Year: 1868

Indebtedness which the Government has
signed and issued.n Do the Doctors oo-
iect to thisi While j. Cooke
and his co-feecers. do, all honest
men do net, nor can they. In the attn
they say aft is due to labor to equali=e
taxation and reduce the same as fast as
the National faith will allow" They
mean as fast as the wild, crazy schemes
of their party, like Reconstruction at q
cost aud sacrifice of three hundred mil
lions annually, and impeachment at q
cost of 100000 already-with loss VI
TIVE or three months time, will allow.
This is what they mean, no more nor less
II as they say there Is due to LABOR an
equalization and reduction of taxation
why on earth has not the party made II
during the last three years, daring
which time it has had supreme controi
of the legislation of the Nationf In the
5th they say, the debt should be spread
over long future period Uih reduced
interest. This is catering to the plan
proposed by Senator Sherman, which
proposes to pay twice the amount OF
the debt in interest, and then leave the
debt itself for our children to pay. But
how are they going to get the interest
redticed below what is written in the
bond, unless by reputation to that ex-
tent In the sixth they affirm that the
true policy for the Government Is to
brighten up its, credit, so it can easily
borro,c more mos,eg. This doubtless
would best accommodate Their ertrdra'
gance, as they appear to be q little
cramped at present. But how borroc-
iuq more money is to get the Government
out of debt, | think the Doctors only
can tell In the seventh, they say the
Government should be, administered
with the strictest economy, and without
such corruption as Andrew johnson
practices! With this single amendment,
bv striking out the words Andrew
johnson aud inserting Congress with
its fanciful schemes of reconstruction,
Impeachment. &c.,r and l venture TO
say the whole nation, except the "loiF.
portion, will say-Amen. Bnt why, L
would ask, has not this party, while
it has had unlimited control for the
last three years, been at this work OF
retrenchment and economy before nowf
Do they expect, with their present
record, that honest people will agree to
extend their lease of power for four
years more upon such q promisei What
party has done and not what it now
promises is the guarantee required for
what is to be its future action.


Their attack on President johnson Is
merely repetition of the vileslanders
they have filled the air with for the last
two or three years, only uttered with
the emphasis and condensed venom
which their recent defeat inspired.
They affirm he is CONVICTED when their
Court through it's presiding officer has
pronounced him acquitted" The re-
naming sections only announce facts
and sentiments which nobody thinks of
disputing, except honest men think 1t
would be wrong to .entice foreigners
here to become natnrahzed, aud then to
place it in the power of any State to
expal riate them with their families and
dependents at pleasure by throwing
them out OF the National basis OF rep
resentation.


The addendum offered by Doctor
Schurz proclaims to all ex-Rebe!s
that the only way back into the sheep
fold is to make confession under oath
that the beuighted African and clay-ea
ing whites are their civil and political
eGnals, and that they will never say nor
do anything contrary thereto as long as
they live, and that they believe the
present mode of reconstruction to be the
perfect thing, and accept the pains and
penalties of perjury in case they do not
oonsciencioasly beliere all they swear to.
This together with the Declaration OF
Independence was excluded from the
platform, but both were by unanimous
vote. ordered to, be placed as
fly-nets to the outside to
catch scattering gudgeons and
fools. By this way, and this way only
they say our once erring but now repen-
tant fellow citizens-a term that should
imply a knowledge of its duties and
will, courage and intelligence to rightly
perform theui-may return to the Gov
ernnent. What say the high sOulcd
men of the Old Free States that have
persstently denied the right of suffrage
to the few scattering blacks among
them-is the way proposed for the return
Of their "kith and kin" in the South
just and right


This is the sum and substance Of what
the present party propose, and upon
which they ask to be continued in
power for four years more. l submit
they propose to do nothing of adyant-
age, which they have not possessed the
amplest power of doing during the last
two years, but have wholly failed to
perform; while the evil they propose to
continue, if permitted for four years
more, willbecome past remedy.


The party, conscious of its own weak
ness, has selected candidate by whose
popular wing they hope to be sustained
and continued in power. General Grant,
though he possesses the wings of an
eagle. will find himselfin the predica-
ment of that bird of storms that after
carrying away in triumph several lambs
of the flock, fastened his talons to the
dead carcass of the old ram, which, on
trial, he found he could not lift, nor
could he disentangle or unlOse his tai
ons so as to escape, and both rotted
there together. Let us not be deceired.


TIE party and the platform are to
swallow, digest and assimilate General
Grant, and not General Grant them: if
he refuses to be so swallowed, digested
and assimilated, the party will spew
him out, as we have notable instances
of. SO when we have analyzed the
party and determined its constituent
elements, we know, with mathematical
certainty, what the General is to become
whatever he be now-unless he shall
elect to be spewed ont; and then he be-
comes President seithoUt a pdrty-a
noneHtity. '7@s'


Schuyler Colfax is the representative
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
North, which has very large interest
in the faneiful reconstruction enter
prise, as well as all others connected
with the party. Those whe have OBJ
served the partisan manner in which he
often discharges the duties of his pres
ent high office, can readily guage the
man. Very respectfully, G. p.


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