Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-09-03
EXTRACTS FRoMsENATOR NOR
TONS SPEECH AT WHINING.
TON


furnish 8 fair idea of its argumentstivs
power and elOquence and will amply
repay the attentive reader.
The Senator discussed the resolutiou.s
Of the Democratic platform ses-iatine. In
reference to the third one of the series,
which reads as follows:
THAT we denounee the National Ban king
| system as one of the worst outgrowtIls Of
| the bonded debt, in that it unfieceS5sTtiV
i Inereases the burdens of the people thirty
ll.Ls millions rs OF dollars annually and we de-
the Senator said:
The statement that the national
| Banking system increases tt9 burdens
/ I the Government to the amount OF
thirty millions, is not only totally but
-hamefully false, and is sheer at
tempt to impose upon aud defrdud the
4 people. On the contrary it is clearly
shown that the National Banks. so far
I rom Increasing the burdens of interest
70 Us paid by the people, absolutely
/ diminished it, tn the amount of more
/ than eighteen millions Of dollars, for the
-eason that although the bonds are not
L liable to taxation, the bank stock, the
[ currency and depOsitB created and
| founded upon them are ubiact TO taxa
ton. Add in fact it viii appear anon
examination that tue NsIi1Tlal Bat, lrs
Z are the uOaE heavily taxed 4Dronartv in
che United States. AS said beFora ~
show the utter faIsebood OF this raso-
luton, Il is not necessary chat / stls9uid
i 1h1rm that the National Banking svE-
TEN il perfect, but do say that Il is
Tar better than the OLD State Bank sya-
L tenn which IL surperEeded, and to which
/ Il would seem that these Demooratic
Il politicians wish TO return In 1870 be
fore the war, the notes of the Bank a,
State of Ohio-as good a bank as there
L vac in the North West-wouId NOT nv
i 4 intel hill in the r. ~
Che notes of all the banks in the North
i vest were 81 a scOunt in the E ,stsrD
states, and the merchant of Whining
on, who wanted to pay for bill o
-oods IN New York or B son, nusf
/ buy exchange upon those cities AT a
cost offrom three-quarters to two Der
:ent. instead of beng able to send At :.
| cost of One-Jwelfth 0f one per cent nv
| express, IA he now can the notes of the
i Bank of Wilmington to New York and
Soston to pay his debts. What ever we
may say, or whatever we NAV do in re-
ard to the National Banks, one thing
Is ceFtain-We do not want to 90 back
o the old banking system by which
che people remote from the great com
meFcial and monetary centars wer4
compelled to pay q heavy tax to them.
That svstem Of banking was. rfDdeed :
continual harvest for the shavers bro
<eTs and money-changers of the ooun-
try.
The National Bank stock in Ohio i,
EaXed heavier than any other proDertV
n the State, for the reason that Ii l.
assessed at its par Vaiue, while real and
| lersona1 estate are generally asseased
1t not more than oue-haIf their value.
And while under the old syst, m the
oOOplo were annually robbed OF millions
Of dollars by the failure OF local banks
created by the severaiS State, the holders
Of the currency OF the National hanks
have never lost dollar in thar wav
and never wall, unless the bonds which
are deposited as security or this cur
reHcy shall depreciate and become
Worthless by the accession OF the Dem
ocratjc party to power, and the ado0r-
ion of a policy of repudiation.
The fourth resolution denOuncas tsthp |
present nigh protective tariff enacted in |
the interest of the New England manu-
saeturers, for its enormous impositior |
# duties on salt, sugar, tea, coffee, and |
other necesaaries, rs oppressive. espeoi- |
ally upon the people of the West, and |
that we demand it's repeal and fhe s1h /
stitufion Of another, based upon reven-
ne principles approximRting as closel, /
up0n Tres trade as possible.
The faIsehood of this resolution ia on
ly exceeded by Us absurdity. The de- 4
ciarstion that salt, sugar, tea. and coffee. Il
are taxed in the interests of New ~
land iS simply ridiculous. New Enc
ana does not manufacture or produce
any one OF those articles, and therefore |
DEflEHEF9n
levyiDg tax upon them. II New Enc |
and produced tea, coffee, sugar or salt
then perhaps there would be some asDG,
in saying that taxes were levied unoD
hem for her benefit.
But 1nagmuch as the Democratic mar
" has, in times pasr, created mueh nor
iudice in the Northwest by the perpetrIai
slsnder of New England, and the pre-
tense that we were all heavily taxed
OF. IoF hSr oen-nt, 1t was Thought bsst by
+nls n.. ConVentlou to hold New England
responglole for the tax levied uDon aaIt |
ca, coffee, and sugar. You miQht a.
well hold New ENGLAND rrsponmibIa n, |
The recent eclipse, which vas NET NOR
'otaI than viii be that Of the Democrat |
e parry IN ONO IN October next. There
9 a much sense in this resolution a.
here was in the declaration ofIha 1vcIfI
when ne explained that the lamb who
vent TO the spring at point lower
DOWN muddled the water so that he. n.
WOLF could not drink it. Salt. tea
cofIea and sugar are taxed in the form
or duties because the Government ha.
to raise revenue and they are the fair
subjects of tRZation in that form, IftbA
revenue was not raised in this way. /,
would have to be in some other. which
would perhaps be just as ouerous upnr.
he great body Of the people. Just nov
there is not very much room for diA-
suRsinn upon the subject of the tariff
The Government has large revenue 4.
raise, aud part OF it must he obtained
n this way, and il this tariff ahould b,
8 adj nsted as to some extent to protec'
American manufactured il could not b, /
.he subject of just complaint to any
1ody who did not prefer foreign L
Americsn manufactures. This rPsoiu-
tion does not demand that revenue
shaIl not be raised by q tariff, but il |
Dnly demands that this tariff should ht
tO adjusted as to furnish no protection !
% American manufactures.
The hfth resolution begins by reEoly-
ing that 4the Democratic party of ths
United States has always been pre-
eminently friendly to the rights ann /
interests of the laboring man. Ger
sainly this must be so. Has not tht
Democratic party for forty years been |
be advocate and defender OF human
1lavery, and does IL not now stand as
The the only monrner by it's Rrave2 |
And has not the institution OF slavery
0ePn the great enemy Of free labor. de-
moralizing, dishOnorinR and almost de |
-troying it In the States where It exist |
al. and in fact impairing It's character
and credit throughout the whole cOun-
ry2 It is, therefore, eminently pro- /
1er that the Democratic party should
now resolve that it has always been
5he champion of the labprinR man, anc
8 therefore entitled 10 his eternal |
gratitude.
This resolution then resolves. "Tha
he Democratic party is in favor of > |
limited number of hours oflabor in all
Government workshOps-hourR dicta-
,ad by the physical and mental we'll |
lRing of the iaborers." What numbe4 |
4 hours il is in favor of, whether ten OF
Twelve, or fifteen, the resolution does /
rot condescend TO inform us, but I will |
'ssume, for the sake of the argument
hat 1t refers to the eight-hour system.
nd It 50 happens that eight hours were {
liked as days work in all Govern
nent workshops by Republican Con- s
sress more than \ year ago, and the on {
~ curious thing about It is that the
Democratic politicians have been able |
o find ii out so som.
The resolution then resolves that it {
'in favor of liberal grants OF land from
the public domain to actual settlers,
without cost" And il so happens thai
1 Republican Congress, some years ago {
assed laws donating the public lands {
o actual settlers, and that the Demo- &
cratic party, throughout the long years