National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-08-27
wuYIrDoEsN,r COME our so.

COuIu never De made to lay down tnelr
arms they never supposed there would be
such place rs Appomattox and such a
general rs GRANT. Their ideas of general.
ship had not risen above MCCLELLAN and
F1Tz-JoHN PORTER.
When the democrats said positively that
the issue Of groenbacks by Secretary CHASE
was a deliberate violation of the constitu-
tion they never supposed that a day was
coming when the great democratic party
would denounoe Secretary SHERMAN for
deliberately striving to Withdraw the green.
backs from circulation--but the day came
When the democrats said that "of all the
schemes for robbing the poor for the bene-
"ht of the rich, apaper currency is the most
did not expect to live to dcnounce JONI
SHERMAN for using specie in payment of
government dues.
When the democrats asserted that the
constitutional amendments were Outrage
Gus, null and void' they did not expect
to nominate q candidate for president who
would degrade himself in letter of accept
ance by declaring that "the amendments
must be acquiesced i'm
When the democrats said it would be
wild impossibility to resume specie payment
January l, 1870, they did not think Secre.
tary SHERMAN would try to resume on that
day, and if he did, Wall street would compel
him to suspend again the next day.
When, nine months after resumption,
Senator THURMAN, in the name of democ.
racy, declared there had been no re-
sumption-"it was all n shamn-the demo.
Gratis did not think that within year the
learning of their editors would be employed
in celebrating the beautiful theory that re-
sumption was accomplished by the "philoso.
I" ply Of the plow."
When democracy said that the hard
times would continue and grow harder as
long as there was a republican adminstra
ton in power, they did not think how
long the scoundrels were going to hold on
nor how easy it was going to be for them
to restore the good times-but such mis-.
takes will happen.
When the democracy said that as soon rs
the slaves were emancipated they would
all turn to and cut their masters Threats,
they did not expect to be trying in few
years to account for great democratic victor
les in Georgia and Alabama by claiming
that the negroes had voted solid for the
democratic ticket. Yet so it is.
When the democratic vo ters were resist
ing the draft or fleeing their country TO
avoid LINCoLN's hireling recruiting officers,
it did not seem possible that the time could
ever come when the average democratic
editor would claim that "the war was car
fried on mainly by democrats" Yet so it is
When the democrats were denouncing re.
publicans for allowing such brutes as ne
groes the right to vote, the right to testify
in court, the right TO travel in public con,
veyances, the right of trial by jury Of
their peers, it did not seem possible that the
time would come in q few years when
democrats in congress would assert that the
only true friends of the negro were to be
found in the democratic party-but this has
happened.
! When the democrats announced that ne.
gro emancipation would annihilate the cot
ton crop, "just as the sugar business was de,
"sroyed in the West Indies you know
they did not certainly think the ANNA
cotton crop could 60 on gaining few hun
bred thousand bales yearly in a region
where white folks can't work and negroe
won't-but all see how that is. Providenc,
has come in and helped.
When the democrats said the republican
administration would utterly destroy tn
credit of the country, they did not expec
to see government bonds with interest onl,
four per cent. commanding a premium O
nine and three'quOrtors per cent, Who coult
see such discrepancy between cause ant
effect?
When the democrats said that the repub
licans were managing so as to allow tn
money kings to gobble up the earnings o
the poor by enormous rates of interest, the,
little thought that in a few years the none,
kings would be giving a bonus Of two ant
a.half years interest to get four per cent
bond instead ofbuyiug six per cent, at
discount Of eleven per cent, rs they hat
formerly-yet some pork will boil in tina
I way.
When the democrats said they must rC
t peal the supervisors bill in ordeE to secur
n free ballot at the south, they little though
that a state like Alabama, with greenbac
r majority Of 10000 could be made to give
t democratic majority of 10000 with the ba
lot not free If this is not so ask DE /
I MATYR aud WEAVER,
! When the democrats said the tariff wa
. running the farming interest and must b
repealed, so that farmers may buy their i'm
plemonts cheaper they little thought thg
in few years the farming interest undo
the tariff would grow and prosper beyou
all precedent-but so it happened,
When the democrats said that republica
policy made interest high for the benefit
= money.lcnders aud wages low for the crust
) ing ont of the laborer, and awoho one morn
D ing and found interest low and wages higl
they said How very remarkable
. is that BENEDICK should have sai
when | said | would die bachelor / di
u not think | should live to get married
And that sthe way things have turned OF