The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-08-21

without their support, and now that peace has
come, now that we have the prospect Of long and
quiet and brilliant future, 90 not want that class
of ours. Voices, Never, never") don't want to
turn our republican government over into the hands
OF men who call themselves democrats and who do
not love their country. t.Hear hear.'D What are
we to dor Go straight Jorsoard as zoe haze done.
Let US be calm, my fellow countrymen; we have
rebellious war to issue these bonds. We were CON-
PEELED by the rebellion to issue the greenbacks. We
upon ourselves to pay the interest and the people
bore it most nobly. What have they done, now that
the war is oer They say as we 9ys done moth tn
expenses of the government, and they have been
very large confess. We have kept the army and
navy larger than we desired to have IL, solely be-
cause we had to keep the rebellious element sub
lection We have paid every dollar OF the expenses
OF the Mnat else nd a rv m Gons
national debt. We have reduced taxation to one
hundred and seventy-one millions ger ANN annum be-
one hundred and seventy-one millions OF taxation
annually Off the people from what IL was In 1868.
In 1865 there were nearly ten Thousand ar
nue. to carry the government on ana 10 pay tne ma
ti0nal debt say that, besides our tarin on I'M
ported goods, taxed ten thousand articles IN the
United States. How Is 1t nOwP We have abollsned
nearly the entire schedules we only tax now splrts,
fermented liquors alcohol manufactures to4at eco
republican party are now taxing the people OF TINS
whole land. (Appladse) There is no other tax upon
the people Out tlldt IuAs VIC HdNC tdhoA Va eo
manufacturers TAX; we have taken of the
cotton tax; we have taken on the tax upon
nine thousand different articles since the close
of the war; and yet this democratic party says the
people are taxed to death. How taxed 10 deatn, my
fellow countrymen' How taxed9 Well, l Will tell
you how you are taxed by this republican Congress-
Every man who is worth one dollar, don't care
how rich or how poor he Is, pays no income tax az
all unless he makes clear profit OF one taou frn
taxation who makes less than thousand year
proat-we make him pay no income at all.
GENERAL BLAIR AND ANOTHER WAR.
As for General Blair he was an abolitionist
in pretty fair standing He voted for Fremont and
he voted for Lincoln twice. He went to the war ana
suppose never abused him any then. do not
know of any man in this Union who was more
abused than Frank Blair during the war by those
democrats know they told terrible stories on him.
know they published tremendous stories about him,
and whether they were true or not cannot say now
They said Frank was q brute, they said he was a
drunkard, they said he was gambler, vicious,
mean. trining dirty whelp Of an abolitionist They
and now 1t turns out he is the very man they want
for Vice President. Now Frank Blair shall not say
that am abusing him. for am not; defended ss
best could and whenever had chance and now
that he has gone over to them they must defend
him; shall not General Blair knew the temper Of
these rebels l was over in Missouri In 1855 can
wasting the State among the radicals, and I remem-
Der General Blair was canvasslng the State then
He went in company with the rebels and he ad-
vised them to armed resistance. He maligned and
abused the radicals Of Missouri as l scarcely ever
knows the temper OF these rebels and their feeling.
He knows how to meet them Therefore he wrote
letter to Mr.. Broadhead the Both OF June just be-
fore the Democratic Convention met at New York.
He said that the democratic party could do nothing
with the gold question; they could do nothing with
the greenback question: with the national credit or
with the national faith ; that these questions were
all OF secondary Importance; that the first thing for
the democratic party to do was to demand Of the
President elect, receiving his Office, that he should
go down South; that he should take the army and
undo all that the national Congress had done to re,
store the rebel States, and by force OF arms compel
the army TO undo all that was done and turn back
the reconstruction measures by force and they
threaten to resort to war again.
Oh, my fellow countrymen, are we to have another
war; ('Never."l Are such men rs General Blair
and those hot-headed rebels of the South to ncite
the people of these poor distracted States to war and
rebellion againi Are we never TO have peaceY Can
we not have an election again without having civil
war; for one tonight, in the language OF our gal
liant Grant would say "let us have peace" Let us
have no more war. But here comes Blair and here
comes the democratic party threatening war TO the
knile-a bloody war for the next four years.