The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-06-08
From the Columbus Crisis ]

The revolutionary body at Washing
ton usurping the functions OF Congress,
has now been in session six months.
The summer is here, and dog days will
soon be upon us. The war of secession
we are assured has been over now well
into the fourth year, and the country Is,
so far as public avowals of the authorl-
ties tell us, at peace with all the world.
Since the war we have had abundant
harvests, and the full time has arrived
when we were promised prosperity at
home under what We were told would
be the improved system OF free labor,
and commerce that would whiten all
the seas of the world.
How these prophecies are tulhlled,
and these promises verified, is well
known to everybody. The business in
terests of the people are loudly appeal
ing to Congress for relief from all
parts of the country. So loud was the
call from the New England manufactu-
rers, that in its sapiency the kump.
wiped out eighty millions year OF
taxes upon these political pets at
single movement of its legislative
wand. This was done just on the eve
of the New Hampshire aud Connecticut
elections. Our foreign commerce is
languishing, reduced to one-fourth what
it was before the Jacebins attained to
power, and is daily getting less. Bank
ruptcy is leveling thousands of the best
business men to below where they
started in life. The cry of starvation
is sent up to the halls once filled by
statesmen, from those sections of the
States that were in times gone by the
most prosperous and happy, and relief
is prayed for to save from death tho
freedmen" who were to have been so
prosperous and happy under the new or
der of things forced upon them by these
pretentious refOrmers.
All eyes have been turned to- Wash
ington for the past six months, looking
for legislative relief to save an other
wise doomed people from bankruptcy,
starvation and despair; but they have
looked in vain. Naught but wicked,
revolutionary measures have resulted
from their councils, to keep the peoples
passions excited and their attention di-
verted, while schemes of plumber were
devised and the vast revenues OF the
country were swallowed up by as COM
prehensive q system of public robbery
as was ever planned by legislative cum
ming or executed under the protection
of laws of their own making.
Not a thing has yet been done look
ing TO the relief of an oppressed and
tax-ridden people, and the Presidents
hands have been tied by the "Tenure-of
Office law" purposely prohibiting him
from removing the dishonest ofiice-hold-
ers, mostly tho appointees of his prede-
cessor, and political favorites OF the
Congressional Rump.
Aside from the repeal of the law tax
ing manufactures, the only other tinan-
cial measures now before Congress,
which appear favorably received, are
the bill of 400 or 500 pages that Mr.
Schenck has introduced, imposing fur
ther taxes, and the bill of Mr.. Sherman,
which provides for allowing the ma.
tional" Banks to issue an additional
twenty millions Of their irredeemab!e
promises, to be used by the people as
money, except in payment to these
bankers and bondholders of the interest
they claim on the bonds upon which
they ban X. .o
The people are already taxed $50, ,OOO,-
900 in gold, equal to nearly $50, 900, 900
in greenbacks, for the benefit of these
banks, for the use of their irredeemable
promises, besides furnishing them with
S27, 900, 600 of Government deposits TO
bank upon without interest. Instead
of providing more greenbacks with
which to redeem the 80 notes now pay
able, this shift is resorted to solely in
the interest of these National BAN Rks.