luch larger majority. But the same men
no cheated Ia 1876 may cheat again in1SS0
hey do not appear to have repented. They /
a.-o not SafH ar dOna aDvfbinor To Sh0tv nal