The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-04-08

/ 1He greater, part OF IL mas grown ou
of the fraud and corruption and NAL -ad-
ministration of the party which is now il
power. fLoud cheers i sat in Congress
in 1862 and heard a Repubficantmembel
from Massachusetts,, Chairman of the
Committee of Investigation, charged witt
looking into the expenditures of the Gov
eminent, say that the stsalings on horse
contracts permitted by the War Depart
ment in the first year of Mr. Lincoln''
administration, were more than equal tt
the annual expenditure of James Bu-
cAanail administrator, lCheers,
heard another memberof Congress charged
with similar. duty, declare that the Sec
retary of the Navy had employed rela-
tive of his to::purchase ships for the navy
at commission, which In three months
was equal to $4,000. [Applause
/ have seen it stated everywhere in the
public prints, and have never heard il
denied, that the late Secretary OF VA
paid to Republican friend of his $500,
600 for two ships which had been con-
demned by board of naval officers, ane
one of which was. .dismantled immediate
ly, in order that il might be converted
into quarantine hospital Applause.
In 1865, after the surrender of the
Confederate troops, after the war had beer
brought to close, we had an Indian Wal
in. the West. / do not know whether
YOU ever heard of it here in Wisconsin
and vet it cost you. S35 100000. A Re
Ipublican5S member of Congress-and
quote froms Republican authority. my
friends-a republican member of Con-
gress had occasion to. investigate thai
subject -anahia-.>f>A.a-i -f..hlishad In
the = Congressional Globe. He details
some of the circumstances Of this war
He tells US how the money was expended
He tells us that the death of each In
dian costs the people of the United States
SO 900, ,OO0.- Laughter and cheers. He
tells us of an expedition of a valiant col
onel from his own State, I believe, who
was burning with military ardor, He
enlisted thousand men. He obtained
excellent and abundant arms. He loaded
his ample train with commissary stores,
which cost the Government $4,000, ,00O
He went upon his EXPEDITION; he return.
ed; he made his report, He reported
that he had lost all his horses, that he
had expended all his ammunition that be
had eaten up all his provisions, and that
he had killed one Indian. [Uproarlouf
laughter and cheers5
A rider who was employed by the
Overland Express Company, whose SOU
was also fred with. martial ardor. when
be came into the settlements, reported
that colonei-Hed-under a mistake,
suppose--for he himself had killed that
one Indian. Renewed laughter The
war between this express rider and the
valiant Colonel waxed warm, until some
hunters in the neighborhood came to
hear of it, and brought the contest to an
untjmely end by declaring that they
knew the Indian to be still alive. GBois
ferrous laughter and cheers.
The Special Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, who made his report to the
Secretary of the Treasury in Decembei
last, declared that in the year 1866, the
people of the United States had con-
sumed 40 ,000, 900 gallons Of distilled
spirits I have not doubt that we con.
sumed 100, 100000 gallons of distilled
spirits. But state it is the commission
er's report states it. You know the taz
on these distilled spirits was So a gallon
and that the amount of revenue onght
therefore, to have been $4,000, ,00O.-
But he tells you in fact that the sun
which the g Governmentreceived from that
source had paid the whole amount. He
tells you that in 1866, when the tax. upoI
/ distilled spirits was So gallon.
He tells youthat in one section of the
country--a very small section-the los.
which the Government sustained by the
collection of revenue upon tobacco alone
was more than sS,000,00O And yet
we know that the Treasury Department
employs more than 20 900 men for the
purpose of administering the revenut
laws. ''''ss
Military governments and the freedmen ;.
bureau have been established all'over the
South. They cost the people of the
|eountrg, by appropriations and in other
ways, $500, 900, o00. And what have
they donea They have subverted 8cisi
governments in ten States in the Union
They hold the life, aud liberty, and pro
perty of the people Of those States in the
NJ aided hand of military power. They
have subverted the sjeial system; theJ
have destroyed the supply of labor they
have turned from the pnrsnit of agricul
ture and industry to the pursuit of poll
IiCo tonCCio ethS idNC buiuC0 SaAACh'
into deserts, and by still worse. threats
disturbed the repose of the people of tina
country until every incentive to homes
industry is taken away they utterly de-
stroyed the ability of that people to pa,
their legitimate share of the taxation o
the country. The taxation paid by th
city of Gincinnati, under ha-internal rev
enue law, to day is equal to that paid b.
any eight of the ten States Of the South
GCheers.1 sassJ.t. ,,.,i,s5f - -
The1lRepnblicaps have done more
They have -treated the Constitutions o
the United States with derision and con
tempt They have destroyed all reYer-
encet for its They have violated or amend
ed it as the whim of the momept suggest
fed. Thaddsus Stevens To-day says, an,
says boastingly, that the aetian of .thi
Congress of.the United States, with refer
ence to the people of the South. is out
side Of the Constitution and when Mr.
Sherman,,ef Ohio, sfeebly attemptsAaut
it is feeble attempt-to justify that ac-
ton BY any provision of the Constitution
Mr. Stevens at once retorts upon him
and retorts with justice, that theattempl
| is. ihesworst copperheadism he ever saw
tthat any attempt to reconcile the actor
| of Congress with the, provisions Of th,
Constitution of the United States proves
it to be Legislation without authority
and reeonstruction by usurpation.D ZAP