The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-06-13
Facts for Tag pavara.

IF the union had been restored. as The presi-
dent proposed, two years ago, we should have
had five millions of bales of cotton this year
for our ships to transport between this port
and Europe; we should have sugar and ricealn
Comparative proportion;n the south would
have been able to discharged its debts, TO be-
come liberal and profitable customers to the
north, and to pay its portion of national tax
alton we should have been saved the great
burden of military expense now incurred to
secure the negro vote in favor of the radical
party, and peace and prosperity would have
rendered our public obligations easily man
aged, and restore the states TO that harmony
and reciprocal kindness which would have pre-
vented starvation in one section and business
prostration In another These are facts which
not only the taxpayers of the nation, but
which the creditors of the nation also should
take into serious consideration.-lNa. Ae'os.
The above assumed 'Facts for Tax-payers''
are meagre in the extreme, in comparison with
what they might have been. Forinstance, LET
the editor OF the Milwaukee Ne,us and the tax
payers take into consideration the following
facts & @
If the Democratic party, northand south,
had acquiesced in the will of the people as ex-
pressed in the election of Abraham Lincoln, in
1860, there would have been no broken, divid
ed Union to be restored. We should have had
not only "five millions Of bales of cotton this
year, but five times five millions of bales, for
our ships to transport between our ports and
Europe" The south would have been still
better able to pay its debts, and would never
have ceased to be ''liberaI and profitable Gus
toners to the north" and there would have
been no national taxation for either North OF
South. There would have been no"great mil
itary burden" nor any other kind Of burden,
and ''peace and prosperity would not have
been interrupted, and there would have been
no starvation in one section and business
prostration in another" to be prevented.
If the Ne,Us is going to draw upon s'what
might have been, for its facts for the tax-pay-
ers'' it had better go to the fountain of posi-
bilities. If Northern democrats like the edi
tor of the Milwaukee Ne1gS had not urged and
encouraged the south to secede because a re-
publican president was elected, there would
have been no war-no million of men Killed
and MANNED in the worst of all wars, a civil
war-the wall of widows and orphans would
not be going up to heaven from every portion
of our country-one half of our country would
not have been laid waste and made desoatc
by the march of armies-thousands Of million:
would not have been spent, nor a national
debt of thousands of millions more saddledor
ourselves and our posterity, to preserve tn,
country from utter ruin. af@E
Such facts as Internationally concede,
facts, about which there is no question-utter
ly overshadow and bring to naught, in com
parison, the assumed "facts for taxpayers, ,
of the NetCs. Its "facts for the tax payer" arr
only dogmas of a political party, condemned
and repudiated by large majority Of the PEG
pie, and therefore not entitled toFthe title 0
''facts.' The facts are, that under the pla1
proposed by Mr.. johnson two years ago, re
construction never would have accomplished
1t was simply to put the work of reeonstruc
ton into the hands of the most fragrant reb
els, whose whole hope and effort was to pre-
vent that consummation. 1t needs no grea
power Of discrimination to see that thes
''facts for Taxpayers, are not facts at all bh
glazing tallacies.