American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1859-09-01

to the development OF every branch Of matirial
economy rs you are. | feel would be doing
you an injustice II uld not call your attention
to some OF hese plain figures, which YOU can
add and subtract at YOUR leishre. have had
some tables PREPARED with care upon this SUBJ
juet, and give them TO you, voucbsafng for
their accuracy. BY examining the records, you
will find that the entire expense Oi The State
Government Of Ohio for all general revenue
purposes, and they embrace everything except.
ing the payment Of the principal and intrest Of
the public debt, during the year IS4s, was
2S8, 900 dol's in round numhers;in ls49, ,3O7 900
do,iars; In 1850, 39l 600 dollars; in 1851,
ASS 600 dollars, making an aggregate for those
four years Of 1899, 600, or an average annual
expense these four years, of 34s ,000 In found
numbers. Now, sirs, il yculwll come to the
days of the. Democratic Administration, COM
menoing with 1852, you will find that the an
nual expense was, in 1852, 900 dollars in
1858, $4,000 dollars: in 1854, 662, 900 dollars;
and in 1855, 100000 dollars, 10 which should
be added 100000, for contracts made during
the four years have referred to, but which
was not paid for want OF an appropriation, and
which had to be paid by the Republican Ad
ministtation which came into po&ef after 1856,
making an entire sum Of 2,6ll ,000--an average
annual expense from S52 TO 1855, Of 652,00
dollars a year against 348, 900 as the aueTage
annurlexpenses for the four proceeding years.
So that you find this Democratic party, when
in power, impoSev tax upon you, in more
than double the amount for the support Of
your State, government. above that charged up
on you by the Wing administration from 1S47
TO 1851.
Mr.. Dennison quoted the figures 10 show that
the same ratio OF increase in expenditure was to
be observed in the following administrations,
from 1852 10 1856, during tina part Of The time
that the Democracy held sway, as compared
with the Republican term. He also referred 10
the sBreSiin defalcation, as reported in the
GAZETTE, from his remarks made at Lebanon
early during the canvas. He cohiihhed
PROTECTION FOR TIE TREASURY.
During all these four years, when these men
knew thatthe Treasury was being depleted
when they knew that Mr.. Bresln was an un-
faithful public oficer--yet during the whole
oftheSe four years, from 1852 to 1885,, the
Democratic Legislature, both branches of
which were under the direction Of that patty,
never enacted a law for the protection OF the
Treasury against robbers or plunderets' II is
not amazing that your Governor, your Auditor
ofState, your Attorney General, and all your
State officers. who had reason to believe, and
some TO know, that your Treasury was being
rdbbed, that they would sit quietly by for the
teTf OI IOuT yedIS,dHu uOt dSh luC VIOlCCtlOn VI
that Treasury by an enactment OF The Legisla-
ture. do not say that none asked this, for |
may do Mr.. Morgan the justice to say that he
did call upon his political friends to give him
the benefit OF a law to protectt the Treasury a.
gainst these plunderers; but he was but one
man, and his parlyref fused TO accede to his prop
osition.
When the Republican party came into power
the first thing they did was to poss law 10
guard this very Treasury from being piundered.
I allude to the law Of 1867. challenge the
most nstnte man, the most successful financier
or accomplished statesman, to show me upon
the Statute book of any State Of the confedera-
cy law more stringent In Its terms, more efTee>
tive in its provisions, to guard the Treasury
from pluuder. 1t was law adapted TO the fl
nancial condition Of the State. 1t made your
Auditor Of State the accounting officer Of the
Treasury, it permitted no money TO go in OF
out Of the Treasury except upon the certificate
or warrant Of the Auditor; ii required the Audi.
tor 10 report every three months the condition
of the treasury to The Governor, and required
your Treasurer to make a monthly statement O
the exact condition OF the Treasury and TO de
post the public monies, with such securities a
the law provided for, such as United State
stocks, Ohio State Stocks, &c. BY this process
whenever the money came into the Treasury
II was put into your Banks, hence into In,
hands Of private individuals, and again becam,
nart Of the circulating medium Of the country
and every man at once felt the benifcent result
OF such system.
TIE sUB-TREAsURY LAW.
What did the Democratic party? They tool
this law so well adapted to the people of tn,
State, and they repealed that law, What dit
they give you in its place? An Independent
TreasUery law. A law that has feceVed tn
solemn approval of the Democracy Of Lawrence
county. What is that law, my Democrati
friendsY 1t is neither mofe nor less than prop
osition TO collect the taxes from the people i,
gold and silver. That is what it Is. 1t is trp
that the law approaches that point gradually
by requiring 10 pay sums of twenty dollars i
gold and silver, going on increasing the amount
so that in 1856 your Treasurer OF Ssate is pro
hibited from paying anything out Of the Treas
ury, except in gold and silver, and as I'under
stand that law, it gives to the Treasurer Of Stat
no power to convert funds into gold and silver
thereby will compel him to collect the ehtit
amount OF the the taxes in gold and silver.
Understand that this law has been solemn
ly approved and endorsed by the Democtacy @
this county. Sirs, | want the party of tn
State to endorse it in the same way. | wan
my competitor to come forward and say, with
ott Disguise, that he Is in favor of collectin
The taxes Of the people in gold and silver.
want to tiieet him distinctly and directly, with
out qualification or reservation, upon that SIN
pie and direct issue, say, that so long as W
have banks in the State, chartered by law, aul
thofzed TO issue circulation, that circulatio
being the ordinary CURRENCY fot the. payment G
debts between man and man, am opposed t
, your Treasurer calling upon the people to pa
gold and silver, TO pay the officers Of State the
salaries, or TO pay the creditors Of State the
dues. | want to put the officers and creditor
OF State upon The same footing that the peopl
Of the State are put upon, and il Nit. Ranne
will meet me upon that single issue, Will &
with him before the people upon it and wi
beat him hundred thousand votes in the Stat
of Ohio. | will beat him anyhow, but I wi
beat him a hundred thousand votes on that is
sue. Laughter and cheerng.] would war
no better fun than inSt 10 take your Democrat
ic party in this county aud go to the fafmer,
, your manufacturers and mechanics, and preseT
this simple question and take their verdict, an
you would find those gentlemen thrown "highe
than a KITE
J . THt' sANKROfT TREASURY.
! Ii you go beyond your State and look
e your general government, You will fU1 III
same want Of skill in the management of yor
fnances-the same want, as | think, Of oIdir
. AIRY honesty, in recognizing The plain rules an
n maxims of finance, How is that2 Mr.. Buct
anan was nauguTaled on the Att Cay Of MaTcl
y l867-the most unfortunate day, in my judl
E ment, that this country ever witnessed, th
a evils following which this country will not e'