Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-10-05


which pledges the party to stand by the
President iD all Constitutional efforts to re-
store the seeded States. While this people
have the rights ola conqueror, over these
iDsurgent rebels, and they cheerfully assent
TO and approve the amnesty offe red by the
President 10 large majority Of thsm, it is
their right, and in my opinion their duty to
see to it, that the three hundred thousand
aristocrats Of that rebel region, who hold in
their own right three-fouTths Of the valuable
cultivated lands of that vast territory should
not retain it, and roll in luxury, and avoid
taxation, while the patriotic masses Of the
country are burdened with taxes to pay the
costs Of the rebellion which these very nris-
tocrsts organized and excited. The allies
Of these insurgents in Ohio, instead of hold.
ing them to answer in any way for their
great crime, simply propose to make them
at once the peers Of the neblest, the bravest
and most patriotic of our citizens, and de-
elare them in the Union as States, with all
the reserved rights of States OF the Union.
If this Democratic Platform states truly the
status of the rebel States, the conclusion
which have just stated is inevitable-for
the reason that the citizens within the pre-
scribed limits Of every State or Territery,
constitute the State, and ss the rebels ls te-
ly in arms or aiding the rebellion in the rebel
States, constitute Dine-tenths Of the eiti-
zens Of each. the result stated fellows as
surely as effect follows efficient cause. Are
the people Of the United States SO desirous
Of rebel legislation in Congress and for re-
organized REBEL STATES within the Union,
that they will assent to all this, and thereby
substantially release these traitors from all
the consequences of their great treason and
bid them repent it? Would it not be as
well to exercise some ofyour rights as con-
qucror, and partition some of the large
estates of these rebels among loyal lanaless
working men, the citizen soldiers of the Re
public-people, in fact. that large domain
with a column Of loyal land owners, who,
by their presence, would, in the hereafter,
compel decent regard for the laws, and q
respectful, if not a willing submission to
the Constitution.
TkXING UNITED STATES BONDS.
But to complete this manual OF State
rights and Ohio Democracy, it is further
declared that the party explicitly condemns
the policy of the party in power, in creating
thousands of millions of Government stocks,
and attempting to exonerate the holders
thereof from all obligations TO pay their
just proportion Of State taxes, thereby Gre
ating an odious moBeyed aristocracy, and
demand that the money so invested be tax
ed for Federal, State and municipal pur-
poses.
1t needed no such resolves last August to
notify the world that the Ohio Democracy
condemn the party In power for creating
thousands Of millions of Government debt,
TO enable that Government to crush the re-
bellion. The Ohio Democracy opposed all
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the Union, and to their policy, when, in
1868. they supported Vallandigham. whose
boast it was that he never had and never
| Congress, to carry on the war How come.
! it that there is no word OF explicit or even
| implied condemnation in this long Demo.
cratic platform, Of the unmatched treason
which made this debt necessity? They
can re solve that the South Carolina traitors
are in the Union as State, aud may exer.
else, as traitors, duly organized, the renew
ed power OF State; but the widowed moth
er who gave her sons to battle, and loaned
her money to the Government to put down
this treason of South Carolina is an aristo-
crat, and should be taxed upon her bonds
to relieve these Southern traitors from the
burden of paying for suppressing their
treason Yes" say these gentlemen, the
bonds should be taxed for State and mu-
nicipal purposes" This is, suppose, more
Of the true doctrine of State Rights
that the several States and municipal cor
porations may violate the express law of the
United States, made in accordance with the
express letter of the Constitution, and tax
! the bonds of the Government for the pur-
| pose Of paying South Carolina traitors for
| condescending to exercise their renewed
powers as a State in Congress What is
! .he credit of this Government worth if Its
plighted faith is thus to be trifed with and
! broken? What more effective method to ut.
| terly destroy the Government than this can
be adopted? The moneyes aristoerats !
| suppose Mr.. Stewart, of New York, is
one of the men thus denounced who prob.
ably holds more of these bonds than all the
men of the Convention, and who has paid a
yearly tax to the Government fully equal to
the federal taxes paid yearly by all the peo-
tle OF the Sixteenth Congressional District
Of Ohio. When your debt is all funded, as
| trust it will be, and the people hold the
bonds representing it to the amount oi
about three Thousand millions of dollars, il
will doubtless suit the Southern traitors
who have paid no taxes to the General Gov
ernment, aud mean to pay noRe if they car
avoid it, to thus repuslate the war debt o.
the Union, and punish the loyal people wht
trusted their Government, and gave it al
they had in its darkest hour, their none!
and their sons 1t would be simple wa.
to get rid Of the debt to extinguish it, b.
taxing it in the hands Of the holders, no
only to sustain the Government of the Uni
ted States, but of the States and of eacI
Municipal Corporation. How refreshin
it would be to the rebel States, in the Ur
ion as States, to know that the men an
women, and orphan children whose father
fell by their traitor hands, were payin
more taxes upon their own bonds giver
than for money borrowed to support tn
war, or for their fathers services rendere
in the war for the Union, than all the eleve
rebel States have ever paid, or will eve
pay (if this Democratic party comes int
! power,) to the satisfaction Of that debt
, The people Of the United States csn moi
and will not, consent that their phghte
, word shall be broken at pleasure by ever
, State, or any loyal State Of the Union; ths
their credit shall be destroyed by any sue
. Democratic schemes: that traitors shn
! thereby be assured, that when they agal
E conspire with the oppressors of Eurof
. against their own country and its Cover
ment, that Government will not be able
!, borrow dollar, because of the reserve
!, rights of the States 10 repudiate its oblig
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