Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-05

telling the truth, will ask the reader to
come with me along the pike to wheeling
Creek" promising him view, before we
arrive there, of the most beautiful panora-
ma, the most enchanting scenery, the most
lovely landscape of hill and valley, wood
and water, green flels en- l luxurient foli-
age that the eye can rest upon or the mind
conceive. And, if he desire to keep my
company yet little farther, will intro
duce him to the prince of landlords, w. H.
Howser, Esq, proprietor of the "National
Hotel" in BeIlair. Aye, and willshow him
much beside that is patriotic, pleasant and
profitable; as, for instance, town full
of cheerful, confident and industrious
| Democrats, a train of freight cars on
fiat boat in, the wake of steamer crossing
the Ohio river; and will point out to him
(but cannot stoop to introduce)ia certain
Doctor NJ. w. Junkin, who is reported to
have said that he would glory in wearing
the blacklist skin that Africa could produce
if he could only be the possessor of Fred.
Douglas brains. And yet this self-debased
and low degraded wretch, without the
slightest particle of self-respect or pride of
race, is seeking the nomination as candi-
date for member of the Legislature, at the
hands of the saddle colored party, that he
might have the honor of being defeated by
the Democracy OF Belmont county. Ihope,
for the honor of white men, this poor dirty
thing may notreceiye the nomination from
| the Mongrel party, after making public
confession that he does not possess even
| the brains, common sense or self-respect of
"nigger." sa.fia. THOMAS.
More of the Robbery of the Sol
, 4 diers' Relief Fund. pres
During the tendency, in the House of
Representative of this State, of the bill to
transfer eight hundred thousand dollars of
the fund raised by taxation for the relief of
! INDECENT soldiers and for the starving fam
| lilies of those who fell in battle, Mr.. HILL,
of Defiance, on the 9TH of January, 1866, is
thus reported in the STATESMAN, OF that
date: i-alI I7.-- -f-lil
sMr. HILL of Defiance said he was in favor
Of having this money. distributed to the
counties under the present law. To do
otherwise would be manifest injustice to a
number of counties in the northwestern
part of the State. 1t was true, perhaps, as
some gentlemen had intimated, that some
of the counties were receiving more money
under this law than they paid into the
| treasury-bu but it was also true that those
same counties had furnished more than
! their quota of soldiers during the late
| war. He remembered that when pro-
clamations were issued for troops,
and drafts were impending, that
agents from Cincinnati, Cleveland and 9TH
er cities, visited the counties of Defiance
and Paulding with pockets full of green
backs, and with their large local bounties
induced hundreds of their young men to go
| into the army as volunteers for their re-
spective wards and townships. Now, that
! their bodies had been shielded from rebel
/ bullets by these men of the northwest,
fmany of whom had fallen in battle, they
proposed to rob their widows and orphans
of bread to save the wealthy men of the
counties from paying little tax. Let this
money go to those who deserved it. The
proposition now before the House was like
| balancing so many ounces of money against
fso many ounces of blood, and he protested
! against this wholesale robbery of the people
! of Northwestern Ohio, simply because they
; were so unfortunate as to be poorer than
tother localities. They had sacrificed their
/; lives for the. benefit of others, and their
rights and wants should not be ignored now
that the war had ceased.
The filching of this large sum from the
soldiers and the widows and orphans, for
whose benefit it was raised, bore partieu-
larly hard on the counties of northern Ohio
for this rea son:
The sparsely populated counties of the
northwest drew more of this fund in pro-
portion to the amount of property on their
respective tax duplicates than the older and
wealthier counties, because in proportion
to their population they had more soldiers
in the field, and consequently more SOL
diers' families to provide for. At one time
in Paulding county during the war there
was sc arcely an able bodied man left at
home, and nearly every family was SOL
dier's family. This money, which had been
levied for the express purpose of support
ing those families, was taken away, and
transferred to the sinking fund in order to
make the tax duplicate as light as possible
for the ensuing year and thus. save the Re-
publican administration from the RESPONSE
bilities of heavy taxation.
/ Ofthis Volunteer Relief Fnnd
Defiance county paid $5,Sl2 60
Fulton - 1855 SO