Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-08-30
For the Newsdealer.
THE PRESENT POLITICAL ASPECT.

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! As we emerge from the excitement and
confusion Of war; and once more find our
selves in the paths of peace, how changed
is the political aspect of our common
country, The party issues Of 1860, and
also of 1864 are in oblivion. Slavery is
forever excluded from our territories,
and the war for the preservation of our
glorious Union, has been brought to a
successful and honorable close without a
dishonorable compromise with treason.
No doubt the constitutional amendment
will soon be ratified, by the requisite num-
Der of States to forever rid us as nation
of oil completely with human bondage,
and We see no good reason for further ma
tional agitation about the negro. The
suffrage question has heretofore been de-
termined by each State for itself, and IN
less it is fact that State Rights are. ex.
tinct, (Which idea we cannot eptertain) it
will still so be determined in the future.
The great majority of all parties endorse
President Johnson's policy, thus far in
his administration. Then what is the
issue before US now that most deeply con-
Germs us 1? In our opinion it Is the finance
question how shall the integrity of our
Government be maintained and who shall
bear its burdens In the midst of war,
the people would endure anything for
country's sake; but now the demand is
for an equalization of taxation and of the
distribution of the public burdens I'M
fortunately for the industrial classes, the
rich have now the advantage, and will
have until the evil is corrected by healthy
and constitutional agitation, and legisla-
ton. Our national and state debts are
so enormous that even to pay the interest
in addition to our common taxes is bur-
denscme enough when equalized. What
shall we say then, when the floating CAPT
tai OF the country, is in Stocks and Bonds,
/ and exempt from taxation, and when by
our present revenue laws, the laboring man
In too many instances, pays more for the
support of government, than does the rich.
The tendency of such state of things is
to build up monied aristocracy which
is as much to be dreaded as slave arts.
tocracy; and we have good reason to ex-
pect that he who has risen from the tail
or's bench to the chief magistracy of this
great nation, and who, by his present pol
icy is striking down the aristocracy of
the South in defense of humanity and the
common people, will also be the friend of
the industrial classes of the North. Who
is more indebted to government than the
man of wealth what would his property
have been worth, had government failed :?
Then, ii our public debt is most for his
benefit, let this same property be equally
taxed with industry and we shall find
cheerfulness and contentment even in the
midst Of burdens. Public grievances are
never corrected uutil after agitation. The
struggle between capital and labor is such,
the former will never yield to the interests
of the latter, until compelled to- Wheth
er old party names are retained or not,
the issue is of the present and necessarily
men opposed on the political issues of the
past will unite in the struggle before us,
and political friends will to some extent
separate. Party is lost in insignifcance
when compared to principle. May the
day soon come when legal. and constitu-
{ tional legislation shall so reform our pres
ent financial system, as to bring about
an equalization of taxtion. No man
should vote at thocoming election without
having this principle in view.
rrI.--.rrof M. 0. HEATH.
Jacksonville, VT, Aug. 28, 1865.