The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-09-13

! thIhg LOT CRY or u nation. chicago was
built out of initiation. The panic came ::
bankruptcy followed, but the substantial
stores, the magnificent residences, the
splendid city and two hundred thousand
poop e remained there. Loud applause
Give US greenbacks We say, and build
cities, plant corn, open coal mines, control
railways, launch ships, grow cotton, estab-
lish factories, open gold and silver mines,
erect rolling mills, start the sugar cane,
the sorghum and tho tobacco once more.
Turn Niagara Falls into Manchester
Loud applause.] Vote ten millions bo-
nus if VIC finish the Pacific Railroad before
1870. [Chcers. Vote subsidies for
steamboat lines to Europe dig canal
from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi,
| [Applause, and remove the Capitol of
America from that corrupt and God.forsa-
ken sink of iniquity, Washington, to Co.
lumbus, Nebraska, nincty-six miles west
of Omaha, the geographical centre of our
four million square mile nation. Loud
cheers Carry my resolution, and there
is sunshine in the sky. Applause. --
Vote McCulloch's English plan of paying
Englishmen one dollar for what they paid
forty cents for, aud disaster wrecks our
financial ship. Greenbacks will start us
ahead again at forty miles an hour. Spe-
Gle payment will produce regular smash
up.
Frederick the Great built up Prussia
on paper, aud highlands power was based
on grcepback currency. That is trne.
Pitt saved England by greenbacks. Nc
Culloch would ruin America by specie
payments.
Rev. Mr.. Payne, Brooklyn-Did you
advocate reputation
Mr. Train Rcpudiation God forbid !.
Ifany man talks reputation, "shoot him
on the spot" Laughter and applause
Let me repeat the resolution.
"As the National debt was contracted
by initiation, by imitation it should be paid.
[Applausc.
How strange that you should mix up
greenbacks with population. Laughter
You might as we'll call Copperhead Il
Democrat, Laughter.
Butcher and Wellington represented
distinct nations, yet they closely resemble
each other in wax figures. Laughter.
Take care that the demagogue does not
seduce you by bis slippery elm tongue
He will argue that it is cheap to save the
Union and preserve our nationality even
at the price of $2,700,000,OO0 according
to McCulloch, but ST. 400, 900, 900 &C.
cording to the demagogue. [Oh i
Rev. Mr.. Falkner, Bridgeport, Connec
tcut-Where do you get your So, O0O,-
100000?
Mr.. Train-From the debt visible, and
the debt invisible. [Laughtor.]
Say McCulloch's statement SO, 700, 900, COZ
| Increased salaries Of members of
Congress and the Bounty Bill. 300, 200, 900
-[Laughtcr.]
Debts of towns, cities counties
and States, TO be added in due
time TO the National debt........ 700, 900, 900
Claims from loyal men in the
| North and contractors and PIN
money for the next Presidential
election Observation-Disclosures. COO, OOO, 900
I-[Dlssent.]
Here you have for the North S., 900, 600, 900
Add the LOCUS Southern debt for
war, pcslience, famine and ne
groes 1000, 900, 900
And you have. 600, 900, 900
This, the demagogue will argue, is one
way Of rcpudiatipg. This is ouly for the
principal. 10 pay it off in thirty years,
as McCulloch proposes, we must raise
from the poor more than the rich-$lO,-
600, 000,0 900 more in taxes. A voice
Why the poor?] because the poor are
the many. Labor always bears the bur-
den. Bondholders legislated to have no
taxes on their bonds. Hence the rich
man can send his children to school " here
the poor man pays the school-marm.-
Dissent and laughter.
Ben Wade was right at Lawrence. lie
said the poor man must be better paid for
his labor. Seymour, of the New York
Times, reported fairly; but it was Ray
mond who gave the start on the agrarian
Interpretation. A voice-Did you hear
the speech y Yes, sir, / introduced Mr..
Wade to his Kansas audience and in
dorse all he said. Wade is no agrarian
He is bold, plucky humanitarian, not
afraid of man or Democrat. Laughter.
He believes as do, that the laboring man
should divide his day into eight hours la
Dor, eight hours for recreation and I'M
provement, and eight hours sleep, if he
requiresso much. App!ause. Wade is
more ola statesman than a Politician
Applause.
Mr.. Paine asked if proposed repudi.
alton. BY no means; but the dema-
gogue will tell you that reputation has
been the policy Of the Government from
the first. ION, and dissent Yoa don't
agree to tuat. Let me prove it. The
Government commenced the war by ma
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