The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1859-09-07
from tilr SPEECH OF NV.
DennisOa al AHOutOs, as reported
for The (iMriMnti (slAettc.

DeilEiS0a al AE0Bt0H, as reported
for the Cincinnati Gazette.
When the Republican party came into pow
or, the first thing they lid was to pass a law to
guard this very treasury from being plundered.
[ allule to the law of 1861. challenge tie
most astuto man, the most successful f~inancier
or ac emphasized statesman, to show on the stat.
ute book of any State of the confeleracy a law
more stringent in its terms. more effective in
its provision, to guard the treasury from plum
der. 1t was a law adapted to financial condition
of the State. 1t made your Auditor Of State
the accounting officer of the Treasury; it per
mittey no money to go i'll or out Of the Treas
nry except upon the certificate or warrant OF
the Auditor; it required the Auditor to report
every three months ths condition Of the Treas
ury to the Governor, md required your Treas
urcr to make a monthly statement of the exact
condition OF the Treasury and to deposit the
public moneys, taking such securities as the
law provided for, such as Unitcl States stocks,
Ohio State stocks, &c. BY this process, when
ever the money came into the Treasury, it was
put into your banks, hence into the hands Of
private individuals, and again became a part Of
! the circulating meiium of the country, and cy
cry man at once felt the beneficial result Of
such n system.
What dill the Democratic party? They took
this law, so well adapted to the people of the
State, and they repealed that law. What did
they give you in its place? An independent
Treasury law. A law that has received the
solemn approval Of the Democracy of Lawrence
county. What is that law, my Democratic
friends? 1t is neither more nor less than a
( proposition to collect the taxes from the people
in gold and silver. That is what it is. 1t is
true that the law approaches that point grad
ual'y, by requiring to pay sums Of twenty dol.
lars in gold and silver, going on increasing the
amount, so that in 1865 your Treasurer o
State is prohibited from paying anything cut o
the Treasury except in gold and silver, and as
understand that law, it gives to the Treasure
F! of State no power to convert funds into gold anC
silver, thereby will compel him to collect thi
t entire amount Of taxes in gold and silver.
! understand that this law has been solemnly
endorsed and approved by the Democracy o
this county. Sirs, | want the party c. tn,
State to endorse it in the same way. l wan
guy competitor to say without disguise, that h
is in favor 0 collecting the taxes Of the peopl
4 in gold and silver. | want to meet him dis
| tinctly and directly, without qualification o
g reservation, upon that simple and direct issue
r | say that SO long as we have banks in tn
= OLdteI Cildi'tiSu Wy law, auIHOilLeQ W Issue Cl
=! ~culation, that circulation being the ordinar,
0 currency for the payment Of debts between
u man and man, am opposed to your Treasure
l calling upon the people to pay gold and silver
to pay the officers Of the Stase their salaries, 0
to pay the creditors OF State their dues.
| want TO put the officers and creditors 9th
State upon the same footing, that the people {
S the State are put upon, and if Mr.. Ranney wi
meet me upon that single issue, Twill go wit
him before the people upon it and will bea
him a hundred thousand votes in the State
Ohio. | will beat him anyhow, but | .woul
beat him one hundred thousand votes on tha
issue. | would wan no better fun than iu,
a to take your Democratic party in this count
y and 90 to the farmers, your manufacturers an
s mechanics, and present this simple question
r and take their verdict, and you will find the'
= gentlemen thrown up higher than a kite"