The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1894-01-04

the Union they have resisted thf
onward march of progress and'civill-
ization continually. \
During their protracted effort to
overthrow the Government England
was the fast friend and secret ally
of the South. The rebel govern
ment offered England free trade
and England gave the rebels solid
tokens of sympathy and encourage
ment.
She Was jealous of the expanding
industries of the North which had
enacted a Protective Tariff. She
gave them every assistance and en-
couragement short of going to war
against the North. English block
ade runners furnished clothing.
arms, munitions of war, medicines,
and everything necessary to prose
cute and continue the war and even
privateers to sweep American com.
merce from the seas were furnished
all armed and manned and ready
for their intended service. 1t was
no doubt very gratifying to the
Englishmen to see American mer-
chantmen swept from the ocean
and to see the stars and stripes
BUNDLED and to see the ships sailing
under American colors made prizes
by the cruisers which had been built
and equipped in English docks.
But when one q. S. Grant be-
came President he demanded set
Element. England declined. Grant
then said the United States would
settle the claims for damages, would
keep account of them and wait.
England began to show signs of
uneasiness, proposed the appoint
ment of joint high commission
and was glad when the time came
to pay over to the United States
SIS, 10000 for the part she had
taken IN aid of the rebellion against
the Government.
Now the same men who levied
war on the Government, the same
men who invoked foreign aid to ac-
complish its overthrow, the same
men who put Free Trade in their
Confederate Constitution, the same
men who have constantly pro-
claimed all mannes of evil things
against American manufacturers to
excite the prejudic1s of the ignor-
ant against them aie at the helm
to-day and what better can the
country expect. These people be-
lieved in Free Trade and slave
labor and they believe in them stllI.
They staked their lives and for
tunes on an effort to establish a
slave olIgarchy on the ruins of
this republic and they pre- not sup
posed to care greatly Nor the well
fare of the goyernmentlthey sought
to destroy. .
They love OLD England and feel
that they owe her n debt of graft
tude which they mean to pay. They
hate New England and if they can
strike blow at her industries they
will not forget to do 1t. !
What does William l.. Wilson or
his backwoods confederates from
fho cOu+b l-,ou, ~ o,,, about ~ ,
business of the country? They are
not business men but politicians
full of prejudice and controlled by
theory which they are ever ready
to back against the most stubborn
and well authenticated facts.
The people have no confidence in
the party IN power because that
party has advocated every political
vaguery, every financial herdsv, and
every dlsloval un-Americar senti-
ment and they know that they are
not to be trusted, hence we have
lack of confidence, financial disas-
tiers, business failures, sta nation
and finally paralysis.
If Harrison had been detected
there would have been no, lack of
confidence for the country knows
him to be true patriot. There
would have been no panic and no
suspension of business.
The ten million laborers out of
employment who have to be fed by
charity. would have been earning
@ood wages and wives and children
legged and starving to day would
ave been comfortably clothed, val
uts would have been maintained
Hnd the country would have gone
on in the even tenor of It's way as it
las always gone when under Repub-
it"tn control. Wool has shruuk
>, per cent. in value; sheep and
OTTER stock have suffered a like re-
'';a'tion and if the property of this
r'anty were put up at auction to.
!! y it would not bring as much by
aillion dollars as it would have
Ia aght the day Cleveland was
.,,.rJd.
it after all perhaOs we may nc