The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-10-30
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- ~ '1T~1sNsh~ss f9s 1870
Before another issue of our paper, the
question will be settled as to who is to be the
President of the United States for four years
from the fourth day Of March next. If the
Republican candidate is elected on Tuesday
next, we may expect to have the country for
p, four years to come to remain in the same un-
settled state which has characterized its his
tory since the close of the war. On the other
hand, if the Democratic candidate is success
full, we may soon look for return to that
prosperity and equal justice which has al
4 ways distinguishedthe periods Of Democrat
ic control in our national affairs True, the
d most important of all the Republican jour-
nails in the country declares that General
Grant, if.elected to the Presidency, will not
be governed in any particular by the radical
/ views of a Republican Congress, and calls on
the Democratic and Conservative elements of
the country to rally all their strength on the
/ Congressional and Legislative tickets in each
State yet to vote, so at least as to secure
: a sufficient number ofvotes in Congress to
save the Presidents vetoes. While this is
cunning manoeuyfe in the old Scotchman
who controls tho columns of the New York
Herald, to chcckmate the radical spirit of his
party, it is evidence very conclusive that
there are many far-seeing men in the Repub!i
9 lican party who prefer Democratic Ma.
tional Legislature to one composed entirely
of their own party. In all this, Bennett
seems to take it for granted that the Repub.
licans are to succeed at the coming Presiden-
, tial election. But this is neither certain or
likely, for if we make anything like "a proper
4 tionate gain at the November election that
we did at the October election, then we can
quite easily carry all the States which, voted
b in the present month. In Indiana the Re.
publican majority is less than one thousand
votes, being u gain from the last election of
about thirteen iEcusand eight hundred votes
The same gains appear to have taken place
in West Virginia, and whetherwe succeed or
not, the day is. not far distant when We will;
for this government can only be administer
ed benefcially to all upon the principles en-
tertained and practiced By the great Democrat
party of this country, Our national debts
put down at something under three thousand
million dollars, butin truth it is, this very
g hour, far above those figures, and instead of
diminishing it is hourly on the increase and
until there lisa system Of economy, and rigid
economy at that, established in our expendi-
lures, it win continue to Increase satam
3D. For six or eight years the Republican party
has had entire control of this government,
6 and her present condition is to what the doc
trine and measures Of that party have
brought her, and can we expect those who
, thus recklessly brought this heavy debt upon
us ever to relieve US from it2 From the foun-
dation of this government up to 1861, when
it fell into the hands of the Republican par
ty, our national debt was OF no time more
than one hundred and twenty seven or eight
millions, while in four years under Republi-
can rule 1t was swelled to twenty-eight hun
sdred millions. Previous to the ascendancy
Of the Republicans to power in 1861, the lar
,gest annual expenditure was little less Than
seventy four millions. The four years i'm
smediately following tho cessation ofhostili-
ties, being four years of peace, cost the peo-
pie sixteen hundred millions of dollars to ad-
minister their government, How are we to
get rid Of this dreadful incubus which is each
year becoming more and more burthensonie,
and which will ifnot stopped soon, crush US
out of existence This Is the question which
should engage the attention of every voter
For ourselves, We never expect to- see the
country relieved until IL is done by the en-
trance Of strict rnlesdf sc6nomy in every de-
partment of the government when men
shalTlegislate for the good of the nation in
stead Of for parties and individuals when
there shalI be more patriotism and less selfish
ness than there is nuw--alld aslwe never ex-
pect these things TO happen until the Demo
cratic party again assumes control Of the
government, we would urge every, conser-
vatiye man in the nation to unite with the
Democracy on the third day ofNogember,
1868, and assist in tho election of Horatio
Seymour and Francis Pa Blair to the Presi-
dency and Vice Presidency OF the United
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