Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-09-23
What the Republican Party Has Done.

string of inconsequential para
graphs under the gene raj title OF '.What
the Republican Party Has Not Done,"
is going the rounds of the stalwart press.
Some account of what the Republican
party has done will probably interest
the average reader quite as much as
this ridiculous concentration of mega
tives.
The Republican party deliberately in
troduced sectionalism into politics.
1t attacked the peace of one-half the
Union at its very inception.
1t aimed at revolution from the day it
was organized.
1t fostered disunion before the civil
war and its most eminent men openly
declared in favor of .letting the Union
slide.''
1t encouraged secession through the
utterances of its leaders who said to the
Southern States, Hayward sisters,
depart in peace"
1t discouraged Unionism before the
civil war by sneering at the Democrats
as Union-savers."
1t committed a cruel crime against
the army and the country by refusing
to reinforce Mcclellan before Rich
-mond when he might have ended the
war in 1862
1t permitted Union soldiers to starve
and die by refusing to exchange them.
1t prolonged the civil war by its blum
dering. mismanagement and favOritism
in the War Department.
1t sought to govern outside of the
Constitution two years after the war,
as acknowledged by Thaddeus Stevens
in Congress.
1t set up the carpet-bag Governments
in the South which issued, stole and
sold one hundred and thirty millions of
dollars in Southern State bonds.
1t confiscated the property of the
Southern people through the intoler-
able taxation it imposed upon them
during the reconstruction period.
1t impoverished the Southern States
after the civil war so that the people
of the other States were obliged to bear
an undue share of the burden of taxa
ton.
1t set aside the civil courts and sought
to rule by martial law in time of pro-
found peace.
1t donated millions of acres of the
public lands to gigantic corporations
and voted lavish subsidies out of the
Federal Treasury for their benefit.
1t corrupted legislation through the
promotion and protection of the lobby.
1t brought shame upon the Republic
through the ''Black Friday" operation,
the Belknap scandal, the Sanborn
''moieties" swindle, the Credit-Mobilier
job, the Whisky-Ring frauds and other
like iniquities.
1t managed the finances and currency
in such a way that after it had held
power for twelve years the country was
involved in a most disastrous financial
panic from the effects of which it has
not yet recovered.
1t stole the Presidency in 1876 after
the people had defeated it's candidate
by majority of quarter of million
of the popular vote and a clear major
ity in the Electoral College.
1t is now brazening out its shameless
record by supporting a candidate for
" the Presidency who was branded as a
false swearer and bribe-taker by Re-
publican Congressional Committees
and denounced almost universally by
the Republican press for his participa-
ton in the Credit-Mobilier and De Col
yer jobs, and a candidate for the Vice
Presidency who was kicked out of the
New York Custom House by r. B.
Hayes because he connived at malfeas-
ance and corruption in his Office
Harrisburg pa. Patriot.