Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-09-26

| lie debt, robbery, fraud and licentiousness.
They aniilldstrate that Decentralization is
superinduced byia departure from peaceful
| pursuits, and the substitution of force for
law. That the return to the routine of
civil life and order is difficult in proportion
| to the extent of the deviationa That 0sus-
pension of law leads, to Disregard OF dtand
alleged necessity however crininal,, be-
comes, by habit, an acquiesced in rule of
ISG sI0iiargGa d,us .li mods ,lijiI 4T9y
d THE AGENCIES or THB PUBLIC, DEBT.
70 gheagencies which propagate and pro-
] long such a state of things, ARE the offspring
of public disorder, War gives birth to
whole race of criminals of all imaginable
degrees Of vileness. Their voracity lis i'm
| measurable, and becomes abottofnless reser-
yoir of fraud aud plunder. This can be no
better illustrated than by the testimony of
some Of the purer leaders of the war
4 Dawes, a Republican member Of Congress
from Massachusetts, said to Congress In
1861 "The lareenies under this Admins
tration (Lincoln's) have exceeded ex the entire
expenditures Of James Bucbanan's." "We
have seen system of commissions to mid
dlemen growing,upl all over the c6dntry-
stepping In between the producer and fur
nisher Oh one side; and the Government up On
the other, that has cost the Government
millions of dollars" A Gen. Wilcox made
a speech about this time, infwhich he says:
"Contractors have carried on this war.
The blood of our men, the groans Of our
wounded, the tears of the orphan and the
wall of the widow have been coined into
money. They have swindled the Govern
ment out of hundreds of millions. They
have piled fortune upon fortune. AS a
distinguished officer at Washington said
| ha nf fha n
by swindlers." About the, same, time
Senator Hale said :'MI declare upon my re-
sponsibility as Senator, that the libertiess
of this country are i'm mgreaterdangerto-day
from the corruptions and pEphigacy ,prae-
| ticed in the various departments of the Gov
ernment, than they are from the enemy ins
the open field .r9lInn 1861 a committee of.
Congress attempted to investigate aud dis
close these fraudulent transactions, and after
reporting 1109 pages Of book stuffed with
swindling, and reporting " the labors OF the
committee far from being closed" though
hundreds of millions of dollars were shown
to have. been stolen by the "middlemen" and
bribed agents and authorities further in
yestigationIwasth throttled. The full disclo-
sure bid tair to involve every body. United
States Senators, congressman, Cabinet Off
GERS, and a host of the lesser fry who swan
in the samesea of total depravity. The inn
II mense outfit of thearmy and navy was the
| subject of plunder. From calculations made
| upon the robbery of the first year of the
war and estimating upon presumption Of
i like continuance, one fourth of the whole
public debt $750000000 and more were
created by robbery. About this time, this
| whole class of crime was crystaliZed and
was known as "loyalty," and this word was
substituted forall the legal defenses to crime.
This class of loyalists became vastin num-
bers, and an oyershadowing element in the
| destructive policy of the day. High and
i low criminals are born of public disorder.
Leaders, conspirators disunionists, destruc-
tionists. Their name is legion. Agitation
and suspension of law is their safety. In
nature VAMPIRE with wings gaudy with
moral reform and loyal pretences, they fail
the people to repose and suck. their blood.
Such elements as these, high and low, swarm
about the places Of power and help mould
the policy and control the affairs of our
Government. They are epposedto the res
,toration of the Union, and the supremacy
I OF the Constitution. They become dena-
! tionalized by d return to freedom, for their
j allegiance is sworn to Force. These omen
4 keep up, the standing, army I'M the South,
exterminate her; white, population, conts-
cate her estates and speculate on her deso-'
lation. labor and industry, by these praG-
i tices and agencies, has been burthened for
centuries to come, and from these agencies
4 will spring all the evils. which shall in the
future afilict this unhappy country. No one,
4 can fail to see that the agencies which
brought about this civil, war, have, possess
sion of the Administration of the Govern
ment in fact, and that they are the eternal
\ enemies of economy, industry, and civil
i liberty 'H5'gl o. JIs, Il 1aJ 70; tb'
4 rSiANcipAr1oN PRocLAMAT1oN AND THE
4 9Ygd aIqo j PUBLIC DEBT. 'Slii >"oHa
The agitators Of the moral aspect Of sla-,
very have been the enemies of the Union.
The Democratic and Whig, parties in 1852,
/, the Democratic and Republican parties in
II 1860, and all the people by their representa-
4 tives In Congress in 1861 declared that'slave-
. nv was a State and not a National institu-
tion, That it was q political and not q
moral question. That it was embraced ih
I that large class OF Questions determihable
by state authority alone, and that without
reference to it,,the war should be carried on
solely for the restoration of the Southern
States to the Union with all their rights and
dignity unimpaired. oMr. Lincoln himself,
u with more than years experience in the
/, war, declared any interference with slavery
unconstitutional and useless, He decided
that proclamation upon the subject was as
inipotent as one against comet but by
1.-THE influence of malign and fahatical agita-
ton, in ten, days afleE this iexpressipn, in
j September, 1862, he issued his proclamation
s against slavery. The army probably,
4 would have practically freed9as many perl
9 sons without it. as in fact the proclamation
!, Twas enforced by the. army, and as oeffectut
ally, for the slavery agitators regard It az
4 Indispensable that the States Of the South
y should confirm negro freedom by statelleg-
. pisation, which demand in effect Isl an
ndonmept of the power of the, Presit
dent to do IT.. At the time OF the publicat
tion OF this proclamation the people OF
Il the North were oas unitdi More Volun4
teers were going to, the war than was need
ed, and protests were made by public men
at the needless and prolific, growth of
q tie army. The SCfittehdehi resolution had
D proved 1.-THE touchstone Of patriqtisnE and
} the massesof the Peep plewefe acting IN good
faith, The agitators Of the war, and North-
ern conspirators were opp6sed to 1t and
n finally bf6ke 1t down. The people, were
! chilled BY 1.-THE treason of deceit q 6Nolun-
teering, public meetings, enthusiasm ceas-
ed. The provost-marshal system, drafts.
arbitrary arrests, expressions, violations of
law, bonntiesvd detective burean,spnd agen-
i cies, Freedmen's 8 bureaus, and New England
\ philantbropic s6cisties, Standing armies in
1.-the States, bush King and an innuner-
Il able, train, Of disorders iii the Northern and
i border States ensued. BY an appr0 xihate
Il calculation this proclamation swells the