Harper's weekly . EEKLY. REPUDIATION. a bllick flag Of repudiation i listed by politicians of , win.) boldly ami FALSE DOCTRINE. Tiif, most, dangerous political doctrine overpreached in this country was that of Mr. Doi<;- *it pleases. Upon this preposterous ground ho i Commiitee, and I lin^iMo success. The fault of llio-e who hainllothe matter gingerly, is in giving it any consid-eration whatever beyond mi instantaneous andscornful rejection. The first wintered iiitima-tion of so vile n eclicme should provoko anoutburst of honest indignation, just as thovirgin clicek mantles
Harper's weekly . EEKLY. REPUDIATION. a bllick flag Of repudiation i listed by politicians of , win.) boldly ami FALSE DOCTRINE. Tiif, most, dangerous political doctrine overpreached in this country was that of Mr. Doi<;- *it pleases. Upon this preposterous ground ho i Commiitee, and I lin^iMo success. The fault of llio-e who hainllothe matter gingerly, is in giving it any consid-eration whatever beyond mi instantaneous andscornful rejection. The first wintered iiitima-tion of so vile n eclicme should provoko anoutburst of honest indignation, just as thovirgin clicek mantles with its first blush of The national good faith la tho chief corner-stone of tho national life, and ho who aims ablow thereat is the enemy of our common unityand existence. It is these extreme measures, have most to deprecato and most to fear; butso long as the public sensa of honor remainsunshaken we have n safeguard which will al-ways afford as sedebt was contracted under civcutordinary character, and tho natio. heard of Mississippi mil pther individual Stat.:delinquencies. They are now sharply BCTuti-nizing the American physiognomy to discoverwith what temper these schemes of tho politicalagitators are received. Should the nationalcredit receive serious damage at homo and our debt were any thing less than a thousand millions. Wo could then, perhaps, niluid our credit a little; but such experimentsjust now are dangerous, and might prove ruiti- AVe do not exactly see by what peculiar sign* have been manifested. Tho public does not conceal its desire of relief from high tm ills andheavy taxation ; but it never thought of lookingfor it through the door of Repudiation. Whenrelief is allurded (which it soon will be), it willresult from judicious statesmanship and soundviews of national policy. It is by no means im-probable that public opinion will reconcile itselfto the plan of leaving the larger part of thoprincipal of the debt for succeeding generationsto liquidate. Th
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