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

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military communication poll tax Although
the authorities refused 10 further increase
the national guards, disbandcd conpanies
already formed, and did not need the mill.
tary services Of the people. They we're
taxed for not performing d forbidden duty.
The system Of militia duty which rcpellcd
the enemy at Cincinnati was not scientific.
and the new system cost the people not less
than S8, OOO,0 The legislation Of Ohio
IN form, and dictatorially by her authorities
manfcsts scene Of abandoned reckessness.
which can be accounted for, only upon the
theory that representation agency has be-
come drunken and besotted. Each DAYS
legislation costs the people at least $500. 90,
three months yearly costs $4j. OJO, four
years $500 The legislation Of this four
! years, with triiling exceptions, and if no
vested rights bad attached, might, with
/ proprety, be swept away at once. One
| hall OF the time consumed has been en-
| nloycd IN partisan trickery and buncombe.
/ lnfllng questions have employed the whole
energy Of the statesmen Of the legislature.
! Mix bills and bird bills and cattle running
at large, and vile instructions to congress,
and rancorous and defaming resolutions and
propositions have absorbed their attention.
4 But such frauds as that Of the Ohio and
] 'hh0y INdIId cdHdl hDIbn SJDJ.UDJ. nduueu
over tOTod, and portion of the Ohio canal
/ owned by the State and constructed by the
( people and worth 81, 600 600 donated TO the
city Of Cincinnati have been disregardcd un.
/ dcr circumstances that looked like positive
| bribery. Nothing but a substitution Of those
who have not mingled in the lcentious ex-
tfavagancc Of the war, as the agents Of the
people, will remedy these evils.
/ lhc DpODIc have already Maid and lost not
less than $4,000, 100, by this legislation OF
the Safe for the last four years. And by
the time the whole expense Of the war is
gathered up the State debt will not be less
than S2j, ,OJO,OJO and the yearly interest
s 300, 900. BY the lst of October, lo6G. -
( Add this to the national liability and the
whole debt which inevitably falls upon the
people Of the State will not be short Of
$500, 100000 principal and S2l 500, 900
interest and taxes exclusive Of this, Sl5,-
! 800 ,OO0 so that the yearly tax. in fact, is
S31 900, 900, and this is now the amount
paid by the people Of the State yearly to
State and national authorities. and will so
continue from year to year, and the princi-
pal of 5 S4O0, 600, 900 will remain unpaid for
ever. Or if it should be attempted to col
ect it, its payment requires SlI3, 90 of every
man, woman and child in Ohio. The total
value Of the property in Ohio is s l,OO6,
G9G, ,llG, so that all the property of the
State Is mortCaged to almost one-haf its
value to pay thi, enormous debt Horace
Greely, the chief disunionist Of the North,
truly says: The war has saddlcd US with
a debt that will take bread from the mouth
Of every laboring mans child for genera
tions and send millions hungry to bed. -
The people should not forget, also, that t.
collect the taXcsand revenues alarge amoun
2 will be econsumed in tolling it out for salarie
= and agents before it is applied to the pu,
t pose for which it is raised, and that if the
: keep the cOrmorants in power who have a
j ready robbed them, one half of all the take
: and revenues will never reach the treasury
TIE POLICY OF THE LEADERS AGGRAvAT
TIE EVIL.
, My ftllow-citizcns you see the magntud
Of the burden which is upon you, but tn
leaders of this public calamity are aggrayat
ing your misfortune. Though the war i
, over the whole brood of office holders We
tatten on their salaries. Military commits
) sions are spending large sums of the puGli
, money. The negroes are yet eating out
; like an army Of locuSts, your substance, anC
q standing army of200, 900 in the South ar,
increasing the burden. Confscation is put
ting the Southern farms into the hands o
spectators, for speculation and not to
agriculture, and the military establishment
remains in all its destructive magnitude. -
1t was said and we all thought that wher
the military power Of the South was brok
: en-, the war would end. But the Leaders
: had complicated the expectation with diff
culties and Instructions, and thus still tlut
t ter about the dissolved body Of the Cniol
| with harpy cries. General sherman knew
the heart Of the peopIe-knew they wanted
peace. He saw thatthe leaders ofthe Soutl
t were the influence which arrayed the peOpl
in hostility. That they had led them int
rebellion. That that influence could lea,
them back again. That their senates an
legislatures and public men could add ines
l timaby to the force Of the public retractio
j, Of their wrong, and the resumption Of thei
old condition. That their power bein!
; upon order. That they would immediatel.
= resume their place in the Union, and tina
not only would the public debt cease, bu
Y the productive soil Of the South would yiel,
= immense income to aid the people OF tn
D North. That speedy restoration of tn
e Union was the only hope Of the people Bu
e he was thwarted and the Union remains I'm
u restored and the public debt is increasin
u with frighttul rapidity. The system tina
= now prevails to keep the South in a stat
l. of helpless vassalage paralyzes and destroy
y the means of alienation. The Souther
i soil is the most productive in the Union. =
c In 1860 the exports from the Southern
States was $246, sos, ,3l3, and from th
: Northern States only 500, ,622, 297, being a
e excess in favor of the South of nearly $500,
u 600, 900. And during the forty years pre-
:, ceding 1860 the exports of the South wer
" S3,7lS,0 99l, and from the Norther
A States Sl,S3S, ,374, ,2Sl. The total amour
! of duty paid during the forty years by tn
l. South was S799, sos, 37S and by the Mort
1892, 500, 065. So that towards the suppol
q of the general government the South pai
n more than twice as much as the North, {
l. in the ratio off to 8, which applied to IL
al public debt would relieve the NortheI
81 States of two of the three billions of publ
n Indebtedness, and would relieve the State
Il Ohio of about $3.50, 100000, of the S4Ot
L. 600, 900 her proportion Of the public del
u But so long as the present leaders are
y power they say they will keep a, standi
n army over her and the negro population "
III be burden to the North. Now her citi
Sc are dismantled her fields are desolate, h
d mansions are tenantless a barbarous al
., useless population sleep among her ruin
y and stricken and nerveless people mou
hu in the ashes oi,heir homes. Fire and swo
ne have written her doom in vengeance,
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