The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-10-01

Iican and Democratic parties is this |
The Republican party, as a party, |
has been right. 1t has had some bad
and some rascals in its or |
but it has never been UNI
der the necessity of repudiating any
of its doctrines. Republican prin-
ciples twenty years ago are good Re-
publican principles to-day.
The Democratic party, on the other
hand, as party, has been always
wrong. 1t has had a few safe coun-
sellers, but the conduct of the party
itself has been Internal. While the
spirit and the animus of the party is,
as it always was. a reiteratiOn of its
principles twenty years ago would
be strange reading now.
Democrats all admit now that it
was good thing to save the country
from dissolution a good thing to do
away with slavery; it was right to
enfranchise the blacks; it was right
and honorable for the Nation to keep
faith with its creditors and, as l said
in former communication, there is
not one Democrat in hundred but
is glad in his heart to-day that Re-
publicans and Republican principles
have triumphed. 1t is no answer to
this to cite the quarrel between the
two wings of the Democracy in Vir-
glnia, neither of which seriously in
tends to pay their State debt.
There is no danger of the repudia-
ton of the National debt now and
the people know who have been the
defenders of the National faith as
well as the, National existence.
While the Democracy stand aghast,
as it were, and lift their hands in
holy horror at the pretended misdeeds
of the Republicans, what have they
done 10 better the condition of the
people, to increase the prosperity of
the country or to win the confidence
of the people
Looking back over the past what
monuments of wisdom, of statesman
ship or of patriotism are observable
along their pathway? What great
achievements will the historian rec
ord? They secured the discharge of
few Department clerks who would
have been discharged anyhow tor in
true economy the Republicans always
met them more than half way. But
when they had an opportunity to
put their professions to practice,
they VIGOROUSLY did not do it.
AS soon as the lower branch of
Congress came under their control
they discharged large number of
Republican officials but straigbway
appointed a large number of Demo-
Gratis to fill their places, and when
they likewise got control of the Sem
ate the battle SCARED veterans of the
Union were unceremoniousIy dis
charged and greater number of
Confederates and hungry Democrats
appointed in their places. and in both
instances the expenditures were
heavily increased.
When they got control IF Congress
the country was in a great financial
crisis. Did they pass or advocate the
passage OF any measures of relief =?
Did they utter a word or do any act
calculated to restore confidence? On
the contrary they went about with
long faces declaring that the country
was going to the "Gemnition bow
vows :" that resumption could not be
accomplished. and that nothing but
unlimited Greenbacks and an un-
washed Democracy would save the
country from predition. In Congress
they resolved themselves into SMELL
ing committees and made excursions
all over the country at Government
expense, spending hundreds of thous-
ands of dollars interviewing all the
self confessed purjurers and liars in
the country, red headed and other
wise, in a vain effort to discover
something cut of which to manufac-
ture political capital and this is the
service for which the Democrat hopes
to see its party rewarded with place
and power. Its party has no possible
merit of its own nothing under the
sun to run campaign on but the
alleged rascality of five or six subor-
dinate Republican Office holders, leng
ago discharged disgraced and forgot.
ten, but it declares its purpose to
make this the chief issue in plat
form, stump and paper until the
"natien" is aroused, &c. What is
there so alarming in the present state
of affairs?
"Abolitionism." "Lincoln's hire
lings," "White mans government"
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