The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-10


ton, on the 9th day of June, 1855 a.
the city of New York, he made speao n
in which he declared, as any man ,eSi1
see by reference to 1t, that the reasn.I
why our legal tender notes were beIDii
par-the reason why our national bonS.
In all European markets were beioaa
par, was that the national credit Nv
distrusted aud dishonored. Who T;as
honored It? Who distrusted 1t? Tbar
tlistrusted it who doubted the perns,,y
ity of American institutions. Thsr
dishonored ft who babbled ab0E,
breaking your written covenant
about violating your contract, abonf
repudiating your obligations. TSst
was the uLterance Governor Seymnnr
made on the 9th of June. II he had
only stood by it, then he had made gooJ
his words which he uttered on the III
or Sth of July in the presence OF thar
Convention. al cannot without die.
honor accept your nomination." be.
cause you ask me to accept il upon the
condition you will violate your cove.
nnnt and tax the bonds equally, which
means subject them to equal taxation
State and Federal. Why, my country.
men, adopt any such rule as that, aud
the defense of your nationality IS abso-
lutely impossible. In the words of
your Supreme Court of the United
States, uttered long ago through the
lids Oh JOuu mdISuuAlg AZ y Sd6S tl9t
will live as long as our language lives.
"When you admit the authority of a
State to tax, you admit its power 10
tax without limitation" II, therefore
the State of South Carolina may tax In.
morrow your national securities one
per cent, on the same principle they
may tax them fifty per cent; and defy
any man to show remedy against the
grievance. If States are permitted
10 tax your national securities, thew
NAV be taxed out of existence as Ias,
as YOU issue them. such a power in
states is incompatible with the nations
existence. And yet these Democrats
have come before the people upon
a platform like this and ask their suf-
frages and their confidence. My coun.
trymen, a notion dishonored IS ma.
ton dead. and what a death For
dead nations there is no resurrection.
For them there is no thew heaven and
new earth" Dishonor the nation BY
violating its plighted faith, and you are
pOWerless and left naked to your
enemies. You no longer deserve to
have defenders. l should not argue the
question further. 1 leave honest men
10 decide it for themselves. I know
that the wealth of this nation has paid
its taxes-from the commencement of
this struggle to this hour. 1 know
that the industrial masses of this couu.
try are not directly taxed at all By
your Federal law. It is right It should
be SO. II is right we should emulate
in this the wisdom of the New Tesla.
ment, and on imposing taxes should
follow the rule Fto whom much Is given
of him much will be req uired." When
you laid tax of ten per cent. On the
incomes of men exceeding five Ihous.
and dollars, you followed this rule;
when you now tax five per cent. on all
Il
lars, you follow this rule; and when
you exempt every man in the la; d
whose income does not exceed thous.
and dollars, you follow this rule.
ADOPT this Democratic rule of equal
taxes, Federal and State, upon every
species of property, and where do you
land? Why you tax the plane upon
the bench; you tax the hammer on the
anvil; you tax the shuttle in the loom,
the pillow in the furrow, the grain in
the garner, the wheat in the stack. the
pick of the miner in the mine. Upon
the same rule, you tax the simple taper
light in the howell of the poor, the same
as the light which burns in golden
lamps in the palace of the rich. Go
abroad and backward to the dark ages
for such n rule of taxation, but never
look for it in America, where we have
free schools, free presses and free men.
Applause.
My counGrymen, you have listened
to me very patiently. have charged
along the whole line of this Democratic
organization, Ku-Klux Khan and ALL
from New York to New Orlens.
[Laughter.l must hasten to a concln-
sion, for my strength is failing, and
doubt not your patience Is well nigh
exhausted. 1t has been my good Tor.
tune to address assem- blies of my coun-
trymen, since this contest was opened,
in the States OF Maine and Pennsyl-
vania. Wherever / have gone, 1 have
seen n manifestation on the part of the
people that foretells the coming of vic
toIy for the constitution in the elections
of October and November, equal in
brilliancy to the victory achieved by
your armies on that day when rebellion
laid down its arms and acknowledged
that the armies of the Republic were
their masters and their conquercrs.
[Cheersl 1 trust it may be SO in West
Virginia. [Cries of at willI"l L trust
it will. If 1t is not SO West Virginia
will take a step backward,-for from
that day when this young State created
in the midst of revolution, born of the
great struggle for the nations life, to
this hour, she has never, never, never
faltered [Applause.l I trust 1t will
for the restoration of the Constitution,
as in the hour for its establishment in
the beginning, the man is chosen by
the instincts of the people. God guides
the instincts ola people and it Therefore
never errs. The man in this last hour
of the nations trial, chosen by the in
stincts of the people to be their leader.
like the man chosen by the instincts Of
the people in the day of the Nations
struggle for existence in 81, has been
tried In the fire and not found wanting.
1 required Washington to walk through
the tires of seven years war to qualify
him for the great work OF building up
Constitutional Government. 1t re-
quired Grant to walk through the
struggle ola seven years war to qualify
him to reconstruct and rebuild the
Government. Enthusiastic cheeringl
II the people stand by him, be sure he
will do 1t, and not betray them; .ior the
reason that he is a plain, blunt, honest
man, determined by the help oil
God ''to fight it out on
this line if it takes NOT
only the whole "summer" but his
whole life. [Cheers.l Yet you hea1
those white-lIvered tattlera llaughteIl
who sought for fig leaves to cover their
nakedness in the day of the National
peril, telling yOu this man Grant Is
nothing but an accomplished clutch
err" The tories and ''cow- boys" of the
Revolution said the same thing oil
Washington. [Applause.l He knew
how TO strike down treason and how 10
defend liberty,-that is more than bis
defamers know. They know how TO
assassinate liberty and how to stab the
reputation of its defenders. [Applause'I
1t is fortunate for such weak minded
creatures that the benificent people
have provided asylums to take care OF
such fellows. [Laughter.l A moments