Year: 1867




Our enemies persistently clamor about
the magnitude of the national debt, as
proof Of Republican incapaeity to govern,
and therefore argue that We ought to sus-
tain coppeRhead candidates for Office. But
will they pay of the debt or repudlate It?
If they propose to pay it of in what way
can they DO so without increasing the al
ready enormous taxation? Yet these same
copperhead's 5 keep up the same clamor
about the taxation as being a vast incubus.
How can they reduce both the debt and the
taxes2 They already have the whole IA
tional administration in their hands, Inclu-
ding the President and Secretary Of the
Treasury We can give them no more pow
er to reduce either debt or taxes. iii they
had a majority in both houses of Congress,
they could not reduce expenses without en-
barTassing their own administration, unless
they We're to stop all payment Of bountIes
and pensions to soldiers. Still they appeal
to the soldiers as being their especial friends,
and represent the Republicans as their enc
mics. Would they pay seven and half
millions OF dollars for Alaska and five millions
for SANTANA, or would they repudiate these
engagements which are not Republican, but
made by Seward and johnson?


They magnify the burden of the debt and
endeayOr to render it OdiouS to the people,
at the same time that they pretend to accept
the lessons Of the civil war and the splendid
results achieved it. Ii the war and Its re-
suits are to be considered thus as beyond
question, why dispute the debt without
which it could not have been carried on Z
If they do not desire TO repudiate that debt,
why seek to render it odious? If they 50
ardeEtly wish to reduce the debt, why IN
I l-aI Of 5uf E.gr tTrnFIIDrr
| creeubacks bearing no interest in securities
that pay six per cent, in gold? If as mat
! ter Of economy they are opposed to paying
b0unties to the soldiers, why go on paying
| out millions for more territoTg2 If they are
/ so well satisfied with the greenbacks, why
reiterate all the old stale cries about an ex-
4 cessive and worthless currency? If they
| prefer q guaranteed bank currency, why
/ seek to undermine the credit Of the national
/ banks2 Ii they are 10 favor Of q reduction
! Of taxation, why oppose the abolition Of the
! onerous taxes on domestic Industry They
| have constantly represented that there ex-
listed so great and pressing q need for rev
4 cHue as to leave no room for q lowering OF
taxes, and yet they keep up cl8mor at the
same time against this rerY taxation as IN
/ just


They seek to make the Union soldiers re-
gard them as their friends. while they con
tinually depreciate their glorious deeds, and
award more credit to the rebel troops than
to our own. They pretend to abhor the as
sassination Of President Lincoln while they
lament the execution Of his ass2ssins, and
strain every nerve to render odious all en-
gagged in their conviction and execution.
They lay claim to patriotism and adhesion
to the Union side in the civil war, while
they do not disguise that their sympathies
were with the rebels; and regard Jefferson
Davis and his associates as the greatest of
statesmen, and Lee, Bsauregard, johnson,
ETC., as the greatest Of generals. They per-
petually cry out for the Constitution, at the
same time that they associate with rebels
who sought to destroy i. They claim to be
Democrats, yet oppose democratic prinei-
pies They assert their devotion to nation
atty, yetoppose everything national. Such
a bundle Of contradictions was probably
never before seen in any political contest.
The party is thing fconuarieties, impos-
sibilities, contradictions. It's creed cannot
stand the test Of any great national struggle.
NORTH american.