Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-10-13
A Bone for Abolition Mariners
10 Gnuyy,

. A Bone for Abolition Earnleri
y 10 GnuVv.
= Stop moment, honest Freesoiler, W,
want to reason with you. LIST your ploy
: stand in the furrow, breathe your horses
=. and put on your thinking cap. You believ,
: y the Emancipation Proclamation Yes. 3
You don' want the President to back out o
~ NO" The war, then must go on, Sc
Tar as your vote can influence it, till the
. slaves are all free
Now, honest friend have you ever Thought
what this experiment Of freeing all ncProe.
Is likely to cost youf Arc you willing tC
, mortgage your farm for halt its value tol
your share IN dcftaying the ypenss? Why,
dear man, 1t Is ut5cddy mortpaged 60 nearly
tlat extent. and every year the war Is con.
tnued patches this mortgage with another
on the back Of it, Give your attention for
a moment, and will maliothis As plain as the
rail fence that divides your farm from your
neighbor's. You must Of course, see that
the public debt is "A mortgage on the prop
erty Of the whole country, for this properly
may be taken to pay it. If you were so
rich as to own half the property, you would
own halt the debit if you owneda hundrcdth
or thonsandth part of the properly, you
would owe hundredth or a thousandth
/ part of the debt: that is, your share of the
debt Is Just in proportion to your share of
the property. Now it so happens that this
/ is thing easily got at; 50 that il you
will tell us the value of your farm we will
tell you what part of it is already mortgag-
ed to the Government. We are not going
toinpose upon you by any statements which
we have cooked up to serve purpose the
figures we will use are taken from docu-
ments prepared hy Republican officials; and
as for the arithmetic, you are just rs com
-. ,l,t,
to make them. So, good farmer GRIPPE I
dollar, give heed
II you will call on the member Of Con-
gress for your district, or at any newspaper
Office in your county, you can get an oppor-
tunity to examine book prepared by Mr.. |
Kennedy, chief Of the ecnSUs bureau con-
tanning the figures ofthe eight census Turn
to page one hundred and ninety four, and
you will find a table giving the assessed val
ue Of all the real estate in every State and
territory Of the United States. You will
observe by the footing at the bottom of the
column that it amounts TO Sj,973, 1885, ,049. /
Ii you will then take out and add together
the figures representing the real estate of
the slave states, the amount will be S2,"17,-
904, 357. Subtracting this from the whole /
you will have LETT 1895, ,202. COZ as the to-
tai assesses value Of all the land and bull
of which your farm and the buildings and .
Improvements upon it are a part. Now in .
finding the debt which stands against this |
property we will lead you on the ground .
which you must regard as equally solid. |
Look W almost any file of u city newspa. |
per for the month Of July last, and you
will find in the financial column an official |
statement Of the public debt, rs it existed
on the 9th Of July, purporung to he taken
from the books Of the Treasury Depart
ment, and signed by the acting Secretary
of the treasury According to this state
ment the debt was at that date 81, ,792, 867,-
0l0. \ few days previous TO the pubica
ton Of these figures, the secretary made n
semi-oftlcial statement that the debt was
then increasing at the rate Of $500, 900
day. There have revencd since the 9Th
of September eighty three days, which at
that rate, would bring an addition TO the
debt Of $2l7 600, geo, which added to the
ent debt, 5000, 3G7 ,040. There are the
best reasons for surprising the debt to be
much larger, but We take the official figures
because they cannot expose us to any GUS
plcou of cXaggeration.
! With these data it is easy to determine
the amount of mortgage which rests on any
particular farm by reason of the public dcbt
Ii the farm b. worth $1,000, it IS mort.
gagged to the Government for 81 600; if it is
=, worth 81, 800, ia mortgagcd Tor $1,000 ;
and in the like proportion lorany larger or
, smaller value. Nearly half of your farm is
already gone four years more Of war
would make the mortgage to the public
{ creditors about equal to its a scsscs value,
Are You wHlta9 to prosecute lhccxpe ,iment
of hering the negroes AZ this scost2 by the
time the experiment if completed you will
@ he a. much slave a. the negroes Themselves.
A For in what does slavery consist, but in one
mans laboring and another having Il legal
right to the fruits of his Iahor2 The slave
labors and the master pockets his earnings
c Ion labor, and your earnings, all but Il
small subsistence, will 60 to pay for the
:. luxury Of the Emancipation proclamation
Are YOU 80 cnnmorcd of this prospect that
" you will vote for doubling the present heavy
= mortgage which the Government holds ON
your farm? Ponder this thing well in your
q own mind; talk it over with your neighbors;
and see; if there is any way Of getting rid
Of the conclusion that proportionate share
Of the public debt is mortgage on your
c property World