The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-07-15

upon the army and navy, if any aid is
sought To lessen tho cost Of transpcrta-
ton Tor the farmers Of The West, or to
chearen food for The labotcrs OF the
East, wcare ut once treated with Con-
gressional speeches upon the virtues of
economy. lffrom this amount there
had been saved and paid unon tho debt
the sum Of $500, 900, 900, how changed
wond onr condition have been. With
this payment which would have cnt
down The debt to about So, 900, 900, 900
our credit would at least have been as
good as that OF Great Britain. It is be-
cause we do not thus apply this money
to tins purpose. but spend it upon the
negro policy, tho military despotisms
and other abuses of government, that
our credit is so low, The world saw
that we were violating our faith with
the public creditors and the tax payers
alike, when tho money was used for the
partisan purposes Of Keeping tho South
out Of the Union until sham govern.
mcnts could be manufactured by militia.
ry violence and Congressional action
Tho world not only saw the monstrous
diversion Of the money wrung from the
people by taxation, but il also saw that
it made, through long series of years,
still greater annual expenses unavo,da-
ble. When the entire control of the
Southern States is given over uncheck.
ed by the intelligence OF The wLitc race,
to untutorcd negroes, whom the people
Of the North said were unfit to be- vo
tcrs, whom the unfortunate Africans,
drunk with unusual power, and goaded
on by bad aud designing men, shall
make lilo aud property unsafe, aud shall
shock and disgust The world with out
ragos, We shall be forced to raise and
pay still greater armies, Up to this
time the South has had at least an in
tclligcnt tyranny in military officers
Every man who Is not blinded by hate
or bigotry looks forward with horror to
the condition Of the South under negro
domination. The bad faith to the pub
hc creditor and tax payer in thus unset
Ting our Union of keeping The South in
a condition where it cannot help the
National prosperity, but is made
heavy load upon the country, as The real
Cause Of or dcdased credit. The tax
payer was told tho burdens put upon
him were TO pay tho debt; but the mon.
ey was not used in good faith to him,
tor the debt still stands; nor in good
faith to the creditor, for ho was not
paid what he should havo been but it
was used in way which harmed both,
IN a way that tainted the nations credit,
kept up taxation by keeping up the rate
OF interest, while 1t sank the valuo Of the
bonds, aud with them carried down tho
paper currency, and thus wrongcd the
laborer and tho pcnsloncr. But for the
policy Of bad faith, Of partisan purposes,
mad folly, we could to-day borrow mon.
ey rs chcaply MS Great Britain; but we
have cursed the tax payers, the laborer,
the pcnsloner, the public creditor, for the
sake OF cursing the people of the South
with military despotism and negro domi
nation.
Il
But we see that the War Department
this year spent $l2S,S5S,lGG, when tho
year before it. spent only about sos :.
100000. The longer we have peace,
the moro the army costs. How is this
Well, it costs great deal to keep sol.
dicrs and Frccamen's Bureau agents,
ana to feed and clothe negroes at the
South. But why do you do 1t? Let
the negroes support themselves, as we
do. You make the laborers of tho
North work to feed and clothc these
idle Africans True; but by so doing
VIC get their woes, and they will send
our travelling agents to Congress; we
shall get 20 Senators i'll tins way. while
majority Of the people Of the United
States, living in nine States, have only
IS. The people may vote MS they
please, but they cannot get the Senate,
nor repeal any Of tho laws we got
through for our advantage; we have
managed 1t so that one,quarter of the
people have more power in tho Senate
than the three quarters. We now own
the negroes Of the South. Did we not
buy them by your blood and money?-
We now see where the money goes !;
we now SEQ why the credit Of orr coun~
try is so tainted; wo now SEQ why tho
value OF our paper money is sinking
it was only at IL per cent. discount IN
1866, it is now at discount ofabout 20
per Cent. we now sec why our laborers
and pensioners arc cheated by false dol
lars. II the mechanic cares to know
why he works SO many hours, let him
study tho reports of tho Secretary Of
tho Treasury. 1t is clear why business
is hindercd and business men pcrplexed.
We now know why tho public creditor
is harrasscd by our dishonorcd credit,
and tho tax payer is hunted down by the
tax.gathcrcr. The negro military poll
cy of the Republican party is at The bot
tom of all these troubles. We now get
at the real issues between parties. The
Republicans, by their nominations and
resolutions, are pledged to keep up tho
negro and military policy. with all its
cost and taxations. These will be great