The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-08-30

twenty thousand slain, and ask him
to pay over to the nation ten or fif-
teen dollars as tax on the bonds
which you gave him in payment for
that loyal service. You will do that,
will you, and do it in the name OF
Democracy? Democracy, indeed.
Democracy is a time hohored word;
but this would be simple robbery. II
has no more decency in it than rob
bing hen rOosts or sheep folds.
RESTORATION To POLITICAL POWER.
There is one other proposition
which these gentlemen touch upoi
everywhere, more or less; that is
they are fer the immediate restora
tion to full political power, withou
conditions annexed, of the ten State.
lately in insurrection. Well. that i,
consistent with all the rest of tn,
conspiracy, which looks to the repu
diation of the debt contracted in th,
war for the Union; which looks to tn,
violation of the plighted faith of til,
nation; because say every maj
knows, who is at all informed upoi
this subject, that if these States arr
restored without any conditions an
nexed, without putting any Limitation
upon the power hitherto exercised
by the States to the Constitution
when they are restored they may tax
from generation to generation, anC
from age to age, all the people within
their respective limits, and Reimburse
every dollar which those traitors ex
pended in their war against the ma
tion's life; and not only reimburse
the moneys actually expended tc
wage the war, but reimburse then
for the loss OF their slaves. Thes,
gentlemen talked very largely before
about certain amendments TO the
Constitution of the State of Ohio
but they take care to loose sight al
together of another amendment, o.
quite as much significance, to the
Constitution of the United States
the adoption of which by the act o
Congress is made a condition to the
reorganization and admission of any
one of these insurgent States. Why
do not these gentlemen approacl
that issue? 1t is because they cant
meet it, and dare not try it TAKE
up the Democratic papers, from one
end of the State to the other, and you
will find they are all "dumb dogs
on the question as To- the amendment
of the Constitution of the United
States, which is made a condition
precedent to the reorganization and
admission to political power ot South
Carolina and all the other nine States
lately in insurrection. Why are
they silent upon itp Simply because
they know that if they present the
fairly to the intelligent
people of Ohio, that the people, ir
respective of their former party as
sociations, will vote it down, by 4
vote as overwhelming as that which
overlook their chief, Vallandigham,
in 1868, and that | believe was onl,
one hundred and two thousand ma
jority, under which they buried him.
Why is it these gentlemen pass by
this measure; because they insist on
the admission of the States without
and say you have no right
TO impose any. Such a proposition
ought to make even that chief archi-
-ect OF this devilish work OF rebellion,
ashamed of and deny his own words
This nation has no right to dictate
.erms; it is not a nation; 1t is only
part OF nation! Do you not see the
egal conclusion to which they would
cad you?
NATIONAL ISSUES AVOIDED.
What is there in this amdndment
o the national Constitution that
makes these men shun iti Why it
5 this, amongst other things, and ]
luote the language, "Neither the
United States, nor any State of this
Union, shall ever assume or pay any
lebt or obligation contracted in aid
If rebellion against the United
states" Pepdleton and Vallandig
IAN, and Thurman, .heir standard
,earer, and Judge Ranney, think it
Inconsistent to lay that obligation
IN these States There is another
"Nor shall the United
states nor any State ever make com
for emancipated slaves"
Vow, suppose these gentlemen should
ONE before the people OF the Unit
d States and say that is one reason
rhy they object to this condition
which is made in the act of recon
truction for the restoration of those
,tates, to-wit /: That they shall thus
olemnly ratify and put that provis-
Oh into the Constitution of the
United States, as part of 1t, never
0 be repealed by mere act of Con
.ress. And there is another prOyis-
on equally offensive to these gentle
len, and that is. that the debt con-
racted by the United States in the /
rosecution of the war for the I'm
On, shall forever remain inviolate
shall not be repealed by the Dem
cratic party, or the Republican par
y, but shall be paid to the uttermost
arthing. Why, say these gentle
len, it is an enormous debt. So it
} and yet it is a small price to pay |
Dr your nationality, for the mainte
ance of your Constitution and Gov
rnment. They intimate that it can
OF be paid Why not? only two
ears have elapsed since Lee surren
cred to Grant, and within that time
lree hundr d millions ofthe debt have
cen paid, which is at tue rate of a
undred and fifty millions a year.
o, but, says Judge Raney and
thurman, and Pendleton. and Val
it is crushing weight
pom the industrial classes, upon far
lers, and upon the poor. How many
Irmers within the hearing Of my
olce have felt oppressed within the
Ist two years on account OF the Ma
Onal debt? / undertake to say,
lat in this township there is not one
lrmer in fifty that paid a dollar of
lcome tax to the National treasury
nd yet one hundred and fifty mil
ons have been paid each year for
vo years; and at that rate, at the
nd of eighteen years the whole debt
ill be extinguished and nobody
nrt. Because the tax, rely upon 1t,
collected from the capitalist, from
le LARGE manufacturing establish