The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1880-08-25
[Erom the Detroit Tribune
THINGS TO BE REMEMBERED.
WHAT THE REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE.

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 navies 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 Lin
coin.
They conquered the rebellion.
They preserved the Union.
They were merciful to the captured rebels.
They disbanded aud restored the vast army
to peace footing.
They adopted the constitutional amend
ments giving freedom, the franchise, and civil
rights to the slaves.
They cared for the soldiers and sailrs of the
Union.
They cared for their widows and orphans.
They foand war and restored peace.
They found slavery and they gave freedom
They abolished The wild cat . CURRENCY Of
the States.
They gave the people the best secured cur
rency 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 dol
lars each year by making the currency of
equal value in every part of the country.
They have restored the credit of the gov
ernment.
They have reduced the interest bearing
debt of the nation $8e7, 537, i04.
They have reduced the annual interest
charges from $150,977,697 to $79,633 ,0Sl, a
saving of $71. 343, ZIG year.
and honor.
They passed the Resumption act.
They defeated imitation and opposed g fat
money!
They made the greenback worth 100 cents
on the dollar.
They have fostered American industries.
They have protected American mechanics.
They have collected the public revenues at
a less percentage of cost than ever before.
They have handled the moneys of the gov
eminent at less percentage Of loss than ever
before.
They have secured peace to the country at
home and abroad
They have made the name American re.
spected, in all quarters of the world.
They have secured for the Union foremost
place among the nations of the earth.
And all this the Republicans have done ia
the face Of Democratic obstruction and hostil-
ity.
Why should party with this record be set
aside to give place to a-party that opposed
and resisted these measures at every step, and
would, If possible, have defeated every one
of these Republican acts of wisdom, 10 which
the country to-day owes its unity aud pros
perity?
Wharf.-The REPUBLIcANs HAVE NOT DONE.
The Republicans have done some noble
thngs--thiugs that will be remembered 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 Sumpter.
They did not attempt secession.
They did not pluuder the nation of it's
arms.
They did not inaugurate rebellion.
They did not drive American commerce
from the seas.
They did not I" huzza" over Union disas-
tiers. +a
They did not "huEza over rebel victories.
They did not mourn over rebel defeats.
They did not oppose enlistment in the I'm
ion army.
They were not Knights of the Golden
Circle.''
They did not commit the atrocities Of Libby,
Belle Isle. Salisbury and Andersouyillc.
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 murder, black men at Ham
burg.
They did not scourge and shoot and hang
murder men for opinions sake.
They did not organize the Louisiana white
league or the South Carolina rifle clubs.
They did not drencli the South with the
blood OF noffensive colored men.
They did not invent the g Mississippi PLAN
They did not invent the tissue ballots.
They are not .moonshiners."
They did not resist tho national authority.
They did not set up their States above th,
nation.
They did not try to panpcrize the American
mechanic.