Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-10

not want any more Congresses that are
Radical, and have to suggest sixty-nineh
different amendments to the Constitution
OF the United States in one session. Laugh
teri She may have her faults and defects,
but, in Gods name, let us stand by her, for
she is the Constitution, and that is every
thing to us now. Beneath our country's
Constitution, in the eye of God and man. Is
the temple of the patriots love and honor.
And yet the leader of the Radical party,
Thaddeus Stevens, the man over whose
memory convention after convention has
Deen called, for the purpose of making it
h oly, declared that the Legislation of Con-
gress was outside of the Constitution of
the country. And every mani who hast
studied it knows it and feels il, that they
have gone beyond any precedent establish
ed by the action of the fathers. Now, we
call upon the men of the ceuntry-te stand
by thelCOnstitution; to forget h.ir' preju-
dices and their passions, their party affilia-
tions and to act according to the ,neces-
sities OF the times and the requirements of
duty. 1 ,NfG-id n HyEH4 .UT9
If men say they are to be simply partf-
sans, nothing more. are to disregard the
action of this Congress, there is no use in
talking to them, whatever. But If men
wish to act according to duty, to right.
with proper regard for their own Interests
and those who are to come after them,
there is but one course for US to pursue,
and that is to change the American Con-
gress and give to us an entirely different
class of men. 1t seems to have become
question at the present time OF one of two
things; a man, To be 10y al. must be either
bondholder or the advocate of the negro.
want to talk to you a little about the
bondholding question. i am no financier.r
have, never had much finances of my
own, and the little have had I have not,
been able to manage yeryzwell. But still T.
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tion. 4 know that It is said "the love Of
money is the root of all evil" know it
is the strongest passion of human nature
know that when God Almighty issued his
commandments to MosesnBpen the Mounts
he said, ssthonssha1t not coyet thy Neigh
boris house; thou shalt not covet thy neig b.
boris wife" he. put the. property In advance
of the wife. know q, great many of my
neighbors whose houses i would a thunder
ing sight rather have than their wives.
At my age, you know, men are more in
elined to look after property than women:
/ When the. devil tempted Christ, the last
thing he offered him, the greatest induce
meht; was the possession of the earthsCIt
was God that answered. If it had been q
bondholder, Christ would rbaye dropped on
his knees so quick that the devil would
have thought that the ightning had struck
him. .sbTs3ssy SIoI VA III b3soio oIo3
These are the men you have to contend
with. Read the advertisement that Jay
( Cooke & Co. put out, and see whether that
I talks as much about risking to save the
country as itdoes about the profitable In
I vestment that is to be made and how well
( it will pay. SUPPOSE the country had goneD
down in the throes of that terrible reyolu-
! ton, what would any property have been
worth, Of any sort? Nothing at all. Then 0
these men could risk their money by in
vestment in bonds, because the bonds would
/ be redeemed if any thing were redeemed.
D 70 fl ha,, hi fnsr
/ else would be valueless. They invested be-
! cause it was good operation. They talk
about YOUR waShwomen, and your labOrers,
/ and your mechanics all going into this.
/ work so earnestly and putting in their $50
I and Sl00. The way to testthis matter is to
! find out what is in the cocoanut by burst
( theshell. Where is the laborer in this town
I that has bond? Where is the washwoman
I that has bond? No; l tell you that our
bonds are held by the moneyed men of the
country, the rich men; your bankers, your
/ operators and capitalists and they have
done well by their investment. Their
bonds are good things .,4,,,. = =.
What doy men here in Sandusky pay
as tax every year-how muehon hundred
dollars? A voice-"3 40.nl Now suppose
one of you men lent a hundred dollars to
somebody, according to the lawful inter
ests of the State of Ohio he gets six per
cent. That would be six dollars. Now
subtract your So 40 from that and you get
$500 for your money. How much does
the fellow that owns the bonds get? He
gets ten dollars at least, for it--not less
than ten per cent. Now why ought not
you to make as much money as he makes?
What is sauce for the goose ought to be
sauce for the gander.a [Laughter.J ~ 9ai
General Geiger then entered upon dis
cussion of the practical workings of the
National Bank system. Suppose, q man
went to one of these banks to get saccom-
modation." Accommodation, he said, was
by passing a very sharp knife down through
him and letting out his entrails.i The bank
generally had a shaving shop close at hand
where they sent men to get money on their
paper, and where they would buy the pa
per at about five per cent. on which they
had already paid six per cent. af L .nsisss
What is the difference between Nation
al Bank note and your note? 1 have put
out my note sometimes on demand, and L
found it came travelling home devilish
qhick.s You pay interest on your note and
pay them interest on their no5es.foyf bss 81
He said you could not buy National bank
stock in Columbus for less than thirty per
cent, which showed that it was a profita-
Bile Investment He secuted the idea ofre-
pudiation, saying that if the Government
could not pay the notes with which she
redeemed the bonds she could not pay the
bonds themselves. Sappese the bonds are
redeemed in greenbacks. every one, then,
VINO mas any n0uey at ali Will naVe,-lI III
greenbacks, and it will be for the interest
of every one to maintain their credit
Then, too; the money which is now locle l
up in the bonds would be brought out and
expended in railroads and other enter
prises which would benefit the country, be-
cause the money holders could not afford
to let ito remain idle. They talk about
money being too plenty. 1t may be so; but
have never found it too plenty for me.-
Every body is comp planning of fscarcity now.
What we want is more money. 4Gsfi sdJ
After thanking the audience, General
Gefger concluded, amid enthusiastic cheer