Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-15

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Andersonville prison. Z" Oh, what of that ?
These we're only white boys, and Governor
Brown has now turned to be Radical, and
we will forgive Brown for all the men that
languished and died in Andersonville pris-
on But that Forrest, damn him, we will
never forgive ,him.,hi {" Hit him again. y
Laughter and applause L. 8 dara 1s7-I FL.
That is the way red handed rebels are re-
stored to power. But as a matter of fact
who are restoring red-handed rebels to pow
er Z? / hold in my hand three bills that were
passed during the last month of the session
, of Congress, passed by the Radical votes
by two-thirds majority in the House-and
it became law. will read one of them
They are all the same: W0HI
"Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States in
Congress assembled (two. thirds of each
House concurring tberein): That all legal
and political disability imposed by the
United States upon the following -named
|, citizens of the Southern States, hereinafter
ment. oned, in consequence of participation
in the recent rebellion, be and the same are
hereby removed" tsffc1zr sf1 pi l1Hm ~
And here follow the names of the men,
ten or twelve hundred of them, from whom
all political disabilities are removed-men
men who were CONNECTED with the rebellion
some who went out of Congress at the break
ing out of the rebellion, and when they left
Congress said they must go with the States
to fight the Union others who made ap.
peals TO the young men of the South to raj.
ly under the Palmetto banner against the
Stars and Stripes; others who commanded
regiments and corps and trigades in the
Southern army; others who were engaged
in running the blockade, carrying in muni.
tions of war and medicine to the Southern
army; and one who is pardoned in these
bills is said to have been one of the keepers
of Andersonville prison. .'ai
Why. are these men pardoned with the
blood dripping from their fingers ends, with
the blood still dripping frem their skirts q
Northern blood, Indiana blood. Why is it
that they are pardoned and restored to po-
litical power2 Why is it that all disabili-
ties for taking any offices, from the Presi-
dency down, have been removed by special
act of Congress from these men, the very
leaders in the rebellion? 1t is not because
they love the Constitution and the flag more
than others in the South, or that they obey
ed the law better than others; but it is be-
cause they have gone into the Radical party,
and they are now fighting for negro suprem-
acy. Applause, and cries of "that's so.']
THE DEMAGoGUEs OF THE SOUTH.
And when they tell you that the Demo
Gratis are trying to restore red-handed reb-
els to power, yor ask them who passed
been passed, restoring men to political pow
er, and fofgiving their participation in the
rebellion, and enabling them to hold office.
If they would select the best men in the
South, would have no objection TO such a
bill as this but they select the meanest
dogs there. GLaughter.l Hfg-J .'4Tsll
What sort of men was it in the South that
commenced this rebellion, and made speeches
to the young men of the South, and said to
them, "These Abolitionists of the North are
trying to take your niggeIs from you, and
they are trying to restrict you from the Ter
ritories we are bound to fight that slavery
shall be allowed in the Territories, and we
will bring on war. And then, as soon as the
war is over, in order to secure the favor of
the political party in power, they say, "Hur-
rah for the nigger and all his rights !''
Laughter and applause.
THE PATRIOTS OF THE SOUTH.
Will you trust such nan? 1"No, new
er !''T OF course he is not worthy of your
confidence. And that is the class of men
they are restoring to political power, -.. '.-.
The kind of men l respect are the men in
the South who felt it to be their duty to 60
into the war, fought it as honorable men,
and when the war was over laid down their
arms and said, t"We acquiesce in the result
of the war, and we claiM for our State its
ancient government and its ancient author
lGy, anu we w Ill i've DIS Id1bnIul uIl-
der the Constitution and the law.p Cheers I
And long to see the day when all men who
obey the law, and bow to the flag, from the
Lakes of the North to the Cults of the South.
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, shall be re-
stored to citizenship, to friendship, to kind.
ness, to devotion to the common cause of
the country. tGreat applause, and cries of
Z" good" 1sif [as g lF ii"-' '-l.i-i tiaa y
, The next appeal that is made to the preiu-
dire of. tla DaOnlq IS the M of Ill
What do you think it is? They tell you
that the poor man has no taxes to paw, and
therefore he need not trouble his head or
open his mouth about it. 1t is deception
by which certain men seek to get into Con-
gress. Before l left Evansville this morn.
ing saw the Radical paper there. 1t gave
ali account of a speech that General Veatch
made there last night, and all he talked
about was that the poor man paid no taxes :;
and he expected to get their votes and go to
Congress upon that alone He didn't say
whether he was in favor of making the
bondholder pay taxes or hot-not a word
about whether there should be equality of
taxation, but just that the poor man paid no
taxes. and he was in favor of that - p
Gentlemen, in England avoter must have
property in order to be allowed to vote; and
it is so in France. But it is not so in Amer
lea. A man don't vote in the United States
merely because he owns property. He does
not participate in the management of the
government merely because he owns prop
erty. 1t is because he is a white man, be-
cause he is a man. You recollect Franklin's
illustration of the property qualification A
man must be worth two hundred and fifty
dollars under some laws in order to vote. If
he happened to own a horse worth that
amount this year he can vote, but next wear
if the horse dies he hasn't any two hundred
and fifty dollars, and he can't vote. Frank
lin asked whether it was the man or the
horse that really did vote. Laughter.
Now, gentlemen, in this country We all
vote-the rich and the poor-because it is
the common Government of us all The
poor man that works upon the farm, or that
works in the machine-shop, has Just as much
right to speak of the policy of the Govern
ment and call the public servants to account
as John Jacob Astor with his sixty millions
in the city of New York. He could not pet
but one vote under our free institutions
although his property is worth more than
all the property in Gibson county. So of
the great millionaire Stewart; he cannot
give but one vote, the same as the porter
who carries his goods from counter to count.
er. That is the Democratic spirit of our
Government. But it has been talked around
here in Southern Indiana that the poor man
pays no taxes, and, therefore, should close
up his mouth about the politics of the day
You are not to talk politics because Won
have no taxes to pay. wonder if the poor
man don't have any taxes to pay I? 1t is
news to me if he don't.
Mr.. Henderson now proceeded to show
how the taxes were paid by the laborino
man, the real consumer; taking as an illus
tration the article of wooden DDS, the orig
inal price being sixteen cents, but which costs
the retail buyer forty-four cents per yard.
He proceeded: The next appeal that they
make to you is that Democrats are in favor
of increasing taxation, and therefore they
are in favor of taxing your lands to support
the Government of the United States. Who
said that Who said that the Democrats
wanted to tax the lands to support the Gov
ernnent2 Who passed such bill? 1t did
pass once, and there have been twenty mil
lions of dollars collected off the lands of the
country, paid by the people of the United
States, and the people of Indiana. Twenty