Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-09-21

count 70 himself, but u increasing the public
debt. Every race but his, on the globe, have.
when thrown upon their resources, shown
themselves capable Of self government. 49,
Left in government formed with law and
organization. the negro has soon DESTROYED
it. If given control Of the South the his
tory Of the West India Islands will be re-
peated at the South at the expense Of the
Northern people. In l5Ol Napoleon abol-
ished slavery in the Island Of San Domingo.
The following statement and table will show
the result
l739 1872
Population n............... 5000 $50 900
Coffee exported s5,7snDOQ lbs. 32,0O00OO lbs
sailors .,.,.,............ 80. 100 ls-
Exports to France. fo,72U,gO none
I'm pOTtS................... 80 80, 40 none
All the commerce and agriculture of the
Island dwindled away, aud coffee, alone,
which grew spontaneously and required no
labor, was gathered The population de-
creased more than one-half in thirty years,
and the inhabitants have relapsed into the
Incidence and inactivity Of savage life. The
same is the result in Hayti and the same in
Jamaica; although these islands were rich
in soil and mineral productions they became
desert; the coffee plantations have gone
back into bush, andrevolution, periodically,
throws its volcanic fash over the dreary
scene. By comparing Jamaica and Cuba,
for fifty years, giving the emancipated negro
in Jamaica the advantage Of twenty-five
years over the slavery system in Cuba, and
in 1SO9 Jamaica exported SIS, 900, 900 -
/ Cuba Sl3, 900, 600 in 1926. In 1854 Jamai-
ca 81, 900, 900, Cuba S3l 900 900. In 1859
/ Jamaica $1,000, 900, Cuba $57, 900, ,OOO.-
Before emancipation in the West India
| Islands, these islands raised $500, 600, 900 in
sugar, Sl08, 600, 900 in coffee, s24, 600, 900
in cotton. After an emancipation of fifty
years, in all these articles the decrease was
about three-fOurths.
The negro emancipated becomes licenti-
Gus, cruel and savage, and refuses to work.
He is driven to the old cotton fields at tbs
point Of the bayonet. Mr.. Lincoln in hi
reply to the Chicago divines said: Gen
; Butler wrote me few days since that h
was issuing more rations to the slaves VIII
. had rushed to him than to all the whit
:, troops under his command. They eat, ca
I and that as ALL e." And so it is with the in
:. mense population of negroes without con
troll: they refuse to work 1.-THE white pei
pie Of the South We're permitted to resum
their rights, property, and occupations, an
the negro by apprenticeship, contract 0
. otherwise, compelled to work, the Soutl
, might, in a measure, become productive AM
aid the northern people in the payment Q
the public debt
EXEMPTION OF STATE AND UNITED STATE
BONDS FROM TAXATION.
But not only is the burden by this polio
increased and all probable means of allevi
alton destroyed, but these leaders have az
gravated the public burthen still further b.
Fl the most unheard of conspiracy against tn,
laboring masses. The working man ha!
fought the war, while the man of means ha
controlled the financial peace establishment
at home. To the hardship Of the war is tc
be added the exemption Of the rich from al
the burdens of the war They toll not
neither do they spin, and yet Solomon in al
his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
They fought not they suffered not, they
/, bore no burdens. Their patriotism wa:
alone tried in the loaning of money to the
government at per cent interest, payable
, semi-annually. And while it was in theil
, power they forever exempted all theiI
property from taxation to pay the war debt.
The whole burden falls upon the laborinG
man Of moderate means. Three billions OF
public debt, and three billions of property
taken from the tax duplicate! OF thi'
, debt as have shown, one-tenth is payable
by Ohio And as this public debt is held by
the nabobs throughout the country, it i:
reasonable to suppose that citizens OF Ohio
hold proportion of it according to popula
ton, and that in Ohio three hundred mil
, lions of property is invested in the bonds o.
, the United States. So that of the ) COG,
! 600, ll6 valuation on the tax duplicate
$500, 900, 600 is to be bededucted, leaving only
j, 500, 900, 600 worth of property in Ohio tc
+ pay S400, 900, 900 Of debt and S37 900, ,0OC
> yearly interest and taxes. To this lesseninG
! of the tax duplicate must be added abou
/, 50, 600, 900 of the Ohio Union loan, held il
: Ohio, and exempted from taxation by ac
, of the republican legislature. The leaders
3 have thus created for themselves privilege
! as eternal as the public debt. And while
the bond holders control the elections, per
petuate themselves in power, and grow
q richer, the man of moderate means grow
d poor, and the poor grow more miserable
I 1t is something to feel the humiliation O
e all the outrages upon the laws and Constitu
h ton But to realize that the blood of III
+ Revolution is coined into huge bracelets fo
d shoddy bellies, and that each weary step aftt
n the plough, each weary stroke at the anvil
G each days exhausting, muscle stranlng,,
n thrown away upon the riotous living OF Il
10 debauche and clownish aristocrat, is MOI
# than humiiation-is slavery-aye,. mol
!. than Southern negro slavery, for it break
+ the spirit that was free.
IN IN Be not deceived Labor bears it all. :
a. The consumer that is not the producer ma
II regulate his business to. cquallze his &C
ns lls ditional burdens, but the produce of tn
or country is at the mercy of the speculator:
u All specific taxes and revenues and llcence
~ ~ are are paid by the former, They are added I
=, ~ the selling price of the article. The mercl
u ant. the manufacturer, the licensed deale
= charge the people what the governmer
10 evies on them.
y ~ This power which has been exercised
of create a moneyed aristocracy does not el
"a "a ist in the national or State Constitution,
~ Neither Congress nor the legislature {
~ Ohio have the constitutional or legal powe
% o%r to discriminate in favor Of or against on
ST ST class ofproperty, and Inuch less for oragalns
ar the property of one class OF men, Jackso
: slew the hydra of money powcr-the enem
IA of republican government-hut It's bone
II have BEEN imbued with new lie by Its an
~ Gent coadiutors, and now its huge propGol
:, tions overshadow the people, and its iniiu
at ence, if unrestrained, will drag the state
- into the vortex Of supreme national powe