Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-09-28
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Gus, cruel and savage, and refuses to work.
He is driven to the old cotton fields at the
point OF the bayonet. Mr.. Lincoln In his
reply to the Chicago divines said: "Gen.
Butler wrote me few days since that he
was issuing more rations to the slaves who
had rushed to him than to all the white
troops under his command. They eat, eat,
and that is dU." And SO 1t is with the i'm
mense population of negroes without con-
troll: they refuse to work. If the white peo-
pie of the South were permitted to resume
their rights, property, and occupations, and
the negro by apprenticeship, contract or
might, in ameasure, become productive and
aid the northern people in the payment Of
the public debt. .D'' ~ 'alq|9I ~
EXEMPTION OF STATE AND UNITED STATES
BONDS FROM TAXATION. 'i
But not only is the burden by this policy
increased and all probable means of allevi-
alton destroyed, but these leaders have ag-
gravated the public burthen still further
by the most unheard OF conspiracy against
the laboring Masses The working man
has controlled the financial peace establish
ment at home. To the hardship of the war
is to be added the exemption of the rich
from all the burdens of the war, "They
toll not, neither do they spin, and yet Solo
mon In all his glory was not arrayed like
one OF these" They fought not, they suf-
fered not, they bore noburdens. Their pat
riotism was alone tried In the l0aning of
money to the Government at seven per cent.
interest, payable semi-annually. And while
it was in their power, they forever exempt
ed all their 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 bill
lions of property taken from the tax dupli-
cate! OF this debt, as have shown, one
tenth is payable by Ohio. And as this
public debt is held by the nabobs through
out the country, it is reasonable to suppose
that citizens of Ohio hold a proportion of it
according to population, and that In Ohio
three hundred millions of property is in
vested in the bonds of the United States. So
that of the $l.006 69G, 116 valuation on the
tax duplicate. $500 100000 is to be deducted,
leaving only $700,000000 worth of proper
ty in Ohio to pay $400000,000 of debt and
$37,OO0,0O0 yearly interest and taxes. To
this lessehing of the tax duplicate must be
added about $2,000,000 of the Ohio Union
loan, held in Ohio, and exempted from tax
alton by act of the Republican Legislature.
The leaders have thus created for themselves
a privilege as eternal as the public debit
And while the bondholders control the elec-
tions, perpetuate themselves in power, and
grow richer, the man of moderate means
grows poor, and the poor grow more mis-
erable. .. '7 '. ".. 'l -...
1t is something to feel the humiliation of
all the outrages upon the laws and Consti-
tuition. But to realize that the blood of the
revolution is coined into huge bracelets for
shoddy bellies. and that each weary step af-
ter the plough, each weary stroke at the
anvil, each days eXhausting, muscle strain
ing, Is thrown away upon the riotous living
of the debauche and clownish aristOcrat, is
more than humiliation--is slavery-aye,
more than Southern negro slavery, for it
breaks the spirit that was free.
Be not deceived! Labor bears 1t all.
The consumer that is not the producer may
regulate his business to equalize his adj
ditional burdens, but the produce of the
country is at the mercy of the speculators.
All specific taxes and revenues and licen-
ses are paid by the former. They are
added to the selling price of the article.
The merchant the manufacturer, the Ii
censed dealer charge the people what the
Government levies on them. 'i
This power which has been exercised to
create moneyed aristOcracy does not ex-
ist in the National or State Constitution.
Neither Congress nor the Legislature OF
Ohio have the constitutional or legal pow
er to discriminate in favor of or against
one class OF property, andlauQh less for or
against the, property of one class of men.
Jackson slew the hydra of money power.
the enemy of republican goyernment-but
its bones have been imbued with new life
by its ancient coadjutors, and now its huge
proportions overshadow the people, and its
influence, If unrestrained, will drag the
States into the-vortex of supreme national
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