The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-09-11


ever, with the less favorable state
ment which has already been giver
on page 2. But they have q right tC
lay claim to the payment of several
items not yet enumerated, which dc
not belong to the ordinary expenses
of the Government, but most of which
have grown out of and are chargeable
to this Democratic Rebellion. They
may be stated thus:
Refunded State expenses for
the War Si0,3J0, g OF
Paid for property destroyed
during the war ll,00e ,0O(
Paid for Alaska (reduced to
greenbaoks) 10000, ,OOC
Paid in all s3l, $3.50 ,OO(
REHABILITATION.
Showing amount actually paid by
the Republican Administration in
eight years
Paid towards cost of rebel
lion 1851, 500, 2s2 81
Paid interest on
debt s5s7.47s,ls 4s
P'd State advances
for the war lO,ssO, 900 co
Paid pensions and
Indians lO5.6l6, ,2s2 so
Paid Alaska pur-
cIase (curroncy
valus) 10000. 900 90
Paid property de-
stroyed by war,
etc lO,OOO,OUO w
---s723 ,425, AL %
Total actual payment sl,6Il 1884, ,T54 A;
In giving, on a previous page, what
is stated TO he the entire amount
which this stupendous Democratic
rebellion has cost the country, (s3,
337 ,934, $50 76, neither the interest
winch the Republicans have paid
the amount paId for pensions, nor the
amount refunded to loyal States,
were added, as they should be, to
show the whole expense of the war.
These items, as will be seen by ref
erence to the table amount to S723,
425, All 93, which will swell the grand
total to the stupendous sum of S4,
l01 ,SSl.0T0 66 which the rebellion
cost. The tax payers have paid very
nearly half this amount. But they
must continue to pay in interest,
pensions, bOunties, etc, for an indefi-
mite period, two hundred millions of
dollars a year as the inevitable ne
cessary expense of the four years
struggle OF the Democratic party to
destroy this Government. More
than four thousand millions of dol
lars the people of this country have
already paid, or have yet to pay, be
sides nearly an equal AMOUNT in in
terest, before the debt shall be extin-
guished, as the cost of that wicked,
unprovOked and infamous rebellion.
EXPENSES OF RECONSTRUCTION AND
FREEDMEN's BUREAU.
But even this sum, enormous as it
is, does not include the State, county,
and municipal expenditures in rals-
ing troops, which have not been as
sumed by the national Government.
Nor does it include the vast expendi-
lures of individuals and commissions
for the care of the sick and wounded,
aud of the families of those who went
forth to battle, all of which may be
estimated at not less than $500, ,000,-
600, and all to be charged to the
Democratic rebellion.
In view of these terrible facts, and
the further fact that the Democratic
party for three years has continued
through its leaders to defraud the
Government out of full one hundred
millions a year of the whisky tax,
besides its other stupendous frauds,
what can be more knavish, contem-
ptible, and disgraceful than the terri
BILE cOntortiOns and affectations of
horror over alleged extravaganza in
the Freedmen's Bureau, amounting
to a few hundred thousand in all,
since its organization These char
ges are proved to be as false as the
traitors who make them, by the fol
lowing official statement in regard TO
the Freedmen's Bureau expenses:
According to the accounts of the
Treasury the expenses of the Freed
mems Bureau, since its organization
in 1866, have been as follows:
Disbursements prior to June 30,
1861 ) l45, ,42O Sc
Disbursements from July, l, 1867
to June 80, ISGs l,7ss, go 90
Total s2,3Ii ZOO SO
Concerning the proportion of this
expenditure incurred by the Bureau
for the relief of the starving and des-
titute of both races, and for educa-
tional and other purposes, the Treas
ury has no information.
According to the account of the
Treasury, the expenditures cOntin-
gent upon the acts of Congress regu-
lating "ReconstructiOn," have been
as follows:
Disbursements prior to June 30,
lS6T ST. 4O2 900
Disbursements from July /, 1867,
To June 80, lsoS 200
Total sj,6l7 900
And this amount, comparatively
small as it is for the great work it
has accomplished, grows out of and
is one of the necessities of the rebel
lion, and must, therefore, be placed
to the credit of the rebel Copperhead