M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1862-06-12


the State Department, dragged from
their homes. and left to pine, and die
perchance, in some Of the many bas
tiles which this Administration has
established.
II is wei known, sir, that if any
white citizen, perhaps father or a
brother, desires to visit a relative or
acquaintance in the military service
of this Government, that he is oblig-
edto secure a pass from some CO mpe-
tent authority, and to obtain this he
required upon his honor to declare his
loyalty and fidelity totbe Government.
But the negro goes and comes within
the lines of'odr army, whether his
destination be toward or from the enc.
my; the color of the black man is his
passport, and is received as equiva.
lent to the pledge Of honor and OF 10y.
atty upon the part OF the white per
son.
RUNAWAY NEGROES RECEIVE EMPLOY
MENT TO THE EXCLUSION OF WHITE
CITIZENS.
In this District y0u have abolished
slavery. You have abolished it by
compensation, by adding 100000
to the national debt, and a tax OF
$4,000 to be paid annually, as inter,
est upon this sum, by taxes imposed
upon the iabonng white people OF
these States. Not satisfied with do.
ing this much for your especial favor.
ite, you extend the freedom Of this
city and the ospitality Of the Gov
ernment to all the runaway negroes
in this country who choose to visit
the District of Columbia. You issue
rations to them day after day, aud
week after week, rations which must
be paid for through the sweat and toll
OF taxridden white men. You are
thus supporting in indolence hun.
dreds upon hundreds of black men.
How many and at what cost am un.
able to state, because when a resolu-
tiOn asking for this information, was
Introduced by the honorable gentle
man from Ohio (Mr. Oox), it was
Immediately tabled by the Republic.
an majority upon the other side of the
House. Those gentlemen dare not
let this information go to the country;
they shrink from the exposure which
a truthful reply 10 such inquiry would
make. The resolution Of Mr.. Cox
also asked for the number of negroes
employed as teamsters in the army,
and at what wa ges; but this was equal,
ly Objectionable, fol it would have il
lustrated the fact that negroes BY the
hundred are receiving better pay as
drivers than our own white sons and
brothers are for periling their lives as
soldiers in the defense Of the Union
and the Constitution.
Having been thus deprived Of OBJ
tanning official information upon these
questions, am obliged to gather my
statistics from such sources as | can.
| shall make no statement that have
not received from respectable and re-
spOusible parties, and none which l
do not conceive to be rather under than
over the true estimate.
The Government is to-day issuing
rations to about two thousand negroes
in this District alone, that cost over
twGty cents per ratiOn-$400 per day,
in violation Of law, is being paid for
this purpose. The Government is
hiring in the District several hundred
negroes, sume as teamsters and some
Tor other purposes, to the exclusion of
white labcrers, thousands Of whom,
together with their wives and chill
dren, in our large cities. are suffering
for the want Of employment. ! speak
advisedly when say that the Repub
lican party are already paying, OF
tax gathered money, in this District
alone, over three hundred thousand
dollars per annum to buy, clothe, feed
and exalt the African race. Thus for
the negro you expend mere in a single
year in the District Of Colum bia than
you appropriate for the Government
and protection of all the people in all
the organized Territories in the Uni
ted States The negro is made supe'
rior, in,your legislation, to the pioneer
white men that settle the Great West
and amid hardships and dangers, lay
the foundation of new common wealtb'
= the hardest ard noblest men Of oul
common country.
So the people are taxed yearly more
for the benefit of the black race il
this District alone than il costs t
maintain the burdens of State gov
ernment in either Iowa, Michigan
Minnesota, Wis consin, Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut
Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaw ar
or Maryland,
oYE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS Pc
DAY EXPENDED ON LAZY NEGROES
Rnt IL ia not in this District alon