Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-07-01

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"a spHa0cRAFIc ExTRAvAGAHcE.
Of the Democratic Legisls-
istufe tie 6xsstte announces with great
I doufiah 81 trumpets that the tax levy for
State purposes has net been increased
over what it was last year! That argu-
. nent may be very delusive one, and
when explained may prove even mere
damaging than profitable to that anla-
: mented sink gf corruption and extraya-
gsnce- -the rDesnocratic Legislature. o
. The Republican Legislatures that pre-
ceedsd this Democratic Legislature re-
s,dused the rate Of taxation from So cents
ION the $1oo in 1858 to IS cents on 500 in
. 1885,, .befng . reduction of ID cents on the
!. SEQ in three years. In 1857 the, Demo
e cratic party fought ths campaign on the
cry sf high ta1es,'' and promised the
!, people . great reduction in their taxes il
: they would give it the power. The peo-
plewsre crvduloas enough to otrust them,
and now, attRe end Of two years, the or
'ssns of the party seek to comfort the peo-
; .pler bya the assurance that their tores
J dtune mot been increased. In order to
nsdke IL appear that the taxes have not
been increa sed, however, they are COM
PEELED 70 resort to such q suppression Of
: the stxuthn In ethics amounts to lie.--
{ It 81 true that the total rate per cent. Of
levy has not been Increased, but owing
z to,the ihcreased return of property for
ytaxatien In 1858, over the return in 1856,
the amount Of taxes collected was very
/, much greater. Even With this increased
) eolisotisp, the rextrsvagance Of the last
I dLegislatnre, in the extended session that
. for pay sf members, clerks &c. cost
e36o, ga 10 more than its Republican
6 predecessor; the forty nesc c6ices created
rata cost Of e76 900 per annum, and the
! various other increased expenditures,
amounting in the aggregate to about
Il i9l,t0o, 900, compelled them either to
{ liincreassIths rate of taxes for generalrev-
enue purposes, or reduce the rate for pay
ment Of State debt, In order, therefore,
: to deceive the people and make such a
showing as would not indicate the
greatly Increased dexpenitdure for general
revenue purposes, they decrease the levy
for payment of State deb., and increase
the levy for other State purposes about
$500, ,ooo..i The levy for the payment OF
, State debt was II cents on the slO0 last
4 year and now it is . cents on the 500,
5 while the levy for general revenue pur-
poses last year wss 10 cents on the 500
I and nov it is Is cents en- the 500, show
!. ing that nearly one-half of the taxes
u lheretofore leollscted to pay off the State
debt are tbs year 10 be transferred to the
Z general revenue fund to meet the actis.
ally ascveased expendit,xres of this Dem
1ocntic Legislature. 70 - IL lileHqi :
; ssd sd --------------s = ll-lp /.
u WI could scarcely realize chat the st.
Clairsvills Gazette distributed last
week, was not an old, very old, paper.
The principle original article in its col
yumps feadr VERY much like the articles
in thst paper, written in the days of the
slaye-driveris jubilee, when the whole
1 pswerof the Democratic party was used
to rivet the chains of slavery upon the
hands and feet of the four millions of
. human beings held within the Demo
o cratic States ss slaves. Then it was the
7 policy of such inarrow-minded,. bigoted
souls as asfollowed where the siaye-driver
rrtheir master-led. and who disdained
to reason on the question of slavery, to
cry abolitionist,n n at every man who
dared to say, that slavery was not Of di-
! vine origin. This, we thought, had all
Z been changed by the rebellien,t and,
: that, since the adoption Of the Constitu-
tional Amendment abolishing slavery,
everybody was recenciled to the destruc-
> tion Of that; infamous institution, and
= the distinctions of anti-sIavery and pro-
slavery were no longer recognized. In
this we were mistaken, and in the organ
of theq Belmont County Democracy OF
last week, the editor Of (which has been
sleeping. politically. during the last ten
years, eve find the old slavery issue
sprung, and the candidates of the Re-
publican party denounced as i" abolition
!, fsts.n Is, the Democratic party going to
sadvscate the tablishme Of slavery
Does the sditorsof the Gazette intend to
z ask the people of Belmont County to
!, elect the candidates Of the. Democratic
party because they were always the de-
tenders and champions of human bon
liags, and are now in favor of the restora.
tion ofslayery? Wewould like to know il
this oygan-badly out Of tune, we think
--expectss to 60 back on the civilization
OF the age, and ask q restoration of that
purely Democratic Institution Do you
. propose to1fight this contest on the ssla
d very question, and do you want every
voter In this county who approves the
abolition of slavery to vote for the a6oli'
aon candidates. The day when the
term abolitionist - had power to alarm
men has gone BY slavery is dead, and
the few ,worshipers at the shrine of this
once mighty but now fallen idol, who
still cherish a hope that something may
turn up TO restore it tn its pedestal, are
as men born out Of due season-stran-
gerslin . astrange land. who mourn over
lthe progress of the age and pray for the
return 1sf the whipping-post and the
tf,t, ,mhscrew. while their neighbors are