Year: 1867




hundred million dollars, it would with


draw that amount Of seven-thirty bonds,
the interest of which would amount to


more than thirty millions of dollars"


There you have the whole case, my


Republican friends. Is It just or right
| Yet your radical Congress not only de-


vised but they now defend this system.


Now, have no objection to these banks


making thirty per cent. per annUm divi-


dends as I understand some in this Ssna-


torial District hav done, but do object


to these dividends being wrung in this


way by the tax gatherer from the hard


earnings of the people, and l ask you to


unite with me in driving from power


men who will peTpetrate and sanction


such wrong.


CORRUPTION IN OFFICE.


Any party by long continuance in


power becomes corrupt, and it is neces-


sary to the purity Of the administration


of Government that there should be fre-


quent changes. That the present party
in power is no exception to this rule,
those who run may read. Col Don Piatt
who has had ample means to know, in
the editorial columns of the Mac-s-Cheek
Press, by far the ablest and most outspo-


ken Radical paper in this part of the
State, charges in language so plain and
sweeping as to be absolutely startling, as
follows:


"From the hour of his CDIr. Lincoln's)


first Inauguration up to that of his death,
the thieves were all in office. This was
especially the case with the monied Of


fees. Honest men stood aghast at the
impunity with which stealing won't on.
All cries of shame and outrage seemed
unavailing. All oppositiOns was thrown
away. Thieves we're turned out to be
sccceeded by thieves, and colossal for
tunes made in an hour. The amiable
old President cracked jokes over the ras-
cality, and said that in his appointments
he had to run his hand into sack Of
fifty snakes to find one ell"


The old United States Bank with
capital Of some 35 millions of dollars
was deemed incompatible with the free
dom of elections and the liberty Of the
people, and the noble old Wing party
was broken down for defending it. But
now we have % hundred millions Of
Bonds, some four hundred millions of
National Bank Stock, 90 hundred mil
lions of manufactures in 1860, which
may be safely put at 30 hundred millions
now.


Here we have 56 hundred millions or
about 100 times the entire capital Of the
old United States Bank, and nearly the
entire consolidated wealth of the country
directly interested in radical Legislation.
The annual income from these Bonds, Is
in currency about $50 millions Of the
Banks, say 80 millions and the present
New England Tariff adds at least 20 per
gent. to the value Of these annual manu-
facturies which would be 500 millions
more, besides say 100 millions drawn By
Radical officials and others from the Ma |
tional Treasury, making the enormous |
sum of $50 millions or 80 times the en-
tire capital of the old Bank ofannuaI in /
come, at least one-half of it improperly
drawn in one way OF another from the !
pockets of the people, by Radical legis- |
lation. Now, let this enormous, illegiti-
mate income pay an annual tax Of say 6 |
per cent. to keep its long fingers in the |
peoples pockets, and We have corrup-
ton fund nearly equal to the entire capt |
tai of the old United States Bank, or |
about S160,000 to keep each Of the $50 |
Radical Senators and Representatives in |
their places and make them comfortable. |
May not these figures explain the eager
ness with which these Radical politicians
demand GOLD for their Bonds-the con-
tinuance of this bonus Of so millions to the |
National Banks and the continuance of
the Neto England Tariff. Beside this !
we have, the Pacific Railroad, which is
the most gigantic Swindle in the coun-
try's history and which is making i'm
mense fortunes, at the expense Of the
people, for half the prominent Radical
politicians in the country. Now, my
Republican friends, let us try a change
It can be no worse, and for a while at
least it must be better.


And now, Gentlemen, you have some
Of the reasons which caused my sepera-
tion from the Republican party, and
which render the separation every day
wider. For the last two or three years
have acted with you, because in the
first place I had no where's else to 60
and because I sympathize with you in all |
the issues now dividing the people


There are, of course, men in the Dem
2cratic party, as there will be in every
party, with whose peculiar views l can
lot sympathize, but l know of no point
now before the people on which I do not
sympathize with you most fully. AS to
he nomination you tender me while I /
appreciate the honor conferred yet the
lfice l do not desire, but if 1 can do
anything as your candidate to aid in res
,uing the country from its present immi-
lent peril 1 do not feel at liberty to de-
Zine S


Under ordinary circumstances 1 should
consider myself safe from an election t
With the majority heretofore against us
,ut in these times I regard it as unsafe <
o rely upon adverse majOrities to protect +
me from Office. o


Whenreaction comes against party in p
,owerparty which has been kept by S
Isurpation and abuse ofthose opposing a
hat usurpation, it is always overwhelm-
ng.


Robespierres, cnly a few days after d
eluging Paris in blood, was himself y y
before the same guillOtine he had a
o long fed; the power Of Cromwall when b
commenced crumbling fell at once and
orever. The reaction has certainly com.
lcnced In Conncctieutthisp party year or f