The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-09-16

try, has issned a pamphlet
on the subject. He is one of those who
consider the national debt o great ben
efaction. He has labored to prove to
US that a debt of three thousand mil
lions is an inestimable national bless
ing. At this rate, let us double the
debt, make it six thousand millions, and
what an enormous blessing it would be
Applause remember something oi
the circumstances of this Jay Cooke
Hewas an editor. SO was i, so was
Morris here, and so was Lawrence. We
know what the business means and
pays. 1t was hard work and poor pay
all the week, and when Saturday night
came we were surprised and glad, II we
had the funds on hand to square up to
date. From such position, Jay Cooke,
not worth two stiyers, was taken by
Salmon P. Chase, aDd placed in charge
of the bond business. This very man,
who few years ago was almost IKE
Lazarus, in poverty and rags and
wretchedness, is now like Dives, rolllng
in luxury and wealth. He has built
for himself palace which mocks IN
splendor the baronial- structures OF the
middle ages, upon whose erection the
wealth and muscle and blood and bone
of a whole people were often exhausted.
1t surpasses the splendid creations OF
Walter Scott in reality, in magniticence,
in richness and in beauty. 1t rivals the
grand edifices that sprang into beaute-
Gus being under the magic touch of the
Genii of the Arabian Nights. 1t repro
dpees all that was wonderful and
costly in those magic palaces
of the Orient and makes fact of
the dazzling splendors and artistic
glories of Eastern fable. BY the side of
his magnificent residence he has built
for his personal and private use, a
splendid church, mating in elegance,
beauty aud richness with the building
near which it stands, and within the
walls of this shining temple, consecra-
ted by Mammon as o compromise with
God, he daily offers thanks to the Most
High, that "a national debt has been
an unlimited blessing to Jay Cooke"
Applause Upon an island in Lake
Erie, he has expended fabulous sums in
and improvements. Every
thing that wealth can Contribute to the
qualification of taste has been provided.
He has made made that island as lovely
as fairy garden, but the poor fisher
man attracted to the spot may view it
only at distance, should he venture to
land prosecution for tresspass awaits
him. Thus was your national debt ere
ated, and to such man as Jay Cooke
it may we'll be regarded as benefit
and a blessing. Mr.. YallandighaR,
speaking of the Radical purpose TO in
crease, rather than diminish the debt,
referred to the effect of great indebted
ness upon free government. He found
in it, "a tendency to build up an aristoc-
racy and enslave the laboring classes.
For this reason, he argued, the Radicals
were indisposed to lessen the load OF the
national debt. The Democrats, on the
other hand, desired the debt paid as g
means of relief TO the government and
and as a source of safety to our liber-
ties.
TIE CORRUPTIONISTs.
The debt, lie showed, breeds cor
ruption and dishonesty. Men now
seek office for money, and the man
who asks position with such a
motive is born thief. Said he, have
always favored high salaries. Low
ONES will either exclude the poor man
from office entirely or they Will tempt
him to steal. Honest, poor men, cannot
hold positions when the salaries are
small. nuu they fall either into the
: anao of the rich who can afford to be
who take them for the stealfngs. The
state of things in Washington confirms
this view. There corruption fairly boils
and bubbles, villainy stalks through the
high places of the nation, and office
holding scoundrcls gather and gorge
upon public plunder, like buzzards upon
their reeking prey. These men and the
are hostile to the redemp-
tion of the debt. Such characters have
lived before. When the Apostles were
turning the world upside down, Just as
Pendleton and Thurman and Vallandig-
ham are now said to be doing. Laugh
ter, they went to Efphesus and
preached against the worship of idols.
A certain gentleman named Demetrius
denounced their doctrines most vigor-
ously. He was engaged in the image
making business; the Apostles were
running his trade, and he gathered to-
gether his fellow-craftsmen to insist
with more earnestness than gentleness,
that the worship of idols must not be
They cried Or ieats
"Diaua of the Ephesians," just as the
beneficiaries of the bond-holding and
plunder stealing business are now cry
ing out ga national debt is q national
[Applause.l
The speaker next compared the .ex-
penditures of the several Departments
of the Government at present with
similar expenditure under aiDemocratic
rule. The Department of the Interior
under Democratic Administration cost
81 900 900; now it costs S25;000, 600.
Tie Civil Service appropriation footed
up S25, ,060, 90, it now reaches S43, ,O00, ,0OG.
The Navy which formerly cost 81 ,0OO.-
900, now costs S63,O00,00 Tae army,
whose expenses under the last Demo
cratic President were $l5, 100000 now
amount to S2s4, 100000. Arguing from
this contrast the propriety of re-instat-
ing the Democrats in power, Mr.. Val
spoke nextOf the debt due
the soldier and their heirs.
PENSIONS, BoUNTIEs AND BACK PAY.
l, who opposed the war-not because
was not Union man, but because
saw in the. war, nothing but disunion
and the destruction of our liberties-I
now and here insist that the debt due
the Federal soldiers and their heirs
must be paid; no more sacred debt is
due than that which this nation owes to
its soldiers, their wives and orphans.
1t is due for service rendered in patri-
Otic spirit and with noble intent. 1t Is
due for energies worn out in the labors
of the camp and field. 1t is due for
blood spilled, and limbs mangled aud
lives laid down with honest purpose; 1t
is no fault OF the men that their mis-
sion ewas perverted by partisan viii
lains and their work left undone. They
acted in good faith, with honest mo-
tive, and their dues must be rendered
unto them.
Perhaps you tell me, "this portion of
the debt is paid in gold" / answer
not one dollar. The mother who gave
her son to satisfy the thirst of the land
for blood; the widow whose life has
been darkened by the loss of one who
was dearer than all the world beside;
the survivor of the struggle, manned.