Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-06-12
MILLERsBURG OHIO THURSDAY MORNING JUNE p 1862

Of State, no charge has ever been made
they are imprisoned without the form o
authority Of law and thus the persona
liberty Of the Caucasian is ruthlessly vi
olated, while the A frican is most tenderl,
and carefully guarded, even to the nuli
fication Of State enactments and the ma
tional statutes. Leta rumor become cur
rent that negro has been deprived Of per
sonal liberty-either in this District O
anywhere else and there are dozens 0
Republican members upon this floor stri
wing to obtain the attention of the Hous
while they may offer resolutions inquirin.
by what law, by whom, when, and wher
these objects of their undivided objections
may have been arrested. But never We
has any of those philanthropic gentlemen
made inquiry for the law or the authorit,
under which white American citizens
have been kidnapped by the State Depart
inent, dragged from their homes, and lef
to pine, and die perchance, in some o
the many Bastiles which this Admins
tration has established.
1t is well known, sir. that if any white
citizen, perhaps father or brother, de
Sires to visit relative or acquaintance il
the military service of this Government
that he is obliged to secure pass from
some competent authority, and to obtain
this he is required upon his honor to de.
clare his loyalty and fidelity to the Gov.
eminent. But the negro goes and comes
within the lines of our army, whether
his destination be toward or from the
enemy the color of the black man is
his passport, and is received as equivalent
to the pledge of honor and of loyalty
upon the part Of white person.
RUNAWAY NEGROES RECEIVE EMPLOYMENT
TO THE EXCLUSION OF WHITE CITIZENS.
In this District you have abolished sla.
very. You have abolished it by COM
pensation, by adding S1,100,000 to the
national debt, and a tax Of 5000 to
be paid annually, as interest upon this
sum, by taxes imposed upon the laboring
white people of these States. Not sat.
sfied with doing this much for your es-
pecial iavorite, you extend the freedom
of this city and the hospitality of the
Government to all the runaway negroes
IN the country who choose to visit the
District of Columbia. You issue ra-
tions to them day after day, and weel,
after week, rations which must be paid
for through the sweat and tell of taX-rid
den white men. You ale thus support
ing in Incidence hundreds upon hundred,
of black men. How many, at what cos
| am unable to state, because when a res
olution, asking for this Information, wa,
introduced by the honorable gentleman
from Ohio Mr.. Cox it was immediate
ly tabled by the Republican majority upor
the other side of this House. Those gen.
tlemen dare not let this information GO
to the country; they shrink from the ex-
posure which a truthful reply to such in
quiry would make. The resolution ol
Mr.. Cox also asked for the number o
negroes employed as teamsters in the ar.
my, and a. what wages but this was
equally Objectionable, for it would have
illustrated the fact that negroes by tn,
hundreds are receiving better pay as dri
vers than our own white sons and broth
ers are Tor perilling their lives as soldier,
in the defence Of the Union and the Con.
stitution.
Having been thus deprived Of obtain
ing official information upon these ques-
tons, l am obliged to gather my statis-
tics from such sources as | can. shall
make no statement that | have not re-
ceived from respectable and responsible
parties, and none which do not conceive
to be rather under than over the true es-
innate.
The Government is to day issuing ra-
tons to about two thousand negroes in
this District alone, that costs over TWEEN
ty cents per ration, and four hundred
dollars per day, in violation of law, is
being paid for this purpose. The Gov
ernment is hiring in the District several
hundred negroes. some as teamsters and
some for other purposes, to the exclusion
of white laborers, thousands of whom,
together with their wives and children, in
our large cities are suffering for want oI
employment. l speak advisedly when !
say that the Republican party are already
paying, of tax gathered money, in this
District alone, over three hundred thou.
sand dollars per annum to buy, clotne
feed and exalt the African race. Thus
for the negro you expend more in sin.
gle year in the District of Columbia thar
you appropriate for the government and
protection OF all the people in all the or
ganized Territories of the United States
The negro is made superior, in your leg
islation to the pioneer white men that set
tie the Great West, and, amid hardshipt
and dangers, lay the foundations of new
commonwealth the hardest and no
plest men of our common country.
So the people are taxed yearly NOR
for the benefit of the black race in thi
District alone than it costs to maintain
the burdens of State government in Ell
ther Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Wis
consin, Maine, New Hampshire, Yer
mont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New
Jersey, Delaware or Maryland.
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS PER DA,
EXPENDED ON LAZY NEGROES.
But it is not in this District alone tha
you require people to pay tribute to tn
idol of your affections. Wherever yol
find our army, with one or two honora
bic exceptions, you will find that hund
reds of rations are being issued daily t.
unemployed negroes, who rendezvous il
and about the camps; wherever the army
is they are being employed in various ca