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

stump be has not given aparticie or eva
dence of craftsmanship or of an appreciation
| of the wants of the times. He sees that tn,
I people are oppressed with taxation, yet h
holds out to them no hope that he will
throw his influence in behalf of any meas
ure that will serve to mitigate their bur
thens. On the contrary, he gives then
pretty plainly 10 understand that II ht
shall be elected they will be under the ne
| eessity OF continuing to suffer, from this
4 oppressive taxation. That they will have
/ to do so, under such condition of affairs
Is most true. Privileged orders will bt
permanently established more plunderine
! win be practiced. Inasmuch as such plum.
sdering has been practiced with impunity
oha big scale, they win take 1t for granted
| that the people win concern themselves
very little about it. Such operations as A
| p. STONE and G.VoLNEY DORSEY have been
guilty of, rightfully, should consign to over
iwhelming defeat the partyto which they
/ may belong; and yet, comparatively speak
ing, these have been very small operations
in which the superfine patriots have indulg-
ed in the past four years. Never since civil
government was formed did such corrup-
tion characterize any party or ruling power
as has characterized the dominant party Of
this country throughout the war. So. fla
grant and SO outrageous was 1t even In, the
first year of the War, that Senator HALE,
\ am Abolition Senator from New Hampshire,
felt called upon to denounce 1t In scathing
terms. He declared it as his belief shat
the, liberties of this country are in greater
danger to-day from the corruption and
from the profigacy practiced in the various
departments of the Government than they
: are from the open enemy in the field" "
y Mr.. DAWES, Republican member Of the
lower House of Congress, from Massachu-
sets, and who was on the corruption in
vestigating Committee, in speech said that
"the gentlemen must remember that in the
first year. OF a Republican Administers
tion, which came into power upon profess
sions of retrenchment and reform, there is
indubitable evidence abroad in the land that
somebody has plundered the public treasu-
ry well nigh in that single year as much as
the entire current yearly expenses of the
Government during the administration
which the people hurled from power be-
cause of its corruption" A 10 os25'iai. j
This is good Abolition authority; and if
the plundering OF the Government was so
great during the first year of the War,
who can properly estimate its magnitude
d throughout the subsequent years of the
War To well-wisher of his country
nothing would seem to be so imperatively
demanded as thorough clearing out of the
party in power, for the purpose of arriving
at something like correct idea of the ex-,
tent to which the people have been plum
dered in the name of patriotism, and for the
purpose of completely doing away with
this corruption. -t.1.t
% General Cox, however, does not appear to
have got such notion into his head. He
proposes to have the Administration 90
along in the beaten track it has been run
ming for four years. To him there does not
appear 70 nave peen anything wrong IN thls
wholesale plunderfng, nor does he discover
any ln1ustlce In tnat system OF exemption
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'ny uoeS 'aiA aoou'' "a asiue lrom tne
Diessed M ' NEGRO wnom ne expects 10 elevate
70 an equality with the White man through |
Hthe logic Of events Is that's great seces-
sion sor conilict Is YET raging lie has not the
iace 70 say tnat the power oi tne iate inser-
gents Is not Icompletely orokenanddlspers-
ed; for that is fact SO patent that every.
body knows It; and everybody OF sense
knows that the southern people have not
the least expectation OF again engaging in |
Rebellion Their recent lesson is entirely 1
too decisive and too costly for them again |
to embark In such an enterprise. All they
now seek to do Is to mend their broken for
tunes, and to conduct themselves as faithtul
and dutiful citizens OF the United States.
In regard to these points, the evidence is
conclusive !; but Notwithstanding its con-
. IN r,lLx s..n;s.. .t .