The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1866-05-26
ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS OE
DOLLARS STOLEN LAST YEAH

ONE HUNDRED MILLIONS OE
DOLLARS STOLEN LAST YEAHgs
| Every one remembers how prodigiously
and by the wholesale, Republicans stole,
robbed and plundered the Government
lduring the early portion of the war; the
millions of dollars of frauds, peculation
and swindles, brought to light by Con-
gressional committees; how men IN high
! places became rich by the most unblush-
ling rascalities-in contracts, supplies,
tships, &c, furnished to the Government
l-rascalities so enormous and widespread,
of 50 colossal and gigantic a character as
to awaken in the minds Of many doubt
{ whether the rebels in army were more to
be dreaded by the American people than
the horde Of sharks and laaa pirates who,
in the name of loyalty. we're growing richh
by taking advantage Of the necessities aud
lmisfortunes Of country suffering the
i pangs Of the most terrible civil war the
world ever saw. The newspapers teemed
with columns of figures, statistics. and
facts of the most startling nature, and
even the corrupt and fmereenary men,
composing the majority Of Congress were
! compelled to investigate certain matters,
and find a few scape- goats for popular rep
rotation
The war went on and perpetual stealing
and thieyiRg marked its progress. It re-
Ially seemed as though Government select
ed for its officials, its trusted agents, its
counselloEs and soldiers, all the knaves
and rascals in the land. Cabinet officers,
generals, treasury agents, collectors, tide
walters, all plunged their arms to the ell.
i boys in tie Government treasury, and
fattened on their ill-gotten plunder The
war was the very carnival-time of roguerY.
i But the war il oyer For almost a
/ and tumult and strife, of battle-feIds red
dened with the life blood Of Americans
shed by Americans have not been heard
in the land, and returning peace had re
stored, it was hoped, the old order of
things when men were honest, or, atleast,
not dishonest by wholesale. Therefore,
though knowing the rascals to be thor
euehly dishonest. we thought they you'd
g assume virtue if they had it not and
strive to forego their +" pickings and steal
lings" from fear of detection, now that
public attention was no longer engrossed
with the absorbing interest Of q grim-vis-
aged war" Judge, then, of our surprise,
on reading, a few days since, the startling
announcement that investigations had dis
closed the fact, that the Treasury of the
United States has been defrauded of more
than one hundred millions Of dollars dur
ing the past year! and further, that these
: frauds had been mostly perpetrated at the
| South by the military and civil officials
of the Federal Government, petty Massa-
ehusetts and New England Radical poll
lticians. who had been placed Ia positions
of emolument and profit in consideration
of services rendered the Administration
il-loyal pap-suekers who could take the
test oath and domineer over the conquer
ed citizens of the South-pensioned
!, hounds. every one of whom is to-day an
Iopponent of reconstruction, and in favor
of retaining the States Of the South in q
position of yassalage and inequality, the
! better to enable them to continue their
careers of shameless robbery. q
i It is high times these rascals and tbe
f party which upholds them was driven
from power. The Republican party was
conceived in corruption, grew up in infa-
my and crime, and its course has been
one continued scene of usurpation, rob-
, berry and murder
i 0NE HUNDRED MILLIONS OF Dol
LARS Think Of it, workingmen, meehan-
les, farmers and laborers, groaning and
4 sweating under the burdens of a calling
and gri6Tops system of taxation-etrug-
Cling and toiling in and out of season
giving up so large portion of your earn
ings to the tax-gatherer-you are fur
nishing, by your muscle and labor, your
taxes, the material or money for these
knayes to riot with. Pleasant, isn't it,
hard handed, hard working man Nice
| to think Of, in your humble home, at your
: forge or workbench, in your place Of
business or about the labor of your farm ?
One hundred millions Of dollars There
was a time, reasoning, thinking man,
! when you enjoyed the blessings Of 4 gov
i ernment where hard, metallic currency
i was the circulating medium when you
. were free from stamp duties, and the visit
Il Of Federal tax-gatherers, and there was
no national debt--when you possessed
fpeacc, prosperity, and brotherly love at a
! cost of many millions less year than is
now stolen from the Government admin
istered by Republican hands! That,
however was in the good old Democratic
8 days, before shoddy loyalty and ABOLITION
patriotism were the controlling Influences.
: Shall We ever see the return of that bless
g ed, that truly good time fla Crosse
I Democrat.