The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-08-07

The poor, and insisted that all should
have right to exercise it, ought to
be turned out, and the Democrats,
who opposed this right, ought to be
turned in, in order that they may de-
fend and protect it.
During the rebellion, when the
government was sorely pressed for
means to prosecute the war, the Re
publican Congress authorized the
Secretary of the Treasury to issue a
certain amount of Legal Tender cur
rency wherewith to pay off the SOL
diers in the field and to purchase sup
plies and munitions of war. The
Democrats said this was wrong-it
was unconstitutional and they oppos-
ed it. The Republicans went on.
however, in spite of Democratic OPP
position-a way they had of doing
things-and issued the Greenbacks /;
and when the war was over, the Re-
publican administration began 10
shape its policy looking to the re-
demption of the greenbacks, as it had
given cut at first, and even printed
on the face of the notes promise:to
redeem. But now the Democrats
came forward and said they had been
wrong at first and the Republicans
had been right, but that the Repub-
licans were now wrong and they
were right, for although they had
contended that greeDhacks were un.
constitutional and ought not to be
issued in time of war, yet now that
the war was over, the country should
have no other sort of money; that
Notwithstanding the faith of the Ma
ton was pledged to their redemption
the National bonds and every species
of debt should be paid in deprecated
greenbacks. But the Republican
party had never abandoned a cause,
forsaken principle or broken a
pledge. They had made their mark
high, and under the most favorable
circumstances the task was a most
difficult one. The Democratic party
had inculcated her financial heresies
so successfully that every foul bird
came from abroad and took shelter
under her banner. The strain was
fearful, the effort was herculean. but
in spite of Democratic opposition, in
spite of that other fiedgling, Green
backism, in spite of the two combin-
ed. in spite of the hard times, brought
about, chiefly, by Democratic pig
medicines and treachery, the Re-
publican party made resumption an
accomplished fact; and now the coun-
try is on the high tide of prosperity,
such as her history has never known
before. And now again the Demo-
Gratis come forward and say that the
Republicans were right and they
were wrong, and that because the
Republicans surmounted almost in.
difficulties, the chief of
which was the Democratic party and
made the country prosperous in spite
Of them, therefore, the Republicans
who have done so well ought TO be
turned out and the Democrats turned
in, who. by their own acknowledge
ment have had the strange fatality
of getting on the wrong side of every
prominent issue in the last 20 years.
Is it merely a long catalogue of
or is the Democratic
party public enemy-a standing
threat to the peace, the prosperity,
the perpetuity of the Union? They
acknowledge biennially that they
have been wrong and the Republi-
cans right by shifting their position
and trying to hedge in on Republi-
can ground and by adopting more or
less of the principles of the Republi-
can party. Do they do this because
they have been converted to Repub-
lican doctrines, or are they ready to
sacrifice principle for the sake of Of
flee? Is the Democratic party a
party of principles or party of
shams An honest man will sup
port an honest party. Can an honest
man support the Democratic party /?
"That is the question:"