The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-09-07
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

Y LNUCV-AVW HcesSoW " bVo tVut
ciai Disfress--High Rate Of Taxation
Shall Our Brothers Have Died IL
Vatnf--7yiden's Perjury.
The serving Of the notices Of the dis
missals in the Departments, consequent
upon the: inadequate appropriations fol
this year, has been going on for n day
or two. but Is not yet concluded. Mean
time employees in the Bureaus moi
reached are suffering almost as much
torture from their a~pprehensions a:
their late confreres feel in their Ger.
tainty Of the worst. Your readers car
hardly imagine the degree of excite
ment, and In a large number OF persons,
distress occasioned.
We stand to-day upon the v of a
| great National conflict. Not In those
days which preceded the war when the
mutterings of the storm were heard all
round the political horizon; not in the
darkest hour Of this country's peril du-
ring the stern coufict of arms which
followed; did ever American liberty and
American destinies stand 10 such great
hazard.
The thought is solemn; II is awful to
contemplate, but 1t is true, and the risk
is imminent and the shock is coming.
Said q Democratic member OF the
House to a Republican representative,
In the heat of a conversation, I'VE ViA
haze the Government, damn you! in
spite Of you and yours, If not by fair
means then by the next best; and when
we do get it look out, that's ALL"
They want it? What forp For
power! For payment OF the rebel
debt! For reimbursement in full value
for every slave owned by Southern
masters and freed by proclamation.
A comparison between tn, man who
betrayed his country in 1860 aud the
man who now stands forward rs the
candidate of the Democracy to-day,
will not show any great dissimilarity.
Both have the same smooth dissimula-
ton Of manner, both are trained and
skilled in that school Of politics which
has ever been the bane Of this country;
which has in days of highest prosperity
plunged 1t into war or diplomatic en-
tanglements. They have ever required
the help OF their opponents in the politi-
cal world to rescue them, and when
with full treasury they have taken the
reins, they have rolinquished them
bankrupt. These are not mere asser-
tons. they are susceptible OF proof from
printed records Of the country, and are
within the reach Of every reading man.
Aud now for a slight look into the
letter of the immaculate reformer where
in he accepts the high trust rcposed in
him.
Mr.. Tilden starts out from o false
premise, and consequently reaches a
false conclusion. He says. '.The pres.
ent terrible crisis in the commercial and
monetary affairs of the country, are due
to the blunders and reckless course OF
the present administration"
Are they indeed, Mr.. S. j. Tilden
That assertion is just about as true, anc
| you just as much believe it, as you did
the oath which you took to tho amour
Of your income on that memorable &C
casion which has passed into history.
Again, you charge the high rate o
taxation to republican rule and republi
a policy. l challenge the proof
Take New York, Kentucky and Mary
land, three of your democratic state
where you have had the sway-Nev
York City-for the State, for there 70,
have cooked your goose from time i'm
memorial; and then take Mississippi
Louisiana and South Carolina, tire
States that you and your friends ar
fond of quoting as under Carpet-Dag
Scallawag rule, and look in the Mer
chants Almanac for 1873 and followin
and see how you feel over it. Yo
will not blush, tor you cannot; but 20
will find the lie branded upon you i
those pages that know no polite;
school, serve no partizan ends, and tie
only stern truths.
The heart and soul turn sick /
contemplating the possibility of tn
destinies of the country being cont
ded to such hands.
Great God! is not the burden grea
enough to bear as it is? With p,
, tient ire and toll the Republica
|. party has fought its way from ami
the breakers of civil war through Il
shoals and quicksands of %reconstru,
ton with every obstacle placed
, their way by a treacherous enem.
who has fifteen long years been tr
ing in every way to thwart and defe
them. No pledge has been too SC
emn to be broken; political allian'
upon matters O ffinance has been in
possible, Oh account OF bad faith
. the part of the democratic party |
r legislative action at home and inf
a ence abroad. Their very leaders ha,
been identified with foreign capt.
!. to take advantage Of any and eve
:, chance to drain the life-blood OF 4
. country, and by tongue aud pen
soil and disgrace the heritage Of the
. fathers.
No answer comes to that fearful i
S quiry-true it has received one swol
Y answer-but il is again propounde
!. "Did Gov. Tilden pay his taxes he
estly during the war? or did he d
20 honestly ovade part Of his income t
p during the period he refused to swt
in his return, and preferred to T
d the penalty?" Mr.. Tilden stands
fore the people to-day as a prevari,
70 tor, ifnot perjurer. Neither as a Il
nor perjnrer can he so stand. If
s. accusation is true; if as the rece
ID proves, while he was accumulati
c. millions, he avoided the paying Of
70 honest tax by Withholding the truI
v. Mr.. Tilden, of all men at this d