The Portland daily press., 1870-09-08

an organization did not lit its finger to carry
on the war-save the notion, what party did
In 1860, when the people of this country took
power for the Democrat party, and placed it in |
The heroes of the Republican party, what was
the condition of this country? Without dol
lar in its treasury its seventy millions of debt
contracted in time of profound peace, with It's
cred tdispalaged and broken in the markets ..
the world, and with its interest upon mat oeot
unpaid, the Republican party cama into power
and the leaders of the Democratic party thrust
upon the country this war, ana the nepuuuIa"
party raised the money 10 the Market Within
their own borders and among thelr own I'1u.
Every body contributed to the support OF Tue
nation: confident they were that it was IN sac
hands with the wisdom OF the executive anu
t he patriotism of congress, the people responu-
ed and raised the money to carry on tue war
and the men. eleven hundred thousand meh
nnder the auspices and the support OF the he
publican party marched to the deliyerance OF
the county from this gigantic rebellion. ana
the surrender of its armies at AppomattoX
Court House was the surrender OF the rebel
lion to the present head of the government,
the leader OF the Republican party to-day.
[Applausej. Briefly this was what it did
financially during the war. What did it do
for the rights of men? First, it abolished
slavery in the District of Columbia, than in
The nation than it clothed all the people the
land with the rights Of citizenship, and lastly
it clothed them with t1e ballot.
Now in all these attanments of civil rights,
tHC party udNt uO pdTL. l. nave
seen these things in all their phases, from the
driving of the slaves by the hundreds through
Pennsylvania Avenue joined two and two as
mules are driven to the market; first their
cha. MS striken off by the vote of Congress and
the slave made free; then / have seen him
made citizen, clothed with the rights of cit-
geuship; then have seen him clothed with
the ballot; and have seen him choose a may
or of the city of Washington, the capital of the
country; and lastly have seen him walk into
fI,Oc InffA h oil
| (Applause) In all these things, the Demo-
cratic party has had no part nor lot, and in no
| one OF them from the smallest to the greatest
| of this grand achievement of human rights can
| you find single convention, great or small,
| State, county or ward caucus in which the
Democratic party has approved of one of
| them?
Now, fellow citizens, do you propose to put
| the power and the administration of this gov
| eminent into their hands? Is it because these
| things are wrong that you would trust the adj
mnistration of the government in the hands of
| the enemies of these measures and these
| achievements? 1t is true they are embodied
in the buttresses of the constitution itself, and
| therefore are beyord the reach of these men.
| But will you entrust the administration of
| that constitution and the laws under it to these
| men? If so, will it be because they are oppos.
| ed to its Then it cannot be because of the Op-
| position of the Republican party upon either
| the finances during the war or the achieve
| ments of human rights, attained through the
| Republican party through the war, and as a
| consequence the results of the war; / am
| searching honestly for the reason upon which
the Democratic party of the nation are COM
ing this fall here in Maine first, then during
| the October elections in Pennsylvania and in
| Iowa and Ohio; then in the November cleo
| tons in the rest of the States, before this ma
ton, and demand that they shall be clothed
with administrative powers; and l want TO-
know if it is because of the short comngs of
| the Republican party during the war, either
in the manner of carrying on the war or in
what they deemed the folly of mourning such
| a great debt in order to save the nation, or in
| the lifting up of the down.trodden slave and
knocking the letters OF four millions of them
from their limbs, and consuming them in the
| fires Of the rebellion itself; or because they
were made citizens; or lastly, because they
were made voters? Which is it; is ie for all,
and il not tor all, for which one of these things,
not done in the dark nor under a bushel; but
in the face of mankig and planted in the
| foundation of the constitution itself, for which
| one of them, 1 want to know, is it that the Re-
publican party has forfeited the confidence of
| the people of the country, and the power is TO
be taken from them and put into the hands of
| the unrepentent Democratic party
| Well, il your patience will permit, let us
! follow events since the war. Though fragrant
| war ceased the spirit of the war still lives, and
Tins of it turn to-day for the protection of
their lives, their property and their homes?
| towards which OF the two great parties of this
| nation do the poor, weak coored men and the
weaker white Union men of the South to day
| turu in their desolate and deSpsed hamieis
and defenceless houses in the Southern States?
I! To which of them is it proposed to surrender
| the power? To the Democratic party in the
| face of this appeal, and answer it, and ex-
| act from them some pledge of what they will
| do with 100000 OF the wards of the nation?
| To begin with, and with few scattered poor
Union men of the South that survived the re-
| bellion, or the Northern men who have gone
| down there. to seek their fortunes in these
States as they go to the Western States to fl nd
| employment and means of livelihood. de-
| sire to have this question answered; and until
| the Democratic party come to ME aud answer
these questions they can make no impressions
upon my mind in their new appeal for power.
Then, fe'lOw-ct'zens, one step further. Here
| is this debt of So, 500,000000. There are only
| three ways to deal with it. One il the way
| which MUNGER, the leader of the Democratic
| party in Ohio, proposes-to repudiate it..
| Another is the way of Voorhees,, the leader of
| the Democratic party in Indiana, and that is
to issue $1000,0000OO greenbacks to pay it
| with, and when these called for to issue
more. One other way is TO pay it like honest
| men. Great and grievous are the burdens.
| Every honest man in the country is staggering
under the load of taxes; but he knows
1 he placed it on his own shoulders; ard
every honest man proposes to pay his debts
like an honest man. How is it with this Re-
publican party? We had Mr.. johnson for four
W ars after the war; The Republican party
| took him but the Democratic party got him.
| He was a cat with fair promises, but at the
| sound of the rat he became Democrat, and
during his four years be paid just IS, COO 900 of
that public debt; and now Gen. Grant has
| been in power sixteen mcnths, and how much
has he paid of it? Just $169, $4,000 That is
| in sixteen months; and Andrew johnson, in
forty eight months, paid $S00O00O In the
last sixteen months, since the 4th of March,
1889, every day, Sunday and ALL there has been
| paid $4,000 of that debt. When the Demo-
cratic party found the Republican party deter
| mined to pay the debt like honest men they
cried out under the burden of taxation, How
| is that? The taxes were not so much when
] this debt was paid as they were undt An
drew johnson. Within the last three months
SSO,c0O,OOO of the taxes have been taken off in
one single bill passed by Congress- for which
| not one single Democrat voted. Every Demo-
crat in the House and in the Senate, who vot-
| ed at all, voted against the very bill that re-
duced the taxes $50, 900, 900; so that cannot be
| any honest way. Then how is it, with the
taxes less, that the Government OF the United
States In sixteen months has been able to pay
$u'9.o0O,OOO000 when in four years of Jehnsou's
administration they could not pay but S,000,-
0O0 with the taxes higher? How was that?
wen, will tell you, gentlemen. First, they
| nave been able to collect more revenue with
the taxes less during the lass year. There
was collected during the last sixteen months
the last sixteen months of Andrew Johpson's
| administration with the taxes reduced $32,-
5cO,lO0,O00 in sixteen mouths over and above
what Andrew Johnson's collectors got when
| the taxes were higher.
There are two distilleries in nv district T
wish there were not any, but there are two
there, and one hundred and twenty-nine in
| the Democrat district of Brooklyn, and during
| the last year of Andrew Johnson's administra-
| ton, the two distileries in my district paid
more money into the treasury of the United
States than the whole 129 in the Democrat dis
trict in Brooklyn. Voice, why was that?)
Because there was not anybody in my district
who knew how to cheat So They paid their
taxes like honest men. During the last year
of JOhnsOns administration the expenses of
the government were $cZ1 600 600 and odd
During the first year of General Grants adj
ministratiOn the expenses were 1922 O0OOOO
and odd difference in the expenses of 500
81 1913 Al in a single year, and this with the
saving in the collection makes this little hand
some difference in one single year of $S1, 169.-
2S1 Al. This is the way this ration has had the
meas of paying $3.50 100000 of the public debt
| in sixteen months, reducing tie taxes at the
same time.
During John O. Adams administration the
expenses of the government rose to $13 GOO COO,
aud they were SO enormous that the Democrat
&c party wrenched the power from the hands of
John o. Adams because of the extravagance
OF his administration. Yet here has been
saving OF ISL 600, 900 year. Such is the DIFF
ference between the growth of the expenditures
OF everything pertaining to this nation
Well, gents, this is not all. A funding bill
was passed the last Congress- BY which it was
provided 81 40000000O of public debt could lie
funded at to 4 2 per cent interest, saving