Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-12

pressively taxed people in the world that
we were paying four times as much tax on
our real property as the English, whom we
had been in the habit of looking down upon
and calling poor, taX-ridden people; that 4
according to official report of the very men
who taxed us, we are actually paying taxes
to the amount of three and half per cent.
on every hundred dollars worth OF proper
ty-the bondholders not paying any. How
long, he asked, will this go along? With
one-fourth the property of the country in
their pockets, they pay none-not even to
repair the roads over which they ride, or
to build the schGol-houses in which their
children learn, or to even pay the soldier
who fought their battles. The Radicals are
preparing the way for Reputation. Let
them go on and, in no very long time, he
would not give snap of his finger for
their bonds. If bondhoIders want their
bonds paid, they must adopt Democratic
policy, and relieve the people. But no,
they adopt another course and expect to
dragoon the people by military dictators,
and we now see them appointing commit
tees to inquire if Maryland, the first of col
onies, and Kentucky, the land of Clay, are
republican in their form of Government
These things may be done if the blood of
the people is turned to water. If not, such
things cannot be long continued. But how,
he asked, are we to get rid of this mighty
debt with honor? For he wished no dis
honor in this thing. His remedy is not re-
pudiation. To hear them talk of the sanctity
Of obligations! Why they are the very
men who broke the sanctity of obli-
cations and violated the contract of our
fathers who, by the constitution, made the
currency of this country gold aud silver.
II they can supplant Civil Liberty and es-
tablish dictators through the length and
breadth of the land for all time, and keep
the people down at the point of the bayo-
net, very we'll; but otherwise the people
cannot bear up. The Radicals, by their
course, if not checked, will eventually
bring on Reputation. When any Gov
ernment takes too large proportion of the
peoples earnings, the masses must suffer.
But how, again asked the speaker, are we
to get rid of this tremendous debt? By
restoring the Union, opening the Southern
market, letting the country resume the
former relations of its various sections,
stop stealing, and practice economy.
Five hundred and siXty-eight millions
drawn from the Treasury last year. And
where did it go? Two hundred and fifty
millions for the War Department.. Sever
al other millions for Military Bureaus and
Re- construction schemes. Three hundred
and thirty-four millions more than before
it was deemed necessary to enfranchise the
black and disfranchise the white man. Our
fathers saw the danger, and provided
against it, of keeping a standing army in
time of peace. Look at Tennessee, contrast
the new method OF voting now, with the
time when white men peaceably deposited
their ballots. If these things are contin-
ued, standing army will be required
IT the people were left to do the
voting as peaceable, loyal people, it would
cut off nearly one-half the cost. Will it
be done? No. They are the men of pro-
gress; and we are the old fogies who talk
of Madison, Jefferson and the Constitution.
They want to keep up standing army to
crush out liberty. There is danger in the
magnitude of our still increasing debt.
Expenses can be vastly cut down. Aye,
but then we would not be blest with this
Radical incubus. These can be cut down,
first in the War Department; I'd, in tn
Military Bureau; 3rd, by equal taxation
4th, in stopping the making away with the
public domain and bestowing it upon cor
porators.
Perhaps, amongst all the outrages upon
the treasury, and all the schemes for their
own aggrandizement and retention in
power. perpetrated by the Radical Con-
gress, the giving away to three great rail-
road corporations OF 9O,OOO,OO acres of land,
and $4,000 in bonds per mile-the forcing
of an Indian war for the benefit of said
companies-and the appropriating of the
public money for electioneering purposes
in the South, and supporting Radical pa
pers there-were the most astounding to
the people and the most damaging to the
criminals in their hopes of still bamboo
zling the people. The right of way across
our broad domain, given without one cent
of cost, by our Radical rulers, not to one,
but to three roads, the 90,0OO,000 of
acres, and the $4,000 per mile
for every mile that may be
built, is certainly very nice fortune for
members of Congress to vote themselves.
Well might Senator Wade take trip over
the Plains to view the untold wealth he had
voted himself; for, although Judge Thur
man did not even hint personality in his |
speech, the people are not so utterly blind |
or needless as not to see that Congressman
are the hea West stock owners. When the |
honorable gentleman had directed the at
lation in the lands given to the railroad |
companies, (for, be it remembered, such
corporations are without souls, and are not !
bound to sell this land to settlers |
at the Government price of dollar and a
quarter per acre. and assured his hearers
that there was mighty shaking in the dry
bones by reason of the great change in the
minds of the people, and that enough of the
people of Ohio who heretofore voted the
Radical ticket, are now convinced to carry
the State by fifty thousand majority in Oc
tober, if they act on their honest convic-
tion, he resumed his seat.
Then followed a most able discussion of
the question of Negro Suffrage in Ohio, by
the Hon. j. H Putnam, and nice and telling
little speech by Col. Moore, of Portsmouth,
when the meeting adjourned, every one
delighted with the days pro-
ceedings. THOMAS.
New Light.
The recent Radical Senatorial Conven-
ton for the counties of Fairfield, Hooking
and Athens held at Logan, adopted the fol- |