Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-01
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Columbus, Monday, Sept. 80, 1852.
q Mr. Cox said: :: Eny a. t5aa I'M
MY FRIENDS: After nearly three years
absence l returned on yesterday. l was
prepared for many kind expressions $ but
for the reception l met with yesterday at
the depot, and that too upon the Sabbath,
finding you out in mass, to- welcome me.
and for this reception to-day | was and
am wholly unprepared. l have no form of
j speech by which you can learn the glad
I tumplt and fervent gratitude of my heart.
There is no generous man of either party
in this city, where so long l lived in the
/ confidence of the people, exhibited to the
/ last by large ,majorities, in which party
was often forgottens but will excuse even
npon the Sabbath,5 your irrepressible DEM
onstrations.se / have come to Ohio now
upon mournful errand-a death in my
household of one so dear to me and mine,
( that cannot trust myself to speak of it,
and if you, do not find in nay speech the
good nature. which you were sometimes
accustomed to expect, you must remember
thatIeEery heart hath its own heaviness to
bear during the pilgrimage of life.
/ l find things are different, politically,
since iasteI was here. The provost is not
I here to report our speeches. Camps Thomas
! and Chase are not here with their peculiar
ostracism. No longer dol have TO carry
my little battery about my body to secure
free speech. Daylightis'dawningl From
Maine to Caliiorniao the sky is glow
ernment draws nigh! l would love to aid
the dawning. To do this effectualfy, ]
would make no appeal to passion or hate
+ j desire to give to Ehe working men GER
tain views on their peculiar Interests and
duty. Others may. discuss. the questions
growing out of military tyranny aud negro
supremacy Others may gdiscuss the amend
ment by which the word white is, to -be
erased from your organic law. Allow me
to discuss the =. q
EFFECT ON THE WORKING CLASSES OF CHANG
ES IN CURRENCY AND TAXES.
q On this point l ask your serious atten.
'tion. 1t is not my purpose to weary you
with a tedious argument on this complex
subject, but whatever disadvantages the
working man suffers from the hands of the
domineering, classes, are disadvantage!
that are wrought out of subjects puzzlins
TO his comprehension by reason of thei
complexity.a 1t is not an easy thing to rol
him in aniopen manner. You never heal
of his being knocked down in the old fash
ioned, hignwayinan style, and chivalrouslI
relieved of whatever he may have. oh
no! the thing is managed is quite differ
ent way Dexterously is his substanc,
squeezed out of him to gill the pockets o
capital and cunning. This is the way i
is effected. There is divine principle il
the nature OF all things, both. animate anG
liBanimate, that, tends to- place everything
and everybody, and everybodyis interest
in the right place, aud in the right relation
to all other things and persons. prouide,
that no interference is practisecl; IN word
provided things are let alonel -
LAWS AND REPEALs. IS
The only way the lazy, worthless mai
can roverturn and subvert the natural re
lation which would exist between him ant
his honest and laboring competitor, is By
means of an artificial state of affairs. Il
large communities this is brought abou
by means of lasos. As general thing
therefore. 1aeau ldao is a thing to be.suspeesed
The least goverpment, consistent with Sc
curity-is Democracy. We have had
plethora of new laws. especially fedora
laws. twas not so in Democratic times
1t is now your curse. When new laws ar
passed, either to make tariffs. or debts O
greenbacks, or bureaus, or negro sapfem
,acy-open your eyes and button you
pockets. You are sure to be robbed. TIL
trouble is, that you cannot effectively but
ton your pockets, for your substance will
disappear through the very seams of them
On the contrary, when a standing law
repealed, you may open your pockets. fo
then your turn comes. AS rule, it hold
good that new law benefits the rich, tn
fndolent. the cunning; and that the repea
/ of an old law benefits the poor, the indus
trious, the honest.
CHANGES.
Grind this rule into the-marrow of you
brain. Ece1y change except q change By re
peal. is, for the industrial classes a change fo
| the eoorse. AZ B.
| 7. Therefore; go for repealsi Vote fo
| men dissatisfied with the present state {
| affairs. and who are ready to 90 back upo
the olden way! Let things alone. Q
| drift it into their natural relations. Yo
| are the victims of a cunning system of taz
/ which demands reform. Nothing like
exi ted go long in any land.
You say, "taxes are needful to pay th
| expenses of the government" This
| grant; but am not speaking of the take
that go to the government. | am speakn
of those which go into the pockets of tn
rich. will show you what taxes thos
| are. The word td1es includes custom hOar
observe this; that as things exist to day
to every 500 paid by the people of thi
country in the shape of taxes, not owe
$40 go to support the government.
Let me give you an example. There wa
| entered for consumption into this cnuntr
during the year ending June 30, 1865. ac
eording to the official report published b
the Director of the Bureau of Statistic
| 577,009.973 pounds of broom sugar. Th
| averageicost OF all this sugar Was, accord
ing to the sworn declarations of the im
parters, less than three cents pouad. goI
--say, three cents, or altogether $l7,3I0 80
gold. The cost of brown sugar to th
workingman. even, if. he bought it at tn
wholesale cargo price, throughout ths
| year, was, on the average, about eLeue
cents per pound, gold. So that he actuall
paid a tdt of eight cents apohnd. gold. on a
the sugar he consumed In the aggregat
this am united in that year alone to the sui
of $46. l60,79S. gold. Now, if you will loo
over the account of the receipts of til
United, States Government of taxes o
sugar. You will find that there was receive
but $l7,606 go gold. And yes the peop
of this country paid taxes on this article
lEhave shown to the extent of $46, 160.79
gold. What became of the enormous di
ference, amounting. in this instance alon
to $2S 554,17S, goId2 Need 1 answer
Need Tell you that it went into the pocl
cts of rich; ;mOnopOlists? Need l tell yC
that it was part of the reward of treacher
and cunning. of false patriotism, of fall
politics, OF chicanery, and of robbery
! Need tell you that it was one of the frni
of one of the thousands of devices whic
, under the guise of war'measures and me
essary measures y are practiced upon yo
: before your very eyes? You will obspr-
that have been careful to obtain the exa
number of pounds consumed Ii. e. pa
, duties and Withdrawn from bond for col
sumption in the United States); the co
price, in gold: the exact amount paid f
duties and received by the Government.