Speeches of Ex-Gov; Horatio Seymour Hon. Samuel J. Tilden
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Excerpt from Speeches of Ex-Gov; Horatio Seymour Hon. Samuel J. Tilden: Before the Democratic State Convention at Albany, March 11, 1868 So much for this miserable muddle of reconstruction. How can a Congress satisfy the people which cannot satisfy itself; that has never been able to keep upon one course for six months; that condemns and shames itself by constant change, repeal, and amendments? Tariffs And Taxes. Their action upon tariffs and business interests has been equally blundering, inconsistent, and imbecile. It keeps our merchants and manufacturers in a condition of uncertainty, and all agree that a perpetual Congress is a perpetual curse. Within the past few years it has made nearly monthly changes in the tariffs. It hinders labor and enterprise by heavy burdens, and hunts down our merchants and manufacturers with an army of official spies and informers; and it gives these the power to ruin men of limited means by false charges. It puts our Government not only in a light that is hateful, but what is more dangerous, it makes it pitiable. If our young men wish to engage in business or to seek homes in the West, and they ask from those who have money to lend the aid which has heretofore been given for those purposes, they are told that the Government, which ought to be paternal, will pay a higher interest than the law will let the citizens give or than they can afford to give, and, also, beyond this, will exempt them from taxation. Congress paralyzes, in this way, the industry of the land. Whichever way you look you see that the party in power is a blight upon the honor, happiness, and industrial pursuits of our people. Our carrying trade upon the ocean is destroyed, our shipyards are idle, our merchants are distressed, our manufacturers complain that taxation outweighs the protection of tariff, and our farmers are indignant with unequal and insulting exemption from the cost of local, State, and national Governments. Upon one point only has it been firm and unyielding. In order to help a foul speculation it put a tax of 500 percent, upon alcohol, which, the experience of the world and our own experience show, cannot be collected. It retains it with a perfect knowledge that it merely ministers to public and official corruption. The officers of the law and the violators have, under its provisions, taken more from the people than the interest of the public debt up to this time. In this strength they control the action of the Government, and this great stream of corruption is now the lifeblood of a party held together by the cohesive power of public plunder. Congress And Morals. Congress is not only keeping the Government disorganized and the business of the country unhinged and perplexed, but it is also unsettling the morals of the country. It proclaims to the world the sanctity of bonds, obligations, and contracts, and at the same time, under the influence and by the action of its party friends, many of the States which make up the Union have defrauded the public creditors by forcing them to take depreciated paper in return for the coin or its equivalent, which was given for their bonds. Going still deeper in dishonor by its laws, the debtor who may have received coin or other consideration equally valuable, and who has in solemn covenant agreed to pay in coin, is allowed and encouraged to violate his faith and to compel his creditor to take debased paper. Is it strange that in the face of these things our credit is tainted in the markets of the world, and that our bonds sell for less than those of the Turks! If the morality of the citizens of the country is undermined, if the faith of the States making up the Union is dishonored, where is the security of the national credit? The late Republican State Convention expressed its horror of repudiation. Will its members explain the villainy which forced the creditors of this
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