The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-01
The Cost Of Tyrnuny.

A day or two ago attention was called
to the enormous appropriations the sa
traps of the military provinces were
calling for, to defray the current ex-
penses of working their respective des-
potisms. 1t was rather hard for the
fifty thousand white men and women
out of employment here, to contemplate
those figures without feeling of indig-
nation that oil that money should be
wrung from the people, for the benefit,
mainly, of the hangers-on of the Freed
mems Bureau, and of the indolent ne
groes whom 1t was designed to main
tain-wrung from them, too, at time
when labor is scarce here at the North,
and when thousands, if not tens Of
thousands of families find it difficult to
keep themselves from starvation.
This Indignation is intensified by
some things that were done in the
rump Congress esterday-notably, the
reporting by Butler of bill, making
applications for executing the so-called
reconstruction bill thus:
Quartermaster's supplies s-.........S3, 500 900
Incidental expenses 15O,OOO
Cavalry, artillery, &c,,......... 4OO,000
Transportation OF troops. ......... 7,35o0oo
$4,000 600
Other items not specified, ......... 1000
Total .Si2 667, 900
Nearly thirteen millions of dollars to
prop up the most despicable despotism,
or series of despotisms rather, ever wit
messed in civilized country Nearly
thirteen millions to keep in clover the
Internationally loyal" leaguers from
the North, (New England cbiefy,) who
go strutting about in feathers and
shoulderystraps, with nothing to do but
draw pay, and take sides with the negro
Whenever the negro takes it into his
head to pick quarrel with tho white,
Nearly thirteen millions taken from the
pockets of Northern and Western labor
and industry, in erder that these South
ern,"provinces," thus negroized, should
comein as rotten borsughs, to connt in
the approaching Presidential election.
In otker words, nearly. thirteen OnIil-
lions to enable the negro, in q certain
contingency, TO dictate to rs white men
who shall adIninisterlthe Federal Gov
ernment for the four years following
March 4, 1869!
Enormous as are these appropriations
submitted by the hero Of Fort Fisher,
however, 1t must be borne in mind that
they are but drop in the bucket conf
pared with the grand aggregate that
will be required for similar purposes in
the course Of the year The President,
in his message, says tho annual cost OF
these mongrel military despotisms is
about twohundfed millions per ennum.
The, twelve. or thirteen odd millions
which the modest Mr.. Butler wants,
hence is but the beginning.
A certain ancient philosopher once
laid Il down as an axiom that pthe ma
jority are wicked" wscannst say how
that was in regard to the ancients, but
We dpssay that, as regards the moderus,
the majority are very great fools if they
put mp with this sort of robbefya mo-
n1entlonger than they can see their way
| to, get rid of il. The Radical party. who
are backing mp this military yreconstrnc-
tion bill, and taking all this money out
of the taxpayers pocket, for worse than
i useless purposes, are, in plain English
nothing but robbers as well as
! tyTahtst-and il is shout I'll rs II
not s--tbat the people learned to deal
with and speak of them as saehs--NeS
! Kork Express, el5I1 -l'als So gF- - ~.
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