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Peace And Honesty

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
December
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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Th two grcat necds of tho pcoplo of the United Ssates at tho present time are honesty and peacc. Undcr tho sway of the Hepublican party force and corruption have becomo national evils. Our civil service is notoriously moro vicious than any ever known among any peoplo speaking the English languago, and tlie employmcut or inenace of the bnyonet in political affiiirs has becoine almost an every day occurrence. Should the party undor whose adniinistration these evils have sprung up receivo a ncw lease of power it is idlo to expect any purification pacificador! of tniscountiy. Bweet watr;, thore is excellent authoiity for saying, do not flow f rom bitter founfcins. Peace and honesty are results which tho success of the Democratie party oan acco nplish. A leaning toward violence has nev r been charged upon that party ; theie U no law in all tho long record of its pfst aeoendancy in which forcé has been invoked for purtisan purposes; it is sö emphatically the anti-bayonet party that we do not remember and we fancy the ree der onnnot recall one single allgation ofn ilitaiy rule at its door. VVith this r cofid it ran go beforo the country entitlcdto credit when proclaiming peacc as the first plunk in its platform. It eau, in obcdiime to every instinct, principio, and tradiliou whïch makos it the Democratie paity, announce itselfaahi favor of the uniiu diate and uncondional re] i o of all tho f orce logislation of Congress the bayoiK t elecüon aet, tho Ku-Klux act, the ouforcoraenl act. It can rest the use of the 1 ayonet where it rested for the first fit li' y yi ars of our existence as a governi' n'c - where Abraham Lincoln fou u it an 1 wheru he left it - the serviun and mt. the Buperior, in time of peace, of. the civil authoiity. Further thuu this, the Democratie party can, upon Democratio principies, refo. in the civil Bervico. It. Ims been said that to the victor belong the spuils. The Democratie party can announce ifself as about to act npoii this rule in its extremest rigor; as detormined, should it be put in power, to make a clean sweep from President to tide-waiter; and tlion to submit an amendment to the Constitutdon providing t h ; 1 1 r.o employee of the government snall bo removed from office so long as honest, neeessary, nnd competent. Uncertainly of tenure has a known tendenoy to make honest men rogues. - ïhe men now in, 1 ring rogucs already. ure not to bo roformed by ha ing (he original causo of their dishonesty reiuoved, They must be turnedout, to the last doorkeeper, and honest men put in. Thtüi. let uneertainty of tcnüro 1 6 remove!, and tho great cntieeiiK.-nt to dishonesty will dep .rt with it. Storting vith a f uil èet of new men-, unversod in tho waya of offl;ial fruud, and without the present temptation to bccome versed, the businesíof the country enn be carried on for fhc future with a dogree of Lntcgrity and i.fHi if ncy to which it bas long buen a fctraiitrcr. -

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Michigan Argus