Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-22

for the present, to the consequence
of the fact that the change ha
made us A NATION. Like the wor
of some strange magic We passed t
being what we now are, from bein
the laughing stock of the world
/ nation making claim by prodigiou
pretence and spread" some sort G
metaphysical right to be, and yet
nation which was exhibited to tn
world by that message Of its chic
magistrate, and by the dogmas o
his party, as proclaiming to tn
highest,treason ever arrayed agains
a nations life, that the treason wa
the only thing in the governmen
that was lawful, and that the ma
tion's claim of right to be was
| lghastly jest.
Where-we are now in the rank an(
tsisterhood of States will be NOR
fully indicated as 1 proceed, and
only say now upon this subject, tha
we have passed from that rayles.
and unalleviated ruin where seces
lsion, slavery and Democratic rule
| had precipitated us, to the unehal
lenged first rank of the nations
both in our material and moral dig
nifty and power. This is the frst
event in the record of the Republican
party to which to-day point you.
RESTORATION OF THE STATES.
Vast, inconceivable, as is the i'm
portance of these parts of the work
of our party which has just gone
into history, they are, in an impor-
tant political sense, wholly trivial
compared with the magnitude OF
one yet remaining to be told.
allude to the restoration of the re-
volted States. When "war's DESC
lation" had swept past, and its night
had lifted from the scenes, where
during four sad years, its darkness
and its havoc had reigned, what a
spectacle was before you! Ten
States lay therein ruin! And
what a ruin! In the elements of
wrecked power and greatness it was
sublime, even in chaos. In the COM
pleteness of the disordered over
throw, it was terrible; and in the
all consuming sweep of unsubdued
and treasonous passions, it was still
simply appalling. There they lay,
CHASTITY, desolate, drear, but impli-
cable-States in law, as was alleged,
but States in fact, without one ele-
ment of a State except land and
people-the land black with the fires
of war, except that uninhabited, and
the people all invincible in their
treason, except the slaves, and they
not people" but chattels. Such
was the task to which the legisla-
tive architect was invited by your
demand that these States should be,
at once restored to their more than
pristine grandeur-all restored,
foundation and dome-pillar and
You, and your Constitution de-
manded, in terms, that they should
be Republican" But how could
they be unless based ON the votes of
the people? You demanded that
they should be loyal, but how could
they be when the people were dis
loyal? You demanded that there
should be no more treason sent, by
these States, to your Senate and
House, to contrive under the cover
of official oaths, the overthrow of
the Government; and to execute the
treason, by employment of the Gov
own offices and powers.
But how could you prevent the send
ing, when both the senders and the
sent were the authors, and unchanged
friends of the baffied treason? You
that, in the new States,
the laws should protect, alike, all of
the people against the universal as
and murders that had
crimsoned, with the blood of patri-
OTIS, the very earth and rivers of all
that sunny land, But how could
your demand be secured, when the
only laws you had, rendered all loyal
men either enemies or slaves, and
when they who must make and ex-
ecute new ones were both the au-
thors and unchanged advocates of
the assassinations and wrongs you
meant to prevent.
Such, family, was the Work of
Reconstruction to which, my fellow
Republicans, you came! How fear
full it was in its difficulties, respon-
sibilities and magnitudes! When
doing, you thought it was done
slowly-perhaps badly. Now, as
you look back you wonder-the
world wonders-that it was done at
all. But it is done-finished-fn-
There it stands,
now, the "New Union" No alien,
no foe within it's vast dominion, be-
cause it rests now upon the equal
citizenship, equal rights, and there
fore equal love of all its children.
This, Americans, is the last act in
that drama, of ten years enacting.
I called it the last. But is it? Let
Us see.
Let us go for q moment to another
view: You have collected of public |
revenues since June 30th, 1868, ST.
324, 2S1 ,O3S 3S. This is an average
yearly receipt of $4O3, ,46S,719 76.
During the same time, from every |
source, Great Britain collected on an
average per year about 1886, ,063,-
314 %. France collected, per year,
l little less than $372, 900, 900. Prus-
ia, in 1867, Excluding her acquisi-
ions of 1860 collected $126,G97,
los 80. The United States collected
rom July 1st, 1869, to June 30th,
1870, Zone year, $40s,s31,373 AZ.
Great Britain expends, for all pur-
poses, per year, on the average, same
IS income, 1886, ,063,3l4 %. The
'otal expenses of the Government of +
he United States for the year end
ng 30th of June, 1870, was $29I,-
740,122 "a. OF this, in the same
rear, the interest upon our public
lebt was $l27,6S6,154 %. The in
crest and management of the ell
ire public debt of England was, in
1867, 1926, l35,GS4 81. The United
states have reduced their public