Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-23
The American Outlook,

About forty years ago en- ingenious
~ag Write eulogy on tobacco
he gave the date of it's introduction
and then the dates of the most impor
tans discoveries since that time, and
then inferred that all those discoveries
arose from the use Of tobacco, and thai
but for tho use OF tobacco the world
would still have been back in the dark
ages OF course, the whole thing was
a hrces but it was a laughable illustra-
ton OF a practice that obtains, especial
iy among political parties, of claiming
credit for every favorable event that
happens during their administration.
To this rule the late Republican par
ty was not an exception; and now that
we stand at the end of the thing, we
can look back through it and see just
how much the United States has gain
ed by it in twenty years.
From 1861 until 1865 the war ran the
country. During that time some very
important events occurred. i'm regard to
the paternity of which questions can
be raised.
Did the Republican party free the
slaves?
Most certainly not. The Emancipa-
ton Proclamation was a military de-
cree, issued as war measure by the
President, as COmmander-in-Chi of
the armies of the United States, to
break the power of the enemy; and the
Republican party had no more to do
with it than it has with an eclipse of
the moon or transit of Venus.
It is very significant fact that, ex-
cept as a war measure, emancipation
received no more endorsement from
Republicans than from the Democracy.
In evidence of this, in Iowa, the BAN
ner Republican State of the Northwest,
colored men were not permitted to vote
until 1858, almost six years after eman-
cipation.
Did the Christian element, "the God
and humanity" power of the the coun-
try, emancipate the slaves?
Most certainly not. When the Presi-
dent was urged to introduce into the
Proclamation the idea that slavery was
q sin against God, he answered that
the ministers of religion were not
agreed that it was sin. In illustra-
ton of this fact, it may be stated that
the General Assembly of the Presby-
terrain Church in 1918 took anti-slavery
ground; but in 1s45 the Old School
branch of that Church, under the lead
of George Junkin, D. D., who was the
father-in-law of StOnewall Jackson, re-
scinded the action of 1918 and recog-
nized American slavery as Divine in
stitution. Other branches of the church
stood On similar ground.
Was emancipation the result of the
rising of the political gorge of the Re
publican party against slavery?
Most certainly not. In 1860 Lincoln
received about 800. 900 votes; of these
less than $4,000 were in slave States,
and yet to these few votes two MEM
bers of the Cabinet. were given-Bates
and Blair.
TLerenev was a party that truckled
lower to slavery than the Republican
party did; and it was only when all pa
cification was scornfully rejected by the
South, and terrific war hurled into
their teeth, and two years of defeat and
disaster had proven the size of the wal,
that emancipation was accepted as a
war measure.
We have been thus careful to review
this matter because We want the facts,
and we want the colored men to know |
that the defeat Of the Republican party |
does not involve ruin to them.
But there was measure the paterni-
ty of which belongs justly to the Re-
publican party. We refer to the sys-
tenn of national banking.
When Modification, taking long
step for ward, called itself Secession and
fired into the War Office at Washing
ton, first from Montgomery, Ala, and
then from Richmond, Va, the Bank
ing Power fired into the Treasury from
Wall street, New York, and blew gold
into the clouds.
The Banking Power and the Confed-
eracy worked together. Every time
The latter worsted the..Federal Govern ,
ment in battle the former threw obsta-
lies In the way of Government loans, 6
until Sept. 4, 1862, the day after Gen.
been defeated in the Sec
md battle of Bull Run,-was driven in
,ide the lines at Washington On Sept.
|, 1862, for one day gold touched 800 in
Wall street. New York. g
How was this brought about?-
Salmon P. Chase. Secretary OF fhe
Treasury, was an advocate of banks. /,
He was first elected as Governor OF E
ohio oyer VIM. Bebb by about 10000 t
majority. On his second term the is d
ue was the propriety of giving banks +
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