Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-06
THE DEMOCRATIC RALLY
AT BARTON.

ing at Robinson's Hall on Thursday
night, which was addressed by J. G.
Burke, Esq. of Albany, and Geo. M.
Fisk, Esq. of Mortified. Mr.. Burke
spoke very we'll, and though he ''pream-
bulated," as he called it, little, his re-
marks were we'll received. He proved
to his satisfaction, and perhaps to the
satisfaction of his democratic friends
that Gen. Garfield is a great knave.
Give Burke a fair chance and he would
make good speech.
MIR. Fisk, one of the leading Demo-
cratic politician of the State, next took
the floor, and announced that he spoke
"on his own hook, which relieved his
democratic friends from considerable
embarrassment. He chopped and skip
ped about" as he said he proposed to
do, from revolutionary times to the pre-
sent political contest. His first impor-
tant historical statement was that for
the first sixty years the country was
ruled in prosperity by the democra-
tic party. We had understood that
several of the early administrations were
not democratic administrations. Dem
Ocratic historians will please look the
matter up. He next spoke of the Know
Nothing party, and finally brought up
at the rebellion, stating that the first
blood was shed by Republican hands.
Democrats will all remember that Beau
regard and his forces were Republicans,
and that they besieged Sumpter, killing
the democrats commanded by the brave
rebel General Anderson. The next
statement of the speaker was that the
Republicans created the national debt.
Yes, in putting down rebellion, which,
according to Mr.. Fisk they created.
This party forfeited every pledge it
made, said the speaker. They prom
ised to put down the rebellion, they
promised to pay the holders of govern
ment bonds certain interest; they prom
lsed to liberate the slaves, if rebels did
not surrender before a certain date ;
they promised pay, bountles, pensions
and lands to soldiers; they promised to
redeem greenbacks with gold they
promised forgiveness an amnesty tc
every repentant rebel: they promised
reduction of taxes-all of these the
promises, if the speakers statement was
true, have been broken. This terrible
party has been, and is, the enemy of thu
soldier of the rebellion, according tt
the learned speaker. Soldiers vel
know that government refused to feed
clothe, and pay them. They know tina
the party refused bounties, extra pay
soldiers homestead rights, and pensions
Vermont soldiers remember we'll how
the Vermont Legislation, composed al
most entirely of republicans, refuseC
(over the left to grant them extra pa,
of seven dollars month. The speake
then pictured the terrible condition O
those soldiers who returned home bring
ing from twelve to fifteen hundred dol
lars, who purchased farms, with green
, backs. He stated that a months pa
amounted to only little over four DO
} lars IN gold. See, just when was
/ during the rebellion when twenty-five
, dollars was worth only four? This sam
= terrible party deprecated the currenc
, and the property of the country, and ru
: the non interest bearing debt up to tW
d billion dollars. Well. as the party, frol
u the speakers standpoint, was guilty
e the crime of rebellion it must have bee
!, responsible for all the ills which resul
: ed from it. The bond holders we're ne,
berated. How loathesome appears
n the sight of democracy. if this speaker
s estimate of this class is right, the po
old widow, the orphans and all othe
who hold the bonds of the country, r
j. ceiving from four to six per cent. int
8 est ! What a crime The nation
9 banks were next attacked. The speak
. showed how body of bloated boz
: holders could send lot of bonds up
Washington and have the ''patent offic.