Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-23
tate Debt and State Taxa,ion.

Iralseu, Ior payment of the interest of tn
State debt and to form fund fer the gradus
absorption of the principal, the sum of 81,
52o,4 ,4SS75. With taxes collected on th
county duplicate, sales of section 16, sal
OF turnpike and railroad stocks, etc., a
Iapplicableto the same purpose, this amour
was swelled to $1,51O,9 ,969.52, being $500,
493.69 more than was require to pay tn
Interest on the public debt.
| What has become Of this money? si
The extract from the Negro Suffrage or
gan, above stated, says that $SS5,612 OF tn
State debt has been paid. To do this, tn
State officers took without warrant of con
stitutional law: tasa
From Soldiers Relief Fund ...............s ssOo,OC
:. General Revenue Fund. l1s.4l
/ Canal Fund ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1000
Common School Fund ................. 7s.ss
ms ~. q. .OoO. o
Not one cent of this money should hav
been taken for any such purpose-the Con
stitution of the State, in letter and il
spirit, forbids it, yet it was seized and use
by theC Commissioners of the Sinking Fund
protesting to aid in paying the public deb
The account then stands thus 4
/ The Radical Negro Suffrage officials col
Flected $599, 1850 more than was needed t,
pay the interest on the public debt of tn
State ito this they. added, as above stated
81, ,000,0 900, taken, filched or stolen, or BY
whatever name the reader may choose t.
apply, from the Soldiers Relief, Canal
General Revenue and Common Schoo
Funds, making s1,599, ,493.69, used to pay
$SS5,612 of. the public debt. What has be.
come of the SEVEN HUNDRED AND THIR'
TEEN THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED ANI
EIGHTY-oNE DOLLARS AND sIxTY-NINI
CENTS (s713,ss1.69 of the overplus? Ger.
tainly there is not that amount in the Treas.
ury, nor anything like it, applicable to the
payment of the public debt. &
Ifit takes one million five hundred and
ninety-nine thousand four hundred and
ninety three dollars and sixty-nine cents,
to pay debt of eight hundred and eighty
five thousand six hundred and twelve dol
lars, the sooner the State finances get
into different "trim," the better for the
credit of theState, and the pockets of the
taxpayers. J@lA-
The same Marietta Register says: 4ras
"The total State Debt was lisl $l1,
816.56. Gov Dennison, in his Message,
Jan. z, 1851, gave the debt at that time as
our State Debt in six years and eight
months Of 81, ,97l, l,017 SO 6e-nearly $500, 900 a
year, Notwithstanding the enormous ex-
penses caused by the Democratic rebel
lion.
The State debt of Ohio, when Auditor NOR
GAN gave place to his Abolition successor
inJanuary, 1886 and the power of the
State passed into the hands of the party
now ruling, it was Traction over fourteen
million, dollars (s14 4OOs, ,295.67), with $537,-
49906 in the Treasury, ready to reduce the
debt that amount as soon as it became due,
which in reality left the debt, when the
Democracy gave the power of the State
over to their opponents, at but s13,47O,-
1861. ~
According to the above, on the 9TH OF
January, 1851, in the brief space of few
years, under Republican misrule, and in a
time of profound peace, that debt had i'm
creased to s16,927, ,sS4 .21-AN INCREASE OF
three nsiltton four haadred ana hfty-ssoes ttoss-
sand, thirty seuen dollars and sirty cents ($3,-
457, ,O37 .6O) in five years. Besides this i'm
mense increase in the public debt Of fnearly
seuen hundred thousand dollars per annans, the
taxes of the people were largely in
creased. u e''5af to i7Had lo IeemsM oaO
We published some weeks since a table
taken from the report of Auditor MORGAN,
dated December 81, 1856, the last one sub
mitted by that able officer, and that of
Auditor JAMES H. GOODMAN, the present in
cumbent, bearing date December 6, 1866,
the last one issued IL !y3l2 1qii5ijsFo2 l i sli
In each and every county in Ohio the
table gives the increase of taxes levied be-
tween the years named, and it shows an
adyance.s4 .-...,........-s,'l. -
The tootings of the two columns of State
taxes, show that under Democratic rule
the whole sum levied in Ohio amounted
to sa754, ,s07. 81, against that levied under
Abolition rule, of $3,S67, 1851, being an
increase between 1855 and 1866, of one
million one hundred and taoelue thousand three
hundred and jfvty-nine dollars and sevcnty-t,oo
cents. 5:fz5-7t.
The local taxation, including all taxes
other than State, in the several counties,
shows a still more alarming increase,
mainly owing to the improvident iegisla-
ton of the State. The whole amount of
the taxes raised for this purpose amounted
in 1856 to Sc, 199, ,704. .3s-in 1866 to $13,-
OO1, ,270.11, being an increase between the
years 1855 and 1866 of six millions, eight
hundred and one thousand five hundred and
sixty-five dollars and seventy-two cents.
Within these eleven years, the taxes to be
paid by the people, for State and other pur-
poses, have increased SEVEN MILLION,
NINE. HUNDRED and THIRTEEN
THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND
TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS and FORTY
FIVE CENTS, being on each and every
year an increase of SEVEN HUNDRED
AND NINETEEN THOUSAND, FOUR
HUNDRED AND FORTY SEVEN DOL
LARS AND EIGHTY-FIVE CENTS,
which the people have been forced to pay
for the blessing of Abolition rule.
And yet with this terrible increase of
taxes, in the past five years. of Abolition
rule, taking the statement of the amount in
Governor DENNIsoN's message as true, the
State debt was increased $3,457. .037 go dur
ing the first five years of Abolition misrule
an increase of six hundred and ninety
one thousand four hundred and seven dol
lars and fifty-two cents ($691, ,407.52) each
year. s.t, sa 10 20 "a I-1s.. Il
These figures, showing such utter profit
gacy OF such an entire ignorance of finan-
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