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


III year over and above the interest on the
public debt, S222 ,000, 900 more than Mr. Bu--
chanan spent for every purpose of govern
ment: What has become ofit ? think the
Freedmen's Bureau took some. .---
NkEA CHANGE NEEDED. 700
Don't you think, gentlemen, we had bet
ter change this ? To keep the people OF. tter
South down, we have been supporting five.
standing armies in the South. Let us call
them home, and let the people once more
govern by their own will. Let us take the
military man out of his seat and put the
judge back again let us turn the court-mar-
tial out of their court, and put the iury
there; 4et Gus abolish the military decree,
and put the law back again. JUST lat -the
people govern themselves; LETT them make
their own laws, according to the sentiments
of the fathers aud it viii not cost much
Why, back in the times of John Quincy
Adams it only cost about thirteen million
dollars to carry on the Government; in the
time of Andrew Jackson it only cost twenty
million dollars; but now it has gone up to
three hundred millions, and if fyou dom T. stop
1T you are ruined. Z sd.lti = 9AAgf- /" "a
TIE REAL ENEMIES OF THE BoNDHoLDERs.
They say the bondholder is in danger FROM
the Democrats. i deny that The bondhoId- .
{ ers are in9danger from the men who are im-s'1r ?
poverishing the people SO that they can not [
pay off their debt. 4, We saw brin the ARMY
home let us call back the army Let ILL., Z
3 erty once more govern the, people. 1t is I
b. cheap despotism is costly q . g firf
There is no need of ifty-six Thousand men
in the army, Before the war our army was
but eleven thousand: strong. Let us bring
all but twenty-five thousand of these men
home, and these twenty-five Thousand ought
to be supported at anexpense of twenty-five
million dollars annually, and we will thus
save seyenty-five million dollars year, and
that will help to pay the debt pretty fast.
Z "ARE You IN FAVOR OF PAYING THE BONDS
Z ,.s-~-s IN GREENBACKs."
What do you think about the bonds? Are
; you in favor of paying them in greenbacks,g
IA voice: /" In greeubacks all the time.."1 Let
us see what the Republican, platform SAYS
on this subject: e" We -denounce all forms of
c repudiation as a national crime, and nation
al honor requires payment of the public in
debtedness III the utmost good faith to all
creditors, at home and abroad, not only ac-
cording to the letter, but to the spirit of the
G law under which il was contracted
That is what the Republicans said at Chi
4 cago. They did not say that they wanted.
to pay the debt in gold, or that they wanted
to pay it in greenbacks.N They said there
d shall be no reputation. Stand up to the
work and pay the debt. not only according
to the letter, but according to the spirit of 81
the contract What is the spirit Well, the
Democrats say that the spirit is the letter.
The spirit of the contract was the law under,
which the bonds issued, and that law pro-
yided for their payment in legal money of
the United States, and it declared legal-ten-o
ders or greenbacks to be the lawful money
of the United States. -o siHeS4a sfiE
p e.rf ses1 TIE FUNDING BILL.s-.
8 The Congress of the United States being
Radical, passed bill to fund the National
debt; and l wish to explain that 20 you
= that you may understand exactly what the
Radicals are in favorof. They passed the
bill, and it went to President johnson Just
five minutes before the adjournment. The
bill provides for taking up all the fve-twen-
ty bonds-sixteen hundred millions of them
and issuing in their stead new bonds,7 to
run forty years, the interest to be four and a
half per cent, to be paid every year in gold;
= and these bonds would not be,subject to ia K
alton for National purposes and for State
purposes. The effect of it would be- that
every year we would have to pay one hun
dred millions of dollars in gold, and that
would go on for forty years. We would
2 then have paid four Thousand millions inter-
est in gOld,iand the principal of the debt
about two Thousand millions-would still be
there. - i'-. ''i-
And You are asked to say that that is
right. You are asked to support it. They
tried to get that bill through, but 1 think
the President has not signed it, and I think
I it is not a law, and so you have a chance to u
P strike at the coming election. Strike for the
party that is with ynu. If you think to pay q
e,debt in gold is your interest, vote for it;
if in greenbacks, vote for it.
When that bill was passed through Con-
gress by party vote, they intended to say
to the people that these bonds are to be paid, o
in gold. le sGpi44.is 4.,+,..C, ..,tt ,.i ,-..s -
y Radical speakers say that the Democrats,
y IN their platform, have declared they areJin q
favor OF taxing every species of property
according to its value, including Govern-
nlent, bonds and other public. securities. -. q
II III will tho
subject of the Chicago platform: I" 1t is due 8
to the labor of the Nation that taxation shall
be equalized and reduced as rapidly as the
National faith will permit -f..-o,f,
What has the National faith to do with it?
The National faith has not anything to do q
!. with taxing your lands But the National
faith, as they claim, has much to do with
the taxation of the bonds. -; -. s.,
b The Democrats say, tax all kinds of prop
7erty, including Government bonds They 10
say tax every thing equally, except where
the National faith won't let you tax, and
+ they claim that the, National faith does not
forbid the taxation of the bonds
poi The Republican party has been weighed
Z in the balances and found wanting-they
are gone up. .s4
s- THE PROGRESS OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. f'
-rm.t 5lH SUFFRAGE ..|r 7Hsf1ugHlF
2 take an interest in this election, because
l want to stop this onward progress of Radi-
calisin. The question, is not whether there
shall be negro suffrage in tho Southern
States, but whether there shall be negro
suffrage in Indiana Us well as in the South
ern States. l will read you little of %
speech made by Governor Morton, Just to
remind you of what is going on. A year ago
there was a vote taken in Ohio upon the
Constitutional Amendment to allow negroes
to vote, and Governor Morton went over into
Ohio TO help his Radical friends carry that
amendment, and in a speech at Columbus
he used the following language: "Theques-
tion of impartial suffrage is now submitted
to the people of Ohio. 1t is proposed to al
low the colOred man to vote upon like terms +
and conditions with the white man. If you
shall refuse, you will then stand naked be-
fore your enemies. 1t will be Missed scorii-
fully in your faces that your immortal prin-
ciples of equal rights are only for Sonthern
consumption, and that the Radicalism of
Ohio is only cheat and a sham" '''iAil i'
a'l That is what Governor Morton says of
negro suffrage. & s'-l' '' q
l have no word to say against the negro
He lis free; now let him remain free. Let
him be happy, and let him work that he
may be happy. Let him earn his bread by
the sweat of his brow. But am opposed
to handing over to him the control of the
States, or of the General Government I
say that our fathers were right in saying q
that this was white mans government, to
be controlled by white men. l say that I
do not deem the negro to be my equal. If
any gentleman thinks in regard to himself
that the negro is his equal, have no strife
with him on this subject We meet the
question squarely: we are against negro
suffrage. '' E.
b CONCLUSION. -,s.t5,i-',
There are some other matters that would
have referred to, but l feel that l have al
ready detained you longer than should o.
The Democrats of this State thought it
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