Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1841-11-19

nv from reading tit will well repay the time con-
sumed in its perusal. Letters of invitation al
so addressed to the Old Hero at the Hermitage, and
the Little Magician at Undertook, whose excellent
replies were published, but circumscribed limits
prevents their insertion. Ed.
WASHINGTON CITY, Sept. "a, 1871.
GENTLEMEN: / make you many thanks for
your kind invitation to attend the Democratic
Mass Convention at Kingston, New York, on
the 7th proxmo; but the rule which have
lone followed, not to attend political meetings
TOUT of my own State, would prevent me from
attending. even if my speedy departure for the
west did not render it impossible.
You are pleased. among other kind express
sions. to give me credit for flrmness III breast
mo the storms Of political adversely and while
| | acknow ledge my senslbllty to the compl-
| mept. permit me TO extend it to the great body
of the American Democracy. who now, as al
| ways heretofore, seem to have taken for their
| motto the Roman maxim, nerer to despair Of
| the Republic. If ever there was time for
| giving way TO despair and beginning to doubt
| the capacity of the people for selt-government.
| il was inst one year ago, when the Democrat
| c candidate for the Presldency-and that cam
ddate such man as Martin Van Buren-was
beaten, and doubiy beaten by congomeratlon
| Of heterogeneous masses, cemenled by no prln-
| cipe, united on no measures, stating no OBJ
| ects, but clamorng for " change" like tickle
| Athenans, and pushed on by the application
| of means which every friend to the dignity OF
| man, to the purity of the elective franchise,
! and TO the preservation of Republican Gov
eminent, must look back upon with sorrow and
regret. That such man-represenlIng sucn
| cause-assaled by such means--should have
| been so badly beaten, was indeed cause OF a
larn, to many, and enough to dlshearten all
who do not confde in public virtue and lntell-
gence, and in the redeemlng virtue of the $50
Der second thought IF the people," But our de-
moeracy did not despair. They took courage
from deteat-breasted the storm-graPpirj the
foe again; and before the moon has twelve
times filled her horns,' the tide OF battle is
turned--,he foemen hy-and Democracy is
herself again.
The extra session, which was called for the
purpose of consolidating federalism, and crush
mo democracy, has ended In the route of It's
authors, and in the triumph OF Its Intended
victims. Never did the end more disappoiEt
the beginning than in the case of this short
session In three months the position of par
| ties is reversed; The yictors vanqushed-the
vanqulshed victorious.
The surnmer has been eventful. Large deeds
have been done. Events have taken their
course and henceforward the march of De-
mocracv will be onward, triumphant and glo-
rlouS.
Federal wbiggery has had its reign. A
hundred days it reigned in the halls OF legis
tion, and rioted in the abuse Of power. In ex-
pialion of its enormiies it has chained itself
down for a hundred years in the dark chamber
of the dead 10 tax, squander, borrow and
gag was its daily work. The twenty-one mil
lions in money and means which were left
them, they found insufficient for ten months
service; and to make it still more insufficient,
they take away the land revenue from the
treasury, and bestow i, upon British capital
lists. which it will take sixteen millions TO pay
back. A tax bill has been passed which in
hcts a burthen Of eighteen or twenty millions
per annum on tie people, 10 raise eight or ten
millions fer the Government, to supply the
place of the three or four millions bestowed
upon the British. Many ten millions of i'm
ports, heretofore free, or lightly taxed, have
been subjected to burthen Of fifty per cent
10 the consumer in order to raise twenty per
cent for the Government: among these many
articles of necessity and comfort; and the few
which have escaped now, are to be re-captur-
ed, (ike fugilives from Justce,) to be more
heavily loaded at the next session. Tea ana
coffee were among these fugltives. The salt
tax-that impious imposition. the revival of
which in England, by Sir Robert Walpole,
was one of the specified causes for which the
English House Of Commons demanded and
| obtained his dismissal from ollice-this impi-
Gus tax not only continued, but threatened with
augmentation, inequality and perpetuity. A
deficit Of sixteen millions revealed for the CO.
| mnu year--a new loan Of twelve millions an
uouuced for the next session of Congress !;
five millions of new appropriations at the last
session, besides Indian treaties which cannot
be named-the General Post Office, and the
many pensions here ofore resting on their own
resources, now intruded upon the Treasury
general abolition of debts, at the will of the
debtor, under the violated name of bankrupt
law.--- legislation reduced to legerdenain, by
a system OF bargain and trickery, which made
the passage of bills depend upon equlvocaiions
and iugeles, and cuntracts from the passage
of other blls---the deepest wound given to our
form of government that it has ever received,
in tie prohigate distribution OF money from
the public Treasury---a new edition of Bid.
dies bank, desperately struggled Tor by the
devourers of the old one, and only saved from
their clutches, by the double application Of the
Jacksonian restrngent retribu,ively admins
tered by the hands Of their own physician
Such were the fiscal operations in three months
session of the party which was to carry on
the government for :" thirteen millions' of dol
lars per aunum, and which called congress to-
gether in such violent haste ''to relieve the
distresses Of the people"