Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-08-24
Speaker Blaine at Saratoga.
SHARP ATTACHMENT OF THE DEMOC
RACY-DEMOCRATICR RULE AT NEW
YORK, AND REPUBLICAN RULE AT
WASHINGTON.

Speaker Blaine was serenaded at the
Grand Union Hotel, at Saratoga Springs,
on Wednesday evening, August 10th,
| 10000 people being present. Enthusiastic
applause greeted Mr.. Blaine, who was in
troduced by VIM. A. Sackett, of Saratoga,
and spoke IS follows:
Gentlemen For so much of this ova-
ton as in my belief is personal to myself.
I tender you my most gracious thanks I
came hither, as you all did, to enjoy rest
and recuperation, and the inauguration of
this most delightful resort, and I am very
sure that the quiet of my stay ia not
broken by this vast concou7se of people
for the mere purpose of paying personal
compliment to so humble an individual
as myself. Holding, as do at present, a
position of responsibility in connection
with our national government am forced
to infer that the mere fact of your assem-
bling is an invitation for me to speak to
you, however briefly, upon the political
questions and issues of the hour and yet
at the very outset, gentlemen, I feel COM
PEELED to say that there never seemed to
me to be time in our history when there
was less need of speech, or when the facts
of public record carried with them, as
patent to everyone. so fully their own
arguments, and enforced so clearly their
own conclusions.
The two great parties between whom
the American people divide their sym
pathy aud 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 [ draw the
picture which consists of facts suggested
to every intelligentFmind. In Wishing
ton every dollar that can he 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 taxpayers
above the current expenses is carefully
applied to the benefit of private ring of
political spectators. In Washington we
have witnessed with admiration and as.
constituent the payment of orr national
debt at the rate of $100000,000 per an
mum in New York we have seen with |
and alarm the increase of |
the municipal debt at such rate as would |
ensure, at no long period, bankruptcy and |
ruin, even of that great metropolis, with |
it's immense resources and its fabulous
wealth.
1t seems but yesterday that Gen. Grant
was insugurated, and yet in the brief
period that has just passed $250,000 600
of our debt has been paid, a sum equal to
more than one-eighth of our entire bon
ded debt as it exists at this hour and
this payment, be it remembered, has been
made while taxes were repealed that were
yielding eighty millions per year. when
Gen. Grant came into power. Look at
New York during the same period its
bonded debt increased to such great ex-
tent that the authorities dare not confess
the actual amount. The tax levies all the
while are heaped beyond the imagination
Of honest men, and scale Of corrupt ex-
pendture is maintained that challenges
the credulity of even those who are best
acquainted with the aud acity of Tammany
Hall. l do dot desire, gentlemen, to be
understood az making a random and I'M
founded charge including every democrat
n the land, and holding him responsible
'or the corruptions in New York. I have
100 much respect for individual members
If that party, and trust may say, that I
nave too many friends in the circle of
hat party, to permit me to make so I'M.
ust charge; but this 1 do say, and I
address it especially to honest democrats,
hat the source of the power and controll-
ng guidance of that party is in just such
lands as have been guilty of the gross
rauds recently exposed in New York. l
the aid ard leadership of Tam
many it would be impossible for the de. '
noerats to carry the State of New York, i
md without the State of New York their c
nance in the Presidential contest of 1862 a
would not be worth reckoning, and they a
will know it. [ go further, gentlemen, {
nd aver that the power of Tammany q
With its money in the North and mower
f terrorism in the South are the weapons
elied upon by the democratic party to
AIRY the National contest next year, and =
it were not for this we should have to. l
ay absolute peace throughout the length ,
nd breadth of the land. Why, I ask, is !.
here not as much supremacy of law, as :
,uch civil order, and as thorough pro- y
ection of life and property in the South
o-day as in the North Why is there d
o more disturbance between the Potomac
nd Rio Grand than there is between the 0
otomac and st. lawrence | answer =
imply, because it is not for the interest
the democratic party to have it SO I g
nswer simply because it is in the in. d
crest OF the democratic party that such 7
condition of affairs shall be maintained 7
/ the south, as shall prevent fair, full ?
I'D unrestricted vote of the whole people, p
nd / do not charge this responsibility -
holly upon the democratic party in r,
,e Southern States. They are the i'm u
ediate actors, but the responsible en-
orsers are in the north. q,