The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-07-31

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Wnen the rebel States under the Demo
cratic FarleyPillshury plan shall be in re-
ceipt OF their eight millions per year in gold
I'm the tax on Government Bon s, they
will be in position TO begin the war which
Frank Bair, the Democratic can'I,late Tor
the Vice Presidency, threatens is TO be waged
for the overtime OF the Reconstruct IN
Laws. 1 have read some extreme, insane
and startling propositions from modern Dem
ocrats within the past few years,-from
Henry Clay Dean, from Robert H'ombs,o
from General Forrest, and from Brick Pom
eroy,-l ut give to the Maine Democracy
and to E. Wilder Farley the credit of out
stripping them all when they propose to tax
the Government bonds which represent the
terrible cost IT the nations life, in order to
give revenue Of eight millions gear to the
rebels who sought to destroy that life.
As said before, am net goilg to discuss
the question OF taxing government bonds.
The Republican party, at Chicago, passed
resolution IL favor of reducing the interest
on the bon;,s in an honorable manner: and
in this way the burdens of the people would
be lightened in a far greater degree than they
could possibly be by any system oil taxation.
And in this way no rebel State, and no rebel
community, would get any of those enor-
nous and outrageous advantages over loyal
States and communities proposed to be given
buem Dy tue DeIDOcTutlC Obtlc
ard by Honorable Z. Wilder Farley and his
Democratic associates IN the Legislature.
1t must not be forg,tten that the great
bulk of all the property in the Southern
States is in the hands Of rebels,-Ied handed
rebels, pardoned by Andrew johnson, and
all their property secured to them. Whatev-
er contribution, therefore, OF money goes to
those States, goes directly to relieve these
bloody rebels from tax which they would
otherwise be obliged to pay. Ii is not
enough apparently, in the judgment OF the
Democracy OF Maine, that these rebels, who
waged war against the government for four
long years, should be pardoned by Andrew
Jodnson, and thus relieved OF all possibility
OF punishment for their gigantic crimes; It is
not enough that they should have all their
property torfeited-restored to them,
while Union men, white and black, through
out the South, are impoverished. All this is
not enough tor the Democracy of Name, for
in addition they claim that the manned sol
diers, the Savings Bank depositors, the
poor widows, the friendiess orphans, the
charitable societies of Marie shall be taxed
on every government bond they hold, and
that the tax thus raised shall go largely Tor
the benefit, Ielet and reward OF the rebels of
the Southern States. As a soldier and 10y
al man, cannot vote with a sparty tuat
adopts such a policy and such principles,
and appeal to my fellCw-soldiers to assist
in crushing the party that puts forth such a
platform!
Z. Wilder Farley is the original author of
the scheme the Democratic State Conven-
tior formally adopted it, and Eben f. Pills
bury is before the people Of Maine as Its
Representative! Let the soldiers and pen
sioners mark Piits6ury on the 14th of Sep
tember, and let him and the offensive and
odious doctrine he advocates be buried under
popular majority OF Twenty-Five thousand
Soldiers and Pensioners of Maine, close up
the ranks! Forward!
B., July 25, 1868. PESoBscol.