The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-10-03


proved this restoration plan of Mr.. Lin
coin and Mr.. johnson, and congratu
lated the country upon the complete
restoration of the Union. The Republi'
can party and the Democratic party ap'
proved the plan, satisfied to let the
white people of the South have the pO.
litical control.
Now, if the Republican party in pow
er had allowed the Union in 1865 thus
to be promptly and amicably restored
these Southern States would now have
been upon their feet. The eaOrmous
crops of rice and sugar would be raised
now, and the people of those ten States
instead of being enormous burdens
charging the country with one, two, OF
three hundred millions of dollars every
year, would be bearing their share Of
the National burdens, and contributing
their full share of the National re.
sources. But the Republican party saw
that if the States came in in this way the
whites of these States, in all probabili-
ty, would vote with the Democratic
party, and by their votes the Republi-
cans might lose political power at this
election. They therefore contrived, by
their ConstitutionalAmendment of 1866,
to anRul their elections of 1866, so that
they might, in 1867, destroy all those
Southern States, and build them up as
black rotten boroughs belonging to the
Republican party.
The General continued upon this top
ic at some length, reading from the Con
stittitions of some of the reconstructed
States, showing their odious character,
and spoke of the immense cost OF main
tainiRg these governments over the peo-
pie of the South. 1t costs us 81, 600, ,OOO
dollars year to maintain these despot-
isms over the Southern people, and to
force the Southern people to send their
daughters to sit upon the same benches
with the young negro boys, and
force the people to submit to the
rule of the negroes-to negro Justices,
and SheritfS, and County Commissioner.
and Judges, and members of the Legis-
lature. And we in the North pay S72,-
0O0, 900 to sustain these governments
which the Radical party are establish
ing over the Southern people. Well, it
may be answered that the South pay q
part of that. Well, how much Why,
Hamilton county alone has paid, in the
last year, a million and a half more of
Federal tax than the whole of these
Southern States combined. The tax
collected in those States don't amount
to hardly enough to pay the cost OF
collecting, and they contribute COM
nothing to the support of the
enormous standing army that is neces-
sary to sustain these despOtisms. l say
it costs seventy-two million dollars a
year to the Northern people to
overthrow civil government in the
Southern States, and to establish there
black, rotten boroughs, and for no 9th
er purpose under heaven than to secure
the votes of those States in the Electoral
College for the Radical candidate for
with no other object and
with no other National benefit, if that
be benefit. l will show you the fig
ures. In the report of the Secretary of
the Treasury for 1867 we have an esti-
mate of the cost of the army for the
year ending the 30th of June, 1868; the
amount is $4,000, 900. He says that
So, 500 900 of that is for the payment
of bounti That is part OF the leg
acy of the war, and that should be de-
Quoted. This leaves S94, 500, 900 for the
cost of the army of the United States
for this present current year. Well,
now to ascertain the cost of that part OF
the army that is used in destroying
the Southern States, let us inquire
how much of an army we need for
of IN
saw we need no more than we needed III
1860. We have no moro Indian war
now than then, our internal forts are
we have no more coast forts
TO occupy, we have no more fear OF for
eign war or foreign invasion than we
had then. We need no more army to-
day than we needed in 1860, except for
the purpose of forcing Southern white
people to submit to these black deSpot-
isnls. Now in 1860 our army cost SIX
teen millions in gold, and if you deduct
that from the present cost OF the army
-ninety-four millions five hundred
thousand dollars, exclusive of bOunties
you have 81 800, 600 as the cost Of that
part Of the army that is used in the
Southern States. That is this Radical
system of Reconstruction. To main
tain the government Of seven States
eight States including Tennessee-it
cost 81 100000. Well, how much do
you suppose that costs the State Of
Ohio? Why, the State of Ohio pays one
twelfth of all the expenses OF the general
Government-siX million dollars for
this one year to overthrow the govern
r. 81, IL, 30 -
States and to establish these black, In
tolerable despotisms, to destroy ten free
and destroy the reconstruc-
tion that the whole American people
adopted in 1865; and which, through
their State Conventions, they congrat-
ulated the country upon having ac-
complished, and which, if they had
been allowed to use their way, would
have resulted in prosperity IN the
South, without the necessity of n sim
gle Federal bayonet to maintain order
there. And you people of Ohio, pay
Just that 5000, 100000 every year to es-
tablish these black despotisms and to
force the Southern white people to send
their children to negro schools, to pro-
scribe all governing talent in the South,
and to put the political power OF those
States in the hands of the poor, igno-
rant negroes, and the miserable white
wretches who lead them.
General Ewing continued at great
length and was listened to by the i'm
mense crowd with an intense interest.
1t is impossible to give his remarks
at greater length. Oar space forbids it,.
throughout it was able and unanswer-
able, and he left the stand with the
in the minds of his hearers,
that Thomas Ewing, Jr., as an orator,
stood second to DO man that has yet ad-
dressed the Democracy of Columbus.
The address of Hon. Emil Rothe, at
the Atheneum (the orator being unable
to speak in the open air), if we Judged
by the enthusiasm of his audience, was
a brilliant effort, worthy alike the
issues and the occasion. Our early ed
ucation in German was so defective
that we cannot give even brief sy-
nopsis of his remarks.
General Frank p. Blair on the siiu-