Year: 1870




publican party has marked its way
by achievements of the most benef-
cent charter. 1t has wrestled with
and overthrow national corruptions
to which al other parties were held
subservient. NIightier foes never
confronted any party, and grander
or more complete triumphs were
never before gained by any party.
That party vanquished a monster
rebellion sympathized with by a
powerful faction in the loyal section
as well as embracing the entire
force of eleven of the States of the
Union. 1T abolished Slavery, re
stored the national authority, estab
lished order. and gave to the people
of all races and of every condition
their proper places of citizens and
voters in free republic, making us
what no other Republic has ever
oeen, a nation with no class of its
male citizens permanently shut out
from share in the government.


The moral triumphs and the mar
tial victories of our cause have been
grand and glorious, but they have
not been our only achievements.
The Republican party has given the
country a revenue system, wisely
adapted to the necessities and eXi-
gencies of the times, which, without
a change in the principle which pre-
vades it, may be readjusted and
modified as circumstances and con
tingencies may require. Under that
system the country has been pros
porous and free from financial dis
aster and revulsion to an extent
never known for any history. Our
cities have grown as if conjured up
by the power Of Ithuriers wand.
Our manufactures have advanced to
u high degree of perfection. Capital
has found remuneratiye investments,
and labor has been in constant de
mand and has been more highly re
munerated than ever before. The
farmer has had ready sale for all
his products, with nearer markets
and better pay then he ever knew
before And, notwithstanding the
opposition and denunciation with
which interested combinations have
met that system, the country has
gone forward with moro steadiness
and less interruption than was
known in the days when the Democ
racy bore the burdens of the gov
ernment. A


But not the least of the triumphs
OF this party of reform has been
vanquishing the treacherous, incon-
venient, heterogeneous paper cur
rency with which the Democracy
cursed the country. State banks,
with their currency, like the doc
trine of State rights, was a source
OF immense mischief and loss. The
currency of Ohio was at 4 heavy
discount in New York. The cur
rency of one State was sometimes
by law indirected from entering
another. Countcrfeiters then had
their golden age. Bank note de-
tectors were household necessity.
Every mail brought news of bank
failures, and set every man to in
specting the contents of his pocket
book to see now much the latest
bank break had cost him. Happily
for the country, all this is changed.
We have q safe national currency
good from Maine to Texas. Bill.
holders handle it without
fear. 1t has one value all over this
great CONT .ent. The money the
Ohio or Indiana merchant takes for
goods at his counter reedeems his
obligations without cost in the cit
ies of New York or Baltimore.


Are we ready to cut down that
glorious tree which has borne such
golden fruit on all it's branches !?
Are we ready to say to that party
s'Depart hence, anl let the old cur
rency thinkers and spectators of the
Democratic party rule the country
again ?" We have no doubt in our
own mind what the answer of the
American people will be to these
queries Blade.