The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1854-09-20
From the Ohio Patriot.
A Few Plain Facts for the Hon
est Masses, in Relation to the
State Debt, Whig Peculation,
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Dive have heretofore shoWnathak nstNith
standing the cry raised blythe Wing pres.
ahasNhig leaders, 10 regard to high taxes
that fes the legitimate purposes Of Stats
government, the levy has been steadily
DECREASING under. Democratic rule.---
We now propose 60 show that "a large por'
tion of the State debt has been liquldated, &c
have done which. under Wing rule, would
have required large increase IN the levy,
for the simple reasea that, according TO the
policy and favoritism of the Wing or Flu
sion party, over twenty millions Of taxable
valuation, nov oR she duplicate, and which
pays tax of over three hundred and fifty
thousand de!lArs per annum, would have
been exempted. gsast saati .a.I
About she time the Whig party was turned
out of power in the State, the public debt
amounted to nineteen millions, one hundred
and seventy three thousand, two hundred
and twehty-three dollars and twenty-five
ceRts. THIS DEBT HAD BEEN .CREA-
TED BY THE WHIGS, payable at difiel-
ent times, butnot yet due. When the Dem
ocratic party came into power, they fonnd a
portion of the State debt.about to fall due,
and no means had been provided by their
Wing predecessors to meet it. The portion
falling due was promptly paid, together
with the interest on the remainder, and on
the 9th of November, 1853, the public
debt remaining unpaid was only fifteen mil
lions, five hundred and ninety-nne dollars
land eighty cents--haying been RE
DUCED BY DEMOCRATS, since the
Wings were turned out OF power, the snug
little sum of THREE MILLIONS, SIX
HUNDRED AND THIRTY THOUSAND,
SIN HUNDRED AND TWENTY THREE
DOLLARS AND THIRrY-FlYE CENTS
and if the same policy is continued. and
sit is, as shown by dn article from the Chlll,
'cothe .Adaertiser, in our last paper, in a
few years this incubus on the prosperity Of
athe State will be entirely removed, and our
taxes then will be but as a leather in the
scale compared with what they are at pres.
sent. B3 s' ~Etu aeb lu ....., .,....
a1i But, the reader may be redy to inquire.
how have you been able to pay Oft so much
of the State debt, and carry on The affairs
of our Government without increasing the
levy? We will frank Iy answer, that-as has
b1en heretofore frequently !nlimated-it has
been done by an economical! and faithful APP
pcaton of the MOI ey collected in the shape
of taxes, and the further fact that wealthy
a'is, ,ocrats, who had their money invested
in corporations, and whu, shielded by Wing
legislation, had only been taxed on thoit
, profits, were compelled 10 pay taxes on their
property and money at interest the same as
the farmer, the merchant and mechanic
The Wing party has always presented uni
ted front in opo1tlon to the method of tax
ing the lordIy banker, but acquesce in it AS
the proper principe by which 10 tax
the poor man and the laborer. And,
we charge, plainly and unequIvucally, that
Il the present bitter opposition to our State
Government, and more especially to The
present managemento OF cur fiscal affairs, ,arises
entirely from their innate hostility to eYNdtt-
IN of tdrdtiOB, and which We claim to be The
Democratic doctrine.
The Wing and Fusion press Of the State,
bought up by the bankers AMI brokers, are
busily engaged in assaulting this pIincioe
and defending bankers in their course Of
opposition to the laws Of the State and de
fending with their utmost zeal the dtspotir
and aristoc attic doctrine of "reSted ghts."
But no one ever heard them advocating that
doctrine except where il was necessary to
defend the special privileges OF the ari$to
cratic Bank mabob. ".# ''
"a. A lew years ago, Whlg Legislature
passed a law for the orgarizaton OF vour-
teef military companies 1t provided that
where companies were organized aad uni
formed and performed military duty a Ger
tain number of days in the ear, they should
be exempt from the performance Of their
two days labor on the public roads, and i'll
they thus performed military servcei in such
company for a specified number of years,
they should be forever exempt from the
performance of said labor on the public
highways. Here, then, is case, having in
it more of the elements of a contract shan .
bank charter; and certainly the culture OF y
military spirit is more in accordance with
the genius Of our institutions than the fos-
t4rng Of special privileges, and certainly
better as matter Of financial policy, than
the battering away Of the right Of taxation.
81 We know Of many companies organized un.
der the Law above referred to, and who per-
. formed military duty for about two years, =
THEY accepted the terms OF the grant-or
the contract, as the Wigs would call it,
provided themselves with uniforms, and
strictly complied with the conditions on their
part, and yet, at the end of about two years,
Whig Legislature repeated this law, or in
the language Of Whiggery, 'with ruthless
hand, violated the provisions Of this sol
emn contract +s1. @." -
Were the Wing papers then clad in
mourning at this want Of faith on the part
of the State? Did the Wing leaders and
bankers then. step forward and raise fund
for the purpose Of testing the constitution
,ality Of the repeating act? No, and for the
simple reason that the interests of captal
were not affect(d--it only operated upon
the brawny hands Of the hardy sons of toll,
and not upon the pockets OF Wing aristo-
crats. But after the Wings had attempted
to barter away aportion OF State sovereign |
ty--which the right Of taxation unquestion-
ably yis---and a Democratic Legislature, in
order to do equal and exact justice to all,
z reclaimed the right-a right 10 tax all pro
! perty in the State according to its true val
ue--then Wing leaders, aided by a venal
press, become eloquent in defence OF what
they terna ''gested rights" and bitter in their
denunciatiens Of the Democratic pOrty, be.
cause an attempt was made 10 compel these
bet monsters of Wing creation to pay a
portion of their i'll gotten gains towards the