Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-07-12

Chase and Greeley, 80 that history anu pos
terity may get the truth at last.
The New York Aerald's IDdIct.
lnent Of che Republican Party.
The Ne,o York Herald OF Monday thus in
diets the Republican party:
"As represented by the Radicals In the
present Congress its policy Is complete
contradiction of its platforms and pledges.
Started as Union party, it has now be-,
come the party of disunion. Originally op-
posed to slavery, 1t now attempts to impose
Northern slave drivers upon the negroes,
who were freed, not by proclamations or
politicians, but by the armies of General
Grant. More than this, 1t maintains that
anomalous institution. the Freedmen's Bu-
reau, for the benefit Of agents and officials,
at o vast expense to the Government, and
connives at cruelties which, according to
the reports of Generals Steedman and Full
lerton, exceed any ever praCtised by South
ern slaveowners. Promising financial re-
forms and an economical administration Of
the Government, it Is more corrupt than
any other party that ever gained pow
er. Where Democratic politicians stole
thousands of dollars the Republicans have
stolen millions. Under their gross mis-
management during the war five dollars
were wasted for every dollar necess irily
expended. The people could have endured
| this with patience, however; for no price
| Is too great to pay for the Union. But not
only does the public plundering continue,
| now that the war Is over, but the Union, for
| which we have paid so dearly In blood and
treasure, is not restored. On the contrary,
the President, whom the Republicans elect
ed anG whom the Republican Congressman
vowed before the people to sustain, is now
denounced as traitor and prosecuted with
the utmost malignancy for persisting In the
work of restoration and for vetoing the
| Congressional jobs. During the present
session alone Congress has engaged in
| transparent swindles amounting to over
| two hundred and fifty millions Of dollars.
The Infamous Freedmen's Bureau bill,
which the President vetoed, would have
| disposed OF fifty millions, and another
| bill of the same character, appropriatlng
| six millions, Is now presented. Ben Wade's
| Montana job, also vetoed, gave twenty-five
millions to a party of grasping specula-
tors. The national banks are presented
with bonus of thirty millions, drawn
from the pockets of the laboring men,
| Jay Cookies consolidation scheme involved
| a job of forty millions. Twenty millions
are to be bestowed upon the contractors
for building Mississippi levees, if the ur-
gent appeals Of the Radical organs are
needed. Jobs In regard to Mexico footing
| up from twenty to fifty millions, are already
proposed-ope of them by Mr.. Thad. Ste
Yens himself.>~The Internal Revenue bill,
The tariff bill, now under debate, takes from
thirty to forty millions from poor laboring
men TO make manufacturers more wealthy.
Some of its provisions are obviously in
tended to increase the prices of stocks of
goods on hand, and others are openly ac-
knowledged to be designed for political et-
feet in Pennsylvani4. Such corruption is
unparalleled, and will be followed by an
unprecedented revulsion in politics.
1--WE have given the Indictment against
the Republican party somewhat in detail:
but the issues of the next election may be
generally expressed in two phrases: the
reconstruction of the Union and financial
reform. A party that excludes eleven
States from the Union when we have sacri-
feed so much to bring them back into the
Union; that legislates for monopOlies and
against the working classes; that aug
ments the taxes and spends the revenue in
jobs, and that increases the tariff In the face
of an income of six hundred and twenty
millions of dollars, cannot retain power In
oppose it for its disunionism; the Demo-
Gratis denounce it for its corruption, and
even such ultraists as Wendell Phillips in
dignantly repudiate it, because it is turn
ing its pseudo philanthropy to the basest
partisan and pecuniary aggrandisement."
Unfortunately for the country, this in
dictment is a true bill, How can people
who have any regard for their material in
terests, vote to retain in power party, the
Representatives of which have so shame
fully legislated9 Since in power, accord
ing to this indictment, the managers and
directors and Representatives of the Re-
publican party, have, through one device
and another, plundered the people most
outrageously. Be it remembered, the Her.
aid for five years has done faithful service
for the Republicans.