Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-09-28
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THE POLICY OF THE LEADERS .AGGRAvATEs
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MY fellow-citizens, you see the magni-
tude Of the burden which Is upon you, but
the leaders of this public calamity are ag-
gravating your misfortune. Though the
war is over the whole brood of office hold
ers yet fatten on their salaries. Military
commissions are spending large sums of
the public money. The negroes are yet
eating out, like an army of locusts, your
substance, and a standing army of 100000
in the South are increasing the burden.
Contiscation is putting the Southern farms
into the hands of spectators, for specula-
tion and not for agriculture, and the mill
tary establishment remains in all its de-
structive magnitude. 1t was said, and we all
thought, that when the military power of
the South was broken, the war would end.
But the leaders had complicated the ex
pectation with difficulties and distractions,
and thus still 1lutter about the dissolved
body of the Union with harpy cries. GEN
eral Sherman knew the heart of the people
knew they wanted peace. He saw that
the leaders of the South were the influence
which arrayed the people in hostility; that
they had led them into rebellion; that that
influence could lead them back again; that
their Senates and Legislatures and public
men could add inestimably to the force of
the public retraction Of their wrong, and
the resumption of their old condition; that
their power being broken, their safety and
happiness depended upon order; that they
would Immediately resume their place in
the Union, and that not only would the pub
lie debt cease, but the productive soil of the
South would yield immense income to aid
the people of the North; that speedy
restoration of the Union was the only hope
of the people. But he was thwarted, and
the Union remains unrestored and the pub
lie debt is increasing with frightful rapidity.
The system that now prevails to keep the
South in a STAGE of helpless vassalage para
lyZes and destroys the means of alleviatiOn.
The Southern soil is the most productive in
the Union. In 1860 the exports from the
Southern States was $246,598,3l3, and from
the Northern States only $69,622 297, being
an excess in favor of the South of nearly
$200000,000. And during the forty years
preceding 1860, the exports of the South
were $3,7lS 026.991, and from the Northern
States $l,S3S,374, 28l. The total amount of
duty paid during the forty years by the
South was $799,50S,37S, and by the North
1892, 365,065. So that towards the support
of the General Government the South paid
more than twice as much as the North, or
in the ratio of to 3, which, applied to the
public debt, would relieve the Northern
States of two of the three billions of public
Indebtedness, and would relieve the State
of Ohio of about $3.50, 100000 of the $780,
100000, her proportion of the public debt.
But so long as the present leaders are in
power they say they will keep a standing
army over her and the negro population
will be burden to the North. Now her
cities are dismantled, her fields are desolate,
her mansions are tenantless; a barbarOus
and useless population sleep among her
ruins. and stricken and nerveless people
mourn in the ashes of their homes. Fire
and sword have written her doom in ven
geance-"Pdcem appellant, sohtudinun, fac
iunt'-the quiet of blood-stained revenge
and ruin. The soil will not yield in the
presence Of fbayonets. And the military rule
will give birth to fraud and deception and
the worst passions permeate the blood and
brain, and while misery sits naked and era
zy on her blood-crusted hearthstone, un-
holy lust violates her person, steals the rags
from her limbs and the putrid meat from
her lips. The laboring masses of the North
want none of this. The masses of the South
want it not; nor even the bewildered Ne
gro. No good can be subserved by such a
system. But the Northern leaders openly
avow that the Negro must be protected un-
til he is able to govern himself, and that
the South shall be put under his CONTROL
Such is substantially the avowed policy OF
Cox, candidate for Governor. But it is all
ruinOus. The Negro will be perpetually
the ward of some authority, and constant
expense to the people. They will never be
tion willnevera affix its privileges and rights
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