Year: 1867

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nearly three years of peace have brought
him no alleviation of his burdens. The
Republican party still sits like q bird of
evil omen, like a rapacious harpy, IN
erery butchers stall, devonring half the
carcass of every sheep and bullock, re-
ducing what used to be q dollars worth
of meat to less than half the same num-
Der of pounds; IL percheS on erery grocer's
counter and snatehes out of his scales half
he contents trhich dollar used to balance;
it futters ia eray dry goods shop, and flies
away with half the yards of every ten dol
lars purchase. The fact is none the less
real because the Republican harpy flaps
no other visible wings than the paper
notes of the national banks, nor has any
other beaks and talons than the clutches
oftho tax-gatherer. Everybody sees that
peace does not restore plenty; that al
though millien of soldiers have been
dismissed to industry, helping to feed
and clothe the country, instead of being
fed and clothed by it, the mass of our
laboring people still suffer the hard.
ships, deprivations, and high prices of
war.


The continuance of these hardships
without any prospect of relief has made
deep impression on the public mind.
1t has filled men with discomfort in
California, on one side of the continent;
i'll Maine, on the other; i'll Ohio, mid
way; in Pennsylvania, whose manufac-
turing Industry and proximity to the
seat of the late war caused her to profit
most by its expenditures. 1t is mere
stupidity to ascribe the reaction in these
different and widely-separated States to
transient local causes. The shifting ac-
cidents of local politics are inadequate
to account for a change so uniform, SO
pervading, so progressive. The public
impatience is so cidely difuSed and SO uni
form in its character, because the bur-
dcns which produce it are everywhere
felt. In the West it seeks to slip its
neck out of the yoke by ,retOrting the
policy of the Government upon the pub
lie creditors, and causing their wealth
to fly away on the same PAPER wings
which bear away so many joints Of meat
from the labOrer'S table; and so many cont
forts and little Injuries from, his household.
The feeling will spread more and more,
unless its cause is removed. The capi-
talst finds that his food and raiment
will also be curtailed if the people are
much longer subjected to the burdens
and high prices of war, when the clash
of arms has receded so tar into the
past.


The subsidiary local question which
have properly made figure in the can
vass now substantially closed have their
Importance; but they dwindle into in
Significance in comparison with the CO.
lOSsGl crilS brought upon as by Federal
tion of the Republican Legislature and
canal officers is an all-sufficient reason
why the party responsible for them
should be ousted; bW the little finger Of
| Washington Encouragement is heavier
than the whole body of Albany corrup-
ton, if estimated by the additions they
respectively make to our burdens. We
witness the strange spectacle of a party
of great moral ideas" with one hand
clenching the throat of the South, and the
other deep in the pockets Of the North,
debating the one what it shall think,
to the other what it shall drink, and
transforming the government of free
country into az oppressive tyranny wkich
tOleratcS no difference Of opinion in poll
tics, or Of practice an morals.


And what is the excuse offered for tho
lamentab:e policy of obstruction and
evaporation which keeps the country
unsettled, business uncertain, industry
paralyzed, prices high, and the people
mHrmuring and pooIH The pretence is
that this postponcment of tranquility,
this continuance of heavy burdens, is
necessary to protect the Southern ne
grocs and to secure to them their rights.
But the negroes are free. They are
neither slaves or serfs bound to the soil.
A ride of from one hour 70 two days in
u railway car would lake them all out
of the limits of the eX-rebel States, and
place them among the Jealous white
friends who affect so deep an in
terest in their welfare. This fact is q
complete answer to all the Republican
defamation. If we have land enough
and employment enough for half the
population of Ireland and Germany, we
have enough for our black population.
When the negroes are at full liberty,
and within the reach of good treatment
by an average ride of 4 single day OH a
railroad, it is an aifront to common
sense to pretend that the success of the
Republican policy is necessary for their
protection. If they are oppressed at
the South they are free to go elsewhere.
The fact that they prefer to stay is a
proof that they arc reasonably well
treated; and it is better that they should
pay one railroad fare to escape from
oppression, if oppression should ever
come, than that every Northern labo-
rer should be taxed ten times as much
year after year to protect them from i'm
aginary future wrongs.