Excerpt from The Issues of American Politics: A Discussion of the Principal Questions Incident to the Governmental Polity of the United States The portions of this work which contain matter peculiarly pertinent to the presidential canvass of 1872 are as follows - namely: The second and fifth chapters and Division Second of the third chapter of Part I., the third, fourth and fifth chapters of Part II., the third chapter of Part III., and the fourth chapter of Part IV. The first discloses the defects and evil results of our present circulating medium; the second examines the management and funding of the public debt, including the Syndicate operation of the Department of Finance; the third treats of the National banking system, and suggests necessary modifications; the fourth discusses the subject of universal amnesty for the Southern masses; the fifth views the alleged violation of the Constitution by Congress and the President in the adoption and enforcement of the so-called Ku-klux act and suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus; the sixth examines the charges of abuse of the civil service by both Congress and the President, and suggests adequate means for the reformation of the system; the seventh shows the defects of our present scheme of taxation; the eighth discusses the alleged violation of the Constitution by both Congress and the President in adopting and enforcing measures which are claimed to unwarrantably interfere with the local elections of the several States, the charge of the subversion of the war and judicial powers of the Government by the President, the charge of the violation of United States statutes and international law by the War Department, and of the will of Congress by the Navy and Post-office Departments, the alleged prostitution of the press by the present Administration; states the chief need of the country at the present crisis, and in each of the above instances comments fully upon the collateral topics arising out of the same. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.