Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-09-28
THE RESULT OF ALL THIS.

And the result of all this is, that while
the public debt diminishes not, but in
creases, with no property exempt from the
payment of taxes, with the yearly visits Of
the collector and the tax gatherer, will
come destitution and misery, until the peo-
pie of the United States will be more op-
pressed than the people of any other coun-
try on earth. The powers that now WELD
the public affairs will investigate no frauds,
recover no stolen property, redress no in
iuries, adopt no measures of economy, for
those powers are the criminals. Crime
will aggregate with the public debt,
will flourish with the public misery.
The nabob will draw the interest Of his
bonds from the hard labor of the poor, will
ride over the laws, will drown the groans
of labor with the. reyelry of bacchanalian
orgies. This has been felt in other coun-
tries. 1t is no dream. Public liberty will
expire ifilthe smothering embrace of the
public burdens. However the, people may
view the legal questions that are now, the
subject of solicitude, whether with indiffer-
ence or interest as to their legality, yet it
ID "a serious fact that the present condition
OF the negro aud the South, and the
policy of the authorities in power, confisca-
ton, military courts, a standing army, the
closing of the courts Of justice, the suspen-
sion OF the writ of hdbeds corpus, the sys-
tenn of military departments, have all thrust
J. economy aside, and this system. continued
will grow in power: until It's eradication
will become impossible, its presence famil-
lar and permanent and its permanetcy be
supported by argument and force. The
consciousness fully prove stheguneonstitu-
tionality of the causes, for they all tend to
change the form OF, government. They all
/ impose results which are not the legitimate
offspring Of iiberty,y but OF 1despotism. in
fact. Folly aware that these, monstrous
abuses will be condemned at the ballot-b
these leaders override the people with force,
prevent them from expressing thefrwill by
-bayohets, and stuff the ball0t-bvXes with
fraudulent votes. o The appearance only, Of
popular suffrage is lett, in some sections of
the country, to answer the stern demands Of
our national and State Constitutions. Il But
this destroys the effect of popular suffrage
in the undisturbedy sections, To, further
proyide against the impending storm,
6O0.O0 negro votes are invoked, as bal
ance Of power, to nullify the will lof the
people. The negro was incorporated, into
the army for the purpose of leading the ar
gument. The labors, tolls, dangers, aud
wounds of the soldiers are to be worked by
these leaders into garlands and chaplets for
/ the brow of the e''negro.s The stern and
bloody achievements of the war are being
transferred to the negro cook, camp follow
ers and servants of the army. Such men as
John Sherman, Senator from Ohio, as lead
| ing, examples, illustrate the whole infa-
nous, brood Of political traitors, Anxiety
/ for, office has led such men into the
slough Of negro degradation, and In the
strong and purelight with which the dignity
Of the people is illpmined BY the Coiistita-
ton, these men toll and sweat for seIflde-