Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-08-17

to smite the sick man who dominates the
land OF LaFaye'te-perhaps war strikes
the hour for the Emperor who plotted
and schemed against us in the day of our
trial.
However this may be, God grant that
no harm may come to Germany. Germa-
ny sympathized with us, the sons of Ger
many fought for us, and cheers of victory
went up in the German tongue from the
burning battle-felds of ,our rebellion
Germany's constitution is like ours, Prus.
sla believes as we do, in education for all,
and republicans everywhere join me n
the hope that no harm is in store fer
Germany.
Returning to our own land, war, as I
said, has gone. America, blest with the
opportunities, and charged with the re-
sponsibilities of dear-bought peace, is
either to be crushed by the weight of her
magnificent destiny, or to rise to hight
OF civilization and grandeur which the ua.
tlonalities never reached, and the cent?.
ries never knew.
In the career before us, as in every
free system, Government is to be directed
by political organizations. The Republi.
can party is now directing national affairs
and it has never failed in the presence of
any emergency of events.
1t cannot be spared, the nation needs
it yet. 1t has Congress of which it
does not become me here to speak. 1t
has President who has never disappoin-
ted just expectation, and who, as pa
triot, soldier, President, and man
has earned the confidence and admiration
of his countrymen. Turning from the
greatest of military commands and of mil
itary successes, he assumed the most COM
plex and commanding of civil trusts, and
he has SO borne himself in his great office
that every reasonable expectation has
been realized.
Were we ever stronger abroad than
now? In what has the Administration
failed at home? The Revenue has been
honestly collected--so honestly, that for
fifteen months, with sources of revenue
curtailed by Congress, the receipts have
exceeded sixty-six millions the receipts
for the corresponding period under the
preceding Administration. The public
debt has been rapidly diminished, the pub
bile credit lifted up at home and abroad,
and yet taxes have been diminished until
but few remain. Eighty millions in taxes
have just been dispensed with, fifty-seven
millions of internal taxes and twenty
three of customs duties. Is there more
that men had right to expect?
Such stewardship deserves, and will
receive, the public appreciation. New
York's great seal should attest the gener-
al, and with concord among members Of
the same household of faith, New York's
great seal will attest it.
We have at last an act of Congress
under which an election may once more
be held in the city of New York, law
seeking to substitute a fair election for
that scandalous farce which has so often
enacted on election days.
The provisions speak of, will call into
being inspectors to watch the registry,
the vote, and above all, the count, and
the Marshal is empowered to preserve
order and safety at the polls.
With fair election, and votes fairly
counted, we need only conciliation and
unity and among ourselves, and then ac-
tion, earnest action, and New York will
pronounce for the Republican party and
the administration of Gen. Grant. To
this end, let us all work.
But do not mean TO make speech,
and, renewing my Acknowledgements, 1
bid you all good night.
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