The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-09
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nseIess have been provided in such
lavish abundance that thepeople sicken
with the surfeit. ------.--s,.
Dishonesty thriyes upon our state
improvements.
Investigations are demanded IN vain.
The idea obtains that wherever the
pnblic funds are set apart Tor puohc
use, there may corruptionists gather ana
fatten. -,
"Where the carcass is, there will the
eagles be gathered together"
And so the feast Of fraud progresses.
Toll tithes it's earnings daily for the
satisfaction of corruption, and giving
much learns to foretell the fate OF all.
Our Legislatures appear to seek new
methods of outlay, robbery and wrong;
The salaries of public officers, liked
by law, are regularly Increased uhu0'
the most shamfui pretexts.
Appropriations for indefinite PuIpU
ses, like the "Ciyil Contingent Sunu
are devised for the benefit oil lhdlgent
Deli1ouent sheriffs are released from
their Indebtedness to the State.
Speculating land-jobbers have their
aimsv titles confirmed by ingenious
device, and the hard earned property OF
honest men is thereby torn from their
possession.
Registration swallows up its thou
sands annually, aud the very men who
suffer most from its Outrages are often
reouired to contribute most heavily TO
its support.
Your Public School Funds, in many
localities, fail to reach their lawful
destination. .-
In short your system of State taxa
ton results in practical robbery.
Your Legislature knows but TWO Pui-
poses, to sGHander your money auu u
strenghen the dominant party.
Officers of the Executive Department,
by their own confession, have aided the
concealmeut of crime and contracted to
transfer public property to private iDdi-
viduals, without any equivalent to the
State.
The decisions of your judiciary, upon
constitutional questions, have more fire.
quently reproduced political platforms
than expounded legal principles.
Your State Government in all its de-
partments is conducted in fanatical
spirit, prostituted to improper uses,
and thoroughly devoted to an unjust
and obnoxious policy that must ultl-
mately be productive OF social disorder,
fatal TO material prosperity, destructive
of your dearest rights as freemen, and
ruinOus to the future progress and glory
of West Virginia.
A REMEDY POSSIBLE.
Let us recur to the remedy for the
manifold wrongs to which we have re-
ferred.
The Reconstruction q estion, what
ever difficulties it may present to bitter
partisans, is capable of safe and easy
adjustment through the exercise of an
honest and liberal patriotism.
The simple application of the princi-
pies Of the Federal Constitution
will remove every obstacle and
effect peaceful, permanent and salts
factory settlement.
If that instrument possesses the per-
lection with which every lover of his
country invests it, il will not be found
wanting at the critical juncture.
The Constitution which has blessed
this people with liberty and crowned
this land with greatness, will not now
prove inadequate To the designs of its
authors and leave the vital interests of
the Union at the mercy of rude chances
and political passions.
Let its provisions BE- applied and rep
representatives of the Sonth, elected by
the only qualified voters of that section,
will take their seats in Congress, subject
only to the conditions imposed upOn
members from other parts of the land;
the natural relations between the South
ern States and the General Government
will be resumed, and the Union of the
States, triumphantly restored, will
return in form, in fact, and freedom to
the original glory of her first and best
estate.
The restoration of the South will
open the way to general financial relief.
When her people are relieved of the
domination of the bayOnets and the
blacks, they will bee encouraged to pro-
ductive pursuits; general prosperity
will revive their palsied energies, ana
their assistance will be happily felt in
removing the great burden of debt
which now impedes the national pro-
gres5.
That costly national nuisance, the
Freedmeu's Bureau, will be abolished,
and common sense, having mastered
the situation, will decree that negroes,
tl.n l,sN 20 OF nhth nTl mr.
staTve.
The expensive Soutl ern Military cs-
tablishments will be acknowledged
unnecessary, and with their disappear.
ance, taxpayers will thank God and
take courage.
A fair taxation Of the Federal securi-
ties, will yield many millions of rev.
enue.
The National Banks suggest another
opportunity for re renchment.
They own between three and four
hundred millions in Federal bonds, upon
which they draw intcrest. These bonds
are deposited with the Government, and
for every 500, 900 80 deposited, they re-
ceive S90, 900 in National Bank notes
These notes constitute their circula-
ton, and with them they carry on the
business and earn the profits Thanking
proper.
The interest accruing on their depos-
tied bonds is so much premium paid
them, in addition to the regular earn
ings of their business.
They receive the benefit of Just nine
ty per cent. more capital than they have
invested, and this gratuitons premium
comes from the pockets of the people.
Justice requires that this sum,
amounting to between twenty and thir-
ty millions annually, he saved to the
public.
The simple process of recalling the
National Bauk notes. and substituting
for the bonds legal tenders as banking
currency will effect the needed result,
and another sink-hole for the earnings
of labor will he ctfectually stopped.
In the matter of revenur, fewer ar
tieles could be taxed, and through a
more perfect and more honest mode of
assessment and collection, much larger
returns could be realized.
Congressional extravaganza and cor
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