Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-30

longer able to enrich her satraps-the
proper township in the county of Henry,
in this State, could be compelled to
maintain him as public charge. And
moreover, General Willard Warner, a
noble confrere of his from Ohio, has, j
observe, just .been5 elected a United
States Senator from Alabama !i7ud 1ne
These are the doings of the Republi-
canparty, and if not marvellous in your
eyes, they are at least costly to your
pockets. These are part of the bless.
ings over which the Chicago platform
exults, and a continuance, and, indeed,
a multiplication of which they promise
upon the election of General Ulysses
5. Grant. 1B5w nc Gs5s0J fcn tt--qa bss1
RANK INJUSTICE OF THE REcoNsTRUC-
-.-e--... - TIoN Policy. t',A'c y
81 Now, gentlemen, suppose, for mo-
ment that the case was. reversed, and
that the, South had waged successful
war of conquest against you here in the
West, and had compelled, by force and
arms, the introduction, of slavery here,
and you had surrendered in good faith,
under, pledge, and promise OF. all other
rights within the Union, under the Con-
stitution; and that when you, had no
further power to resist, Southern Con-
gress had, at the point of the bayonet,
forced constitutions, governments and
laws upon you against your will, and
that victorious and insolent South Car
olina had sent up here the meanest and
basest of her vagabond sSand Hill"
citizens with carpet bags in their hands,
to represent you, the once free, white
men of Ohio, in the Senate and House
at the Federal capital, and to usurp the
places once filled by the Morrows, the
McLeans, the Corwins, the Ewings, the
Hamers, and the Aliens of this glorious
Commonwealth what would have been the
emotion of wrath and Indignation which
would have burned within your bosoms?
And yet to just such indignities are
South Carolina and Virginia, and their
sister States of the "Old Thirteen"
scorched and SCARED all over with the
flames of the war of 1776, subjected, by
the false and degenerate sons of the New
England sires, who stood shoulder to
shoulder by them in that grand revolu-
tionary conflict, which, in blood and suf-
fering, and with precious treasure, first
bought us our liberties. aH
Ah, but "these men are now rebels and
traitors, and you, the Democracy, receiv-
ed them with open arms and gushing
hearts to your recent Presidential Con-
vention." Thank God,we did; and by none
were they hailed with more cordial well
come than by, not the bloodless though
bloodthirsty home loyalists of the war,
but by the gallant and noble heroes, the
Hancocks, the Franklins, the Ewings,
the Blairs, the Slocums and the Steed-
mans, who had met them in deadly con-
flict amid the sulphurous canopy and
shock of battle. We mean to have peace
indeed; we intend to restore the Union
in fact; and to-day we know these men
only as our friends, fellow-citizens ana
brothers-the descendants of the Wash
ingtons, the Lees, the Hamptons, the
Sumters, the Marions, the Prestons, the
Haynes, the Laurens and others, who,
side by side, stood with the Hancocks,
the Adamses, the Starks, the Putnams,
the Gates and the Waynes of the North
in the heroic revolutionary struggle of
'76, or with their sons and grandsons in
the later conflict of 1912, or the Mexican
war of 1S46-Americans all, whose fame
is the patrimony of the whole country.
This is peace; this is Union; this alone is
the blessed vision of the seers and
prophets of an age gone by: One Consti-
tuition, one country, one destiny! =,
| So much for reconstruction. And
now, gentlemen, word upon humber,
yet more practical and scarce less i'm
portant subjects. @'.S q, i.' 9. 81
] TAXATION, TARIFF AND REVENUE. a
| And first as to taxation in its double
form-Tariff and Internal Revenue.
The sole foundation of the right of Gov
ernment to appropriate any part of the
property of the citizen, by taxation, is
the necessity of supporting the Govern
ment in its several departments, work
ing strictly within the line of their duty;
and the only measure of the right is the
extent of the necessity, a reasonable
economy being the fixed rule by which
to terminate that necessity. Every dol
lar which the Government extracts from
the people beyond this, is sheer, DOWN
right robbery. Now, protective tariff
in its very nature, implies the levying of
tax not for the necessities of the Gov
ernment, but for the benefit of a class.
Levied upon articles of manufacture, it
| 80 ,nona,y trapSfarrad h1y oot &C ~,
gress, from the pockets of the consumer
to the bank account of the manufactures.
And this is robbery. Previous to the
war and in Democratic times, an average
duty of some fifteen per cent. was laid
upon imports; and without a dollar of
internal revenue collected by the Fed
eral Government, the amount received
was ample to pay the then seventy or
eighty millions of expenditures. Now,
as part of the blessings of Republican
rule, continuance of which you are
promised under General Grant, these
duties run from nominal sum or moth
ing, on raw material, to three hundred
per cent. on manufactures, averaging
upon the whole list more than iorty-fi
per cent. And of this, one-half at least
is an absolute gift by the Government to
the manufacturing Interest," gift taken
by robbery from your pockets. Eleven
times has the tariff been raised by sew
eral acts of Congress since 1860, and we
have now just barely, by the adjourn
ment yesterday, escaped another eleva-
ton. Oh, the choice blessings of Re-
publican rule, which are to be continued
and multiplied under Grant
But the inequity, and the iniquity, too,
of the tariff, is greatly aggravated by
the fact that its chief burdens fall upon
us of the West. One-half of the pro-