Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-29
NO. 26O

Africans, drunk with unusual
power, and goaded on by bad and design
ng men, shall make life and property un-
3af'., and shall shock and disgust the~world
with outrages, we shall be forced to raise
md pay still greater armies. Up to
,his time the South has had at
east an intelligent tyranny in mil
tary officers. Every man who is not
blinded by hate or bigotry looks forward
with horror to the condition of the South
under negro domination. The bad faith
to the public creditor and taxpayer in
thus unsettiHg our Union, of keeping the
South in condition where it cannot help
the national prosperity, but is made hea-
w load upon the country, is the real cause
of our debased credit. The taxpayer
was told the burthens put upon him were
to pay the debt, but the money was not
used in good faith to him, foe the debt still
nor in good faith to the creditor,
for he was not paid what he should have
been but it was used in a way to harm
both, in a way that tainted the nations
credit, kept up taxation by keeping up the /
rate of interest, while it sank the value of |
the bonds, and with them carried down the /
paper currency, and thus wronged the la
borer and pensioner. But for the policy of
bad faith, of partisan purposes mad folly,
we could to-day borrow money as cheaply |
as great Britain: but we have cursed the
the laborer, the pensioner, the
public creditor, for the sake of cursing |
the people of the South with military des- |
potism and negro domination. Every one |
must see, if we paid off one-fifth of our |
debt, had kept down the cost of Govern |
ment, had given peace to our Union, had |
built up iadustry and good order in the |
South, not one Of the evils which now
a1flict us could have existed. Our whole
condition would have been changed. We
demand that our currency shall be made
as good as gold, not by contracting the
amount but by contracting the expenses of
Government. We are against measures
which will pull down business credit,
and call for those which shall lift
up the National credit. When we
stop the waste which forces us to
pay usury of ten per cent, and take
course which will enable us to borrow
money upon the rates. paid by other ma
tions, we shall add to the dignity and pow
er of our Union. When we give value to
our bonds by using the money drawn by
taxation to the payment of our debt, and
not to the military and negro scheme, we
shall relieve the tax payer, the bill-holder,
and give strength and value to the claims
of the public creditor. We have seen the
mischief wrought out by the policy of the
past three years. 1t will be as hurtful in
the future as it has been in the past. Yet
the Republican party has approved it
and is pledged to it. We have
shown how the policy of using our
money to pay our debts would have helped
us in the past. 1t will do the same for us
in the future. To that policy we are
pledged. There is not one man of our par
ty in this broad land who doubts upon this
point. 1t was never charged that a single
Democrat in these United States ever fa-
vored the military or negro policy upon
which the credit of the country has bee n
wrecked. Our remedy is to use the public
money to pay the public debt. 1t is a sim
pie, brief, but certain remedy for our ma
tional malady. Our ailment is debt, aggra-
waited by despotism. In another way the
Republicans do constant wrong to the
bondholders. In answer to complaints of
heavy taxation, they say it cannot be help
ed with our heavy debt, and thus throw
the whole odium on the debt. Why do
they not tell the truth, and say one-third
of our taxation is made by our debt? Then
they will be asked, what makes the two
thirds? This question they do not want to
have asked, and they do not want to an
swer. When theyido answer, the eyes of
all classes will be opened. They
will be forced to say that last year
they spent, by reports of COM
mittee of Ways and Means, $379,-
17S,06G.S3, and this in the third year of
peace. Well, say our well meaning Re-
puDllCull iSlluS, VIC SuppOSC OhO lHICi
of the debt took most of it. Oh, no. that
took $149, 9,41S 1888 81, not quite as much as
was spent by the War and Navy Depart
mentS, which was $l49472 165.35, and be-
sides this, we spent $50. 292 5l3 II for other
things. Why, that is $20000000 more than
the Democrats spent for army and navy
and all expenses of Government put to-
getber! But why do you spend $25,6l3,-
673 SO on the navy when it formerly cost
$12 100000 annually? Has American ship
ping grown so much that we have to keen
up vast navies to protect it? Oh, no, our
tariffs have swept away American ships
from the ocean; we have lost the carrying
trade; the British have got that. Then
why don't you give the builders of mer-
chant ships the money spent on the navy,
by way of draw back on duties? Would
that start work at our ship yards? Oh
| yes, half the cost would do it. Then, why
is it not done? We did not think of it,
really, we have been so busy with the inn
parchment and negro questions, that we
forgot our sailors and mechanics. But We
see that the War Department this yeal
spent $12S, ,S5S 466, when the year before il
spent only about $95 100000. The longer
we have peace the more the army COSTS
How is this? Well, it costs a great
deal to keep soldiers and FIeedmen's
Bureau Agents, and to feed and
clothe negroes at the South. But why dc
you do it? Let the negroes support them
selves as we do. You make the laborers OF
the North work to feed and clothe these
idle Africans. True, but by so doing, we
get their votes. and they will send our tray
cling agents to Congress; we shall get
twenty Senators in this way, while a ma
jority of the people of the United States
living in nine States, have only elgh-
teen. The people may vote as they please
but they cannot get the Senate, nor repea
lD,, Of lars thrnt1 for nm,
advantage; we have managed it so that
one-quarter of the people have more pow
er in the Senate than the three-quarters.-
We now own the negroes of the South
Did we not buy them by your blood and
money? We now see where the money
goes: we now see why the credit OF oul
country is so tainted we now see why the
value of our paper money is sinking. Ii
was only at 81 per cent. discount in 1866, il
is now at u discolnt OF about 30 per cent
we now see why our labOrers and pen.
sioners are cheated by false dollars. II
the mechanic cares to know why he
works so many hours, let him study
the reports of the Secretary of the Treas
ury. 1t is clear why business is hindered
and business men perpleNed. We now
know why the public creditor is harrassed
!, by our dishonored credit, and the taX-pay-
; er is hunted down by the taX-gatherer.
, The negro military policy of the Republi-
can party is at the bottom of all these
troubles. We now get at the real ISSUE be-
tween parties. The Republicans, by thcil
nominations and resolutions, are pledged tC
keep up the negro and military policy
with ali its cost and taXations. These viii
be greater hereafter. The government ol
the South is to go into the hands of the
negroes. We have said they are unfit to be
voters at the North. The Republicans say
they shall be governors at the South. We
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seen how much it costs the taxpayer, the
bondholder and the laborer III the past three
years. 1t will be as hurtiul in the future
We have also seen how our policy of using
the money to pay our debts would have
helped the taxpayer, the bondhoder and