. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . suits ofcivil life and the calm routine of trade, which shall reassure ourpeople and restore our prosperity ? Does it not rather suggest theclarion-trump and the clash of arms—the neigh of steed andthe shriek of death? Are our taxes to be lessened under thesethreats ? Will our credit be made better by these means ? * * Where, now, are the pledges of specie payment, of redeemedbonds, of equal currency, of wise legislation, of amicable feeling,of restored confidence, of ju
. The biography and public services of Hon James G. Blaine : giving a full account of twenty years in the national capital . suits ofcivil life and the calm routine of trade, which shall reassure ourpeople and restore our prosperity ? Does it not rather suggest theclarion-trump and the clash of arms—the neigh of steed andthe shriek of death? Are our taxes to be lessened under thesethreats ? Will our credit be made better by these means ? * * Where, now, are the pledges of specie payment, of redeemedbonds, of equal currency, of wise legislation, of amicable feeling,of restored confidence, of judicious economy and reduced taxa-tion ? Gone ! gone ! The loud note of insurrection has dis-pelled them all, and the possibility of our national parliamentbeing dissolved by the sword, as in Cromwells day, has put alllingering hope to flight. We are promised a uniform and valu-able currency—one currency—which is to be sufficient for theGovernment and the people, the laborer and the office-holder,the pensioner and the soldier, the producer and the are promised payment of the publiQ debt as rapidly as. EAISIKG THE FLAG AT JACKSOif, MISS. THE PERIOD OF RECONSTRUCTION. 553 practicable. We are notified of equal taxation of everyspecies of property, including bonds and other securities. We have beard that much of our miseries are due to the bloated bondholder. They are lepers who have infected us inour persons and tainted our financial atmosphere. But they areassured by this platform that * they need have no fears thattheir property is to be swept away by a new inundation of papermoney. If these bonds are vile as they say, why should they not beswept away under a Democratic dispensation ? We do not thinkthey are: but if we are to rely on Democratic testimony they arethe gangrene of our body politic. Again, if there is to be nonew inundation of paper money, how are the greenbacks to beraised which, levied in taxation, are to pay off the national debt ?First, it is
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