Year: 1868

omen 70 discussion, and the opinions OF pohu-
clans and the people are, to a great extent, un-
digested and uniformed. But the majority OF
the people ought to indOrse the Republican doc
trine that there is to be no Reputation, ana
we believe they will. Although the Republi-
cans made their platform and nominations as
far back as Dec. IA, they then declared
entire confidence in Gen. Grant Tor
President, and subsequent events have greatly
strengthened the enthusiasm they then enter
tanned for him on whom, in our hours of ter
rife peril, was rolled the mighty burden OF
the nations agony and strife i'll battle, ard
whose calm courage, sublime endurance, AID
discreet generalship aided so eminently to
seal the principles of liberty with the guerbn
of success. If, through the Presidents rec'e-
ancy, no corruption fund levied on ofiite-
holders is available we have at least the Sr-
guments, the presence, or the sympathy ol
every soldier and civilian who was distn-
guished in our war for the Union. AS to our
financial policies, we beg the Republicans ana
Democrats to remember that these measures
have at least conducted us through the most
gigantic war a single nation ever sustained,
without financial crash, or "haTd times OF
even a panic. AS regards our loan and taxa
tion policies we beg the same parties not to
forget that they have met the unprecedented
demands of the Government for money
without a single charge being whispered
against them that they were unequal in their
operation as between rich and poor, farmer or
manufacturer, East or West, North or South.
Eager as the Democratic party naturally would
have been to raise the cry of unequal
taxation they have not ventured to sug-
gest it, except as a means of taxing the
debt of the Government itself. We be-
lieve the taxpayers of Newilampshlre
will be able to see that the National debt is
debt due from themselves, and that whatever
burdens are added to it. are piled upon the
taxpayers and whatever exemptions Tighten
its rate of interest benefit the taxpayers
equally in proportion to the taxes they pay.


Finally as regards honesty in administration
we beg the honest men of both parties in New
Hampshire to remember that since the dark
days of Floyd, Cobb and Fowler not a single
defauter has run away with the peoples money
and that the immense expenditures rendered
necessary by the Rebellion have all been re-
ccived and dlsbursed without a single official



bers of all kinds and of both parties have hung
upon the fanks of the Government and eluded
the vigilance of the officials. This was in
evtable in such period But the spirit of in
tegrity has characterized the measures and
officers of the Republican party.


And through these measures and men the
greatest Rebellion the world ever saw has been
suppressed, the greatest Emancipation from
Slavery that has marked human history has
been accomplished, and the Government and
the nation have lbeen lifted from condition
in which the feeblest State could defy their
power into a power which no nation of the
earth could successfully resist They have
erased the dark stain of bondage from our flag,
and have made the air of America too pure to
be breathed by slave. Thoae are services the
full fruits of which will be more fully enjoyed
and better appreciated a century hence than they
are to-day. But the people of New Hampshire
are not disposed to ignore them. We look TO
them hopefully for a manly and vigorous sup
port of the great party Of Freedom aud Equal
Rights at their March election Our advices
assure us empbatically that New Hampshire is
all right.