Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-06-09

Unfurl the flagour country's flag
Upheld by gallant hearts and true
A star for every sovereign State,
Emblazoned on its field ofhue.
No mutiated banner ours
Our dear-bought honors, basely shorn,
With half its glory-beaming stars
In frenzy from the Union torn.
Lo like the rainbow on the storm,
Its coors gid the brow of night,
And proudly daily with the breeze
As when it gladdened first the sight.
By hero hands that flag was raised,
When foesaround were thiclHening fast,
And tyrant power DER all the land
Its desolating shadow cast.
When rolled the war-elouds Ger the sky,
And blazed the lightning fires of death,
That banner met the patriots eye,
Who blessed it with his dying breath.
Amid the crash of ocean war
High streaming in the sulphury blast,
The flag waved DER the Keeling deck,
Nailed to the Constitutions mast.
Then be it ours to fence from harm
The glorious fas baptised in flame;
To keep its stars and stripes intact
The patriots pride, the traitors shame.
Still shall that banner stainless float
As when in joy and pride unfurled-
MiIIons of hearts its color-guard,
The hope Of Freedom through tire word
These men so near akin in spirit and
patriotism to the fathers of 1776, received
their first lessons in the old liberty and
abolition party, and they have graduated
with honorable diplomas in the great Ro-
publican party of to-day.
These are the parties, and such men as
I have mentioned and others of the same
principles give the honor. What shall
say in this connection of the Democratic
party, its leaders and those who make
apology for that party
[ dwell here in no hackneyed can't
about thanking God for this deliverance.
I say, dwell here in no hackneyed can't
about thanking God for this deliverance,
for such cant involves a reflection upon
God for it gives at least shadow of an
argument against God in having con-
tinued slavery so long, in having con.
tinued our bondage two hundred and
fifty years. / look upon this great reyo-
luton as having been wrought out by
man through the spirit of our common
humanity, or the God in man, if you
please, rather than by any special inter-
vention of Providence outside of man for
the destruction of slavery.
The financial condition of the govern
ment is fattering in the extreme. 1t is
estimated that the revenue from all sourc-
es amount to $685., 100000 per annum,
and the interest upon the National Debt
incurred in suppressing this late wicked
and unholy rebellion amounts to $780,
on, 900. The Secretary of the Treasury
estimates that 1921, 100000 will be suf-
fcient to meet and cover all current ex-
penditures for the fiscal year ending June
Goth. This |, understand, includes the
1929, 900 of interest money. If it
does, it will leave much more than $780,
100000 surplus, to be applied to public
improvements, remission of taxes, and to
the reduction of the principal on the pub
lie debt per annum. The total National
Debt amounts in the aggregate to a sum
exceeding 50, SOC, 100000.
During the administration of Gener raj
Grant, or from the 4th of March, 1869, to
the present time, the principal on the
National Debt has been actually reduced
the handsome amount of $114,429, 100.
The premium on gold has fallen from 50
to 149 per cent, and the total amount of
coin in the Treasury to-day is $106,7S9,-
73t, and $14,243,916 in currency
I am a woman's right man, and how
can | be otherwise, while their condi-
ton of right as to participation in the bal
lot was so similar to that of colored race
and white, do desire to discuss this
question on the present occasion yet /
would commend to you all the following
reasons for Woman's Suffrage -
At the meeting on Monday in Boston of
the New England Woman's Association,
Mr.. Lloyd Garrison gave twelve reasons
why women should vote:
First--They have the same natural and
inalienable rights, and the same common
interests as men. ...
Second-They have as much concern in
the establishment of Justice, the insurance
of domestic tranquility, in providing for
the common defense, promoting the COM
mon welfare, and in securing the blessings
of liberty to themselves and their posteri-
ty as have men. Il
Third-Ihey are naturally as capable
Of understanding and determining what
laws will be equitable and what measures
effective to these ends as men,
Fourth-They have as strong a love of
country as exalted and pure patriotism as
men.
Fifth-They are taxed without repre-
sentation and in various ways by unjust
legislation.
Sixth-They are made amenable to the
laws even to the extent of capital punish
ment; laws which they have no part in
and to which their consent has
never been asked or given.
6eventh-Deprived of the ballot, thew
have no means Of self-protection against
legal and judicial injustice.