Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-30

saints.
HON. JOSEPH HOLT.
There was, another member of Buchan-
ans Cabinet, man who. after Lincoln's
election, wrote one of the strongest letters
that ever fell from the pen of man. .'denoun-
cling the Republican party and these very
Radicals especially. That man was Joseph
Holt. After, a while an office was formed
called the Bureau of Military Justice, and
they wanted man at the head of that to
set aside courts, set aside civil processes, to
try, convict and hang men by military COM
missions, organized, to convict. Joseph
| Holt was found TO be the man, and so he
turned sommersault and landed in the
Radical ranks, and now he is Saint Joseph
Holt. 1,,,,-- ....,.....-.,
| 49,. - A NAMELESS MAN. ---
| Now there is still another man. I might
go on and name him. but as promised You
would only name the big fish, will let
the little ones go. s -4.it es .uaaets
THE NAN WHO SAW VISION.
There was still another man, not beauti-
4 full by any means, not comely to look at
and his moral and mental nature was no
more beautiful than his physical appear
ance. He was man who, in the Charles
/ ton Convention, voted fifty-one times to
make JEFF. Davis President of the United
States, lwho split when that convention
split, and who, when the war threatened
4 to break ont, was the loudest in denounc-
| ing Abolitionists and Radicals. But one
night he shut those cross-eyes of his and
went to sleep, and he had vision, vision
OF mighty spoon that was to be got down
I South, laughter and applause, and he
Joined that party, and now he is Saint
Benz. F. Butler. Renewed laughter
But, my friends, in that old church which
canonized the saints it has been rule for
more than thousand years never to canon
lie any one until one hundred years after
his death, in order that, free from passion,
/ from prejudice and false testimony, SOL
emn, earnest, and truthful Judgment might
be passed upon his character but in this
Radical church they do not require one
hundred seconds to canonize a.saint.
| - I. ANOTHER SAINT SOUTH. f.-4--t
! Here, them: we have another Saint Jo-
seph, a man who, after Stonewall Jackson,
was called the fighting man of the South !;
aud when these Radicals go around and
say: "Are you going to pardon these peo-
pie who shed sthe blood of your sons and
your brothers down there" ask them who
! shed the most blood, who was the fighting
man that shed the most, and history an
swers, Gen. Joseph Longstreet. But now
General Longstreet has came out a quasi
| half-and-half Radical; and General Hayes,
! in his first speech this campaign, gives him
full absolution, and he is received into the
Saint Joseph Longstreet. [Laughter.]
| n9 aa JEFF DAVIS. -'i4
But affirm this day if poor old jeff Da-
Wis, with his half dying body 10 Canada,
and the skeleton of a man, Were tomorrow
to come out on the Radical side he would
be Saint Jefferson Davis before the sun
went down. Laughter
-..-,'i 80. APPLICATION. leo
Now. my friends, / am sorry we have
had to talk so long on these matters, but as
they have challenged us to go into the past,
| have seen fit to do so, and now, when
they come round asking you what your
men said, do you ask them, "What did
your big men say, what did your President,
your Chief Justice, your Secretary of War,
your General Butler, your Judge Advocate
Holt, and others say to the South? Did or
did they not, under the obligations of their
official oaths, tell the people of the South,
you have right to shake off this govern
ment and.set up one for yourselves?'" 'Un-
til they can defend their own men, don't let
them ask us to defend ours. If they insist
upon oul removing the mote in our own
eye, say to them, First remove the beam
in your own eye."
= -r.rr- -I.f-i FINANCIAL. 3, ser .5I
come now, though with comparative
breviGy, to some, other topics-some that
concern us great deal more than this his
tory that i have been over. And. first, I
have TO speak of the financial condition of
the cOu. try. dHials vtn 10 .I.ia
You all can remember, even the younp-
est, almost, of these little boys that sit be-
tore me, can remember when we used to
pride ourselves upon the fact that we were
the least indebted, and the most lightly
taxed people on the face of the globe. Every
Fourth of July orator called upon you to
render your thanks to your forefathers who
Rrif ifoin nd
one of them, when ,congratulating you on
the free institutions you had, and the free
dom you enjoyed, also took care to con-
trastfyour lightly taxed and little indebted
condition0with the heavily taxed and mon
strously5 indebted condition of the old
mother country. Then you were told what
a glorious thing it was for you that you
had got rid OF poor, indebted, tsx-ridden
Great Britain. What is the condition now?
Great Britain has subject to her SWAY
thirty-six1 millions of people within the
limits of o the British Isles, and in
India and !. her colonies two. hundred
millions more, making two hundred
and thirty-siX millions that bow to
her scepter.Ii aCShe owes debt
of four thousand millions of dollars. We
have thirty one millions of people, two
hundred and five millions less than Great
Britain; and we owe, according to Mr..
Thaddens Stevens, between four and five
mll1lOnS VI -uOlldTS. w 1Cn Two
hundred and odd millions less population
than she, has, we owe as much as she does
to the great leader of the Radi-
cal party. According to the official re-
turns of the Treasury we owe an audited
debt. of two Thousand five hundred mil
lions, and have seen no man, who made
the least pretense to veracity, who has es-
timated our whole debt at less than three
millions. AS / have said to you,
Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens says that it is be-
tween four and five thousand Millions
But take it as three thousand millions, and
we owe more this moment than any equal
number of mankind. Now that is only
the debt of the General Government. If
you add to that the debt of the States and
the counties, of the towns and the villages,
TO say nothing of the debt of railroad cor
porations and other great corporations,
but only the Government debt, and you
owe more than Great Britain, and far
more than any other equal number of
mankind. The value of the property
Of Great Britain, real and person
al. within the British Isles, is estimated at
thirty-onesthousand millions. of dollars
Her annual taxation is three hundred and
tifty -four millions. We have a property,
real and personal, estimated at fourteen
thousand millions, not one-half the value
of the property of Great Britain, and we
draw from the pockets of the people five
and sixty additional millions of
dollars a year; with less than half the
that Great Britain has, we draw
almost twice the amount of taxes, or two
hundred millions more taxes than she
does. 9,t' ai -TI1HH.a 'aET iJ
Again, let us try it another way. By
the official report of the Secretary of the
Treasury the rate of taxation in Great.
Britain on the hundred dollars is ninety
cents. The rate of general taxation by
our Government alone is three dollars and
cents on the hundred dollars;
that is, on every hundred dollars more than
four times the rate of taxation in England.
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