Year: 1879

present and past sessions of Congress,
in the direction of disloyalty to the Ma
tional power and loyalty TO the State
| Governments as supreme above the
Federal authority in matters relating
TO the Federal Government, has only
added to their weakness with the peo-
| pie. They assumed quasi revolu-
| tionary attitude toward the General
Government, and they soon learned
from the people that revolution holds
no place in the Northern heart. There
may be a few Democrats in the North
who sympathized with the other rebel
lion, and are ready to egg on revolu-
tion now, but the mass of the people
spurn such an attitude rs they would u
pestilence, and take no stock in the
starvation revolution which is now be-
ing nursed in Congress. So long as
the Democrats build platforms for
themselves by such architects and out
of such material, they are welcome to
the performance, for each plank and
each nail thus introduced will form
their final encasement as n party. If
they fancy they are deceiving the peo-
pie they are deluded. If they think
the business and commercial interests
of the country sympathize with them
in any degree they are entirely mis-
taken, Tor the people want peace and
quiet from revolution or its agencies.
They have had enough of secession
and rebellion, and do not desire any
more, or of starvation revolution us
their substitute.


The attempt now being made to strip
the reserved federal power of its SUI
preme authority and TO divide it with
the States is an assault which attracts
public attention, and excites distrust
toward the party engaged in this work
of revolution. The direct tendency of
this Democratic policy is to disturb con-
fideuce, disarm enterprise, cripple our
industries, and thus take employment
and bread from the workers, for the
reason that when revolution in any
form shows its head, capital and enter
prise retire to seclusion, and employ
ment and its rewards are nowhere to be
found, and the workers of the country
are brought to grief After passing
through series of financial crises,
which had entailed great suffering upon
the laboring classes, when resumption
was achieved and steadily maintained,
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of trade and business, and it began to
put on an air of hope and increased ac-
tivity. The country had the promise
of revival of business, but when the
Democratic party assumed y hostile
stand toward the Executive and the
laws of the country, and threatened to
starve the Government unless they
could be permitted to disarm it of the
power to enforce its own laws and pro-
tect the rights of the people by every
constitutional agency, that promise was
dimmed and the business heart sank
back into disappointment and disgust
at this fresh outrage. The hope that
inspired the business heart of the coun-
try in February last began to fade in
March, when the Democratic pro-
granrme was promulgated to the coun-
try, and the policy of that party began
to take shape under its inspiration, and
it has grown weaker daily ever since.
1t is now too late for the Democrats to
check the mischief they have inaugu-
rated by any make-shift. They must
meet the people on their own recon-
structed platform of State rights, and
stand or fall by the issues they have
created and presented to the country.
No shifting of scenery-no change of
actors-can disarm the plot of the
comedy of errors of its mischievous
character and tendencies. The Demo-
Gratis have selected their parts in the
political drama, and now the play must
go through, rs they have have put it
on the stage. National Republican,