Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-10

paid off in greenbacks, as they ought to be.
you would save by that operation eighteen
or twenty millions interest that you now
pay every year upon those bonds. Andthe |
banks being compelled to withdraw their
its place could be supplied with |
greenbacks, and thus an end be put to the |
outrageous Inequality produced by this
National bank system Tfi1Ds oa = 1el
/ And, finally, if you then needed State
banks you could have them, and regulate |
their circulation according to your wants |
EFFECT OF RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION upon
-eHoifvna1 THE NORTHWEST. % E "9iia -il
We. of the Northwest, are deeply injured
by this impoverishment of the South, and
much of that impoverishment is owing to
the Radical policy toward that section.-l
Before the war the South was one of our
best customers. Devoted to the culture OF |
cotton, rice, tobacco and sugar, it had to
resort to the Northwest for its breadstuff
and most OF its meats, and for a large por-
tion of the hay and corn necessary to sup
port its stock And not being pnanufac-
turing people, it bought of US its agricul.
tural, implements, steam engines, mill
works, steamboats,, furniture, Sc, &c. Its
custom was extremely profitable to the
Northwest, and to no State more than to
Ohio. And its prosperity enabled it to pay
lis IuH SudTc VI rGucfdl EdX3BlOn. t..-.-4-t-.,
All this is now changed. 1t is no longer
our customer, because It has no means with
which to buy. 1t no longer pays the pro-
portion of taxes it once paid, for 1t has lit
tie left it to be taxed, and scarcely any
thing to pay taxes with The consequen-
ces are that we have lost our best. or at
least one of our best customers, and our.
burden of taxation is increased because the.
South is unable to pay her part.
L NV frien0s.s have Won 3nV idaa of thp Inn
poverishment of the South? If you have
not, let me give one fact from the official
records of the Treasury Department., about,
which there can be no mistake, and which
reveals it in a startling light. You know
thatour Radical rulers have established the
most inquisitorial and searching system OF
taxation the world ever saw. 1t follows
man wherever he goes, and directly or in
directly taxes him in almost all he eats
or drinks or wears; it attends him
in sickness q, as well as Z in health,
and reluctant to give up its grasp, it ac-
companies him even to the grave; and
when, at last, he is laid in his mother
earth. it demands of his heirs or legatees, a
further tribute before they can enjoy his
estate. And yet, with all this searching in
QUESTION, the taxes paid by the ten South
ern States are less, by $5,000,000 year,
than those paid by Ohio alone. Sopovertyi
stricken is that portion of the republic
that the tax officials of the Government can
not find in all those States as much proper
ty to tax as is found in Ohio alone. Nav,
the single county of Hamilton, i'm our State:
paid in the fiscal year of 1S66-67, ST., 100 900
more taxes to the Federal Government than
did eight of the Southern States. Could
anything morecompletely demonstrate the
impoverished condition of those States, or.
more completely show how that poverty
increases our burden!
Now, my friends, repeat that all this is
in great degree owing to the Radical
policy toward those States since the war
closed. Had the right policy been pursued,
had the Southern people, after they laid
down their arms, been treated as American
citizens and not as enemies, had they been
permitted to peaceably resume the benefits
of civil government and the avocations of
peace, had they not been placed under
military domination andnegro rule.and had
no threats of sweeping confiscations been
made, long before this their ancient pros
perity would have begun to revive, the
marks of wars desolation would have be-
come fainter every day, and in a few short
years hardly trace of them would have
been found.
.aa,2 's-Ta- CONCLUSION. '''ss,sE- ~st.i
And now, my friends. pray you to pom
der over the effects upon your welfare of
Radical policy. BY its ,exerbitant tariff,
by its National debt which it seeks to per-
| petuate, by its enormous expenditures and
extravagance, by its unequal and unfair
| banking system, it draws millions upon
| millions of dollars from the pockets of the
| people of this State, to be taken beyond
our borders, leaving you impoverished,
while others are enriched. And al, the same
time, by the ruin and poverty it increases
and-prolongs at the South, it deprives you
of your natural market, and casts upon
un oh rr6n t1a< zto "a
upon the shoulders of others. Is it not /
| ask you, in view OF these facts, time TO have
a change of rulers, time to return to those
| principles and observances ofConstitution,
| law, order, peace, and economy that have
never failed TO secure to us freedom, pros
perity and happiness? Loud and prolonged
applause ~ .. .lrr. ..-. -
| :, Speech of General Geiger.
| Judge Thurman was followed by Gener-
| alJoe Geiger, of Columbus, who spoke as
| follows: o' 81 iiif vsa3 sifF 7st asv
| My FEILow-CITIzENs do not feel quite
as much at home among Democratic au-
dience as nv friend Judge Thurman. He
has always been with the party; wintered
and summered with it. When L get into a
| large Democratic audience feel a good
deal like man in Western Pennsylvania,
who inquired of boy whether he knew
where Jake Kleinfelter lived. The boy said
he did. Says he, ''Can you tell me" "Y Yes.
SIR" says the boy. ''Do you see our barn
down there? ?'' "Yes," says he. "Go to
that. About three hundred yards beyond
the barn you will find a lane. Take that
lane and follow along for about mile and
| half. Then you will come to branch. Go
up the branch about quarter of mile
and then yon will come to slippery-elm
| log. You be mighty keerful, stranger, about
going on that log; you may get into the
/ hrop pnln. md un 1nfl
! get to the brow of hill, and there the
roads prevaricate, and you take the left
hand road and keep that until you get into
big plum thicket; and when you get
| there. why then-then-then-"; "What
then ?" Then, stranger, I'll be damned if
you amt lost" loud laughter
So 1 scarcely know how to navigate when
get into Democratic audience, because ]
was raised an old line Wing, and 1 have
stuck to the party faithfully, I believe,
ever SINCE and don't profess, even in talk
ing to you tonight, to be Democrat. i
have never asked any thing from the party
and never expect any thing from the par
| ty. L stand by the Democratic party this
time, simply because l believe it is right
i Lcheers] and whenever believe it is wrong
| [ will turn from it just as rapidly as the
Irishman wheeled, and he wheeled so fast,
Judge Thurman, that he left the seat of his
breeches in front. Laughter.l am not
ashamed to be called .turncoat." will
turn my coat every day, if l believe it is
right. All want to do, at every election,
is to feel like man, to speak like man,
| to think like man, to vote like man, to
be a man in the presence of my fellows.
and my God, and let my heart tell me
1 have done my dutv, and do not ask your
Democratic party nor your Republican
cabals to speak for me. TApplause.l
| Iwant no body of men to draw the blind
hridle over my eyes and put-the breeching
over my back, hitch the traces to whatev-
er load they choose to put on the wagon,
and halloo, 'get up" and make me pull
But know and feel that the Democratic
party, at the present time, is drawing the
| right kind of load, and, therefore, / am
| willing to go in the lead, or to act as a