The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-09-13

hVSIO' VIM hNi iouBnC Infee years Tor
the Union, is rs safe to trust with the
ballot in the District CT Columbia as
the white traitor who fought three
years in the rebel army, and | have
not found loyal white man in this
country who is not Of like opinion
And further, the negroes of the Dis.
trct of Columbia are not the stupid,
ignorant, degraded creatures that GER
tain negro hating politicians would
represent them. They numbered in
1860, about 15,00Oi they had taxable
property amounting 10 one and a
quarter millions; they have twenty, one
Christian churches, costing twenty -one
thousand dollars annually, with 1900
members; they have twenty two Sun
day Schools and over 1000 children
attending regularly; they support
thirty.three day schools, with over
1000 scholars: and they lake, pay for
and read 400 daily newspapers
Such are the people l have said are as
safe to be trusted with the ballot in tie
District of Columbia as the returned
rebel whose hands are red with the
blood OF Union soldiers.
Q. 3, Will you be so kind as to tell
us how much money you and the par
ty to which you belong voted to keep
and support the negroes in the South,
and who pays the taxeS for that pur-
pose?
A. We voted as much money fer
said purpose as in the hands of good
and faithful men would prevent the
starving poor of the South, white or
black from dying of hunger. We have
been blessed with abundance of food
in our country, and while enjoying the
greatest blessing by Divine favor, we
ought not, we must not permit the
poor of our country to die of starva-
tion. And as to who pays those taxes,
l can safely say that those who pay
least OF them make the most fuss about
this benevolent, Christian application
of the very little that is thus turned TO
charitable uses by feeding the hungry
and clothing the naked.
@. 4. How much money have you
voted for the benefit-of the poor white
soldiers, their widows and orphans?
A. voted to give the soldier eight
and one-third dollars per month extra
bounty for every months service rem
dcred his country, and never assented
TO any less sum; and if Secretary
McCulloch and the Executive inhu.
ence had not unwarrantably been
thrust upon Congress to break down
the Bounty bill it would have become
u law, and every soldier of three years
service would have had his three hun.
dred dollars bounty, as the Union
members of the House unanimously
voted they should have. i voted tha,
the widows and orphans of soldiers
should have, in addition to tho pen
sion allowed, the further sum of TWEEN
ty-tour dollars year for each child o.
such widow under sixteen years o.
age; aid am glad to tell you that it
the law to-day. l voted to give the
soldier who has lost a leg or an arm
an artificial one at public expense, ant
TO give him free transportation 10 the
nearest city whore the same can be OBJ
tained. | voted TO increase the pen
sion to wounded soldiers who were 81
disabled as to be incapable of labor, 81
that their pay should be equal to thci
disability. L voted to take off the re
straint upon pensioners who, by for
meT laws were deprived CT their pen
sion ii they took Office under the Gov
ernment; now soldier may be vii
lage postmaster or a clerk at Washing
ton and receive his honest earnings a.
others do, and still receive his pension
ln fact, and the Union members 0
Congress with whom | acted, stood b,
tho soldier, his widow and orphans
and by all ways and means in ou
power advanced their interest; and
the laws passed for their benefit ar
not so favorable as desired, it is not th
fault of tho Union members of tn
House of Representatives, for we stoo,
by tho soldier in everything, and th
record of Congress will prove evcr
word ! say.
/ O. 5. How much land havo yor
and your party voted to the negroes
! if any, and how much TO tho whit
man-cxplain fully?
/, A. To enable the negro 10 make h
t living he must have land to work W
| on. There were fifty millions of acre
c of uncultivatcd lands in the State {
o Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Lor
isiana and Florida, that have been i
x market for score of years; of thes
], lands the negro is permitted to seleC
t eighty acres and make homestead
# thereof. By n law of 1862 passed b
s tho Union members Of Congress, Ii
: white man is permitted to select IL
+ acres of land and make a homestea
thereof, and in this selection he can 2
y all ovor the United States and Ton
Q tories, and wherever he finds q quartz
c section Of unappropriated land OF II
l. Government that pleases him, that
his by putting himself upon it. Bl
Q tho negro can only range over the tiy
n States have named, thus relieving til
o free STATES from the influx of neg
is population and confning them to thos
is States where they were born and whe
10 they and the whites better understar
7, each other.
Is Q. 6. AS you profess to be gre
y friend of tho soldier, will you expla
j. why your services are so much mo
10 valuable than theirs that you mu
N have $4,000 per year, and they on
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