Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-12-27
Fruits OF the Chicago Platform.

The fruits OF the tree planted in the great
"Republcan Wigwam" in Chicago in the month
of June, 1861 are thus forcibly enumerated by
Hons 5 Cox. in a speech delivered IN the House
OF Representatives on the 18th inst.
The radical party of the gentleman has been in
power six hundred and fifty one days-since the
4th OF March. l56l. TO the present time What is
the resulsr do not now ask who has caused
this result but What u our condition under the
agents selected nj Chicago by sectional Organ-
zation, acting with those of similar radical views
in the South
/ confederation of thirty three States 10
which appurtenant were seven Territories, has
been torn into two parts, under severed and bel
ligerent Governments.
2 From a state of concord the people Of these
States have been made hostile: and one half OF
the people of the, States. capable under the law
of bearing arms, have become consumers instead
of peaceable producers OF wealth
8 That these men. numbering perhaps three
millions, connected with the armies of the North
aud South. are costing the people ut least
1000 900 per day. which is not being replaced;
Tor all that is spent in war is by the laws OF
economy. n loss 20 those who spend IL, as mere
pecuniary transaction, and not counting ultimate
and moral results.
4 That since this Administration came into
power there has been lost 10 this country merely
a. matter Of business, not counting debt and
taxes OF National or State character. at least
$500 900 900 in the destruction of property, inter
ference with established business, increase in
wages spoliation of railroads. depo.s. produce,
corn. wheat -four. cotton. hay, crops. &c
) That the debt OF this country at this time
if all the liabilities not liqudated are included.
and not including the $50 900 900 left by the
preceding Administration. amounts nj this time
TO tie sum OF 81 900 900 900: and bv the lst OF
July. 1861, will, in my Judgment. amount to
81 500, 600 900. The estimates for the army
alone for the next year are S7O0 100000
6. That we have now a system of taxation by
tariff which imposes burden on the West, 70
benefit manufacturing in New England. and pays
Indirectly 500 600 600 into the treasury and into
the pockets of capitalists. and mostly from thG
consumers. who farmers of the West.
I. That We have now system OF internal
taxation. costing for collection some $4,000 O0t
extra, and which might have been saved, ano
levying, in one year, Sl5O ,0O0, 900, as lnteres
only ON n great national debt aud with arm,
of newly made officeholders with exorbitant sala
ries
g. That within these six hundred and fifty ON,
DAYS party has succeeded which proposes, by
legislation and proclamation, to break down
labor system in eleven States, or send out of tho
country four millions OF negroes whose industry
has been productive hitherto, worth. on or before
apiece being in all 5000, 600 900; and when TIL:
capital is destroyed. the objects of this pseudo
philanthropy will remain on hand, North anC
South mass of dependent and improyiden
black beings, for whose the tax will be al
most equal to the war tax, before their condition
will again he fixed safely and prosperously.
g. That within these six hundred and fifty-on,
days the rights of personal liberty, freedom from
arrest without process, freedom for press anC
speech. and the right of habeas corpus have beer
suspended and limited, and, ut times destroyed
and in place OF resurrected and promised liberty
to four million Of blacks, we have had the pros
pect of buried liberty. which the past eight
hundred years have awarded To the white Anglo
Saxon race
10 That for the specie currency of few year:
ago. We have already in circulation millions o
deprecated Government promises to pay, ranging
from one thousand dollar notes down TO five cen
shinplasters.
III. That We have the promise OF bankrup
law at this session, the Wholesale result Of
these commercial arrangements.
IL That We have had killed in these six hun
dred and fifty one dave at least one hundred anC
fifty thousand of the best youth of the country
ON bloody fields of battle. and nearly the same
number by sickness in camps and hospitals.
l3 That by the decisions of the courts, al
ready given "a 70 the laws OF this CongresS-tht
legal tender and the confiscation active Learn
that there is general encroachment by one de
partment of the Government upon the other
IL That the Christian religion has been defiled
by lis teachers. and civilization .et back half
century bv the decentralization incident these
unhappy events.