The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-09-14

ii Is now s20, ,7Sg ,450. sElorida owed
5 a debt Of $523, 900 at The end Of the
war her carpet-bag Government has
i run that debt UP to $14,799554. s-s
This in three years, in that little
! State, while the whole of her proper
! ty. real and personal, is valued for
taxation at sixteen million, dollars
. These carpet-baggers went down
there from the North for place, for
Office and plunder, because the white
men there were disfranchised by the
j. Fourteenth Amendment. Men also
/ went to the Legislature, composed of
negroes, carpet baggel.s, and scala
wags, and promised if they would
give them charters for railroads they
would cover their States with rail-
roads; that railroads were what had
given prosperity to'the North. These
men went into the Legislature and
bought the votes of members in favor
of the passage of such bills. A gen.
1Itleman told me he saw with his own
beyes the money paid down to a MEM
Der right on his desk in the Legisla-
ture in South Carolina for his vote
The men got the bonds of the States
under these pretenses, and went to
New York and Boston, and some
across the ocean, and sold the bonds
for what theyicould get, and have not
4 built mile of railroad in some of the
States where they promised, and not
fifty miles in all of them put to-
i gether. y IGlis 'l5glot s9uHI
H. These are facts, and the only reme-
bdy is to put in power the party that
will obey the Constitution and give
i the people down there chance to res
cue themselves from the miserable
ldcspotism that now prevails over that
and. 9I1 ai5 2 s'HalsssE a'
The speaker next referred to the
finances of the country under the ad-
ministration of President Grant, and
to the existing corruption, and to the
/ numerous defalcations of government
officers. Alithe defalcations put to-
| gether under the Administrations of
Jefferson, Madison Monroe, John
| Quincy Adams, Jackson and Van Bu-
rem, would not equal this stealing: of
two millions and three-quarters of the
lical speakers. Joshua f. Bailey. Col
lector of the Fourth District of New
Y ork, appointed by Lincoln, was pro-
| NOTED by Grant at time when he
was indebted to the Government
$600,00O.a He absconded, owing the
Government over a million; now he
is making the tour of Europe. If
man steals $35 and fees to Europe, he
can be brought back and put in the
penitentiary; but if man steals a
million of dollars. the Government
never demands him, and he travels
through Europe fine gentleman.
We'll, now, there is another thing
that / think worthy of notice by the 4
EsAmerican people. L can't state it
half as strongly as it was enforced by
that eloquent and able man., Carl
lfSchurz, n-his late speech at Chicago
the nepotisn, as it is called, of the
President-his appointing relatives to
Office, his appointing people to Office
who had made valuable presents to
him. Whether there, is corruption
about that or not, when the President
sets the example of appointing to
high offices men9who have made him
large pecuniary presents, and fills re-
sponsiblei Offices with his own and his
wife's relations, what can be expected |
sof2his subordinates !? When the head
sof the nation sets them such an exam
pie, what will not they do? Thus
scorruption is introduced from one end
of the Government to the other.
n Jefferson tells us that General
Washington, although he had a nu-
merous body of relatives, never, du7
ring his entire administration, ap-fI
pointed relative to ofies or employ
,ment under the Government. II e
would not even make one of them his |
private secretary. When Harrison
was elected President, he had a grand
son, son of a most noble officer,
General Zebulon Pike, who fell in the |
War of 1872 in storming a British |
fort in Canada, and the boy wanted to-
go to w est Point to follow the pro-
fession in which his father had OBJ |
tanned SO much honor. When Mr. |
Van Buren, went to General Harrison,
just before his Inauguration. to pay
his respects, he said 2l" General, is |
there any thing I can do for you ?v-
General Harrison replied ssThere
is one thug would be very glad to
have done = there is q bright youth,
my grandson, son of General Pike, |
who wants to follow the profession of
his father and go to West Point. You
know that when become President
L can not appoint him, because he is
my relative" Mr.. Van Buren, III an
hour afterward, sent the appointment !
of that boy. General Harrison would |
mot otappoint that boy, even to be q ca
det at West Point, because he was his
relative. But now the White House
is full of relatives of the President
There is a brother-in-law that receives |
your card to take it to the President, |
ito know whether you can see film
A3Brigadier- General by brevet in the I
United States Army occupies that ele-
pated function of Card Keeper to His |
Excellency the President. Laugh
ter. rs 1t is a brother-in-law of the |
President who marshaled the troops !
around the Custom-house the other |
day? He is Collector in New Or !
leans. He wished to put down one
wing of the Republican party and |
keep the other IN power to renomi-
nate Grant. f2i DiiJ5 ilis tt9si1s2
ol A classical friend of mine said, at !
dinner party, that the President ought
to be rebaptized; he was a Republi- |
can, too. He ought to be rebaptized t
and called "Cu,'ius DentdtuS, which
is freely translated to mean, one who
takes care of the Dents. l do say
pernicious 1t tends to the introduce |
.tion of personal government, a gov
ernment in which the idea will be /
that the government does not belong |
to the people, but to the President.
: In conclusion, let me tell you that.
all these subjects to which have al
'Iuded, although their Importance can
hardly be overestimated, are but as
dust in the balance to THAT great ques-
ton which looms up before us. That
is, shall we. have a Republican, Gov
eminent at all do say that no
more revolutionary party ever exist
ed in the world than have been the
Radical leaders for the last five years.
1l They have 4, openly z s9aght to oyerturn
made, and instead of a Government
withoStates to ocontrol in local mat
,terso to make Congress supreme and
absolute, A. -s1fI,i.s.,sa arift9 eIj
Tho arguments on which the Kn-