The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-04-22
Bond Taxation.

credit of having created the most consider
able excitement that has stirred our State
since the Inauguration of the bewildered
| Ulysses. In declining to vote money to
pay the interest on its war debt, and in the
reasons it gave for that action, ii has touch
ed the bondholders on the raw. A spasm
and SILVER runs through the radical ranks
from kittery to Quoddy.
WHAT" they cry, 90 are people begin
ing to act aud talk like THAT? If they
are, what are WE coming TOP
And SO the radical press all over the
State falls to bcrating Montville. The Prog.
Age publishes a semi editorial article over
the signature of a star,-a bright particular
star-that scintillates on SHINING the peo-
pie, and intimates that, like cells, they ought
to get used to it, and not mind the opera
ton. And then the star, which is not of
the first magnitude, wrinkles feebly over the
old weak talk about the government neces-
sites, its promises, the Supreme Court, &C.,
&c. And then the star is silent, leaving
the reader to con over the nursery rhyme
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How wonder who you arel'
The Bangor Wing likewise smells the
smoke, and cries out that somebody is set
ting the radical house on fire. Pondering
over the result that may come out of this
agitation, the Wing proclaims that s. 1t is
not question for discussion" People of
Montville do you hear that: That paper,
even the Bangor Wing, says you may not
talk over your grievances If you heed
this command, you will shut your mouths,
leave your town house, take up the shovel
and the hoe, and 60 to work to pay your
own tax and that of you bondholding neigh
Dor. The Wing says you've NO RIGHT to
talk about the matter!
But you say you have-we say you have
and everybody, not bound body and soul
to the bondholder's car, says You have.
The Constitution gives you the right peace
able to assemble and petition for the redress
Of grievances-and if those grievances are
not removed, God gives you the right to
try other means.
AT least you can agitate-agitate. Per-
haps you will be sued for the interest due.
Let it be done. 1t will draw public atten-
ton to your complaints. There was never
a greater injustice inflicted on people than
this exempting the property of class of
men from the public burdens. CONGRESS
has the right to tax these bonds, if the State
or town has not-and it should be done.
That will open the way for all taxation
The proper way to get public attention
upon this matter is to keep talking about it.
That is why the bond-taxer's organs cry out
that it should not be discussed.
But we say-talk about it-think about
it-consult about it-act upon it, And in
time we shall see this monstrous injustice
righted.
The Bangor Wing is poking its nose into
the affairs of the Democracy of Maine, and
advising the course to be pursued in making
a nomination for Governor. 1t says
We have claimed for the eastern Democracy
the honor of the nomination this wear, and no
doubt they will be gratified with favorable
response. If they are, why shouldn't Mr.. Boyn-
ton have it? He is about their abest man and
he is the Democratest Roman of them all
The idea of an honor coming to the De
mocracy of any section through sugges-
ton from the Wing About the same time
dunghill fowls egg will be set under a
goose and hatch bird of paradise! Mr..
Boynton is high-minded and we'll qualif-
ed gentleman, who never was and never
will be time-server, who would make a
good candidate and an excellent Governor.
So would scores of other gentlemen in the
party. But which of them shall be put be.
fore the people by the Convention is ques
ton concerning which Democrats will take
counsel of each other rather than of the
Bangor Wing. The radicals will have
enough to do after the nomination, to ex.
cuse them from any trouble now.
The Wing further remarks
While others in that party have had poltica
night sweats and have become generally de-
bilitated through fears of the "trooly lol'
masses, and have almost surrendered to ths
Republican onslaught, he has never paled nor
linched.
An impression has prevailed that the
most debilitated political night Sweat ex.
tant is attached to that paper, and alter
mates in its columns with that other SWIM.
tom of exhaustion, a profuse diarrhea. Med
ically speaking, the diagnosis of the Whie
is not encouraging.
Gen. Hersey, of Bangor, Hon. Z. Knowltou
OF Montville, Hon. N. G. Hichborn, of Stock.
ton, Hon. Nelson Dingley Of Lewiston, and
Gov Chambelain, are the radical candidates 70,
the Gubernatorial nomination this year. The
temperance men will probably make separate
nomination, and put Hon. Arson P. Morrill, in
the field. The prospects for lively canvass
are daily growing stronger. Let it come.