The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-11-03

that the wages of these officeholders come
out of your pockets. All the taxes come
out Of the pockets of the workingmen
The others, the landlords, the manufactur.
ers. the merchants, are only the collectors
of the taxes from you; it is the working
man pays all in the end. There was al
old sign over an inn in London long time
ago, and i. was this: There was a king
standing upon the shoulders of soldier
the soldier was standing upon the should
ers of II parson; the parson was standing
upon the shoulders Of an artizan, and this
was the legend written above: The
king says, l govern all ; the soldier says
Il fight for all : the parson says, pray
for all : ana the workman says, pay fol
ALI" Now, that is the fact. These things
come home to yourselves. don't mean
TO say that, if the Reform party elects its
candidates, by any sudden magic your
wages will be raised, and the difficulties
IF life be made easier. But mean to say
that the party of Reform, if it gains power
in the Administration of the United States
as matter of necessity must economize, as
Il matter of necessity must turn out half OF
these useless officeholders. Ten men art
employed nowadays in doing one mans
work. These nine men will be sent away
to turn their attention to digging or car
pentry work, or some honest occupation,
and the United States will pay only the
one man that does work, and your pockets
will be saved so much by the reduction.
Some people say that the commercial and
| financial difficulties of this country arise
from what is called over production. 1t
is no such thing. What hurts us, what
makes our prospects of the future full of
alarm, what diminishes the profits of cap
| ital, what raises rents, what reduces the
wages of labor, is not the over production
of commodities it is misgovernment, it is
public plumber, and it is over-taxation.
That is what does the harm, and I tell you,
citizens, that the time has come when this
over-taxation must be stopped somehow.
We, men who stand for Reform, show you
a plain, peaceable constitutional way of
stopping extravaganza in the Government I;
but if it is not stopped in that way it will
be stopped in some worse way, for the peo-
pie can bear no taxation without being
turned into paupers from end to end OF the
land And so, fellow citizens, this second
excuse, which these gentlemen in Wash
ington put forward as reason of employ
ing them for tie future-that is that they
will reform hemselves-amounts to moth
ing. The only reform that can be is the
reform complete and effective that will be
applied to them when they are sent back
to their own homes to consider their past,
and learn in quiet, and at their own ex-
peuse, to be better citizens in the future.
THE TRUE sovEREIGNs.
| Now, citizens, you can effect this thing.
There is not single man among you that
| has vote that does not SO far represent
the sovereignty of the nation. Each one
of these meetings which are being held
here and everywhere through the country
is but branch of the great council of the
nation, is but II branch of the great sover-
eign assembly before which ministers and
governments and parties are being tried
because these parties, these ministers and
this government are not the masters of the
people; they are its servants, bound to
carry out its will, and the moment it turns
out that they are incompetent, that, instead
of giving us protection and prosperity they
have been intlicting evil and danger upon
the country, then the Constitution gives
you the power, and your duty compels you
t. eX ercise that power, of eXtricating your
self from Government which, in so far
as it ceases to perform all the duties of IL
government, has become public nuisance,
which should be abated
The Democratic party is of its essence
party of the Constitution, party bound
10 obey the law. In the storm and fury of
revolution it could not sustain itself, be-
cause it was the party of Constitution and
the law. Call that its weakness, if you
will, in such hours of gloom and terror
but its weakness then has become its
strength now. We do not want q wal
party any more, we want no more reyolu-
ton We want now the party OF
peace, the party of order; we want
want the Constitution and laws. The
Democratic party is incapable, from its
very essence, of calling bayonets to cleo.
tions to prevent men from voting as they
will. The party in power may do these
things, because it is revolutionary party
The Democratic party is the child of the
Constitution it dare not violate one of its
provisions. And understand that | speak
of the Constitution as it is, with every ont
of its amendments. There is no intention
anywhere OF going back upon that. II
and its amendments stand as the charter
of the land, and every Democrat is bound
to obey it. We accept all that has been
settled by the great arbitrament of war;
All that is fixed forever, and am sure
from what / can learn, from much that
know, that throughout the South, among
all thinking men-you know there are fools
everywhere-but among the thinking men
the men of weight and power, there is moi
one than does not accept the Constitution
and all its amendments with Just as mucl
cordially, sincerity, and determination o.
obedience as any honest Republican o.
Democrat in the North. They talk will
the affectation of alarm of "solid South
Why, sir, if don't mistake, we will show
them solid North. What is Indiana p
Is that the South2 We will show then
State after State of the North uniting will
the South against the oppression of thu
South, not because it is sectional oppres
sion, but because it is crime in the face
of mankind.
A UNITED NATION.
My friends here in this village, you liv'
by the city of New York. Your gains de
pend upon its commerce. 1t is grea
city. it is great merchant In old time
it made its money by dealing with thu
Southern people; by being their merchant
buying from them, selling to them, and il
that way amassing honorable wealth. L
it for the interest of the merchants of New
York, Republicans or Democrats, that til
: South should be so crushed under foo
, that she is unable to produce the wealth
that is lying hid in her land, unable to bu
and sell and traffic and add to the wealt
of the great city with which she deals P
Is that the interest of any man Is tina
union? If understand the theory of til
United States it is this, that we are unite
not only in Joy but in sorrow not only il
.. pleasure, but in pain; that there is no al
Fiction that can fall on the smallest tow