Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-09-04

borers, and the artlzan class deprived OF
all share. save the barcst subsistence, in
the products Of the great industries,
which, springing from wOrking-men's
brains and carried on by workiug-men's
hands, have made the English aristocra-
ey the richest, and the English laborcr
the most helplessly wretched of any on
earth.
First, in order to evade just and nee
essary taxation, they effected the issue
of greenbacks in a food. Then they
used the funds that ought to have been
drawn from them by taxation, to salt
down these greenbacks at discount in
bonds payable, principle and interest, in
gold, securing. as last exaction that
out-ShylOcked Shylock, that these bonds
should not be taxed. And then. with
refinement of scientific robbery before
unheard-Of in the history Of finance, they
secured the establishment Of the nation
al bank monopoly, under which they
have been able, for the last thirteen
years, to draw double interest upon all
their invested capital. That was what
the northern aristocracy was able to
achieve, in the four years of agony and
bloody sweat, whereby the working-men
of the north we're striving to free the
working-men of the south from the fierce
grip of the aristocracy of that section of
the republic. While we were fighting
for liberty, the money-pOwer was fOrg-
ing new shackles for the whole people.
The great fight that is coming is to
be for the undOing of these great wrongs.
Votes, and not arms, are the weapons
required for the task-the. votes Of a
thinking, intelligent people. How shall
they be best bestowed in the coming ma
tional canvass 1?
AS to the bugbear of popery, what
have a0e to fear, when even Italy confs-
Gates the church property by wholesale,
turns the converts into school houses
and factories, and laughs at the impo-
tent illumination of the vatican The
recent almost unanimous passage through
the House of an act for constitutional
amendment, forbidding the appropria-
tion of any public money to sectarian
purposes, settles matter which never
should have agitated the nerves of the
most hypoish old granny of the land.
No doubt the Jesuits will intrigue but
are the forty millions of American citi-
zens to be stampeded like drove of
bufaloes by few hundred conniving
foreign priests AS for myself, | should
be perfectly content to leave them in the
hands of the members of their own
church. If the Catholics Of Catholic
Europe scout the denomination of their
clergy in secular affairs, is it likely that
American Catholics have less sense ?
The southern bug-a-boo is almost as sill
ly an attempt to scare us, or divert us
from out true work, as the other. The
slave power is not only dead but rotten.
A little outburst Of poisonous gas from
its tomb may slay a few unfortunates
who are stirring its mephitic corpse too
daringly. as at Coshatta and Hamburg.
But slavery, as power in the land, viii
be heard from no more. The impover-
ished people of the south are too intent
upon getting living and rebuilding
their shattered homes. and even the pol
iticians of that section are more likely
to be figuring for negro votes with re-
suits like those just heard from Alaba-
MAJ than to 60 cunning for them. Con-
sidering the exasperating misgovernment
of the south, under the white and negro
adventures who have been devastating
what the war had already ruined. the
peaceful and orderly condition Of things
there ought to be considered a marvel
of the age. Did you ever notice that
only in the carpet-bag governed states
do we hear Of outrages ? And even that
old Garrisonian Redpath. who has just
returned from Mississippi, where be
went as clerk TO tbe Senate's investigat
ing committee. declares bis astonishmeni
that the southern people have 50 patient
ly borne the abuses they have suffered
They care very little indeed for politics
and have backed the honest republican
governor Of South Carolina, Chamberlin
at the same time that they forced th'
resignation Of Ames in Mississippi Par
don me. if | say do not think il wor
thy Of your acknowledged intelligence d
argue that whatever southern maj
votes for. northern man should vot
against Ii is true that even q southern
aristocrat would probably vote for til
den. If two men, one likely to be un
duly severe. and another Of more lib
eral temper. were running for superin
tendent of prison. the prisoners woui'
be likely to favor the milder tsnpere'
man but supposing the candidates .
be otherwise equally ct. would that b
any reason shy the kinder-bearted MAJ
should not be chosen Yet such j. th
gist Of your reasoning ou this point
The true issue for the true citizen Q
this state and the republie, Is 40 dez'
issue Of slaveEy. no phantom of poPery
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