The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-09-20

the ballot IN the Distinct OF Columbia, as
the returned rebel whose hands are red
with the blood of Union soldiers y
@. 81 Will you be SO kind as to tell
us how much money you and the party
to which you belong voted to keep and
support the negroes in the South and
who pays the taxes for that purpose2 q
A. We voted for as much money for
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. Webaye been bless
ed with abundance of food in our ,coun-
try, and while enjoying the great bless
ing of Divine favor, we ought not, we
must not permit the poorof our country
to die Of starvation, y, And as to Who
pays those taxes, l can safely tsayrthat
those who pay least of them make the
most fuss about this benevolent, Chris
tian application ofthe 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 ?od
Al Ivoted to give the white soldier.
eight and one-third. dollars per month
extra bounty for every months service
rendered his country, and never aSsented
to any less sum; and if Secretary Nc
Culloch and the Executive Influence had
not un Sarrantablyl been thrust upon
Congress to break down the Bounty
bill it would have become law, and
every soldier Of three years service
would have had his three hundred dol
lars bounty, as the Union members
of the House unanimously voted they
should have, | voted that the widows
and orphans of soldiers should have, in
addition to the pension allowed, the
further sum of twenty-four dollars a
year for each child of such widow under
Sixteen years of age; and am glad to
tell you that is the law to-day. / voted
to give the soldier who has lost leg or
an arm an artificial one at public ex-
pense, and to give him free transporta-
ton to the nearest city where the same
can be obtained | voted to increase
the pension to wounded soldiers who
were so disabled as to he incapable of
labor, so that their pay should be equal
to their disability, l voted to take off
the restraint upon pensioners, who, by
former laws were deprived Of their pen
sion if they took office under the Gov
ernment; now soldier may be a village
postmaster or clerk at Washington
and receive his honest earnings as 9TH
ers do, and still receive his pension. In
fact, and the Union members of Con-
gress with whom / acted, stood by the
soldier, his widow and orphans, and by
all ways and means in our power ad-
vanced their interest; and if the laws
passed for their benefit are not so favor
able as desired, it is not the fault of the
Union members of the House of Repre-
sentatives, for we stood by the soldier
in everything, and the record of Con-
gress will prove every word | say
@. 5. How much land have you and
your party voted to the negroes, if any,
and how much to the white man--ex-
plain fully? -s------
A. TO enable the negroyto make his
living he must have land to work upon.
There were fifty millions of acres of un-
cultivated lands in the States of Ala
bama, Mississippi Arkansas, Louisiana,
and Florida, that have been in market
for a score ofyearsi of these lands the
negFo is permitted to select eighty acres
and make homesteads thereof BY al
law Of 1862, passed by the Union men-
bers s.of Congress, the white man is per-
mitted to select 100 acres of land and
make homestead thereof, and in this
selection he can go all over the United
States and Territories, aud wherever he
finds a quarter section of unappropriated
land of the Government that pleases
him, that is his by putting himself upon
it. But the negro can only range over
the five States / have named, thus re-
lieying the free States from the influx of
negro population and confning them to
those States where they were born and !
where they and the whites better un-
derstand each other. "laeaI Ht"i
@. 6. As you profess to be a great
friend of the soldier, will you explain
why,your services are so much more
valuable than theirs that you must have
IS, 900 per Year, and they only about
5000? Would it not have been, more
patriotic in you to have taken the 5000
you and your party voted the boys, and
give them IKE S2,000?t gray Fa s.'er r,rI
A. / did not vote to give the soldier
onehundred; Iyoted to give him three
hundred bounty. l did not vote to
raise the salary Of members to, $4,000
| was in Batavia when that vote was
taken; and if you will examine the rec
ord, you will find the Democrats in Con
gress the active engineers in reducing
the bounty and raising the salary 1t
was first introduced in the Senate by
Mr.. Riddle, Democratic Senator from
Delaware, and the vote upon it in that
body stood: l.w.tna. lrtlg n2i yc
Union ayes.gg VIA Union nays. .!.ll
Dem. "...', 9 Dem. g" -. 2
Total. . ......23 Total. .... ....13
So nine out Of the eleven Democrats
and Conservatives voted for the salary,
and but lone two against it; while four