The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-09-18

, TO relieve themselves from all further
trouble relative to the paying of thi:
debt, Congress passed what is called 9
Funding bill. But Andrew johnson,
seeing it's great iniquity, put it in his
bIeeches pocket. BY this bill they pro-
posed to extend the time of paying the
bonds some forty years. To follow out
their programme would put some $780,
0OO, 900 in the pockets of the bondholder
and wiring it from the hard earnings oi
the people.
Greeley says to pay the bonds accord,
ing to contract would be downright
reputation. What nonsense! Is the
carrying out of contract reputation
4 The Democratic principle was right-to
pay off the debt as quick as possible.
He then illustrated how there was paid,
yearly, Sl03, 900, 900 in gold, to the bond
holders, which at the present premium
on gold would be equivalent to about
Sl79, 9,OO0, 900 in greenbacks. Now where
does this money 20 tot Does it 60 to
help liquidate the debtsf No. Six
sevenths of it goes to New England
bondholders, and this is the way it is
drawn from your pockets. No wonder
tucS "ioh w PtoiohB eho Pay hi0he ".
this debt! Such would be tue practical
effect of this Funding Bill. He showed
that it took about as much to run the
Government one year as it would have
taken to have run it twenty years un-
der the administration of Andrew jack
son. Our taxes are just about six
times as much as they were before this
party got into power.
The ordinary expenses of the Govern
ment before tho war was about S56, ,OOO,-
600. Now the expenses arc some Sl79,-
100000. The civil service is more than
quadrupled. The expenses of the army
was about Sl2, 100000 Now it is seme-
thing like SS0,O00,000. Then our flag
was honored by every nation, and re-
spected on every sea. He then expatia-
ted upon the iniquity of taxing the
honest toll of honest people to support
the idle and dissolute negro.
Now out of the vast sum that is paid
the Government, how much is expended
in West Virginia and Ohioi Does Uncle
Sam come here to get his ritlesf No.
He comes here with his big carpet bag
and asks for greenbacks. When he has
got what he wanted, he returns to
Springfield and purchases his rifles.
When he wants cloth to clothe the boys
in blue, he comes again with his carpet
bag after another haul of greenbacks,
and then returns to Lowell to buy his
cloth. So when he wants shoes he
leyies his taxes on you Wheelingites
and gets his money, and then goes to
Lynn to purchase his shoes. Here is
where the money goes. 1t is to build
up the towns of the New England
States.
He then went into a detailed state
ment and showed how the system of the
National Banks operated. The Yankee
was a cunning creature. When they
had got as much money as they wanted
in the way of National Banks, they
turned round and passed law that the
circulation of National Bank notes
should not exceed 100000, 600. This
put stop to the system, as they had
nearly the whole. In New England it
would allow $40 to every man, woman
and child, while in the Northwestern
States it woula not average S.. BY
this system Yankee gets Sc, while
we of the West get 81. Is it any won
der that Vermont and Maine should go
Radicali Their love of money is so
great and so well legislated for that
were it possible for them to get to Heav-
en-, they would try for Radical policy
thsro.
He then went into a lengthy disser-
tation on the impoverished condition Of
the South. He said Ohio paid more rev.
enuc than the whole of the ten South.
ern States. Hamilton county alone
paid as much as eight of those States.
And yet these States were once the
largest contributors to the revenue.
He then showed how different pol
icy would have won those States back.
But the negro was put over them. He
cited history to show that for period
of four thousand years these negroes
had never advanced in civilization.
And yet China had been the protector
and inventor of many great improve
ments. Mr.. L. then closed with beau
tful peroraton.
Tho Hon. Heister Clymer was then in.
troduced who delivered an affecting and
eloquent address. He commenced by
referring to the anniversary of the day.
How many years ago the State of his
nativity, old Pennsylvania, in coniunc
tion with the other States which formed
the original thirteen, met together and
signed the Constitution-that instru
ment so dear to every Democrat.
Ohio was the first State created out
of the magnanimous donation of land
to the General Government by the Old
Dominion. Now the same Old Vir-
ginia was in trouble. She was con.
sidered out of the Union by the party
in power. He would like to inquire
what were some of the principles of
that instrument which is the soul of this
Government. After the revolution, the
Old Dominion asked the thirteen States
to come together and form Constitu-
tion that should meet all the wants of
the people.
In that Constitution there was in
corporated the great fundamental prin-
ciples of Republican Government. 1t
recognized three distinct branches of
the government-the Executive, the
Legislative and the Judicial. Has that
principle been carried outi In your
own beautiful city see building that
should stand as a living, lasting wit
ness to the shame and disgrace of the
Republican party. The principles of
that great charter Of American Liberty
have been ihfracted. Is there man
within the sound of my voice, be he
Democrat or Republican, whs will no,
admit that change is needed. That
change we are laboring for. Shall an
army of $4,000 men be kept to assist the
negro to domineer over our white breth-
red and we be taxed to death TO sup
port the infamous and unconstitutional
act, and thus render our brethen slaves 7
Can he govern them by hatei To do
so requires the strong arm of the mill
tary. Are we to see Poland or an Ire
land made out of oar Southern breth-
renf Are we of the North going to con-
sent that the degraded, brutal negro
shall be put over the white people of
the South. 1t is for such purposes that
our taxes are made so onerous. You are
taxed from Sl2,000,O00 to SIS ,00O, 900 to
feed aud clothe these indolent and
filthy negroes. Are you willing to
keep it upi If not, then vote to make