The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1867-09-20
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Soldiers Relief Fund.
"How much substantial support
did the soldiers receive from the
EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS of the Soldiers Relief
Fund.- of which the Negro Suffrage
party robbed them ?"
The above article has been almost
4 standing advertisement in the COu-
rier for number of weeks past, and
as the intention OF its editor was to
endeavor to weaken The faith of the
soldiers in the Union party, perhaps
it may be well enough for a soldier
to answer the charge.
In 1866, f. fund called the "Sol-
diers' Relief Fund.-" amounting to
the large sum of over One Million
Dollars was lying idle in the Treas
ury. 1t had been raised by taxation
and paid by the tax payers OF the
State, during the war, to be used for
tue relief of such soldiers and their
families as might stand In need of
assistance. After the war, and early
in the year 1866, the demand upon
that fund ceased. 1t was lying idle.
doing no good to the soldiers or
their families, to the State or to the
tax payers. Therefore, on the 9th
of March, 1866, the Union Legisla-
ture passed law transferring the
sum OF SS00,000 from the Relief
Fund to the Sinking Fund, and it
was appropriated 10 the payment of
the State debt, and was so used as
shown by the Treasurer report of
that year. 1t was further provided
by that law that SAID sum .should be
to the Relief Fund from
the Sinking Fund in the years 1867
and 1868. See Laws of Ohio for
1866, page 3S.
Thus that large amount Of our
State debt was paid, and the large
sum of interest thereon stopped to
the amount of $4,000 per year
Then, again, on April 5, 1866, the
Republican Legislature passed an
other law (see laws of 1866, page
1907, whereby it was enacted that the
further sum OF 100000 should be
used from the Relief Fund to provide
a Soldiers Home, and the balance of
the fund was distributed to the cOun-
ties of the State pro rata.
Now by reference to page q of
the Report of tha Auditor of State,
made in December, 1866, we find
that SS00.000 was transferred from
the Relief Fund to the Sinking Fund
and applied to the payment of the
State debt. We find also that the
sum of $4,000 Vas appropriated to
the home for our disabled soldiers,
and Sl17,7l2 distributed to the diff |
ferent counties, Hancock getting her
share.
"But," says our Copperhead friend
with a new born, sudden and gush-
ing love for the soldier; ''the Radi- |
calls are defrauding the soldiers ''-l
Is it so ! The war was ended, the
army discharged and our soldiers
scattered through the State, again at |
their homes. and no longer under the
control and beyond the reach of State
relief. But our Union Legislature,
true to the brave defenders of our
country, still cared for them. BY the
Sd and 18th sections OF the above !
named act, page l30, the Commits
siOners of every county are required
At their June session of each year,
and whenever needed, to carefully
estimate what amount will be needed
tor the relief of all the INDECENT, dis
abled, wounded and diseased soldiers
md of the families of all deceased
md disabled soldiers in the county,
and to levy the necessary tax for
heir relief.
Now why do the Copperheads pub
ish and tell such unmitigated false
hoods? 1t is to cover up their treas
,nable record during the war. But
We cannot forget that they called our
nartyred Lincoln a "tyrant'' and
traitor :" that they called our SOL
liers "Lincoln hirelings," ''dogs,"
thieves, "murderers and traitors )"
hat they arrayed themselves in Bit
er hostility against their country in !
Ter darkest hour, and expressed
in sympathy with treason
nd traitors. !
No, they cannot escape their rec i
rd. 1t will stick to them like the
hirt OF Nessus, and follow them like
n ayenging Nemesis as long as
oyal heart beats in our broad land
SOLDIER.
A special dispatch to the Cincin-