The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-07-30

" caring the uniform Of the country,
W hat thrill OF SORROW that craven
de clalation carricdin the army where
it was read. [That's sol | was thcrel1
misrepresentation of the great Dem
ocraticparty ofthe country assembled
as Chicago, and confessed that the
nation had not the power to put
down the rebellion Confessed that
the only hope Of saving the Republic
was towithdraw these men TO tle
slorthslinc oftheI Ohio, and get down
upon our knees and beg rebels to live
with Us again Hopatio Seymour
was the President ofthat Convention.
1t spoke his sentiments. And that is
another contrast, One says, This
Union must be saved Perish slaecryl
The other says, the Union can't be
saved without destroying slavery,
perish tho Union The one says, We
will fight this out on this line il it
takes all summerl Yes and all win.
teri The crsays, We can't put
down the rebellion by force OF arms;
lot us prays prolonged chccrs> and
anghtcr,l c#
In these contrasts you hnvs the
chafacici pftheaa two men and the
character Of their craftsmanship, ir.
respective of all other considerations
EQUAL TAXATION.
yo. have Nude sacrifices
enough yhlht'e5t mast 80 TO pos
teritys with 'ss| Increased ,h"ei,s, aid
its increased hhmi.crs, It's. increased
means. and It's mere; sed credit, and
then, in the meantime, let the taxes
be reduced so as to be snfiic ert mere>
Fly to pay the expenses Of the Gov
oriiiiseni economically administered
Take oif,hc tascs fipm EVERY article
of necessity; ete,y tr,irla Required
| BY she ';,b'irut. DO this, and you
will haze solved the whole financial
| policy nI the Government.
Now, the ID, mocrmts SAY they
have u better mode than TINT.
want to call your attention to it,
They say they arc for economy in
the administration of the Govern
mcnt They take that from oui
Platform bn, o,ii. experience has
been that when they had The Gov
ernmcnt they took the whole away
and when aihu war commenced Tic
treasury was empty, robbed by JAS
Buchanan aud his friends. Andthey
say they want equal taxation of cv
| cry species Of property. according tt
is real value. | don't say any sncll
thing, am not wiling that the
farmers aud lahnsers oI W;lliamso,
county should b. taxed in that way
| Tor the Federal expenses. | am no,
willing thai The tax.gathei shall &C
and lake tho number of your horses
and the number of Your cattle, and
the number Of Your sheep and tax
| them for Federal expenses, On the
contrary, my theory is to put the
taxes not equal | am not willing
that Che gold watch shall pay the
same tax AS the spinning wheel OF the
| busy and Industrious housewife.
do MOI regard them as property Of
the same class. | do not propose
that the wagon of the laborious far.
mel., shall pay the same tax in pro-
portion to It's value as the fashionable
carriage or that the articles Of more
luxury shall be relieved from taxa
ton and the burthen be thrown upon
the nccossarics Of Fife. That is not
Black Repcblicanism. [Checrs.l
/ do not prcsoso to do it. The
Demofia's say they arc for equal TAX
alton nfcTc,y species Of property
| say no! ! am willing that the man
who drinks whisky shall pay tax
on it just MS much as we can collect.
THAT 50! That's it'll We tried two
dollars a gallon, and these fellows
that Johnson keeps in office wero,too
may for us. And by the way, at
st. Louis | understand the fact to be
that the most formidable ring in the
West is made up of.hc personal con.
fidentlai friends of Gen. Frank p.
Blair, Bart Able, and men of that
class, who are his bosom friends, arc
the known leaders of the great whis-
key-ring, which has been too much
for the Government. We could not
collect two dollars-I do not know
how much we can collect but | pro-
pose to make the whiskcy pay every
dollar we can get out of it. | have
no conse entous scruples about that
II wanted t J take a glass of whis-
key, ms opinion about i, is, should
not d,lnk il uiiiess | had money TO
pay for it; but then, am not willing
that the whiskey of the topper and
and the milk given to the child shall
bear HE the same bnrthen in paying
for the administration of this Gov
ernmcnt. | understand that that is
the doctrine the Democracy hold
They FAY 50. am opposed to it. I
want the man who chews his tobac-
CO, and smokes his cigars, and sports
u gold watch or diamond ring, or a
dinncnd9 brcastpin, to pay taxes on
the luxury; but want the bread and
the meat and tic flour that i have to
buy Ia feed ms children. to be as
cheap AZ possible.
But the Democracy say that tho
bread that.po feed to your children
must bear lienun tax as tho whisky
drauk h,y the topper, or,the wine drank
hy liz, gcntlcman--for | believe that
/. distinction is made, in this world,
tliatllie maifWho drinks ale "bo d
face. ais only a common man, while
he whodrinks his wine is the gcn-
tlemai. laughter.
i believe that is the distinction -
But. ~ itw;is saving, am not will
ing toplace ali these things on the
same footing. That is Democracy
lam notsl Democrat upon that point.
Republicans supporting Blair.
r. Now Jersey is the only state where
the Republican, party arc voting the
Blair ticket.
But even in that state they arc not
giving their support to frances p. Tho