Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1868-10-14

any one believe tllaJ Inc millions of
loyal white men in the South will
tamely submit to have all this work
overturned? Can any one believe that
the three millions of black men. late
ly endowed with political rights, will
tamely submit TO have all those rights
taken away from them and be crush
ed again? Can any man believe that
the great Republican party of the
North, who have sacrificed so much,
will tameIy submit TO see all the war
has accomplished overturned and de-
stroYed? affirm it as my conviction,
/ that if the Democratic party succeeds
in the election of a President and
/ Vice President, all we have gained by
/ the warwill be lost. The three humid
I red thousand men who have died i'm
q the struggle will have died i'm vain.
! The three hundred thousand who
Were crippled and maimed i'm the war
Will have suffered in vain. All will
be in vain-all will be lost, if the
work we have done is overturned.
i Elect General Grant, and four wears
more will settle these questions and
maintain an honorable peace. re-
fuse to believe the people of this great
land desire to reopen the war. |
I know | can speak for the soldiers of
Z the Republic. We have seen blood
4 enough. Not a single man among
b them desires tu re-enter the strife. 1t
T is only the Democratic party that ap-
posed the war-that resisted every eff
/ fort to raise men and mOney-who de-
nOunced us as usurpers and Constitu-
| tiOn breakers. 1t is only this Demo-
cratic party, aided by the rebels of the
SOath, who now propose to open the
war. Such men as Wade Hampton,
of South Carolina, and the butcher
Forrest, Of Memphis, leading MEM
bers of the New York Convention,
are now telling the people in the
South that there is one more chance
TO save at the ballOt-bOX what they
lost in the field. This is the only is
sue in which the rebels are interested.
| cannot believe, when the people of
this country understand the real facts,
that they will permit such a scheme
to be successful. All through this
Northern country, the Democratic
party are careful TO avoid the main
issue of the campaign.
Having thus disposed of what Frank
Blair, the Democratic candidate for
Vice President. says is the only ques-
ton at issue, the speaker turned his
attention 10 the side issues the De-
mOcracy are raising to blind the people |
as to the real one. Prominent in these
is taxation. Before entering upon it, |
however, he disposed of Judge Thur
man and Geo. II. PendletOn, suhstan- |
TALLY thus:
Judge Thurman in the speech he
is making all over the country, char
ges that the Union party have increds-
cd the public debt, since the close of
the war. one hundred and fifty-six
millions of dollars. Geo. H. Pendle-
ton, in his speech in Maine and Con-
necticut, complained that the Union
party since the close of the war had
only decreased the public debt one
hundred and twenty-four millions of
dOllars-a discrepancy of tlpO hundred
and eighty millions of dollars in the
statements of two such prominent
Democrats as Judge Thurman and
1.-The Young Eagle of the West"
which the speaker thought it would
be well for the financial genius of the
Signal to account for before issuing
any make them tell yOu's."
After showing by the statements of
the Secretary of the Treasury that the
Union party had reduced the public
debt since the close of the war over
'JCO hundred and siTty-sir millions, the
speaker proceeded to discuss
TAXATION.
Again, the Democratic party COM
plain of the heavy taxation imposed on !
.he country by Congress. Fellow {
while the war was in progress [
here were three words in our political I
reed. They were all verbs implying {
lctiOn. They were, tax, fight and :
Applause. Tax the
people to support the army and prose- !
ute the war; fight the rebels to crush [
he rebellion; emancipate the slaves Z
md realize the glorious doctrines of q
he Declaration of Independence.-lI I
Renewed applause Congress did /
AK the people. 1t laid heavy burdens La
lpOn them. But a brave, noble and a
generous people were willing to be I
aXed. They were willing TO bear the :
BURDENS and endure the hartlships that a
he country might live. During the r
var scarcely anything escaped taxa s
ion. Bnt since the war closed, the [
angc of taxation as rapidly as possi- d
lie, or rs it was safe for the country. f
In 1866 taxation was reduced sixty Z
Millions, in 1867 forty millions more, t
nd by the two acts of February Sd, ID
nd March 81, Congress, at its last I,
essiOn, reduced the taxation sixty II
even millions more, making total t,
eductiOn of taxation during the past a
wo years of one hundred and sixty (,
even millions of dollars. d
Again, the Democratic party pro- b
lain in their platform the doctrine of C
quail taxation of all property accord p
no to its true valuation. This propO- [
itiOn sounds well, but it is utterly de- f;
Isive. Consider it for mOment.- g
uppose all the real and personal prop ST
rty in this State Were to be assessed tC
to its value in the market, a
nd taxed at a fixed rate per- cent;
lrms TO be taxed at the same rate of h
articles, wheat III the Il
lme rate rs whisky, potatoes at the Il
lme rate rs tobacco, billiard tables M
nd wagons placed on an equality, OF
illiard cues and hoes taxed at the pl
me rate; all articles of luxury, in a g
ord, be taxed at the same rate, and eI
o more than articles of every day 81
ecessity. Who will suppose for al
Ioment that such system can be ac- m
,ptable to a free and intelligent L
eOple? No party has ever before be
rOpOsed to levy such a tax, and er
link no party will ever dare to carry cl
1t such doctrines in practice. 1t has til
ny been the established custom of th
in this country to lay the la
lief burdens of taxation on articles of L
Xury, and relieve entirely the neces-
ries of life. W
But the resolution in the Democratic u
latfOrm to which | allude was th
designed to reach the bonds he
ld the Eond-hOldcrs. They design OF
: this resolution to declare them n'
Ives the friends of the people, as &c
,ainst the bondholders, and demand IN
Iat all bonds shall be subject to equal Ih
XatiOn, by State and national II
lthOrity, with other property. eI
Now, fellow-citizens, / do not hesi- u
te to say that every intelligent Dem Isa
rat knows that this part of the o'
heme which proposes taxation of
Ie bonds by State authority, 10 utter
impracticable Every Intelligent
emocrat knows that the Constitution re
the United States forbids such a 81
xatiOn. 1t has been eight times de fat
ded by the Supreme Court of the ola
nited States, that a State has no a
,wer to tax the securities of the mC
I d. 4 1 /