The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-11-11

mated JouS QUINCY ADAMS grandson OF ex-
Pre- ident j. q. ADANs) for Governor, that gem
tleman accepts the nomination and writes as
follows:
QUINCY, October II, 1870.
Hon. James NJ. Keith, President Of the
ConUention. DEAR SIR-Presuming that |
my declared desire to withdraw from
the candidacy would have insured the
dismissal of my name from the minds of
the convention at Fiitchourg; the nomi-
nation announced by you In your favor
of this date, which / have the honor to
acknowledge, was somewhat unexpec-
ted by me. Differing in that respect
from my eloquent competitor, have
for three years past wished to be Gov
ernor of Massachusetts very much, but
having failed to discover the reciprocity
of sentiment among the majority of my
fellow citizens, which Is desirable in
such cases, l thought it would be wise
for the democracy to select more at
tractive candidate. But the convention
having apparently detected value in
my services which had escaped my OBJ
servation, it would be arrogating an alb
surd importance to my individual pref
erences to persist in an obstinate and
ungracious refusal of so small q sacri-
flee, to body of citizens from whom 1
have accepted such flattering favors. L
therefore cordially undertake the duty
imposed. The only real claim of the
republican party, of late, to public con
"a hyy of
Without head, or system, or principles,
it is held together only by the life of de-
cay-corruption. Its system of taxa.
| ton is the most burdensome and the
| least democratic in the world its cur
rency is the robbery of the poor, while
its vaunted reduction of the debt has
only been accomplished by crue, taxa
| ton which doubles the burden by taxi
ing two dollars from the people for each
dollar paid to the public creditor. The
scheme of imposts is deliberately and
craftily organized in the interests of as
sociated capital alone, and is as certain
ly, if not as palpably, a violation of ev.
cry principle of equal democratic gov
erument as was the cognate policy of
the same party, by which two hundred
millions of acres of the peoples home
stead lands have been given away to
railroad corporations. This cunningly
devised scheme will this year take five
or six hundred millions of dollars from
the people, and pay it over to the capit-
alists who own your mines and mills
and furnaces and salt works, to alleviate
their Improbable labors, as certainly as
| if the tax was openly levied ard the
bounty avowedly paid. Under the same
system our ocean shipping is broken up
and our shipyards are closed, and the
farming land of New England no lon.
ger fetches the cost of the buildings
upon it. And that its conspicuous
| merit in affording protection to the
American workman from the pauper la
Dor of Europe may be apparent to the
meanest capacity, almost the only arti-
Gle which it admits duty free is an uu-
limited supply Of cheap Chinese, i'm
| ported in lots to suit capitalists. The
democracy, on the contrary, accepting
the past and frankly recurring to the
principles of Jefferson, hold out the
hand to all who long for reform, and
press forward to redeem the future To
that end they call on all men who are
for moderate and equal tariff, conceiv,
ed in no interest less universal than that
of the whole people, on all who know
that deprecated currency is a curse
| 10 hut f, fl,f
poor-and on those men who see how
corruption is sapping the foundations of
| the government, to maintain by their
votes the truly democratic measures of
hard money, revenue tariff and rad
| ical reduction and reform in the civil
service. In State affairs the success of
| the democra y would mean the absolute
cessation of grants of public funds or
credit to local or partial uses. The stur-
dy beggars who infest the State House
cutiye can be screwed up to forbid their
plans of plunder. Democratic economy
will not mean crowded lobby and a
swelling debt. Special legislation shall
not drag out the sessions of our legisla-
ture till midsummer; and the democra-
cy dare trust the people to buy their
food and drink unmatched by an odious
and expensive corps of informers.-
| Above all, sir, the democracy intend to
try for new Union, under what radi-
cal Senator of the United States has
called that "decayed and worm-eaten
bequest of the fathers of the Republic"
the Constitution of the United States.
And in success the democratic party at
least will not utterly forget that a gov.
ernment, no matter what title it may
assume, is truly democratic only in so
far as the guiding will of most permits
the free development. of each in every
attribute of independent manhood.
Very truly your obedient servant,
| JnuNr AnAMl