Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1876 — WHEN TO TEUST THE PENOCRATIC PARTY. [ARTICLE]

WHEN TO TEUST THE PENOCRATIC PARTY.

Numbers of republicans in thia county will vote the "straight ticket unserstohed* this year who haven’t dona so for many an election. But parly lines are pretty tant this campaign and they can’t be blamed much. No sensible republican feels like bassrding the keeping of the nation in the bands of democracy while there is possible danger of saddling two and a half billions of rebel claims upon the government. You say there is no danger of thia. Well, people said in 1860 there was no danger of a civil war; but in less than a year there was a war and the expenses of it are not paid yet So people sometimes say on a cloudless summer morning, There will be no rain to-day. They go out leaving tbeir umbrellas at home and i eturn from a pleasant ramble among the groves wet to the skin. There are those who think' they bear the rumble of distant

thunder' in the South when the calenders of congress art arovhSod with such claims and southern representatives like Mr. Riddle of Tennessee, Mr. Witahire of Arkansas and Mr. Merriman of North Carolina introduce bills in congress which are designed to open the door for their payment. Is it not safer to prevent the poeibility of this thing oecurlng, than to nm the risk of it? Are not times hard enough now, and is not the burden of existing indebtedness sufficiently oppressive? Why then should people not be alarmed by the menaces of the present congress? There is only one political party in the country that has ever shown any disposition to sympathise with rebels, and there is only one party strong enough possessing the inflexible determination to resist every attempt made by people who engaged in rebellion to recover from the loyal people any portion -of the losses they sustained by reason of their own wicked acts. They risked and lost; now let them go to work and earn honest livings by the sweat of their brows as many and many another unfortunate speculator has been compelled to do from time out of mind. No payment of rebel losses by the war, io as much a cardinal doctrine of tho republican party as any other sentiment In their articles of faith. The republican party is the only party in whose custody it will be safe to intrust the welfare of thio government so long aa a pardoned or amnestied rebel lives who asks to be remunerated for th* loss of property he sustained by reason of the war which his own wickedness and folly precipitated the country Into; or that hie cotton tax of 1803 to 18'68 be refunded. The sooner those claims are withdrawn from the files of congress; the sooner democratic ruffians quit shooting defenseless women and children besfc&se they are negroes; the sooner northern democrats stop reminding the soldier element of the republican party that there has been a war, by nominating for presidents and governors those who called them “hirelings,** “doge,** “cutthroats,*’and every offensive epithet of reproach to be found in the vocabulary Or framed in the language—we say the sooner these things are done the more rapidly will hasten the day when the democratic party will be safe to trust.