Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-01-22

The Great Southern Trade Cat
OF from Ohio by Radical Mis-.
rule. -
Did it ever occur to the minds of Radical
from the West that their con-
stituents lose largely every year by the
cutting off of Southern markets?
That section, by unwise and unconstitu-
tional legislation-the States treated as
provinces and denied their rights
within the Union, and the people held
as slaves under military des-
potism, is now ina state of bankruptcy
and financial ruin. Unable to procure
labor to work their cotton and sugar plan-
tations they are unable to purchase the
products of the West and hence the great
markets of the South, which annually
consumed millions of dollars of Western
produce, is now cut off. The high
rate of railroad freight to New York, and
other Northern cities, prevents the farmer
from realizing fair price for his produce,
and thus do the people suffer in conse-
quence of the mad efforts Of Radicalism to
outrage the laws of nature by forcing negro
EQUALITY with the whites in the States Of
the South.
Cincinnati, but few years since, was the
great port of Ohio from whence the pro-
duce OF Ohio and Eastern and Southern In
diana was shipped to New Orleans and to
other ports in the South. That great trade
is now measurably broken up and the Queen
City is being fast outstripped by Chicago
and others rivals built up at her expense.
Yet, Notwithstanding this loss of trade,
they are taxed as never before
were people taxed, to pay the expense Of
supporting standing army in the South
and with it multitude of Federal office
seekers and to feed lazy negroes, who will
do no work. while the Government con-
tinues to support them in idleness and in
crime. ..sa..-,~ssS .-.gzs.ss.a --..rss4
How long an oppressed people will sub
nit to these outrages, is question that
time alone can determine and history
write.
INKS A1-----a a--Sra0fN-'zs = 3
Is Gen. Beatty - Kuave or r. he a
.- Fool? s.,r--,..s -.
"A Radical exchange, in speaking of Gen
BEATTY's speech, as candidate for Con-
gress in the sth Congressional District
says: .s.>.a<.t,
"On the bank question he said his op-
-ponent, Col. Burns. had declared that bank
stock was. not taxed; that farmers and
workingmen were taxed more than their
fair share. Thiswas not so. Bank stock
was taxed on its full value"
A law of the Ohio Legislature did bring
n
were collected from them, but the Supreme
Court of Ohio, so Radical in its organiza-
tion that it holds that law of half made
PUP Congress overrides and Esuperceies the
Constitution of the State, declared the
law unconstitutional, and the Auditor OF
State has ordered taxes to be collected to
pay back to these banks the money thus
collected from them. r~re ~,~,s,
THIS decision the Court gave in defiance
of Art. II of the State Constitution, which
says:~ ~--,-->~ ~~e-- 5--7-.,.
"SEC. g. The General Assembly shall
provide by law for taxing the notes on
bills discounted or purchased, moneys loan
ed, and on all other property, effects or
dues Of every description. (without deduc-
tion) of all banks now existing or hereaf-
Ter credCeu. anu VI al DdukcIS, 50 Ndt ut'
property employed ia banking shall always
bear a burden of taxation equal to that i'm
posed on the property of indiyiduals.A
No language could be more plain. Yet
these National Bankers escape taxation as
individuals are taxed, and when General
BEATTY says that the National Banks are
taxed as the farmer and the mechanic are
taxed, General BEATTY states that which is
untrue. He may escape the charge of false
hood by plea of ignorance. If he pleads
not guilty to being q fool, he is knave
In eitherscase, he is an unfit man to repre-
sent an intelligent constituency in Con-
Jgress. even though knavery and folly hold
rule with the majority in that body. s
Sorfer So and Sorter Not So. -
The Renuhlicaus in. the Eiphth District