The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-08-01
Communicated.

lHe party vi LluCOlu anu Seward,
of Sumner and Chase has sadly de-
generated in these latter days, 1t
was ever a party of expedient and
aimed to win no matter how
Mountain Democrat, July 26.
Now, let us for a moment consider
what would have been the conse.
quenses to our nation, or if the Dem,
ocrat objects to nation" let us say.
our country. if this so-called party of
eXpedient had not won.
If the policy of Lincoln and Sew
ard, Sumner and Chase had not pre-
vailed in spite of the most deter
mined opposition by the Democratic
party, the war would have termi-
mated with dismembered Union, or
at least, by compromise with rebel
lion and the establishment ofsIav-
cry with its perpetual danger to our
peace and its ineffacable disgrace to
US as a nation.
If this party of "expedient" bad
not won our national debt would
have been repudiated and the ma.
tional currency, including our mag
nificent banking system, would have
been debased and degraded, perhaps.
to the same low level of ante 6elIatn1
days, when the Democratic party
had had long period of uninter-
rul'i d control,
The Democrats-all sensible Demo-
crats-are heartily thankful to-day,
that this party of Lincoln and Seward
has ever won, and controlled the pol
icy of the nation during the entire
period since it first came into power,
in 1861. Some of us. though, are old
enough to remember what was said
of Lincoln. and Seward, and Sumner
in their lifetime by the Democratic
press and party, of which the Noun
tain Democrat is so conspicuous an
example. We remember the malig.
nifty with which their conduct was as
sailed how their every act, no mat
ter how salutary or how necessary,
was made the occasion for fresh
outbreak of Democratic Vituperation
and misrepresentation. If memory
serves us faithfully, they were the
objects of even greater degree of
Democratic malignity than either
Foraker, Mckinley, Reed or Quay.
Sumner was stricken down on the
floor of the Senate by Brooks, Dem.
ocratic member from South Carolina,
with Il club and beaten so that he
never recovered from the effects of it.
Lincoln fell by the hand of a Dem
ocratic assassin, and Seward had his
throat cut at the same time by one of
the same band of desperadoes who
had been melted to these desperate
deeds by the fiendish misrepresenta-
lions of the Democratic press.
The Democrat admits that on the
tariff question there may be room for
an honest difference of opinion. We
have our doubts about this, for in
view ofour matchless thrift and prog
ress since the adoption of the protec-
tive policy by the Republican party,
there does not seem to be room for
an honest difference of opinion. and
the natural conclusion is that the
Democrats are Free Traders because
the Republicans are Protectionists,
and the Democrats stick to their hob
by though they knew they would
bring disaster and ruin on the entire
business of the country.
In regard to recent pension legis-
lation, the old soldiers, who saved
the Union, have learned to expect
the slurs and insinuations of an al
WAYS unfriendlv Democratic press.
The soldiers haye not yet been for
given for the sacrifices they made,
for the years of toll and danger they
endured from '61 to '65, and until
they are found ready by their votes
to turn the government over non to
those who sought its destruction.