Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-26
The New Hampshire Canvass.

Resolued. That the bitter fruits Of legisla |
tion outside of the Constitution are seen II
the practical disruption of the Union, tht |
decentralization Of the public conscience. |
the stagnation of all legitimate business
and depreciation of the public credit, En- |
enormous and still increasing burdens Of |
taxation, and the grave apprehensions Of |
business m en- and statesmen that still great |
er calamities are impending over the coun
try. f@K
More stern truth in fewer words cannot
be penned,
After years of war, waged professedly to
. save the Union; at a cost of thousands OF
millions of treasure and hundreds oftho
sands of lives, while those who battleo
against it, have laid down their arms, and
given up the contest as hopeless, the mel
most clamerous for the perpetuity OF the
Union are now its destroyers. What the
sword failed to effect, the Radical poll
ticians have accomplished. The Union Is
now dissevered--ten States of the Republic
have the Constitution closed against them.
and the people residing therein, are gov
erned as Austria and. Russia governs Hun
gary and Poland, by the bayonets of a
stan ding army. Not because there is dan
ger from the men lately in arms, but be-
cause it is necessary to make the men OF
the South, Union men and disunionists, feel
and know that their late slaves are the SUI
perior race.
The people of the South once drew their
supplies from the granaries of the great
West. The South is the natural market
| Central and Southern Ohio and of Southern
Indiana and Illinois. That market is now
cut of, and Ohio and other States. are thus
made to suffer from Radical legislation and
Radical disunionism.
To counterbalance this loss OF trade, tax
es such as no other people in the habitable
globe calling themselves free, will submit
to, now grind and oppress them They are
taxed on all they raise and on all they con-
sume-taxed from the cradle to the grave
! to raise money to aid Radicalism in carry
ing out and maturing its disunionism,
which is the only chance it has to retain
power. While thus the people are ground
down with State, county, township, city,
poor, road, and other taxes, the holder of
government Bonds, drawing an interest
greater than any man, without being
guilty of usury, dare charge his fellow
man in Ohio, pays no tax whatever for the
purposes named. If rogue steals hi>
bonds, he can go into court and have him
d rosecuted and sent to the penitentiary at
the expense of the farmers and mechanics,
but pays no taxes to sustain the courts or
to keep up the State Prison. He uses the
roads-the gas lamps, paid for by the prop
erty owners of the city, lights him, free of
any tax. Oh bis path to his home the po-
lice protects him on his way, and he pays
| no part of the expense, for he is bond
holder, and bondholders are privileged
class.
These things might be borne by our peo-
pie, but other and greater evil seems to be
in store for them. Congress is about to
add nearly one thousand million dollars to
the debt of the nation, by declaring that it
shall be paid in gold, although it was con-
tracted to be paid in legal tender notes and
in greenbacks. The amount to be thus
added, being gift to the men who thus
leave to others the payment of taxes, while
they derive all the benefit that can accrue
therefrom.
| How long will these Radical whelps
be suffered to abuse the patience Of the
people.