Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-15

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to be distributed by the Governments of the
States to such persons as they esteemed
loyal. They don't regard you and me as
loyal we. could not have got gun. But
Governor Baker could have decided in Indi-
ana who were the loyal men, and have given
them the rifles They are to be distributed
among the negroes of the South. You have
given the negro the ballot, you have put
the white man down, and now you want to
give him the Springfield rifle, with all the
aceoutrements, that the negro may lord it
over the white man at the ballot box and at
home. $40 sdT r.i-f-i,go3 Iugsz4s.-s
They may carry this out, gentlemen, but
when it comes there win be hloodshed, and
when blood begins to run in the South you
will feel 1T running a little more rapidly
through lyour veins, and after a while it
may commence TO run from your veins
The fire of civil war lighted up any where
in this country will be like the fire that
lights up in the prairies in the night time
twill leap until even the horseman can not
escape-it.
Tie Radical party say that the people
ought to continue them in power. That
may be so, but am unable to see it in that
light,rI am in favor of putting them out
on the first notice, the first opportunity, and
l think that opportunity is coming in Octo-
Der. L think it will come-that is my pres
sent impression. The handwriting is on the
wall. The handwriting says, as it said to
Belshazzer of old, Thou art weighed in
the balance and found wanting - and his
knees smote together, just like the knees of
Radicalism are shifting together to-day |;
lgreat applause and laughter "and that
night Belshazzar's Kingdom departed from
him" ...Ag g. - I- -5,- s-ls5 aiici
Are you aware, my countrymen, what
amount Of money the Government of the
United States has collected from the people
during the last three years 1 will not
speak of what was spent in the war. There
were good many men that got rich then
by plundering the country, but let that
pass. ...-r .....,... '.,s..= ..f.-...
Between the 1st of July, 1865, and the 1st
of July, 1868, they have collected between
twelve and thirteen hundred Millions
What has become of this money? / think
the Freedman's7 Bureau took some; how
much, it would be little hard to tell. The
negroes have been fed and clothed, and
elected to the Legislature and the eonven-
tions, sc. 1t is going on pretty well in that
way. 1t has cost every man that stands be-
fore ME some drops of sweat, as he bent over
the sheafs in the field Well, what has been
done with the rest of lit2 Congress has
taken good deal. l. don't mean to aim any
criticism at judge Nibiack here, for he
didn't get his share. Laughter.1 Nor l
will not speak of what the Senate SPENT for
| was there myself Renewed laughter ]
l am ouly going to speak of what the
House of Representatives, spent-the House
that claims to be better than every other
departments of the Government. just as
soon as the President does any thing they
do not like, they pass law depriving him
of his constitutional power. Well, as they
are so very good, let us see what they have
been doing. This is taken from the report
of the Clerk of the House of Representa-
tiyes. ln=1S64 the expenses of the House of
Representatives We're 1858 $50. That looks
like goodideal, for it don't include the pay
of tue members. 1t is just the expense for
fellows who wait on them and for stationery
and the like of that, That was in 1864. In 1868
the last year-it had gone up to S72S $50. 1t
was nearly doubled in those four years, and
things have not grown any dearer for them
since 1864. 1t has not been more expensive
since 1864 than it was then. Now, for sta
tionery-the little matter of ink, and pens,
and paper, and scissors, and penknives, and
the like. In, 1864 it amounted to S3S, 900.
In 1865 it amounted to $99, $50. They had
got to writing just twice as much during
these four years as they had before.
HOW SOME OF THE EXPENSES ARE CREATED
We look further, and we find that when
ever any member of the House wants to
take a trip anywhere, and don'tJw want to pay
his expenses himself, he gets up some lie on
the, Democrats and moves that q committee
of investigation shall be appointed, with a
Clerk and a Sergeant-at-Arrns to go with
them. ltis the business of the Sergeant-at-
Arms to go himself or send an assistant to
wait on this committee, The Sergeant is
allowed ten cents per mile for travelling
How many miles do you suppose he travelled
during the last year to wait upon commit
tees of the House of Representatives h. His
fees for mileage amounted to Just $4,000.
He is the greatest traveller Of modern times
There is Livingstone and his African travels ;
Ross Browne that has travelled all through
our territories and all through the Eastern
country; but l tell you there are no trav-
elers at all to be compared with Ordway
He ought to publish a book of travels He
ought to be able to afford it. He is allowed
for 208,403 miles, The geographers say that
miles around the globe. This Sergeant at
Arms has been allowed for eight or nine
trips around the globe, and he has got the
money in his pocket for it now. ., p ,....--.,
But this is not the right way we are going
on and talking here now. Suppose Ordway
was here listening to-what AIN saying
about him, what do you suppose he would
do He would say, Gentlemen, don't you
listen to What that rebel sympathizer, Tom
Hendricks, is saying about me, loyal man
of this country" And that would be con-
sidered answer enough.
If any of these men get money out of
your means and build great houses and drive
costly carriages and live in splendor and
grandeur at the cost of the people, and. I'VE
call them to account for it, will you men al
low yourselves to be answered by their say.
ing that it is the criticism of Copperhead
upon loyal man 2 ed .1rv. 3. -raH-. ..
will tell you the man that is loyal. He
that worships that flag and obeys the laws
is loyal, honest man, and no thief is a loyal
man. rs.G Ha g-gH. ... 81. .u- -..
THE GREATEST BURDEN OF THE PEOPLE
/ will tell you where the body of your
money is going The greatest burden on
your shoulders to-day is the War Depart
ment of the United States. General Grant
is the commanding General. For time he
was the Secretary of War, and now they
seek to make him President of the United
States, and 1 see upon the poles they are
raising is a representation of a man in Gen
erals clothing, with three stars upon the
mounted upon horseback. What
does that mean?
On Democratic pole was an effigy of the
old Democratic rooster who, as soon as the
farm, gives the note of warning. That is
our emblem. But the emblem of Radicals
is an appropriate one. 1t is the man on
horseback with all the regalia, and the still
General, who receives eighteen
thousand dollars year pay. And this is
the man that on horseback represents the
party that wants to put him in power that
under the hoofs of the war-horse the rights
md privileges of the people may be ground
20 powder: We don't propose to have it.
General Grant ought to be rewarded, and
ne has got very handsome office now, worth
$4,000 or $lS,000 year. l- ~rrrsr
How much do you suppose the army costs ?
Grants last report says the army is iifty-six
strong. The Secretary of the Treas
lry, in his report says that $95 ,224 ,6l545
were required to support the army last year.
over ninety-tive millions for one year-near-
y twenty millions more than it took to sup
port the whole Government in the time of
Buchanan Nearly two thousand dollars 4 o