Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-06

should come up, there would be little doubt
as to who would be hanged. The speaker
would useall his efforts to prevent such a
state of things; but if it should come up,
he proposed not to be hung. But if the
necessity was forced upon him. he would
do little of the hanging. tCheers.] 1t
was only yesterday that loyal blackguard
had attempted to involve the speaker in a
difficulty by uttering gHAndersonville and
traitor. Extensively in his presence. Who,
he would ask, were responsible for tne sur
f.rings of Andersonville? 1t was Edwin
NJ. Stanton and his associates, who refused
to listen to the suggestions of the more hu-
name Confederate authorities, and make
fair exchangeof prisoners. and thus empty
the crowded prisons at the South.
The speaker was not willing to let by
cones be be by-gones. He was not there
to take back one word he had uttered for
the last six years. He only lamented that
he did not possess the power to maintain
the Constitution as it is, and the Union as
it was. il his counsels had been regardet
and followed not drop of fraternal blood
would have been SIZED, and the Union would
have been preserved in its integrity.
sa THE ISSUES OF THE DAY,
Mr.. Vallandigham said, however attrac-
tive and interesting the topics to which he
had been referring, were, he must leave
them and, come down to the issues of the
present day. The Democratic party had
not changed its opinions, but times had
changed. That glorious, Constitution,
which they revered and worshipped, had
been violated and destroyed; the Union
to which they chung with SO much tenacity
was dissolved. 1t had become a question
of administering the Government without
a written Constitution. 1t was the busi-
ness of the people to decide which were
| the better set of them to administer the
Government. l7iSi ia:tte 20 n2'at t'-
He was not there to discussithe question of
The people of the South
had accepted the situation and resolved to
return toftheir allegiance, and much as he
lsympathized with them, he and the Demo-
j cratic party were powerless to help them.
1 The Democratic party had stood up man
/ fully in defense of theirights of the South
ern States, under the Constitution and in
/ the Union. Butsthey had seen State after
State pass away from them. They had
seen the Legislative and Judicial and Exc
cutive departments go into the hands of
/ their enemies, while they still stood by and
battled for the principles learned of the
fathers. The Onion was gone; the Consti-
tuition was gone. -. ..-=......5 .
Now, charity should begin at home.
There were questions of deep and vital in
4 terest to the people of Ohio, and the
i Speaker felt a profound contempt for those
speakers and newspapers who were trying
to divert the minds of the people from these
home questions by the hue and cry of
Estraitor'' and "Copperhead," trying-to kim
die the fires of discord and hate, when the
smoulde ing embers of the late strife were
| almost extinct, and should be permitted to
die out. But the intelligent people of Ohio
would not be. met and, hoodwinked by
| these cries, and suffer their attention to be
diverted from the great question of the
public debt. The cry of THAT is. VAL
iandiglIam talking. That man. was ,op-
posed to the war; would not be sufficient
to blind thepeople to the fact that they are
opposed by wicked and unnecessary taxa
ton. Even the men of the old Wing party
which at once time advocated under the
leadership of Henry Clay, a protective
tariff, could no longer be reached by such
was advocating protective tariff, said the
I time would come when itSwould be no
longer needed. e.-fs-.'- .-z
He claimed that its necessity then grew
/ out of the condition of the country, when
manufactures were young and feeble. But
was no longer needed, even in the estima-
nation OF old-line Wings. A tariff for rev.
enue had been educated into the people
they were satisfied with tariff, before the
war, of twenty per cent. on luXuries. No
man was obliged to pay this tariff who was
willing to foregO the costly luXuries on
which the tax was imposed. The people
collectors and tax gatherers. They were
not called on to support the twenty thou
sand officials, who are now found necessary
to collect in the taxes of the people.
During and since the war, the tariff had
been successfully increased, until it had
1 risen from twenty per cent. to two or three
hundred per cent. and this was done under
tcover of "loyalty" to the Government. But
u in reality, this state of things had been
I brought about by the maneuvering of New
Il England manufacturers, for the enhance
ment of their own interests, and not for the
: Support of the Government
In the palmy days.of the Republic, wher
the Democracy controlled the Government
and honest financiering was the rule, the
tariff had to be reduced, because there wa:
d more money in the treasury than was need.
J / ed, and it was thought wise to reduce the
d surplus. What a contrast with the present
/ history of the country, when people are
taxed almost beyond endurance, and the
, bcry was STILL, "Give, give r' '3a s}sT ri "a
n Before the war thetrifiing tariff, which
nobody felt, of fifteengor twenty per cent
Twas on luXuries that could easily be dis.
/ pensed with. But now the tariff of two ol
: three hundred per cent. was on the com
! monest articles of consumption, q. 'er
II, The speaker referred to Mr.. Reemelin'
II Plainviile speech,- heretofore published il
! the Enquirer illustrating the enormous pc
! centa9e paid to New England manufac
+ turers. What right had the Yankee watch
maker to demand of the purchaser thirty
/ dollars more than would buy better arti
9 c,e in Germany? What right had New
: England to demand from two to three nun
: dred per cent. on all articles of use ant
4 consumption p .1,' o. So p.
: If the people could purchase these thing
elsewhere for q less price, it was their dut,
ID to doso. There was no, reason WHY thes
h heavy donations should be made to Yanke
e manufacturers. The speaker would as
: those philanthrophists whose hearts ha
y long been oyerflowing with sympathy 70
,fl the poor, down-tro6den Afriean.a whethe
r it was right and just that our citizen
v should be thus robbed for the benefit of
d few - .,,-ir IL -:-'-r g5L,-ls 81 .4iae
= The retail merchant who had paid his fiji
Il ] ty cents profit to the manufacturer on
f pocket knife, had as good right as tn
M manufacturer to demand of the purchase
q. a gift of forty cents over aDdabove the COS
W and legitimate profit. But these fact
D. would be answered by the cry, 1T is Va
,e landigham talking. 1t is only Copper
\, head you lhear.Y And the men that raise
NJ these cries of traitor and Copperhead wei
On the fellows that had their hands in the pee
+, pies pockets, robbing them of their none,
N And not dime of this money eXacted II
10 the good of the country and the support
of loyalty ever went into the treasury of tt
W United States. 1t went into the pockets
ie the manufacturers of New Eng gland, ar
an the support of thousands of useless of
n-l cials. ~ .5a,, ai j.. -.s a,i,.r- q -.-..
1t was time charity was beginning
he home. 1t was time the people were thinl
IL ing of their own interests instead of SUI
no porting Freedmen's Bureaus, with the
he shoulder strapped agents, to take care I
Of the negroes in the South. [Cheers.I
ct lssib la BE- THE PUBLIC DEBT. 1vola 81
u Mr.. Vallandigham said one of the resul
is. of the war that he was there TO discIs
e. was the enormous Duhlic debt accuno,,Iote q
as The Democratic marty was accnsed