The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-07-08

and hence we must have Il strong government with
an army at our backs, and when the people become
FESTIVE as to the payment of taxes they are to be
compelled TO do so at the point of the bayonet. /
know what say, and, not TO be egotistica, l know
what is being prepared for the American people
We find the single item of 10000, 900 to be col
lcrtcd for payment of interest on bonds, and what
| is it: Interest to be paid in one-half years time
You run your hands into your pockets and pull out
what it is. But see what it calls for its face.
As compared with the currency of the world as
admitted by both Christian and barbarous nations,
we find this paper to be thirty or forty cents below
! par. But what about the men who have many
millions in bonds: | must here tell little story.
II has been so long since any of the people in my
section saw five, two and half. or ten or twenty
dollar gold piece that | made it special point
carry home few pieces with me iii order that they
might see them
1t had been stated in paper that in converse
ton he had remarked to somebody that mo nation
had ever yet paid national debt created in war
except by reputation" If | stated fact is there
any harm in it: (Cre> of NO. no. What politi-
cal economist dare deny the proposition: | also
state that there is not nation ON earth that made
Il debt internnable or permanent that is free. Is
there amy harm in stating such facts and great
truths? (Responses of mo, no. Then how does
the matter stand: Because | have uttered truths
which cannot be controversial is said favor repll-
dation. But go to Congress. What has it done:
| You will find that in the inaugural address it is
stated that if anybody is in favor of reputation 10
the extent of Il single farhng he cannot hold an
office under the government. U4aughter.) But
when you go TO this Congress, conscious We're
they OF the great fraud practced in various arori
Gus ways they came forward and proposed to repu-
diate onelrd of the whole debt. 1T is nomni-
ted i'll the bond" to say six per cent and yet Con-
grcsS i'll face of this solemn contract proposed to
reduce il to five, four and three per cent But this
interest is to be paid in gold and silver. Go to the
department. A man comes in with coupons, and
at counter gets gold and silver for them; an
other man comes in and goes to another counter
orphans
who fell in the countrys cause-Who was buried
with no winding sheet around his body but the
blanket stained with blood-and this man, acting
for the widow or orphans, is handed deprecated
paper, while the bondholder receives gold and sill
Yer.
When the rebellion commenced wa, one of
those who opposed it, My property WAS imperilled.
raised thirtySeven thousand men for the struggle.
am out of office now and ask for no place, there
fore | can talk PLAIN on the subject. The war COM
nenced and was called on our part as was solemn
~ declared in Congress, for the purpose of presery
ing the Union and restoring the States to their pro-
per re lations. The rebellion progressed, and what
was the effect? There was institution in the
South to which there was great prejudice. 1t
estimated, when considered i'll its character and
shape as property to be worth three thousand mill
ions of dollars. was no advocate of slavery. The
negro walked off, and just as this property disap-
peared in one section it appeared in the shape OF
government stocks and bonds at the other end of
the line, instead OF existing in an institution which
Wa, productive to the nation and to the world
can tell you where it is. 60 look into the vaults
and see the great stacks of government bonds.
How many fields does it plough: How many ships
does ii build: How much wealth does it add to the
nation: Can anybody tell me? CA voice-''None.' y
1t there remains corroding and eating the gov
ernment vitas. The query comes up, are the
American people going to tolerate these things:
Instead OF such vast amount of credit and capital
being locked up in the strong boxes, it should be
forced out of the hands Of the bondholders and
forced to seek investments in such enterprises
would add TO the wealth OF the country in the de-
NplODmpnt of It's and of Ouhlil
Improvement.
After further remarks th, and kindred sub
iectS he said we once had Washington in this
country, and thank God for it. (Appause.) l
have heard il said we have a second Washington.
"a voice-'.We have got him yet''.) 1 should like
to look at him. applause and laughtcr) should
like to see what kind OF an animal he is. | suspect
the second Washington is about much like the
first Washington as-let me illustrate. You re-
member the old story of the prank or satire that
Diogenes practsed on Plato, who was very learn
ed and who instructed the Young men in the
academy, and defined man TO be animal with
two legs and without feathers. Diogene>, who
was Il cynic and well of satire, concluded he would
rdlcule the idea out of existence and therefore he
would catch goose and strip it Of its plulnage and
hang it by the head, and as the students We're turn
ed out he pointed at the goose with the feathers
stripped OIL saying, This is Piato'S man." (Ap-'
plausc and general laughter, with cries OF Good
~ oure right on the gooSe.) think the COMPARE
son near about complete. Carrying out the idea,
Washington was inaugurated on the 18th of April.
want of experience and his ditiidence in assuming
a responsibility 50 great, and also spoke Of the inn
portance of private morals As the foundation of
pablic virtue. (Appausc.) He furthermore
commended that in sustaining the Executive De-
partment no more money should be appropriated
than barely sufficient to detray the expenses.
He approached the Presidency almost with and
trembling. He did not say. Il feel the RESPONSE
bility. but / accept the office without fear" That
is Your second Washington. uaughter) But |
have not seen your second Washington yet. I'M
aginc Washington sitting At the council board,
looking at the Secretary of the Treasury and say
ing, I've got your draft for siNty-tye thousand
dollars, and seeking for Il book from which to de
rive little information, saying to the Secretary of
the Navy, I've got your library at cost of fifteen
thousand dollars" Then look around at the furni-
ture, house and lots. How would Washington
have set in Cabinet meeting, surrounded by such
men these? daughter and cries of ''Good.")
You see how the government is moving along. The
cry comes up, my countrymen, whether We shall
not meet the issue when we shall rally round the
ballot box TO the support of the constitution as the
palladium of our religious and civil liberty, and
cling to it as the shpwrecked mariner clings to
the last plank when the night is closing around