The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-08-05

uance, and, indeed, a multiplication of
which they promise upon the election of
General Ulysses s. Grant.
RANK INyUsTIoR OF THE RECONSTRUCTION
POLICY.
Now, gentlemen, suppose for moment,
that the case were reversed, and that the
South had waged successful war of con-
quest against you here in the West, and had
compelled, by force and arms, the mtroduc-
ton of slavery here, and you had surrender
ed in good faith, under pledge and promise
of all other rights within the Union, under
the Constitution; and that when you had no
further power to resist Southern Congress
had, at the point of the bayonet, forced con-
stitutiOns, governments and laws upon you |
against your will, and that victorious and |
insolent South Carolina has sent up here the |
meanest and basest of her Vagabond ''Sand |
Hip citizens with carpet-bags in their |
hands, to represent you, the once free white
men of Ohio, in the Senate and House at
the Federal capital, and to usurp the places
once filled by the Morrows, the McLeans,
the Corwius, the Ewings, the Hamers, and
the Aliens of this glorious Commonwealth.
what would have been the emotion of wrath
and indignation which would have burned
within your bosomsl And yet to just such
indignations are South Carolina and Virgin
ia and their Sister States of the sold Thir-
teen, - searched and SCARED all over with
the flames of the war of 1915, subjected, by
the false and degenerate sons of the New
| England sires, who stood shoulderto should
Ell by them in that grand revolutionary con-
fict, which in blood and suffering, and with
precious treasure first brought US our iber-
ties.
| All, but E'these men are now rebels and
traitors and you, the Democracy, received
them yith open arms and gushing hearts to
your recent Presidential Convention. -
Thank God, we did: and by none were they
hailed with more cordial welcome than by
not the bloodless though bloodthirstY home
loyalists Hancocks, the Franklins, the Ew-
idgs, the Blairs, the Slocums, and the Steed-
mans, who had met them in deadly conflict
amid the sulphurous canopy and shock of
battle We mean to have peace indeed: we
intend to restore the Union in fact; and to-
day we know these men only rs our friends
fellow-citizens and brothers-the descendants
of the iYashingtons, the Lees, the Hamp-
tons, the Sumters, the AIarions, the Pres
tons, the Haynes:Nthe Laurens and others,
who, side by side, stood with the Hancocks,
the Adamses, the Starks, the Putn2ms, the
Gales, and the Waynes of the North IN the
heroic Revolutionary struggle of '7G, or with
their sons and grandsons in the latter conflict
of 1912, or the Mexican war of 1876
Americans all whose fame is the patrimony
of the whole country. This is peace; this is
Union; this alone is the blessed vision of the
seers and prophets of an age gone by; One
Constitution, one country, one destiny!
30 much for reconstruction. And now,
gentlemen, a word upon humber. yet more
practical and scarce less important subjects
TAXATION, TARIFF AND REVENUE.
And first as to taxation in its double form
Tariff and Internal Revenue. The SOLE
| foundation of the right of Government tc
appropriate any part of The property of th'
citizens by taxation, is the necessity of sup
porting the Govrrnment in its several depart
+ ments, working strictly within the line o.
their duty;and the only measure of the righ
is the extent of the necessity, reasonably
economy being the fixed rule by which Il
terminate that necessity. Every dolla
which the Government extracts from tn
people beyond this, is sheer downright rob
, berry Now, a protective tariff in its yer.
nature, implies the leYying of tax not TO
the necessities of the Government, but fo
the benefit of a class. Levied uyon article
of manufacture, it is money transferred, b
act of Congress, from the pockets of tn
: consumer to the bank account of the manu-
n facturer And this is robbery. Previou
to the war and the Democratic times, a
It average duty of some fifteen per cent. wa
1t laid upon imports; and without dollar c
: internal revenue collected by the Feder'
= Government, the amount received was an
II pie to pay the then seventy or eighty mi
e lions of expenditures. Now, as part OF til
e blessings of Republican rule, continuanc
h of which you Ere pgr,9 promised under Gener
If Grant, these duties run from Q nominal SUI
ID or nothing, on raw material, to three hui
n dred per cent. on manufactures, ayeragin
n upon the whole list more than forty Live p
d. cent And of this, one half st least is {
sh absolute gift by the Government to the ma
" ufacturing Interest," gift taken by robbel
o. from your pockets Eleven times has Il
Le tariff been raised by several acts ofCongre
le since 1860. and we have now just barel
he by the adjournment yesterday, escaped a
IN other elevation. Oh, the choice blessings
to Republican rule, which are to be continuI
IS and multiplied under Grant
p But the iniquity, and the iniquity too,
Il the tariff, is greatly aggravated by the ia
IS, that its chief burdens fall upon us of Il
OF West. One-half of the proceeds of the Ii
en- iff go to swell the profits of the Easte
81 manufacturer, who buying our produce che
~ sells us his wares dear, and then investii
no his rapidly accumulated wealth in bond
ne purchased with ''greenbacksn at sixty Ger
10 on the dollar, escapes taxation, receives
On interest in coin, and after his bonded clai
+e against the Government, has, in the la
ID guage of the Chicago platform, been Sc
u tended over fair period of redemption
III Ike the English debt, he or his heir in I
OF tenth generation, expect to be paid in &c
ef at the rate of one hundred cents to the d
es lar Oh, the blessings of Republican II
On to be continued under Grant! But {
ur West, blinded during the war by the veil
IN sloyalty," at last is beginning to open /
is, eyes to this enormous wrong piled upon h
ay and warn the East in no sectional spn
5s, but in ali kindness, yet in all earnestne
Ia, that the strong, patient man of the We
lr- staggering under tins burden, is resolved
St inexorable- purpose, to shake it from
} shoulders at every hazard.
aI have said that the necessities of COVE
So ment economically administered, are
M limit of its riglt to tax. Wherefore, a
aid it is true that every dollar stolen from
ga Treasury, and every dollar mis-applied fri
lId the legitimate purpose of goYernm ent, is