The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1868-08-07
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" nat IN abomlDable nnancIaI record she
radical party of the country has. It has
such a record as civilized nations never
saw before. More than fifteen hundred
millions of dollars have been collected by
the federal government IN taxes during the
three years since the federal government
proclaimed the close of the war and the es-
adjustment of peace throughout the coun-
try. Yes, more than one thousand FIVE
hundred millions, more than one-half
enough to pay the whole of 0ar enormous
public debt What a mighty, what an al
most inconceivable sum to be raised or
wruug from people within so brief a Pc
riod OF peace! The conception of such an
amount lays a heavy contribution upon the
power of calculation and even of imagins-
tion. It is altogether startling.
Think of it. Consider it. Contemplate
it. Look at it on all sides One thousand
FIVE hundred millions of dollars within three
years of peace-enough TO pay off the prin-
cipal of any national debt in the world ex-
cept our own, or Great Britain or France
And what has become of the money =
Z
Where is it? What good has it done the
people as individuals or as q nation Is it
less than it was at the close of the war .
Is the public debt reduced No; it is
more, more by some millions than it was
three years ago, when peace was declared.
Whilst the radicals of Congress- have been
engaged In all sorts Of unconstitutional,
laWless and reckless schemes for The per-
maneut establishment of their own power
and the power Of their party, schemes to
break down the co -oI dinate departments of
the government, schemes to reconstruct the
most beautiful portion of the q nion upon
the basis of negro rule and white subjuga.
ton, one thousand FIVE hundred millions Of
dollars have been extracted by radical
screw power from the pockets of 3 groan-
ing people, and all the while the public debt
has been growing.
| The radicals have had full control of the
government for eight years, and We all do
know that they promised that they would
give to the country upon the recurrence of
peace. They proclaimed that We should
have at once a restored, prosperous and
happy Union, Aat harmony and quiet
should prevail throughout all our borders
North and South. But nominal peace has
continued almost as long as the war did,
/ and yet another kind of war and even a
more wretehed kind of war has all the
while been raging. aud is still raging, and
| this new and worse war has cost the North
One thousand i've hundred millions of dol
lars, aad to the South tears and groans
enough TO wet the earth and fill the heav-
ems. These are terrible things to contem-
plate, but they should be contemplated as
calmly and yet as firmly aDd resOlutely as
human souls can contemplate them.
When radical speakers come before you,
fellow-eitizens, to address you upon the
Presidential election and to ask votes for
Grant aud Colfaz, demand of them what
| has become Of the one thousand Eve hun
dreed millions Of dollars raised by taxation
from the people IN time of peace. En-
quire Of them what their party has to shoW
for it. If they hesitate to answer, thunder
the question ia their ears second time
If they still hesitate. thunder it third
time. Thunder like Jove till the answer
/ comes.
Where have the one thousand FIVE hun
dred millions of dollars gone?