pockets of eastern manufacturers at the expense of the people of the West. I refer you to the Federal tax bill for the proof that every article of New England manufacture, on which a tax is imposed, is protected by having a higher tax imposed upon similar articles of foreign manufacture.

Frauds on the Government.

Need I remind you, fellow-citizens, that under the Lincoln Administration, and by the collusion of some members of the Cabinet, frauds have been perpetrated on the Government by which not less than a hundred millions of dollars in the aggregate have been stolen from the Treasury. The VAN WYCK REPORT made to Congress by a Committee, a majority of whose members were Republican members of Congress, shows conclusively, by sworn testimony, that these frauds were perpetrated for the benefit of partisan friends of the Administration. It has transpired, through a debate in Congress, that thirty millions of dollars disappeared unaccountably from the Treasury by the action of the War Department, or more likely by the order of the Secretary of War, Cameron, yet, instead of holding Cameron to an account for this high-handed and outrageous act, he was transferred from the War Department to represent the American people at the Court of a friendly power, and the President of the United States avowed himself responsible for the delinquencies of his Secretary, but gives no satisfaction to the Government or people for the frauds which the Secretary committed.

Nor has any of the numerous Government swindlers been held to account for their acts, while loyal citizens, whose only offense is that they complained of these frauds, are being arrested and incarcerated arbitrarily and illegally.

Political Generals.

One of the causes, if it be not the principal and only cause why the war has not been brought to an end long ago, with comparatively little loss of life and treasure, is the appointment of mere politicians and partisan favorites to the chief commands of the army. Fremont, Banks, and Cassius M. Clay, from the Abolition party, and Butler, Dix, and others, from the Democratic party, were appointed Major Generals, not because they knew anything about the art of war, but because they were presumed to have political influence. Now, what has been the result of these appointments? Neither of these generals has fought a battle successfully. Under Fremont's military administration, Missouri was lost. Banks was driven out of Virginia by Stonewall Jackson. Butler sacrificed his men at Big Bethel, and made his name infamous at New Orleans, besides bringing upon the American name the reproach of the civilized world, and Dix is doing a service which could be done as well by a sub-lieutenant. The officers of the army who have had experience are placed under the command of those and other political Generals, and the result is very naturally what the army has experienced in defeat and disaster. This is but one of the numerous blunders of the Administration by whose means not less than two hundred and fifty thousand citizen soldiers of the Northern States have been sacrificed to death, or live tortured by wounds or loss of limbs, besides involving the people in a debt which will grind both the present and future generations to the dust merely to pay the interest on this onerous burden. Is this not so, fellow-citizens? Which of you doubts it! If any one of you does, happy for you it is, perhaps, that your credulity exempts you for the time being from experiencing the sad reality which

has become the inevitable doom of the American people.

What is to be Done?

I will tell you what I think should be done, fellowcitizens. If it be desirable to restore a constitu. tional government to this country, the first thing to be accomplished is to restore to authority in the Government public servants who have some respect for the Constitution, who are in favor of a restoration of the Union, and who will subject themselves, as all others do, to the dominion of the laws. Abolitionism must be put down in the North, before Secessionism can be put down in the South; for while the cause of Secessionism exists in one section, the effect of Abolitionism will exist in the other section. I propose, then, that we put Abolitionism out of power in the North; and this being done, Secessionism will fall in the South without the loss of life or treasure to put it down.

Who favors the War?

Those who favor the continuance of the war, take notice, are interested persons. First, those who have commissions in the army, or who are connected with the army in some profitable occupation, as Quartermasters, Sutlers, Commissaries, and Contractors. Second, those who are engaged in furnishing material of war, commissary stores, clothing and other equipments for the army. Third, those who expect commissions in the army, or who have a prospect of, and expect to receive, contracts.

These classes of persons and their adherents and friends form the war party of the North. There are, it is true, many patriotic citizens who believe

that it is only by the prosecution of the war that the Union can be restored, but the influential portion of the war party is composed of men and women who profit directly and personally by the existing state of things.

Reduce the Salaries and Expenditures.

I propose to reduce the salaries of officers of the army. You know, fellow-citizens, as well as I do, that most of those who have been appointed officers in the army from among ourselves are persons who could scarcely make a decent living at any business. Now those persons receive salaries varying from a hundred dollars a month and rations, to more than twice that amount, besides the opportunities they have, which many of them profit by, to rob the Government and plunder from the enemy. If you elect me as your Representative, I shall introduce a bill in Congress, and vote for its adoption, reducing these salaries to such an extent as to save at least twenty millions of dollars per annum to the people. I shall also introduce and urge the enactment of bills restraining the lavish expenditure of the public moneys, for punishing frauds on the Government, for holding public officers, from the President down, to a strict accountability for public moneys, for equalizing taxes according to the means of the people to pay those exactions, and for reducing both the expenditures of the Government and the taxation of the people, both of which have been enormous, to the lowest possible amount consistent with the public welfare, the necessities of the Government and the interests of the people.

Fellow-Citizens: I have been one among you for nineteen years, during which time I have held such a relation to you as enables you to judge of my

fitness for the position to which I am nominated as a candidate for your suffrages.

Submitting these questions to your judgment, and relying upon your intelligence and patriotism, I remain, very respectfully,

Your fellow-citizen,

D. A. MAHONY.

EFFECT OF THIS ADDRESS ON THE TYRANTS AND THEIR SATELLITES.

As soon as the foregoing address was published, a copy of it got into the prison by some means, and was heard of by the tyrants. Lieutenant Miller was sent to me, by Judge Advocate Turner, to inquire whether I had not made a speech against the Administration, which was published in the newspapers..

I replied, that I had never made a speech in my life that was worth publishing; that, in fact, I was no speaker, and never had made what could be called a speech.

The lieutenant looked at me very incredulously, as much as to intimate that he did not believe me; but I told him the truth, nevertheless. A few days afterwards Lieutenant Miller approached me in the yard, and, after bidding me good day, said, "I was mistaken the other day, when I intimated that you had made a speech." Without waiting for him to say any more, I replied, 'Yes, I knew you were mistaken.'

"But," said he, "you did something worse; you wrote an address, and wrote it since you have been here. Did you write the address, published over your name, to the citizens of your Congressional District in Iowa?"