Litchfield enquirer., 1868-08-13
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during the campaign use for the follow Ing ''short catechism' on the subject of , negro suffrage. It is an excellent docu- ment With which to meet those 'White Men,s Party y'-democrats whose only stock n trade for political discussion is s.The Nlgger. Those of our readers who are blessed with democratic acquaintances of a contentious disposition will do we'll to cut out this ''catechism" for use upon them:
 Who said that all men are created ennal9 Thomas Jefferson, the father of Democra- cy.
 Who gave the negroes the right of suff- rage in New York? The Democratic par ty.
 Who presided over the convention which gave this privilege to negroes? Martin Van Buren, a Democrat.
 Who afterwards elected Martin Van Bn, ren to the presidency of the United States The Democratic party.
 Who married a negro woman. and by her had mulatto children? Richard M. Johnson, good Democrat.
 Who elected Richard NJ. Johnson Vice President of the United States? The Dem ocratic party.
 If President Van Buren had died, and Richard M. Johnson had become President who would have become the Democratic mistress of the White House? This negro woman.
 Who made the negro a citizen of the state of Maine? The Democratic party. 1 Who enacted similar law in Massachu- setts? The Democratic party | Who gave tho negroes a right to vote in New Hampshire? The Dam no"a+;" Who permitted every colored person owning $250 in New York to become vo- ter? A General assembly purely Demo- cratic.
 Who repealed the laws of Ohio, which required negroes to give bonds and securi- ties betore settling in that state? The Democratic party.
 Who made mulattoes legal voters in Ohio? A Democratic Supreme court, of which Reuben Wood was Chief Justice. What became of Reuben Wood? The Democratic party elected him Governor three times, and he is still leader of the Democratic party.
 Who helped to give the free negroes the right to vote in Tennessee, under her constitution of 1796 General Jackson
 Was General Jackson good Dem ocrat? He generally passed as such. | Who, with the above facts and many others staring them in the face, are con tinually whining about negro suffrage,' and negro equality? The Democratic party.
 Ali these things were done by Democrats and yet they deny being in favor of negro equality, and charge it on the Republicans, just like the thief who cries "stop thief the londest. est.-Ha,vord Post
 nB@ This accusation has been so often repeated, that we are glad to be able to present the actual figures themselves, cop- jed from government records, by MT. Wells, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue. They completely refute the charges urged by the Democracy and their nominee:- l I. That the national receipts of revenue from all sources, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1868, were substantially $4O6. 3OO,- 900, and the aggregate expenses $371 ,55O,- 225, of which $141 ,635, ,551. B was on ac- count of interest on the Public Debt (near- ly $l6, ,O0O,O 900 of this being due mainly to payments on account of accumulated in terest on the Compound Interest Notes, and which will not appear in future inter- est disbursements), thus leaving an esti- mated surplus of receipts over expendi- lures, for the year ending June 30, of $34, 749, ".
 II. Since the war the amount of Taxes abated or repealed is $167, 269, ,OOO, and CO., incident with this reduction the aggregate of the National indebtedness has been re- duced S250OOO,00O On this abatement the reduction of the interest, calculated at six per centum, would be .ff1een millions per annum.
 Ill. The aggregate expenses of the War Department from April 1, 1865, to June 30, 1868, were $917, IF, ,O43 43. $647, 6SS,- 1 nT7 onys+ of% VI, oloN | used during the last nine months of the year 1865, in paying offour troops and oth- CT necessary war expenses. The balance, S269, ,42S, 9S7.1O, covers 8 period of thirty months, and represents disbursements fur ther contingent upon the termination of the war, regular expenses, the money used in the Indian War, the payment of boun- ties, (49, ,382 ,S59), payment for property de- stroyed ln the military service (S1l ,0OO,- 0O0) reimbursement of State claims, (1O,- 33O, ,OO0), river and harbor improvements, Qualifications, Indians, Freedmens Bu- reau, expense of reconstruction, etc. ". From April 1, 1865 to June 30, 1868, the expenditures of the Navy Department were SIS, 119, 296.37, and 45 per cent of this, or S59. .947, ,S09.5s, were disbursed in the nine months succeeding the termina- tion of the war. The balance covers the regular expenses of the Navy for thirty months ending July 30, 1868, as we'll as the disbursements of prize money, and for the settlement of contracts made before the war ended.
 V. No department of the government has been so much abused by Gov Sey- mour and democratic orators generally as the Freedmen's Bureau. They have never failed to magnify threefold the cost of that institution. MT. Wells shows that since its organization in 1866, down to June 30. 1868, its expenses were only $5, ,617, 900. This disposes of one half of the false statements of these men. If it were pos sible to find out how much of this money was expended to alleviate the snfferings of whites, the Democrats might be shamed into stopping the other half of their abuse.
 Finally, the expenses contingent upon the acts of Congress regulating reconstruc- tion have been 8, 34, TOO, which is also far below the amount given by the Democrat ic candidate for President and his follow CTS.
 A Boston Journal despatch says the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens is still in Washington, at his residence on Capitol Hill He is in quite feeble state of health, but hopes to