The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-10-01

that which says sno tax shall be levied
except in pursuance of law, and every
law imposing tax shall state distinctly
the object Of the same, to sohich OBJECT
ONLY 1t shall apply."
Although at the time this great outrage
was committed, the Annual Report of the
Auditor of State for 1866, pages 102 and
103, shows that in the different counties
of the State, excepting nineteen, from
which nc reports were received, there
were five thousand three hundred and
thirty necessitous. soldiers families, re :
quiring $497,S ,S01 to prevent them from
feeling the pangs of hunger-without
means to purchase provisions, ,ands six hum
dred and seventy two soldiers, cripples
diseased or so broken down in the army
as to be unable to earn, in the sweat Of
their face the bread they ate, requiring
SAC, ,391 to support them. Still the money
raised from the people by taxes, and by
the people cheerfully PAID, was taken from
them. During the war the leading men
of the Republican party were prolific of
promises to the soldier that his family
should be cared for and their wants sup
|plied. The war overall fears Of their
being drafted having subsided, the ma
kers Of these promises repudiated them
and the soldier, who, dying on the field
of battle, or in the far away hospital, his
last moments soothed with the belief that
his children would be fed, clothed and
educated at the public expense, the State
adopting them as her own, little knew the
heartless character of the men thus pro.
life of promises.
Adding the nineteen counties in the
State not making reports-Monros Coun-
ty among them-with the necessitous
families of soldiers residing therein, and
it will swell the number of soldiers fam
lilies, needing aid from the Fund thus ta-
ken from them, to 1000, and the number
of soldiers, limbless or sick, and unable
to earn living. to over l.0Q0--requiring
every cent of :he money stolen from them
to support them in decency and comfort
But the Fund Commissioners had their
eye upon this money. The amount was
large, the bait tempting one--and so the
Constitution, in Its plainest letter ssand
spirit, was violated by partisan Legis-
lature at their bidding, and the widow and
the orphan left to starve in order that
Messrs. Goldman, Auditor of State, and
West, the Attorney General, forming a
majority of the Board of Fund Commits
sicners, might make show of paying off
a portion oflthe State debt. :
The Auditor of Guernsey County, in
his report to the State Auditor, gives as
the number Of these tindigent soldiers
families, unable 10 support themselves,
within the limits of the county lat eighty
two, requiring $s,494 for their support,
and three INDECENT soldiers; without fami-
lies, requiring s296 per annum for their
support. Thue, this outrage on the part
of the Legislature and the Fund Commits
sioners took from the county of Guernsey
$500, belonging .to her poor and Grip
pied soldiers, which will have to be made
up by the charitable donations Of her cit
liens, or in the increased expenses of the
County Poor Fund.
The, Table IN the State Auditors Re-
port, from which these facts are derived,
fails to rive the number of these indi.
gents in the county Of Monroe. It is
presumed they are as large as those Of
Guernsey County.
The State Convention Of the Republic
can party. which met in Columbus on the
10th Of June last with aful KNOWLEDGE
that the Legislature, By the advice of the
Fund Commissioners. and for their ben.
| eft committed this great outrage. anomi-
mated Mr.. Goldman for re. election as Au-
ditor of State. and w. H. West for re-
election as Attorney General and thus
made itself party to the crime, by en-.
1orsino l. mt in their nlatform the fol.
lowing. which adds insult to the injury
which their neuro suffraoe candidates had
committed on tbe moor and the helnless
soldier and the widows and ornbans Of
those who fell fiohtipg for the Republic;
e5th The American people owe q
LASTING, dsbtl Of cratituda 10 the brave sol
d;ers and sailors who in he,late struegle
for onr nat;onal existence SO nobly foueht
nr o,,r l;horf;os ana for +bo nr;v, t;ons
sufferinos and sacrifices which tbev on.
dnred sfbe aiovsl mon Of Ohio 6sreb,
s,1e7oe 10 Them, mud n The a,;do,os and or.
pS0ys % Of t5osesrgo ,gs1 ~ ~ e1sfsase IF n,
lion o,,,. o,d saIsicat,a2 i s,,,,
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re- God nteserve ID t1besa belnlessi ones from
sueb s.symnatbv and snhstpntial snnnort'