Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-10-09

land! That the Union shall not be restored
Whatsays General Cox, the distinguished
standard-bearer of the Republican party,
lie says that the Union shall not be re.
stored. What that the Union shall not bC
restored, and yet he calls himself Unior
man. That the Union shall not be restored!
| why not? Because the white people of the
South declare that the negro is unfit fol-
citizenship. - r-THt 1r
A WORD TO BOND HOLDERS. av,
| And suppose that the Union is not re-
stored, who are to be the sufferers? Is the
South alone to suffer? Citizens. do you own
Government bonds? Yes. Then listen,
and having listened reflect. Above all men
III the North, you are the men most inter-
ested In the immediate restoration of the
Union. Why? Because If the Union is
notrestored your bonds will not be worth
fifty cents on the dollar twenty-four hours
after the Southern members have been re-
fused seats on the floors of Congress.
Why? Because public confidence will
receive a shock which will put your
bonds in jeopardy. Why? Because
if order and law and right are
not restored in the South, the Southern
country will go uncultivated, and the North
and West can not and will not. uuaided, bear
the burthen of taxation. DO you under
stand, citizens, that the taxpayers of the
North and West want the South to aid
them in bearing the burthens OF the Gov
ernment, to help pay your interest money,
and II you prevent the South from giving
that aid may there not be danger that the
taxpayers ofthe North will stop paying un-
til you allow the Southern cotton fields to be
once more put under cultivation, so that
they may contribute to bear their propor-
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VALUE OF THE COTTON INCOME.
The latest intelligence from the South
tells us that the Southern planters are not
cultiyating the soil. Why not? Because
they do not know who the crop will belong
to when it is cultivated. Is there course
strange? Would you work, provided you
knew that another person was to receive
the profit of your labor? No, you would
not. Then you are like the people of the
South. or-t.,. ,
Now, let us consider what we are losing.
In 1860 the South produced, and can again
produce, every good season, two million
bales OF cotton, at an average of five hund-
red pounds to the bale. Very well. Cot
ton Is now worth fivty cents per pound,and
onethousand million pounds would produce
an income of five hundred million dollars.
Now, sir, if you, by your vote and influence,
prevent the creation of that immense in-
come. and thereby exclude five hundred
million dollars from taxation, and thereby
throw that additional burden on the tax
payers OF Ohio and other Western States,
do you suppose that they will submit to it,
and more espe, tally when they are COM
PEELED to pay, not only their own taxes, but
yours into the bargain?
assure you, citizens, this subject is not
unworthy OF your reflection.
TAX ON BONDS.
Then, i say to you, citizens, that it will
not only not do to reduce the Southern
States to the condition that Russia holds
Poland; that Austria holds Hungary, and
that England holds Ireland. | say to you
that you must not only give to the Southern
States what the Constitution guarantees to
them-Republcan forms of Government
but you must do more; you must pay your
own taxes just like other men. All, you
say you don't like that. Indeed tell me,
did you ever know a man who did like to
pay taxes? No. Then, If not, upon what
principles do you expect the people to be
willing; not only to pay their taxes, but
your taxes into the bargain? Oh, but you
say it was a contract. Was it? Suppose
that on your way home tonight you should
be assailed by robber, who not only sought
to take your property, but who threatened
your very life and neighbor should come
along and you should call aloud, ",help!
help" and your neighbor should approach
and say =: Friend, l. will make contract
with you. If you will agree to pay my taxes
forever, and l admit they are large, why, L
will aid you but if you do not, you must
die like dog" To save your property and
life, you agreed; but would you feel bound
by such contract? No. Why not? Be-
cause your neighbor only did what the law
required him to do--what good citizenship
required him to do, and when he took ad-
vantage of your necessities to force you to
take such contract, he did that which was
against public policy, and, therefore, the
contract was void. ~ ~'s -.s
So, too, mwth the bondholder. Our
country was in death-struggle. She re-
quired money. Without money the Gov
ernment must perish, and the Union be de-
stroyed. The money lender came and said,
rUncle Sam, see that you will die unless
lend you some money; but Uncle, 1 won't
let you have the money unless for every
fifty dollars in gold that 1 lend you, you
will give me your bond for hun
dredd dollars, and agree to pay
me seven per cent interest eon the
whole amount in gold. And that is not all,
Uncle, but you must agree that your chill
dren shall pay my taxes and my children's
taxes forever" Well, Uncle Sam, rather
than die, makes the contract. Think you,
eitizens, that such a contract should bind
Uncle Sans children? l think not, and
1t will be well for ,you to remember, citi-
zens, that Uncle Sans boys are all voters.
+ These suggestions are thrown out in
spirit of kindness, and trust that between
this and the election day you may have
leisure to reflect upon them.
NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
The next leading issue In the canvass is
the question Of Negro Suffrage. The fun
damental dogma of the LEADERS of the Re-
publican party is that all men are created
equal without regard to race, climate or
color. They claim that the HOttentot is
equal to the German, that the East Indian
is equal to the Englishman, and that the
African Is equal to the American. And to
sustain. thisdogma they quote the Declara-
tion of Independence. To disprove the
theory of General Cox and his colleagues,
it is only necessary to say that the Declara-
tion of Independence referred exclusives
ly to the European race; that the men
who framed e 1t held negroes
as property, and the Convention
which formed the Constitution not only.
recognized negroes as property, but author
lied their Importation from Africa until
1908. 1t is absurd, then, to say that the
trainers of those great instruments declar-
ed negroes to be the equals OF the white
man. But General Cox SO holds; and in his
speech at Oberlin, according to the report
declared that he branded with falsity the
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