Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-14
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end. Yet for this crime they are to be pun
ished by exclusion, not only from the right
OF voting, but if there is a man among You
who left after the surrender, l tell you that
under that amendment you not only can
not vote in 1865 but you can't hold any
Office from the highest to the lowest-you
can't evensit upon jury, because the quail
itication of juryman in this State is that
he shall be an elector. At present, eight or
ten thousand negroes are to be endowed
with the right of suffrage, and forty thou.
sand white men are to be disfranchised;
and every man who took part in the rebel
lion is to be practically interdicted from
coming into the State from the South, what
ever benefit his residence here might con-
fer. The negro cannot go to Illinois. be-
cause their Constitution forbids it,
He cannot go into Indiana because
her Constitution forbids it. But
here Is an invitation to three millions of
negroes to come into Ohio and supplant
you. Well, if they were in the greater
number already, and there were but hand
fui of white men, would apply the rule of
Hayi, and deny them the right to vote or
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Now there are other questions-ques-
tions OF to-day, not of yesterday; not last
year; not '6I, '63 or s64, but questions OF
of men of the Republican party of this
State whether they like it or not. Wehave
question of currency, and, growing out
OF it, a question of taxation. Youare pay
ing now on the public debt one hundred
and twenty millions at least of interest, an
nually, and paying it in coin, upon bonds.
What is a United States bond? Why it is
promise of the Federal Government to
pay so much money-$10o or $1,000. Many
OF them-lndeed, all of them l believe-aIe
payable in gold; yet large portion of
them were bought at forty, fifty and sixty
cents on the dollar. These bond
holders got for four, five, or six hundred
dollars claim against the Government for
thousand dollars. The funded debt of
the United States is S2900,O00 0OO-more
| than $2000,060,000 of it in bonds. The
| whole property of the United States is but
Sll 200, 100000, and yet more than one-fifth
OF this entire property is exempt from
taxation. What is the result of that
| Why, that the other property is liable to
a heavier amount of taxation. Suppose
there is so much, that to be levied in a
school district in Which ten men live. One
man owns 100000 and nine men own their
proportion of S200000. 1t stands to rea-
son that if the man owning 100000 is ex-
empt from taxation the others must pay
his share. Tell me, you Republicans who
prate continually about equality, is that
right?-is that equal? Can you look me
in the face and say it is right? = rF~1 =
| Then look at this question of currency.
Wherein does a bond differ from a green
back? Will any man tell me what is the
greenback? Nothing but the promise of
the Government to pay; and the bond is
the same. But on the greenback you pay
no interest at all. You made greenbacks
money-not the representative of money,
but the money itself. If a man owed me a
Thousand dollars, even if L had loaned him
that much gold, you compel me to take
greenbacks tor it. You passed law say
ing that paper money should be legal
tender, and when L called for gold you
made me take greenbacks. l want you
to take greent&cks for what the Govern
ment owes you, for what is sauce for the
goose is sauce for the gander. By calling
in these bonds, and paying them off in
green backs, you save a hundred and twen-
ty millions year in taxes, and this is just
twice as much as the whole expenses of the
Government were ten or eleven years ago
Why should not that be done? The prop
osition of the Democratic party is that this
public debt shall be paid of in greenoacks
that your thousand dollar bonds shall be
paid in legal tender, upon which the peo-
pie pay no interest at all, and thus that we
shall escape large portion of the taxes
an sorry do not find in tile speeches
of the other side what was anticipated as
cratic party about reputation. They were
J to be prepared to tell the people that the
Democrats were in favor of repudiatine
erything-nati6nal banner and all.
am not in favor of repudiatiug one dollar
J 1t must all be paij, but want it to be paiC
) in what you compelled me to take. If legal
tender is good enough to pay for a bushe
of corn, it is good enough to pay thes,
bonds off with. You have'a good harves
here as elsewhere, L suppose; you.bave go
your wheat in the barn and soon will hav,
other grain. Well, when you go to sell i
do you get gold for it? No. certainly not
YOU must take your pay in greenbacks.-
The Democratic party is against negro
: equality. But when you come here anC
ask that the rich man who lives in his pal
ace shall take the same kind of money a
the poor man, of course we are all in favo
of that. That is the kind of equality W,
I like. But we hear it said that this is Jus
to-she bondholder-that he came up TO thu
help of the Government in time of need
What did he give to the Government
} His sons? No. He loaned his gold
The rich man has got his pay al
ready. He has been loaning his money t.
the Government atten per cent. He Loaned
$50 and took a promise to pay for 500
yet we are told that we owe to him ant
such as he a debt of gratitude! Gratitud
for what? For paying 500 for $50 and in
terest on the 500 at nine or ten, per cent
beside. Is that what we owe a debt o
: gratitude for? Thank God we stand upol
: platform of justice. We stand by tn
principles of justice to all alike, and w
feel to-day like the old Democratic party O
twPnty-years ago. a.
These are issues that must be met. l
: won't do for General Hayes to be goin;
round the country quoting the resolution
of Democratic conventions seven year
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ton about the time of the war, or q speec
from the undersigned about that time
That won't do The man who does that
4 a Bourbon, and L hand him over to tn
tender mercies of the Republican newspa
pers, which have so much to say abou
Bourbonism. We are live men, and W
have living issues to deal with. We wal
: Justice. God is God of justice, as wells
n of love-. There is divine justice, and hi
. man justice. and political justice, all on ii
: side of the Democratic party in this issu
= [Applause.l
But we are called upon to pay over in
> mense sums of money to the bankers
q Philadelphia and New York, and the ric
men everywhere, who made loans to tn
: Government. My good old friend, wins
; did you get for your son? Nothing at al
= ifhe enlisted in the beginning of the war
= when it was proclaimed to be war for th
a Union. The men who first went out, an
: went from purest motives, got nothing
a a 1t was not until the purpose of the war wa
: avowedly changed that big bounties ha
o to be offered.
|. g. NATIONAL BANKS. .r.--
Z, There is still another proposition to t
: considered, and it is very important on
i too. About five years ago, one Mr.. Sa
d mon Z. Chase, of whom you have hear
e and read, invented scheme of nationi
hn,, ,fYxy