The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-11-03
2olitital, &c.
An Eloquent Arrangement of the
Radical Party.

John Quincy Adams, the Democratic
candidate for Governor in Massachu.
sets, in his letter Of acceptance, thus
eloquently aud scathingly arraigns the
Radical party of this country ut the bar
of public opinion aud before the tribu.
nal Of the people
The only real claim Of the Republi.
can party Of late to public C, n idence is
by parade Of trophies, without head,
or system, or principles; it is held to.
gethef only by the life OF decay-cor.
ruption. Its system Of taxation i. the
most burdensomc and the least demo
cratic in tho world; its currency is the
robbery Of the poor, while its yauuted
reduction OF the debt has only been nc.
complished by cruel taxation, which
doubles the burden by taking two dol
lars from the people Tor each dollar paid
to the public creditor. This scheme Of
impOsts is deliberately aud craitily or.
ganized in the interests Of associated
capital alone, and is as certainly, if not
as palpably, violation Of every princi.
pie OF equal democratic government ms
was the cosnate policy Of the same party,
by which two hundred millions of acres
of the peoples homestead lands have
been given away to railroad corpora
tlons. This cunningly devised scheme
will this year take five or six hundred
millions OF dollars from the people, aud
pay 1t over to the capitalists who own
your mines, aud mils, and furnaces,
aud salt works, to alleviate their uu
profitable Iabors, as certainly as if the
tax was openly levied and the bounty
avowedly paid Under the same sys.
TEN our ocean shipping is broken up
aud our ship yards are closed, and the
farming land Of New England no longer
fctchcs the cost OF the buildings upon
it. And that its cons picuous merit in
aiturdlng protection to the American
workman from the pauper labor of Eu
rope may be apparent to the mcanest
capacity, almost the only article which
it admits duty free is an unlimited sup.
ply Of cheap Chinese, imported in lots
to suit capitalists. The Democracy, on
the contrary, accepting the past aud
frankly recurring to the principles of
Jefferson, hold out the hand to all who
long for reform aud press forward to re-
deem the future, To that end they call
on all men who are for a moderate and
equal tariff, conceived in no interest less
universal than that OF the whole people
ON all who know that deprecated
currency Is curse to every one, but
utter perditiou to the poor-aud on
those men who see how corruption is
suppiug the foundations of the govern
ment, To maintain by their votes the
truly democratic measures Of hard
money, revenue tariff, and a radical
reduction and reform the civil ser.
vice. Above all, sir, the Democracy
intend to try for new Union, under
what II Radical Senator of the United
States has called that "decayed and
worm eaten bequcst Of the fathers of
the republic" the Constitution of the
United States. Aud in success. the
Democratic party at least, will not ut.
terIy forget that a government, no mat.
ter what title it may assume. is truly
democratic only in SO iar Us the guiding
will OF most permits the free develop.
ments OF each in every attribute of in.
dependent manhood. Very truly, your
obedieht servant, JoHN Q. ADAMS.