The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-28
/ TEE LION. OF MAss4cHUsErrs.
ADDRESS OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
a broad and stou, Platform.

At the Democratic State Convention OF Maa-
sachusetts, held at Worcester, on Tuesday
last, to nominate State ticket, Mr.. J. Q.
Adams, who heads the ticket for Governor,
made lengthy address. The following ex.
tracts are sufficient tO'indicate the spirit Of the
address:
AS things ,olually stand to-day, what mea.
sures will best serve tue general welfare
This, gentlemen, with great Difference OF
opinion, seems to me the only course open to
us. To act otherwise would resemble the wis-
which he had Joined, IN order to cover certain
points, should, after the victorious passage Of
hls opponents, and occupation OF the disputed
territory; rally his armyanew, on tho battle
he leaves all behiud him 10 tho unopposed pro-
gress OF his sntsgonisI =. a.
,nas Let b9s as sgSa ana 10
ammunition upon the debris OF batte-aclds,
while we press onto assume new position full
IN IN the enemy's front, %h:re, when we have re-
cessfu battle may yet be fought and redeem :.
ing victory won. In this spirit wo would say
to- our former fellow-citizens IN tho excluded
provinces: "Come into the Union; stand not
| upon the order Of your coming, but como ut
once; when you are in, aud We oan net as fol-
| low-c!tizcns once more, VIC will meet to-
gether and consult upon future measures" !"
This, gentlemen, IN brief, is the spirit
which, ns 1t seems to me, should animate our
action upon past issues; for tho present and
the future nre very important in these days,
and will allow US scant time oven to celebrate
the funeral rites over our dead past. Eternal nc
uvity is the price Of party living, end the road
bch1ndl ls strewn with carcasses OF tho factions
which could not SEQ that IN politics dead prin-
ciple is mere prejudice, nauseous to tue poo.
pie. Vague defamation upon natural rights or
wrongs, whether white or black, female or other
wlse, no loUger delights people that is boing
gradually taxed out OF house and home. The
tVI,n R1fa lr
| children bread, will relax his anguish that the
negro has o vote; the most passionate lover OF
his colored Kind may recognize o follower n
ture in planter, il they both agree that tie
price OF coal is an outrage, the duty on iron q
swindle, and the tariff an abomination to be
abolished. In truth, it Ia high time that, after
some twenty years OF refreshing season for
the national soul, we should talo short term
Of attention to tho public body-whioh needs
1t badly enough. 2, Y IN I'll,
undertake to say that there is no nation in
the world which ts taxed as we aro taxed. No
wonder that the men who work for wages grow
desperate, as they docllue IN we'll being and es-
tate. No wonder that the nir is full OF strlkes
and labor move nenta AMI. associations and de-
mands and protests OF woi ikngmt and women
lhey are in tho ri2ht In their unrest aud up
rising, although the practical measures pro.
posed as remedes are sometimes unconsider-
ed. and unwise; for IL ls tue that the system Of
taxation they endure IS not only onerous, but
practically operative In the interest Of oapit Il
alone. 1tis true, as the very able and candid
commissioner OF revenue says and proves, That.
although the aggregate wealth Of tHe c6uptry
ia increasing. probably as rapidly as at any
former period; yet it does not follow That thaye
is the Same increase in general prosperity.
The Aborer; especially he Who has q large
was 10 1860; his wages have not increased in
proportion to the increase in the cost Of his
living. There is,. therefore, au inequality In
we must refer to artifoisf causes, and he ssks.
whence comes this unnatural distribution Oh
the results OF labor2p And he tells you, and
not he only, but every man who ever Was sup.
posed 70 know anything about political econo-
my will.tell You, that it must be the result Of
an enforced use, of unconverlible heaps OF
paper money, which involves most oppros-
sive tax, which falls heaviest on the laborer
and lightesL upon the owner Of capital. In
one significant sentence, he sums st up: 'sThe
rich become richer and the poor poorer"