The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-08-21

Young populatlOn OF about twenty thous-
and. Taking these two States as an exam
pie, we will find that the people are not
abandoning their hostility to the wanton
and dangerous policy of the ruling faction
which during the three years of peace
has increased the national debt, and kept
up war prices and war taxation. 5ssl-,I
The Kentucky election has taken place
since the Presidential nomination ofboth
parties were made; and yet so far from the
nomination of the Radical Convention
strengthening the backbone of the faction,
orthe nomination of Seymour and Blair
weakening the spinal column of the De-
mocracy in that State, they have turned
events the other way These results are
but the early indications (the skirmish
fire as 1T were) Of the great revolutionary
battle which is about to open. If the other
state elections which are to'come off be-
tween this and the Presidential contest In
November should happen to give like indi-
cations of popular hostility to the Radical
usurpations and corruptions, who can tell
but that the nominees of the Chicago Con-
ventlon may be overwhelmed by the weight
pf Radical maladministration, since the re-
6elllo 81 was wound up by General Grant,
that they have to carry on their shoulders
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people when they come to vote, we find
that taxes to the amount of three thousand
millions of dollars have been imposed on
us. We find that the national debt has
been increased to the tune of three thousand
millions more. And this, when the courl
airy is at peace and the people had q right
to hope for reduction of taxes and the
national obligation as the fruit of victory
| God kpnUc with ,boE -, Ill p
rihces to every home and hearth in the
country. @
But instead of the load being lightened,
we are called upon to bear further exac-
tons; to submit to increased expenditures
In order to keep portion of the country in
subsection, more troops are called for. Men
foisted into Congress from the Southern
States, and Governors who really represent
little more than mock constituency, de-
mand from the Government an expensive
army to assist them in carrying out schemes
and ambitions which are purely partizan,
and are positively destructive Of the peace
and good of the country. 1t is facts like
these which meet intelligent men of all par
ties when they come to cast their votes, and
we cannot be surprised that majorities are
found to protest emphatically against
| SoaoAauu4iSS VI tli5 hllltl VI RONGrnlucUU.
The people demand change and it is
the people, and not any particular party,
who will make the issue at the approach
ing election. Names and individual can
didates count for very little in this contest.
luis cheap Government, honestly admin
lstered in view of the fact that the country
is at peace, which the people require. A
serious counter revolution, therefore, terri
Bile to the politicians, no doubt, but good
and wholesome for the people-because it
Nothing but the marvellous activity of our
population and the untold resources of the
country, could enable us to bear the present
burden of taxation, or induce us to submit
to carry it so long. But it is evident that
areaction has set in, and it may be that in
the course of events, as now foreshadowed,
the next elections will result in sending a
majority to Congress possibly in favor of re-
pudiation, but certainly in favor of vast
reduction of the present enormous taxa
ton. The public mind leans that way.
Let us have peace, real peace, is the pop
ular cry, and the popular heart naturally
yearns for the possession of that prosperity
which should accompany peace. The re-
suit of the Presidential election may be so
vaguely decided in the conflict between
the rights of the Northern and Southern
States in the matter of franchise as regula.
ted by Radical legislation as tn drift us in
to another civil war but it is clearly the
duty of the Northern States to set the seal
emphatically upon the issue by their votes,
and leave nothing to chance, or no opening
for conflict. The expression of anti-radi-
cal sentiment in the last elections in Ken
lucky and Oregon is but the precursor of a
great counter revolution, upon the verge of
which the country stands this moment.
From the NJ r Herald, august 11th.
THE RADICALS AND THE PEOPLE
PROSPECTS FOR THE PRESIDENCY.
Oregon is normally republican State,
but this year it has gone completely over to
the democrats. In the previous election it
had about its usual republican majority,
giving that decision on political issues that
! is natural with population supplied in
great degree from regions having the most
active sympathy with the radical spirit
yet this year it gives an Enthusiastically def
mite majority to the other side. This is a
very significant fact in an election in such
State, coming Immediately after the par
ty with which it usually acts has put its
Presidential candidates in the field Ken
lucky is another State whose people have
recently given formal expression to their
political predictions. The election in
this State has taken place since the naming
of the Presidential candidates on both
sides, and Kentucky not only goes for the
democrats-we should expect that-but it
goes their way by such an overwhelming
majority as Indicates that other political
opinions have hardly force enough there to
keep themselves alive. Here, then, are two
States that have gone to the democrats af-
ter their people have been able to perceive
the drift of Presidential movements. One
is an old slave State, not, however, the
most fercely democratic of the slave States
even in the old times-a State that did not
nominally go with the South in the war,
but had its sympathies that way, yet was
thought to be safely enough organized to
do better for the republicans than in previ-
Gus years. The other is a free Northern
State, peopled by that sort of community
THAT our political history shows is always
the readiest to be aggressive, to take the
side of the party that calls itself the party
! of progress, and that is naturally much less
susceptible of conservative influences than
older communities.
From these facts of the situation it is
evident that the popular impulse against
! the radieela which began two wears apO