The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-01-10
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The President, in his Annual Message
says I'VE must not delude ourselves. II
will require strong standing army, and
probably more than Two Hundred Millions
per annum, to maintain the supremacy of the
negro government in the South, after they are
established. The sum thus thrown away
would, if properly used form sinking fund
large enough to pay the national debt in less
than fifteen years" -.. .
We trust these facts will not be lost sight
Of in the excitements and diversions and side
issues, which are likely to grow out of the ap.
preaching Presidential election. Let the peo.
pie bear them constantly in mind and let
every Radical and every Jacobin be confront
ed with them at all times, in all places and
| under all circumstances. Voices '.@
! This Two Hundred Millions of Dollars is
the tax laid upon the Toll and Industry OF
the North and West-that is the white mans
Toll and Industry-to support the lazy, loun-
cling negro, with his Freedmen's Bureau, and
to keep the New England Puritans in perpet-
ual power. a0..I
This Two Hundred Millions is the sign and
symbol alike of the white mans degradation
and servitudc. 1t is the price he has paid or
is paying for the luxury of Negro Supremacy
the living proof that he has changed place
with the negro. 1t was the negro who was
the slave yesterdays to-day it is the white
man.. For to pay the taxes which that
Two Hundred Millions per annum must ne
cessitate, is to make every working man in
the North harder worked slave than any
that ever rooted under Uncle Toms Cabin in
the South. si Ir..-. r.... t.ria a.f
Nor is this all. These Two Hundred Mil
lions are what the protested liberty. loving
people of the North and West have to pay for
the maintenance of five of the meanest mill
tary despotisms with which any once free
people were ever cursed. 1t represents the
price Of transforming the States where Wash
ington, and Madison, and Jefferson, and Jack
son were born, into mere satrapies, governed
partly by bayonets and partly by negroes.
! Nay more. 1t is the price we are paying
| for reducing to practice the abominable doc
trines of amalgamation and miscegenation-
the ground for which is already broken in
the effort that is making in the Louisiana
Convention to mix up black and white chill
dren in the public schools, and in the Ala
bama Convention, in legalizing marriage be-
tween blacks and whites. ~.
Finally, this Two Hundred Millions is the
price which we are paying for the nanufac-
ture of ten rotten States, which the Radicals
intend to use to elect another President, in
case the white men of the North and West
are against them. They expect to get enough
of electoral votes from these ten rotten States
to operate as balance of power in certain
contingency-that is to say, to decide who
shall be Mr. Johnson's successor. The Ne
gro, in that case, if the game succeeds, will
be master of the situation, for he will have
dictated to the white men of this country who
shall be President of the United States for the
| next four years. The darling wish of the
| Beechers the Tiltons, the Phillipses, the
| Garrisons, the Stevens and their friends-that
| the negro should be politically if not socially,