The mountain Democrat., 1864-01-09
letter from Hon. j. w. wall.
BURLINGTON, Oct. 90, 1868.

BURLINGTON, Oct 20, 1868.
To Messrs. John P. Naglc, NJ. 7. Coz
xens aud Philander Reed, Committee :
Gentlemen-Your inv itation to address a
mass meeting of the Democracy of the
city of New York, to be held at the Coop
er Institute on Wednesday evening next,
is this moment received. 1t would give
me great pleasure to be present, but the
irritated condition Of my throat, the ef-
feet Of q severe cold recently contracted
ct q public meeting, prevents me.
The recent political results in Ohio and
Pennsylvania prove clearly two things :
First. the lamentablC influences Of the cor
rupting patronage of an unprncipled,
reckless Administration and second,
that the cup of national suffering and de-
eradation is not sufficiently full.
An Administration exercising powers
unknown to the Constitution, having
at its disposal all the resources in men
and money of the North, has organized
everywhere, in imitation of the Jacobins
of France during the Reign of Terror,
"Committees of Public Safety" These,
by a system Of terrorism and abandoned
corruption, are striving to accomplish
what that revolutionary organization aim
ed at-''the protection of the authors Of
the revolution from the consequences of
their crimes" We incline strongly to
the belief, however, that they will effect
precisely what the first did eventually
full exposure of their crimes, aud their
own overwhelming overthrow. Is the
language Of these Union Leagues different
to-day from their prototype, the Commit
tee OF Public Safety of 1898? Listen to
the animated drnunciatory words of Yer
ginaud "That great body of our citizens
are so blinded by the rush of events, or
the glare of financial speculation, that
they are made to cOnfound fanatical po-
licy with q great national movement in
favor of freedom. They regard the vio-
lence Of brigands as the efforts of patrio-
tic minds, and consider robbery itself as
indispensable for public safety. You are
free, say they, but unless you think like
the nationality. You are free, but unless
you bow before the idol that we worship
we will deliver you to the terrors Of that
nationality you have insulted.'
The French Revolution did, in the
words Of the same noble spirit, "at last,
like Saturn, successfully devour all its
progeny" So, eventually, will this
wretched Abolition revolution, orisina-
ting in the same wild fanaticism about
liberty and equality, and displaying in all
its policy the same love of despoti$m.
The Laws of Suspected Persons" !" which
gave ultimately such tremendous powers
to "The Committee Of Public Safety"
will soon be proclaimed, if, indeed, it
does not already exist Under that in
famous law no person in France had any
chance Of safety but in going the utmost
length of revolutionary fury. Those who
resisted were crushed beneath its bloody
wheels.
But it is not alone in the despotism Of
the hour in our civil affairs that the Abo-
lition Jacobins have become such start
ling imitators of the revolutionsts in
1898. In our financial policy we arc re-
peating to the letter the history of those
times. An inflated paper currency has
banished the precious metals from our
midst, and every day is making the rich
richer and the poor poorer. During the
height of the paper expansion in the
French Revolution, from the immense is.
sue of assignats, the tendency to galnb-
ling of every sort prodigiously increased.
Men who had the sword of Damocles suS.
pended over their heads sought to profit
the most by the numerous chances Of
making money which the rapid rise and
(all of assignats, and the boundiess profu-
sion Of articles of luxury, brought into
the market. The Bourse Of Paris was
crowded with bankers, revOlutionStS, ci
devant priests, ruined mobiles, and adven
turers Of every description. Magnificent
equipages, whose owners were rag pick
ers six months before. made their ap.
pearance every afternoon upon the public
drives. The trade in iewelry and silks
was enormous in its profits. This rapid
increase Of wealth produced the most
shameless extravaganza, and speedily un
dermined the public morals. This pic,
ture is the reproduced picture of to day,
which every hour in our cities is passing
before the gaze oftheir inhabitants. Men
now, as then, mistake the fictitious for
the real, and in the constant employment
of the hour, comparatively high wages,
and temporary contentment, think that all
this apparent prosperity rests on firm
foundation. The whitcned crust, CLEAN.
ing in the sunshine, that covers the living
Ere in the mountain at Soltafara, is not
more treacherous. The slopes Of Vesu,
vius never looked more resplendent in
beauty than just before the mountain bel
ched forth. for the first time, the silvery
shower that sealed up Herculaneum in
lava for centuries. and covered up Pom
peii out out of sight in shower of hot
ashes. As sure as that God reigns, the
fate, financially, Of revolutionary France
must be ours sooner or later, only with
tenfold sggravation. What was that fate? ?
Blasted by ruinous system Of paper cur
rency, and crushed in the grasp of relent-
less despotlsu,, manufacturing capital was