The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-08-29

Speaker Blaine WAS serenadei at the
Grand Union Hotel, at Saratoga Springs
on Wednesday evening, August 10Th
10000 people being present Enthusi
astic applause greeted Mr.. Blaine. who
was introduced by VIM. A. Sackett. OF
Saratoga, and spoke as follows
Gentlemen:-For 40 much ofthis ova-
ton as in my belief is personal to myself,
| tender you my most gracious thanks
| came hither, as you all did, to enjoy
rest and recuperation. and the inyigora.
ton of this most delightful resort, and
am very sure that the quiet of my stay is
not broken by this vast concourse of peo.
pie for the mere purpose of paying per.
sonal compliment to so humble an indi.
vidual a. myself. Holding, as | do at
present a position Of responsibility in
connection with our national government
l am forced to infer that the mere fact OF
your assembling is an invitation for me
to speak to you, however briefly, upon
the political questions and issues of the
hour and yet ut the very outset, gentle.
men, | feel compelled to say that there
never seemed to me to be n time in our
history when there was less need ofspeech
or when the facts of i public record car.
ricd with them, as patent to everyone, so
fully their ownarguments, and enforced
so clearly their own conclusions
The two great parties between whom
the American people divide their sympa.
thy and their support, must be judged
not by their professions but by their acts
where each is in authority. The repub.
licans are in full power at Washington
while the democrats bear undisputed
sway in New York. Need l draw the
picture which consists of facts suggested
to every intelligent mind. In Washing.
ton every dollar that can be saved above
the current expenses is faithfully applied
to the reduction of the national debt In
New York every dollar that can be raised
or wrung from the groaning taxpayer.
above the current expenses is carefully
applied to the benefit of private ring OF
political spectators. In Washington We
have witnessed with admiration aud as.
tonishment the payment of our national
debt at the rate Of a 500 100000 pei
annum in New York We have seen with
CONSERVATION and alarm the Increase Of
the municipal debt at such rate as
would ensure, at no long period, bank.
ruptcy and ruin. even Of that great me.
tropolis. with its immense resources aud
its fabulous wealth
II seems but yesterday that Gen
Grant was naugurated. aud yet in the
brief period that has just passed $3.50.
100000 of our debt has been paid, sum
equal to more than one-eighlh of our en-.
tire bonded debt as il exists al this hour
and this payment, he il remembered, hat
been made while taxes We're repealed that
were yielding eighty millions per year
when Gen. Grant came into power Look
at New foIs during the same period it.
bonded debt increased to snch u great
extent that the authorities dare not con.
fess the actual amount. The tax levies
all the while are heaped beyond the i'm.
agination of honest men, and u scale Of
corrupt expenditure is maintained that
challenges the credulity Of even those
who are best acquainted with the audacity
of Tammany Hall do not desire, gen,
tlemen, TO be understood as making o
random and uufounded charge including
every democrat 10 the land, and holding
him responsible for the corruptions il
Kew York. | have too much respect
for individual members of that party, and
trust | may say that | have too many
friends in the circle of that party, to per,
nit me TO make so unjust charge bu,
this ! do say, aud address it especially
to honest democrats, that the source oI
the power apd controlling guidance oil
that party is in just such hands as have
been guilty of the gross frauds recently
exposed in New York. Without the aid
aud leadership of Tammany it would be
impossible for the democrats to carry the
State of New York, aud without the
State OF New York their chance in the
Presidential contest of 1862 would uoi
be worth reckoning. and they will know
it,. | 30 further, gentlemen. aud aver
that that the power Of Tammany with it,
money in the North and power of terror,