The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-10-01

CREASE in the above items up, read
er, and you will see that they have IN
CREASED the appropriations in what
we furnish, (and there are many others
of the same character,) the enormous
sum of NINTY THOUSAND SEV-
EN- HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOL
LARS.
n This is not all, they have laid their
ruthless hands upon the sinking fund, a
fund which had been.collected off of the
people to pay the interes, on the State
debt and The principal as i became due
and have transferred it to the General
Revenue fund !, by this means they, can
now get hold Of it and squander it-be-,
fore it was out of their reach. Here it
is in their own legislative enactment
5. There shall be, transferred
from time to time as the same may be
required, to pay appropriations on the
requ;sition of the Auditor of State from
the sinking fund to the general revenue,
a sum or sums not exceeding in al, ,sthe
sum of FIVE hundred fifty four thousand
eight hundred and nine dollars and thir-
ty-two cents - 1850 80. = 80 sa'9h-
sv Not, leaving dime of that fund for
the object for which it had been collect
eds But lest this should still fall short
of meeting their idea of rctrencbment,
they have increased the levy of the tax
for General Revenue purposes in the
year 1856, to one mil on The a0Alfssr vaI-
uatioa-in 1855 the Democratic Legisla-
ture levied str te'.tgs Of a mil on the dol
lar. Now let US see how much more the
people of Columbiana county are tax
ed this year to support the State gov.
ernment than they were last year. Ia!
king the total valuation of the taxable
property on the duplicate of Columbi-
ana county. for the7year 1856, as ba-
sis, which is $l0,l57, ,32, aud multiply
ing the same by one mill, makes $to,-
I57 80. Take the same amount and
calculate it by six tenths of mill, and
you have 6,O94, 80. Increased tax to
be paid by the ax-payers of Columbi-
ana in 1856, arising from this single
item, s4,O62,e ,e3. '' h.f
Four thousand si1ty-taco dollars and
ninty-ttg,ee cents, citizens, you are taxed
this year higher for the support of the
State govern nent alone, under the Black
Republican Legislature, who promised
you retrenchment, than you were under
Democratic Legislation. Notwithstand-
ing this great increase in the levy for
State purposes, there is not single dol
lar to be collected for the payment Of
the State debt, whilst they have made
provision for applying the sinking fund,
paid by the people to be applied to the
liquidation of the State debt, to general
revenue purposes.
These are plain, unvarnisbed state.
ments and facts The EXTRAVA-
GANCE of the party now in power. is
without a parallel; We prove it so from
official documents, which every citizen
can see and examine for himself. We
predicted the result long ago. but the
people suffered themselves to be deceiv-
ed, and produced the, change, and we
apprcheud that all will, now agree that
they have paid dearly for the expert
meut. We ask the honest and overbur-
thened taxpayers to remember these
things when they go to the polls, and if
true to their interests, and the interests
of the State, they will lend their aid in
consigning the extravagant Black Re.
publican cormorants to merited obliv-
ior. i-- $3.50 @'-'-- -ti ]" 1t'ft-,t-i.