Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-28
Have we no Reason to give
Thanks?

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call to preach politics of the Radical per-
suasion, in place ofreligion, in announcing
on Sunday last that there would be Divine
service at his church on to-day, in order to
give thanks, naively remarked that he did
not exactly see what we had to give thanks
for as nation and people.
We think the preacher was not well in
have more cause to rejoice and to give
thanks on this particular Thanksgiving
Day than for years past.
The nation has just emerged from war,
ostensibly waged to save the Union, but SO
far as the Union was concerned.it was not a
success, for the men In power did that
which war could not do, so severed it as to
leave ten States out in the cold. - -
At the late election, the war tor the Union
gave rich promise of glorious success
In every State where elections were held,
the Disunion Radicals were either badly.
whipped or the large majorities of which
they boasted, so cut down as to render it
somewhat doubtful If the Radicals have a
single State LETT which it would do to bet
on. The States of Connecticut, California,
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, swept
from them, are more than sufficient. with
the other Democratic States, to ensure the
success of Democratic President at the
election next fall. --4-.. s-=-==--
Beating Radicalism in its strong hold
reasserting by the votes of the people that
this is a White mans Government to be
ruled by White men, is alone sufficient to
make the people give thanks.
The defeat of BEN. WADE for United
States Senator from Ohio-an office that he
has disgraced by his votes and his speeches
makes two-thirds of the people of Ohio
| rejoice, and If the men who preach politics
in the pulpits of Ohio to-day forget to rem
der thanks for this great triumph, the peo-
pie will remember it and govern them
selves accordingly. -Ek
The rule of Radical disunion is fast ap-
preaching its end. Its days will now be
short and full of trouble. The Republic is
no longer doomed. The better days are fast
approaching, when the Constitution will
again be the supreme law of the land, and
the bond OF disunion knaves, who have fed
and fattened on the public crib-stealing,
as Mr.. DAWES said, more in one single year
of the war than was sufficient to support
the Government any one year during
Democratic rule-wilI end by their ejec-
tion from office and honest men be made to
take their places. For this the people will
be thankful and will rejoice.
But above all things, will they be thank
full that the time is fast approaching when
the rule of Radicalism ending, the people
in every part of the Republic, and in eve
ry dwelling throughout the length and
breadth of the land, can sing that most SUBJ
lime of all songs, first sung by an angel
choir, upon the birth of our Savior, "Glory
to God on the Highest-on Earth Peace
and Good Will to Men," as their anthem of
praise for Republic saved and Union
preserved.
For these and for the other blessings
which the year has brought forth-for the
pestilence which has been stayed and the
general health that during the year has
pervaded the land-for the promise that
seed-time and harvest shall never fail-for
the discontinuance, in great measure, of
stump speeches in the pulpit, and the incul-
cation of hate, where there should be love
between man and his fellow man, by those
who profess the doctrines of the Prince of
Peace, we this day give our thanks to Him
to whom all thanks are due.
Greenbacks, Like Bonds, not
Taxable.
In the case of FARAN g. MCLEAN u.s. the
Treasurer of Hamilton County, suit to
restrain the collection of tax on sgreen-
backs" to the amount of about $4,000, it
was held by Judge SToRER in the Supreme
Court, on Wednesday, that under the act
of March 8, 1853, and the thirtieth section
of the act OF June 80, 1868, taken in con-
nection with the joint resolution of the
Congress of the United States, but one re-
suit could be arrived at, namely: That it
was the intention of those who enacted
these laws to exempt from taxation, not
only the bonds, but the Treasury notes,
and the demand notes; and where these
special Government obligations were in the
hands of the owner, it was decided thai
they were not taxable.
In commenting upon this decision, the
Cincinnati Enquirer, whose proprletors were
plaintiffs in the suit, says:
'Now, Notwithstanding the law, and the
decision of his Honor are pecuniarily in
our favor,we unhesitatingly pronounce the
laws which make this distinction in favor
of greenbacks and United States bonds all
wrong, and they should be repealed as
speedily as possible. 1t was not with the
object of evading the payment of taxes
that the Enquirer Company brought this
action. They wanted to place the facts be-
fore the country in the shape of a decision
by the Courts. We intend to run against
this odious class legislation until not only
greenbacks are taxed, but until every 9TH
er form of Government promise to pay
shall bear its equal portion of the public
expense"
Specie Payments.
The New York Chamber of Commerce
has declared itself in favor of an early re-
sumption of specie payments.