Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-08-13
The GOOD the Republican Party Has,
and the Evil 1t Has Not, Done.

authority OF the Nation was delied in
nearly one-half of the Union; they were
opposed by hostile and rebel Govern
ment; the army and navy Of the Union
were dispersed; the arscnals were de-
pleted; the Treasury was beggared; the
credit of the Government was de-
stroyed, and all this was the work OF
the Democratic party. The Republican
party proved equal to the perilous stu
alton.
They denounced Southern nullifica-
tion.
They declared secession impossible.
They affirmed the supremacy of the
Nation.
They called out the militia to sustain
the laws.
They raised enormous armies and ma
vies to suppress rebellion.
They encouraged enlistments.
They raised money to sustain 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 captured
rebels.
They disbanded and restored the vast
army to peace footing.
They adopted the Constitutional
amendments giving freedom, the fran
chse and civil rights to the slaves.
They cared for the soldiers and sail
ors of the Union.
They cared for their widows and or
phans.
They found war and restored peace.
They found slavery and they gave
freedom.
They abolished the "wild-cat" curren-
cy of the States.
They gave the people the best secured
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 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 S627, ,537, 1874.
They have reduced the annual inter
est charges from $3.50, 977, ,697 to S79,-
633,9Sl-a saving of $71, 1,343,7 ZIG a
year.
They have maintained the National
faith and honor.
They passed the Resumption act.
They defeated initiation and opposed
"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 q less percentage of loss
than ever before.
They have secured peace to the coun-
try at home and abroad.
They have made the name American
respected in all quarters of the world.
They have secured for the Union a
foremost place among the Nations of the
earth.
And all this the Republicans have
done in the face of Democratic obstruc-
ton and hostility.
Why should party with this record
be set aside to give place to party that
opposed and resisted these measures at
every step, and would, if possible, have
defeated every one of these Republican
acts of wisdom, to which the country
to-day owes its unity and prosperityP
The Republicans have done some no.
hla tbinoS IN fb ~ will lo ,.oy,ar,
bered as long as there is history. But
there are some things they did not do:
They did not use an army to force
slavery into Kansas.
They did not fire upon Fort Sumter.
They did not attempt secession.
They did not plumber 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
disasters.
They did not "huzza' over Rebel
victories.
They did not mourn over Rebel de-
feats.
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 Union
in that city, or require troops and gun
boats to overawe them into obedience
to the law.
They were not "Knights of the Gold
en- Circle"
They did not commit the atrocities of
Libby, Belle Isle, Salisbury and Ander-
sonville.
They did not oppose emancipation.
They were not ''Ku-Klux.
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 at
Hamburg.
They did not scourge, and hang. and
shoot, and murder men for opinions S
sake.
They did not organize the Louisiana
White League or the South Carolina
rlhe 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 the tissue-ballots.
They are not "Moonshiners."
They did not resist the National au-
thority.
They did not set up their States above
the Nation.
They did not try to destroy the Ma
tion's credit.
They did not try to pauperize the
American mechanic.
They have not been an impediment to
National growth.
They have not been hindrance to
the peoples prosperity.
Can the Democratic party say as
muchP The people can trust a party
that has not done these things, but they
cannot trust party that in whole or in
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