Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-30

THE REMEDY.
Now, what is to be the remedy? Are
you in favor, Judge Thurman, of repudi-
alton? / am not in favor of reputation.
What say is, that iffthese men who hold
these Government securities will do1what1
IS riSnt, the American people will do what
is rlghts because they are an honest peo-
pie. In the first place, say this nOtwith-
standing Mr.. Ben. Wade's denunciation of
any man who says that those who hold
one-seventh of the entire property of the
country ought not in Justice to be willing
to bear their fair share of the burdens OF
the Government. / say that there should
be equal and exact Justice. 4
| 1t Is also necessary to cut down these
extravagant and enormous expenses OF the
Government. Draw five hundred and six
ty-one millions out of the pockets of the
people, laya tribute on all they eat or
drink or wear. and on all they earn, and
spend five hundred and twenty millions of
dollars a year. and exempt one-seventh of
the property of the country from taxation.
and expect them to remain quiet under it
You might as well expect that the Missis-
sippi would turn and run up stream. 1t can
not be, because no people coald long bear
such burden. Then you must quit sqaan-
dering the public money. II 10 -a...7afu
Now can not, at this late hour. go into
this matter fully. But let me give you a
specimen: Here were set of shoddy con-
tractors who got rich during the war;
Their wealth sprang up like a mushroom
in night. Men who were not worth ten
dollars at the beginning of the war soon
had the finest carriages, and clothing, and
bank accounts, and residences in che coun-
try. These gentlemen did not like to give
| up their grip upon the public treasury. and
so after peace was made with the rebels,
what did these fellows do? We had hard
| ly heard the word peace in the country be-
thnca fellows work ipl n n
Indian war out on the Western borders;
and what has been the expense of that In
dian war? Why, the Secretary of War re-
ported that the expenses of that war for
1865 and 1866 were thirty odd millions of
dollars, though the people did not know
there was an Indian war in 1866, and knew
but very little of it in 1866. And how many
Indians did they kill? There was Rev
erend Colonel Chivington, who, in cold
blood, massacred one. hundred and sew
enty-fOur Indian men, ,,women and
children, living under the guarantee, the
solemn guarantee OF the United States, per-
fectly peaceable and perfectly friendly. If
you want to find particularly base man,
find one that writes "Reverend Colonel )"
before his name, and you have got him..
But how many hostile Indians did they kill
with these thirty millions of dollars of the
public money? Mr.. Window, in the House
of Representatives, made the assertion, and
tile Indian they had killed cost this Gov
eminent more than two millions of dollars
more than two millions of dollars to a scalp.
Why, there was General Sully's eXpedi-
tion, the subsistence of which cost the Gov
ernment six millions of dollars, and the
General reported that he killed one Indian.
An express rider says he did no such thing,
that he killed the Indian himself; but the
people there say that they both lie, and that
the Indian is still living. tLaughter.] That
is the way your money goes.
Again, there are more than 10000 people
hanging on to the Treasury Department.
Then look at the grants of land to the
Pacific Railroad Company. 1 am not op-
posed to railroads, certainly not opposed to
railroads to the Pacific, made at the prop
er time and with proper economy; but
what has the Government done for them
First, it has issued bonds, which every
body knows they will never repay one dol
it. So the Government builds the road for
them, and then, having built the road, to
make'it perfectly certain that the Govern
ment will never get its money back, it au-
thorizes them to put mortgage on the
road. Then, having giuen them the right
of way, having built the road for them,
and allowed them to make q first mortgage
that will prevent the Government from
ever getting its money back, it gives them
then about thirteen thousand acres of land |
for every mile of road. That domain, that
ought to have furnished homes to your
children and children's children, is given
them II and when your child goes
with his one dollar r and twenty
five cents an acre to buy the land, he is |
handed over>to railroad official with
pen behind his ear, who informs him that
the price is ten dollars per acre, perhaps
twenty dollars. That is the way your
moleY goes, and it has been remarked that
the mere stealings of one year are equal to |
the entire expenditures of Buchapan's, ad- |
They ask lyouzto trust them.
They ask youfif those who saved the Gov |
ernment can not be trusted to, carry it on.
But say,oif ,you want your bonds paid |
turn these rOgues out of office, and put
honest men in their places. A voice,
8 Democrats ~ Yes Democrats; they are
the kind of fsmen. Put them in; come back
to the old days of Democratic honesty and |
Democratic simplicity. and plain, unosten-
tatious government, that don't encroach |
either on the purses or on the liberties of
the people. Do that tor US and then there |
is some hope. 1855 ~. tIey.- 70
There is one thing m ore that has to be |
done. This Southern country is kept al |
most in state of starvation. What en-
has any man down there, any |
farmer, to cultivate the land, when he don't
know but the very next day this people
will carry outitheir threats OF confscation, /
and give his land to negro? Would you !
labor under such circumstances, and i'm
prove the face of the earth? \ on know
very well you would not. Farms worth
$50 and 500 an acre are sold by this
people for one-fifth or
one tenth their value. That large
portion of the country that might
pay its full share of taxation to the
is almost in state of starva
ton. and unable to pay scarcely any thing,
and thus extra burdens OF taxation are
thrust upon us at the North. Now, give US
Democratic government and we will give
to the Southern people civil government,
instead of military despotism; we will help
bind tlp the wounds the war has made.
We will heal the sore, although we can not
remove the scars, We will make them for
get the enmity existing between us; then
will come a time when once more this
great country shall flourish and blossom
like the rose; then will come a time when
the South can pay her full share of the
burden of taxation, and lift off our shoul-
ders portion of that mighty load that is
now crushing us to the earth.
There is another point have not time
now to speak of-the policy of pay
ing. bonds of the Government in green
backs. l, can, only say now, so far as
can see, there is no legal objection to it.
AT the same time, as question of policy,
it requires to be carefully handled, and the
currency of the country should not be i'm
and too suddenly inflated. The
question is not to produce too great an infla-
ton of currency. /. am sorry that what l
have to say on that subject, for publication,
[ must reserve for some future time.
g da NEGRO SUFFRAGE. -Ga
In conclusion, what have to say must
necessarily be very brief. 1t is very black
subject, this question of negro suffrage
There are some things that are so Dlain
that any attempt to illustrate them by ar
gument only seems to make foggy what
before was perfectly clear. and, to my
mind this is exactly that very thing What