Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-08
OCTOBER 8, 1867.

taxed. whether it comes from abroad
or Is produced at home. Taxes on the raw
material and upon every fresh value added
thereto by the labor of man. Yes, under
this progressive Radical party you enjoy
the blessing of lighting your taxed pipe
with taxed match. The Probate Judge,
issues taxed marriage license, which
bears too stamps upon it-one. presume.
tor each of the victimsi The sick man re-
cl1nes upon taxed bed, is attended by a
taxed doctor, and drinks his taxed medi-
cine from taxed spoon! If he is FORUM
ate enough to ''shuffie off this mortal coil,
his body is placed in a taxed coffin. cover
ed with taxed lid, and fastened down,
with taxed screws. He is carried to his
hnal resting place in taxed hearse; his
grave Is dug with a taxed spade; his coffin
Is lowered by taxed ropes; his grave is
closed with taxed shovel, and his virtues,
are recorded in taxed marble. Death alone
exempts the poor man from taxation. If
he would avoid the bohdholders grip his
spirit must wing its flight to that happy
region where the wicked tax collector
ceases travelling. and the weary tax payer
is at rest. This is no fancy sketch, but sad
reality. III you, American citizens, are
willing to continue '.the hewers of wood
and drawers of watern to a bonded aristoc-
racy-are willing to enslave your child
ren's children, vote the Radical ticket. The
tax collector don't call exclusively upon
Democrats. Loyalty is luxury for which
the poorer portion of our Radical brethren
pay rather dearly. If you want light
taxation, laws which will descend like the
dews of heaven upon all alike, vote the
White Mans ticket.
If you, my Radical friends, can afford to
stand the pressure, go ahead-we are in
the same boat, and should it sink, remem-r
Der that we go down together. ~ fz,-,s n
RECONSTRUCTION. - '4
The South, like Promatheus, is chained
and helpless while the Radical buzzard
preys upon its vitals. 1t is tortured, crush
ed beneath relentless despotism, more
tyranical than Austria inflicted upon
bleeding Poland-more infamous than the
conduct of Hastings to the Beguns-more
calling than the yoke OF England to op-
pressed and down trodden Ireland-the
destroying Angel has swept from every
household, not only the first born but the
father and the brother. That once beauti-
ful land enriched by natures choicest bless
ings, is now one vast graveyard wherein
with its fallen lie buried the liberties, the
hopes of its people. No longer the "Sunny
South," but land where desolation reigns
supreme. Gaunt famine stalks abroad at
noon day numbering amongst its victims
more record in the loss of luxury. The
wall OF the widow and cry of the orphan
are waited to our ears on every gale. The
descendants of Marion, Sumter and Lee
are absolutely dying of hunger in this
land of plenty. The bravery of the people
which reflected additional honor upon the
American name, their sutferings which
wiring the heart of the philantropist are
alike incapable of mitigating the rigors of
Radical tyranny. What has Congress done,
what does Congress propose to do to miti-
gate the sufferings of this portion of the
American people? Congress has destroyed
flaar rNrOrrf 81 ranI E4Ll
by the President, and under which they
were trying to retrieve ther shattered for
tunes and on the ruins of their govern
ments. Congress has established an ah-
solute despotismi 1t has carved the South
ern States into five military districts iur
each of which military commander reigns
as supreme as the Gar of Russia.
The lives and property of these people
are at his mercy and caprice. The glorious
writ of hdbeds corpus can not be issued by
any court, State or Federal, except by the
permission of Sergeant or Lieutenant:
that glorious writ which like an Angel of
light illuminates the captives dungen and
shakes the shackles from his limbs, is de-
MED to the South. The Supreme Court of
the United States can not tree the illegally
incarcerated man except by the permission
of some petty official Congress has delib-
erately established throughout the entire
South an unmitigated and absolute despot-
ism. What does Congress propose to do in
the future? Let the Confscation Bill of
ThGddeus Stevens dnsloer. If the Radicals
succeed in the coming elections the pro-
visions of thatinfamous bill will be rigidly
inforced against the South. The land will
be divided amongst the negroes and the
white men, your own flesh and blood driven
from the homes of their fathers! Such
acts make civilization blush The Radi-
calls proclaim themselves the party of free
dom and commit those crimes in the name
of liberty!
The Radical party may have liberated
four millions 'of negroes, but they have
transferred the shackles to the hands of the
masters and ensldued eight millions of sohtte
american citizens Give each military
commander guillotine at once in his de-
partment and in mercy to the South take
the lives of the people since you have
robbed them of liberty. Every indignity,
every outrage is heaped upon the South.
'Uninspired are. her till they have learned to
Undistineuished they1iveiif they shame not their
And the torch that wouli light them through dgni-
ty's way
Must be caught from the flame when their country
expires"
Do you for a moment suppose that a
brave enthusiastic people are to be enslav-
ed by means SO vile? Do you imagine they
will long submit to injuries so palpable
The whole country subject to martial law,
by which the life and liberty of any man
rests on the security of military discretion
Were1 Southern man, would resist
such odious oppression to the last hour of
my life and with the last drop of my blood.
Like the father of Hannibal would take
my children to the altar and swear them to
eternal enmity to the destroyers of nv
country's treedom. tA5a 9Ii
- HISTORICAL.
What must be the inevitable result of
such policy? Let history answer. We
have one human heart which Kindness con-
ciiates and ruins. but which is aroused to
resistance by wrong and oppression. The
warning OF history is that such policy of
tyranny and oppression is alike ruinous to,
the oppressed and the oppressor
AT one period in her history Spain occu-
pied foremost rank amongst the nations
of the earth. Ferdinand succeeded in sub
DUNG the kingdom of Grenada, and thus
by the conquest of the last Moorish DOS
session in Spain, he completed the consoli- |
this conquest, A. ID. 149l till the year 1901, |
every indignity and outrage was visited on
the Moors by the Spanish authorities A |
military commission, under clerical auspi- |
ces, known as the Inquisition, was power
full engine in reconstructing the Moors |
Their property was confiscated; themselves
were outlawed; even those who embraced |
Christianity were given over to the tender |
mercies of the infamous Inquisition. The
inquisitors made an ante de .fs of those snew
christians" for the benefit of his King and |
country. the entire Moorish population
was beggared and expelled from Spain in |
150l. The Jews, q frugal and Industrious
people, were also very wealthy, and the
loyal Spaniards looked with coYetous eve
upon their property. Their possessions
were also confiscated and the entire body
of the people expelled in 1892. The In
nnisitihn woS nor idle. % 00O ,yara h,,,,,,1