Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-31
Radical PrOhigacy-SceEe es i'm ,he
South.

Radical PrOffgacy-SceEe es i'm uhe
South.
At its last session Congress appropriated
one million five hundred thousand dollars
to carry out its reconstruction scheme of
making negro voters in ten States of the
South. This was found not sufficient for
the purpose, and at the present Congress
six hundred and fifty-seven thousand dol
lars were appropriated to make un the de-
hciency. The total thus far appropriated
and expended, merely, as an exchange says
to convert the negroes and pay the cleo
tion officers, registers, ETC., has been
s., l57 7,000!-two million one hundred and
fifty-seven thousand dollars! This is en-
tirely exclusive of the cost of the Freed.
mems Bureau and the soldiery. This ag'
2regated, for the past year, eighty
million dollars-the sum formerly appro'
priated-and s3,S36 500 now asked for tht
Bureau and $4,000, 600 for the Quartermas
ter's Department, as misunderstanding
total cost of $lO4, ,S36, 600. Fully one hun
dred millions of this vast sum were ex
pended to carry out the Rump policy o
negro reconstruction"
The items which go to make up the eX
penditure of SIC, 1886 500 for the Freedmen
Bureau, are of character to shock tn,
unsophisticated reader. Among them ART
half million dollars to build school ant
other houses for the negroes-one million
| five hundred thousand dollars to feed then
five hundred thousand dollars for medi
cal attendance, and eight hundred Thousand
dollars to transfer them from place Il
place. r-.f.r
All this, with the immense expenses o
| the Army, greater by far than in tn
better days of the Republic it cost to carry
on the entire government has to be mad,
up by taxes on the property of the coun
try, while its moneyed wealth in Govern.
ment bonds and in National Banks goe
untaxed for General or State purposes
This, too, while the entire trade to the
South, which used to be the best marke
for Western produce, is cut off, and for tn,
reason that under Radical rule the people
of the Southern States are in a starving
condition, with no means left them to pur
CudSc lOOu W SuppOtG dht
necessitates the Radicals feeding, clothing
schooling and building houses for the ne
groes, while the whites, having no rights
that the Government is bound to respect
may starve.g How these Freedmen Bureau
officials fatten on the misery they have
created, the following from the Sauanna7
Republican, tells the story:
HINEsvILLE, LIBERTY COUNTY, GA.
Dec. 10.-A sale has taken place at this
county seat that so we'll marks the extreme
depression in the money market that send
you the particulars. Colonel Quarterman,
of this county, deceased, and his executor
Judge Featter, were compelled to close the
estate. The property was advertised, as
required by law, and on last court day il
was sold. A handsome residence at Wal
thourville, with ten acres attached, out
houses, and all the necessary appendages OF
a first-class planters residence, were sold
for sixty dollars. The purchaser was the
agent of the Freedmen's Bureau. His
plantation, four hundred and fifty acres OF
prime land. brought one hundred and fifty
dollars, sold to Mr.. Fraser. Sixty six acres
of other land, near Walthourville, brought
three dollars; purchaser, Mr.. w. ID. Ba-
con. These were all bona fide sales. 1t
was court day, and large concourse OF
p ople were present. The most of them
we're large property owners, but really had
not five dollars in their pockets, and of con-
sequence would not bid, as the sales were
for cash."
The Southern States have become so
prostrated industrially under the meas
ures used to reconstruct them, that
many years must elapse before they can
recover sufficiently to support themselves
In the meantime Northern labor and en-
terprise must be taxed more heavily not
only to "govern" those States, but to
make up to the Federal Treasury the def
cheney caused by their -productiveness.
Will this "pay?" Let every Northern
business man, mechanic and laborer
put the question to himself. Let him
ask his Radical neighbor to cipher
out how the country is to prosper so long
as two thirds of the States of the Union
are drained of money by the heaviest kind
of taxation to crush the remaining one
third into hopeless bankruptcy and ruin,
such as is narrated in Georgia and in
the cry which comes up from the South of
three million human beings starving for
bread. p"
At no time since the close of the war
have accounts from the Freedmen's Bureau
and officers of the military department so
uniformly and in such positive terms spo-
ken of the prevailing distress. From the
extremity of the peninsula of Florida to
the Mississippi river anda across into Ar
kansas, the negro population is engaged in
"foraging" for subsistence. One accoun'-
says there is general disposition ''to con-
fiscate all the movable property of the
country, as preparatory to locating their
expected land warrants" Meanwhile many
white families are moving from one State
to another, under the delusive hope that
some other section in that region is more
favored than their own. We should be 10th
to believe that the condition of San Do
mingo, Hayti, or Jamaica is ever to be re-
allied in any part of the United States, as
some have predicted, but without more
hopeful legislation at Washington, this is
possible.
s DIR. w. Fielding.
This gentleman, upon whom the gallant
Democracy of Shelby county have be-
slowed the responsible honor of represent
ing their views and wishes in the Ohio
Legislature, favored us with a call yester-
day. The DIR. is mentally and physically
in admirable preservation for a gentleman
who has lived beyond the allotted three
score and ten. He is in the seventy-second
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