The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-08-29
UPPER sANDUsY OHIO THURSDAY MORNING AUGUST 2e 1861

endeaNoring to enforce their person
l.al liberty act to prevent the recap
4 ture Of fugitives, and the kidnapping
, Of whites, and carrying them to the
South for trial, under the fugitive
E slave law.ia Positions were reversed
: then. When Wisconsin,, through
the Supreme Court, threw around
; Booth the protecting shield of hel
: State sovereignty, the interpositior
4 OF the Federal authorities was i'm
plored by this same Demo ocratie
party and State rights was assailet
as something that was full of her
: sey, and leading to anarchy. Then
they wanted 'alstrong national Gov
i, ernment, and were against State
rights: Butnew. the tables are turn
ed, and these same station keepers
ION the underground railroad are
: holding positions and high places in
| the Federal zGoyernm ent, land are
E using them for the promotion OF
personal liberty. The Democracy
claim that they now are, par excel
lence, States rights men, and that
the Capitalization of power in the
Gen nef:IL :ILGoVernment- is dangerous.
and, in the language of Vallandig-
ham, will be revolutionary and mot
submitted to. The old fable that
circumstances alter eases, depending
| upon whose OK was gored, whether
the farmers or the lawyers is ap-
ropos now Where they will be ten
years from this time, in favor of or
against a strong centralized Gov
ernment no prophet can tell.
Ia The Democratic party says it is
Opposed to unequal taxation, and
that that government thattolerates
unequeal taxation, invites to an
archy and revolution.
Allow me to say that the Repub-
lican Union partyis in favor Of equeal
taxation, is opposed to unequal tax
ton and says that whenever taxa
ton is unequeal, its tendency is to-
ward anarchy and revolution But
where is. the application Of the prin-
icip1e p The bonds that are slowed
away in the cracks of the cabins and
in the tills of the old chests, orstuck
/ in between the beds for safe keeping
and which cannot under the CoHsti-
tuition be taxed, seem to give these
gentlemen of the Democratic party
great deal of, unrest; and they
claim that your chickens, hogs,
sheep. everything in the shape Of
property, is taxed saved these bonds.
Now am in favor of having these
bonds taxed; and L would like to
have some Democratic Legislature
pass law, and would like to see
some Democratic Collector attempt
to COLLECT taxes upon these bonds.
] think, as a practicing lawyer of
Ohio, I might get fee-not from
any of them-but in enjoining these
fellows from doingiwhat they can
not legally do. They know, just as
we'll as. they hive, satleast those pro
claim it publicly, that these bonds
cannot possibly be. taxed. Well,
some will say, assuming they can
not, wlIysdid you issue suchsbends !?
Why didn't yon subjectthem to. tax
| alton? Because it was impossible
to issue bonds that would be sub
iect to taxation, unless the General
Government had ineorporatedinto
the bonds, and made it part Of the
contract that they would be subject
to no taxation. They 60 back fur
ther and say, Why didn't you insert
ityat the. time the bonds were issued
and thus bring the species'of prop
erty on an equality with other prop
erty My answer is this: When
these bonds We're. issued, and the
people. were inYitedf to invist their
money in them, you, out Of whose
throats now come this cry of I'M
Iequal taxation, lifted your voices
(againsts the credit Of the Govern
ment You decried the bonds; you
persuaded by word and act every
man not, to invest, in them. You
,said; through your Vallandighams
and your Thurmans, that suchlbonds
would be Of no value whatever, and
| that. whoever were silly enough to
invest in them would be objects OF
ridicule and laughter. To make the
fbonds negotiable at that time, it was
necessary that they should be ex-
empt from, taxation,, and upon fa-
iniiiar principle Of law, having al
that time decried the credit Of these
: bonds, you now stand estopped an6
: not be permitted to say one wore
:. against them. We, can now wish
that these bonds were subject to tax
: alton; but when they were issued
you must remember that this Coy
5 ernment was standing on the brink
/ of utter ruin. It was struggling
= with traitors for it's very existence
: and you that now decry the charac
e terof these bondss then. attempted
: to break down the credit of the Gov
ernment by preventing it from pro
+ Pouring money to carry on the wal
: for the suppression of the rebellion
, Vallandigham has said in a recen
: speech, that the debt ofsthe: natior
1 is $1,000, ,00O,0 900; that the treasury
e. notes out2amount to $3.50, 100000
! the National Bank currency. ISSUED
$ and authori;ized is$30O,O0 900 more
t making e$65O,000, 600, which we
s. think quito currency enough for al
} tie business interests Of the coun
4 tryao But the proposition and
I believe it is the favorite theory. Q
thee Democratic iparty-that thi'
f$2,90opoO,Q00 less. the : treasury
I Enotes, shall be, taken up by the is
$ sue Of additional treasury notes
! so that we shoGld then have acircu