The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-09-16
arpet-Baggers

I do not want the expansion of the
currency for another reason. Taking
advantage of the fact that the Senators
and Representatives from the South
ern States which were agricultural
States, were cut of the Congress, these
New England manufacturers improved
the opportunity to put the screw on US,
and enacted a tariff greater and heavier
than we ever had before. They say,
awe have reduced the taxes" Ga
what have they reduced the taxes? On
manufacturers Will that reduce the
price of manufactured goodsr Not
while hat high tariff stands no similar
goods can be imported from ~abroad;aDd
Mr.. New England man has the monop
ly of the market, aud can charge what
he wants. That reduction of taxes is
not for you ; 1t is for them.
Do you wonder why they refuse to
admit representatives truly representing
the people of the agricultural States ?
DO you know why they want negroes to
represent the Southern States? Do you
wonder why they want that other class
of vermin, meaner than the meanest
thing heretofore known on the face of the
earth FL mean the carpet-bagger-
because he represents nothing. He is
the locust or the grasshopper Of this
year that passes away, and no man
knows his habitatIon. Those who
do represent the people of these States
will submit no longer to this New Eng
land imposition which is put upon
them, 10 every department OF. the
Government, in every way in which
it could be dons, our money grung
from us, and kept from the Treasury
by the legislation Of the infamous Con-
gress, has been used to plunder the
people of the agricultural States; to
skim off the rich alluvium Uf u val
legs tc make the black shores and
barren mountains Of New England
smile.
But, fellow citizens, before we .ear
return to specie payments-before we
Ncan do nything-we must again re
store the past of the country
which existed before the war. We
restore stability, industry, and the re
wards Of Industry to that great section
of our country which lies South of the
Ohio river.-When we have restored
those vast agricultural our Of
wealth to the tax duplicate, then the
sinews of our neighbor may be a little
relaxed. Before the war, what did we
export? Very little pork ; very little
wheat or -four. We exported cotton
and rice, and tobacco and sugar, and
these have all been restored, in order
that we might show a proper philan-
thropy toward the negro.
We must restore the condition of
those States ; we must have that wealth
to bear the taxes which are necessary
to support this public debt, and to re
duce it-by an equal system of taxa.
ton, and by an honest administration Of
the Government-to reduce this tax
to some reasonable mount. And now,
are we going to get the help of the
Southern States with these gentlemen
in power :? No never. To be sure
they say so. 1t is almost done Virginia
is standing out, to be sure, and Missis-
sippi standing out, and Texas standing
out, and Alabama wanted=to stand out,
bat they enticed her in with q stick
And what have they got for it :? Got
State Governments in the South ?
Why, 1 read in this mornings paper
the complaint of one of these carpet
baggers from Tennessee and another
from South Carolina praying that thi-
House of Representatives would not ad-
journ, although it was very hot weather
for if they did adjourn without arming
the negroes the State Governments
would disappear before the day of the
Presidential election. (laughter.)
There was no body for them except
these men whom We have imposed on
them through this Congress, the very
scum of the earth. The people who
could never be elected to Office among
US have gone down there, and while
nearly the whole of the white popu.a
ton have been DISTINGUISHED, in viola
ton of the laws of nations, while this
has been done, these impositors, these
creatures without honor and without
shame, are returned to fill the seats in
Congress once filed by Calhoun and
Jackson, and such great names in the
history of our country. (Applause y
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