The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-09-05

against State rights. But now the
tables are turned, aud these same sta
lion keepers on the underground
railroad arg holding positions aud
high places in the Federal Govern.
ment, and are using thcm for the
promotion Of personal liberty. The
Democracy claim that they now arc,
par excellence, State rights mcu, and
that the Capitalization Of power in
the General Government is dangerous
and, in the language ofVullandigham,
will be Revolutionary and not sub
mittcd to The old fable that cir
alter cases, depending up.
on whose OK was gored, whether tho
farmer's OF the lawyers il Oppropog
now. Where they will be ten years
from this time, in favor of or against
a strong centralized Government no
prophet can tell.
EQUAL TAXATION.
The Democratic party says II is op.
posed to unequal taxation, and that
that government that tolorates .ppo-.
dual. tixation, invites to anarchy aud
revolution.
Allow me to say that tho Rcpubli.
can Union party is in favor of equal
tAxatioa, is opposed to uaeq,tai 9dxa :
tion, and says that whenever taxation
is unequal its tendency is toward an
archy aud revolution. But whore is
the application of the priucip'e2 The
bonds that are slowed away in the
cracks of he cabins, aud in the tills
of the old ehists, or stuck in between
the beds for safe keeping, and which
cannot under the Constitution be tax
cd, seem to give these gentlemen of
the Democratic party a great deal of
unrest; aud they claim that your
chickens, hogs. sheep, everything in
the shape of property, IS taxed save
these bonds. Now | am in favor of
h-ving these bonds taxed aud |
would like to have somo Democratic
legislature pass law, aud would ike
to see some Democratic Collector. at,
tempt to collect taxes upon those
bonds. | think, as u practicing lsw.
yer of Ohio, | might get fee-not
from any of them but in enjoining
these fellows from doing what they
cannot legally do. They know, just
as we'll as they live, at least those who
proclaim it publicly, tnat,thesc bonds
cannot possibly be taxed Well,
some will say, assuming they cannot,
why did you issue such bonds 2 Why
didn't you subject them TO taxation 2
Because it was impossible to issue
bonds that would be subject to taxa
ton, unless tho General Government
had incorporated into the bonds, and
nude it part of the contract that they
would be subject to taxation, But
they go back further aud say, Why
didn't you insert it at the time the
bonds were issued, and thus bring
that species Of property on an cquali-
ty with other property My answer
is this. When these bonds wero is.
sued, and the people were invited to
invest their money in them, you, out
of whose throats now come this cry
of unequal taxation, lifted your voices
against the credit of the Government
You decried the bonds you persuad.
ed by word and act every man not to
invest in them. You said, through
your Vallandighams and your Thur
mans, that such bonds would be of no
va ue whatever, aud that whoever
were silly enough to invest in them
would be objects of ridicule and
laughter. To make the bonds nego-
tiate at that time, it was necessary
that they should be exempt from tax
alton, aud upon familiar principle
of law, having at that time decried
the credit of these bonds, you now
should stand estopped, and not be
permitted 20 say one word against
theE, we can nov Wish that these
bonds, were subject to taxation hut
when they werc issued, you must re
,memb Der that, this .GoveEnmente was
standing on the, brink Of utter ruin.
1t was struggling with traitors for its
very existence aud you that now de
cry the character Of these bonds, then
attempted to break down the credit
of the Government by preventing il
from procuring money to carry on
the war for the suppression Of the re
bellion. Vallandigham has said in a
recent speech, that the debt of the
nation is 81, 100000, 900; that the
treasury notes out amount to $780,
900, 900; the National Bank curreD-
cy issued and authorized is S300,000@
0G0 more, making S650,000,000,
which we think quite currency enough
ior all the business interests Of the
country. But the propOsition-and
| believe it is the favorite theory OF
the Democratic party-that this ST.
900,000,000, less the treasury notes,
shall be taken up by the issue of ad
ditional treasury notes, so that we
should then have a circu ating medi
nm ofS3, 900, ,O0O, 900 in this country,
which would probably, according To
our present means of taking care OF
currency, render one dollar worth
about 2l cents-a most brilliant e.
pancial scheme, and for its gealiEa-
tion | hand it over to The Don Quix
OTIS that may be left in the world. II
is windmill theory, and will allow
them to fight it out.
DEMOCRATIC NEGATIVE MEASURES.
Now, what is the Democratic party
in favor Of, by its PLATFORM No af-
firmative measure does it announce,
Ii has column otter column Of plat
form, but not a single item Of policy
applicable to the present does it an
nounee Does it not say il is against
something? OF course it does; it il
against everything; bat the oRly liV-
ing issue that il is now against is
MANHOOD sUFFRAGE.
II Il aeainat that The Ranuhii