Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-30

rule of the negroes-to negro Justices,
and Sheriffs, and County Commissioner
and Judges, and members OF the Legisla-
ture. And we in the North pay S72000,-
600 to sustain these governments; which
the Radical party are establishing over the
Southern people. Well, it may be answered
that the South pay part of that. Well,
how much? Why, Hamilton county alone
has paid, in the last year, million and
half more of Federal tax than tie whole of
these Southern States combined. The tax
collected in those States don't amount to
hardly enough to pay the cost of collecting
and they contribute comparatively nothing
to the support of the enormous standing
army that Is necessary to sustain these des-
potisms. say it costs seventy-two mil
lion dollars year to the Northern people
to overthrow civil government in the
Southern States, and to establish there
black, rotten boroughs, and for no other
purpose under heaven than to secure the
votes of those States in the Electoral
College for the Radical candidate for Presi-
dent, with no other object and with no other
National benefit, il that be benefit.
will show you the figures. In the report
OF the Secretary of the Treasury for 1857
we have an estimate of the cost OF the army
for the year ending the Both of June. 1869;
the amount is Sl2O, 900. He says that
$25,500,000 of that is for the payment of
bounties. That is a part of the legacy OF
the war, and that should be deducted. This
leaves S94, 100000 for the cost of the army
of the United States for this present current
year. Well. now to ascertain the cost of
that part of the army that is used in de-
stroying the Southern States, let us in
quire how much of an army we need for
other purposes of the Government. 1 say
we need no more than we needed in 1860
We have no more Indian war now than then,
our internal forts are dismantled, we
have no more coast forts Co occupy, we
have no more Tear of foreign war or for
eign invasion than we had then. We need
no more army to-day than we needed in
1860, except for the purpose of forcing
Southern white people to submit to these
black despotisms. Now in 1860 our army
cost sixteen millions in gold, and if you de-
duct that from the present cost of the army
-ninety-four millions five hundred thou
sand dollars, exclusive of bounties-you
have 7l,500000 as the cost of that part of
the army that is used in the Southern
States. That is this Radical system of re-
construction. To maintain the government
of seven States-eight States including
Tennessee-it cost S7l, 100000. Well, how
much do you suppose that costs the State OF
Ohio? Why, the State of Ohio pays one
twelfth of all the expenses of the general
Government-six million dollars for this
one year to overthrow the government of
the white man in the Southern States and
to establish these black, intolerable despot-
isms, to destroy ten free Republics, and de-
stroy the reconstruction that the whole
American people adopted in 1866; and
which, through their State Conventions,
they congratulated the country upon hav-
ing accomplished, and which, if they had
been allowed to use their sway, would have
resulted in prosperity in the South, with
out the necessity of a single Federal bay
onet tn maintain order there. And you
people of Ohio, pay just that S600,000.000
every year to establish these black despoG-
isms and to force the Southern white peo-
pie to send their children TO negro schools,
to prescribe all governing talent in the
South, and to put the political power of
those States in the hands of the poor, ig-
norant negroes, and the miserable white
wretches who lead them. .4-f ,... -,...
Gen. EWING continued at great length
and was listened to by the immense crowd
with an. intense interest. --,, ,-
1t is impossible to give his remarks at
greater length. Our space forbids it.
Throughout it was able and unanswerable,
and he left the stand with the conviction
in the minds of his hearers, that THOMAS
EWING, jr., as an orator, stood second to DO
man that has yet addressed the Democracy
of Colum bus. ..s .fe
The address of Hon. EMIL RoTHE at the
Atheneum (the orator being unable to
speak in the open air), if we judged by
the enthusiasm of his audience, was bril-
liant effort, worthy alike the issues and
the occasion. Our early education in Ger
man-was so defective that we cannot give
even brief synopsis of his remarks.