The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-07-01

1ho following extracts arc from a
speech delivered by Hon. W. D. Voor-
hees before the Democratic State Con.
vention of Indiana:
In the midst of these darkenine davs.
when the laborer COOS about the streets
quest of bread, and grinding is low,
and skeleton want looks in at the doors
and windows of many an honest house.
hold, you are taxed by Congress for tho
support of standing army beyond what
any other countries endure beneath the
sun.
Tho people Of the United States are
paying over five hundred millions Of
annual revenue. More than onehalf
ofthat enormous amount Is swallowed
up by the Congressional policy of ro.
construction. If the iarmer or mechanic
pays twonty dollars to the tax-gatherer,
ten oft goes rs tribute to vast militia.
ry government, which exists in plain,
open and confessed violation of the Con.
stitution. IF your property is advertis.
ed on the trees at tho cross roads, and
on the doors of public houses for delin-
quent and unpaid taxes, remember that
they would not have been half so heavy,
and you might easily have paid them, il
the standing army had been abolished,
and the expense Of governing the South.
cfn States leit where it belongs--with
the people Of those States.
CONDITION or THE souru
And the generous and growing farms,
those plantations of more than oriental
magnihcence, from which all this start
ling wealth was obtained, and which
have been SO much derided by the dis
ciples Of New England, what was their
value They were worth over one
thousand fonr hundred millions of dol.
lars, while all the real estate of simi.
lar character was appraised at four hun.
dred and seventy millions.
Where now IS this mighty wealth Of
the south? Where are her corn, her
cotton, and her cattle 2 Why do her
inexhaustible acres lie barren and un-
broken2 Why do her gigantic re.
sources invite mono Of the capital of the
,world2 Why does business enterprise
turn away from this natural paradise Of
trader Why does the ernierant in
search ola home, go to colder, harder
and poorer regions? There, you can
look and behold tho reasons for your.
selves. The Radical Congress has xiii.
ed the life, the hope and the prosperity
OF the most fruitful norton Of Tho Re.
public d ,3h' "
Once 1t poured into the lap ofa fos-
terlng and protecting government
stream of treasure as deep and strong as
the current of its own Mississ,ppi. Now
it hangs like paralized limb, a HELPLESS
incumbrance, q poor pensioner and bur-
den upon the patience ard bounty of the
rest rest oi, the body. It's fields are smitten
Win an unnatural sterility. Every
production has withered and died, az i |
some vast lpas tree has cast is shadow
over all. a fatal and desolatipe bligbt |
is.upon the land" upon the mountains, |
ana upon the corn, and upon the new
WINE, and upon the oil, and upon that
which the ground bringeth forth. and
upon men, and upon cettle,, and upon
the labor Of the hands" In her ancient
glory and strength she could meet one.
hall the taxation which now darkens
the face of 'theland. She could take
from. your shoulder one,ha the load
which now bends you to the earth. The /
South, in q natural condition of prosper;.