The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-09-09

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corruption in the government of New York
city has been promptly followed by monster
democratic meetings demanding the reslg.
nation Of Mayor Hail. Tweed, Connolly, and
the rest Of the corruptionists. Az radical
paper We quoted last week said, "All parties
must expect to have black sheep within their
ranks" but party can only be held respon-
sible for them when it shelters and defends
them after they have been exposed. When
the Democracy of New York discovered the
black sheep among their leaders they went
promptly to work to root them out. Now
how is it with the radicals In that respect |?
To say nothing of Gen. Grant himself, who,
from condition of notorious impecuniosity
has. in few years, on his salary Of $4,000 a
year, which is insufficient to meet half of his
ordinary expenses, has become worth $4,000,
600; or of Treasurer Spinner, who has an I'M
settled balance of over million hanging over
him; or of the two hundred internal revenue
collectors, who owe $2O,O00,o0O; let US take
glimpse at those models of radical honesty
and uprightness, the carpet bag rulers in the
south, not one Of whom that party has con-
demned, but whom it is upholding even with
bsyonets.
Texas, whose debt in 1861 did not exceed
100000, has received legacy of $6,OOO,OOO
OF debt from her radical rulers. This is, OF
course, exclusive of the rebel war debt which
Is repudiated under the fourteenth amend
ment, and is thrown out of the account, in this
statement Of the debt of Texas and the rest of
the southern states. The increase has been
made since the war by the carpet.bag legisla-
lures in every instance. In 1861 the rate of
taxation in Texas was u cents on the humid
red dollars. It is now $s.2 per hundred.
In Louisiana the rate of taxation has risen
from 20 cents on the hundred dollars to 81 on
the hundred; and the debt which was $40,
100000 before the war, and $l4,OO0,OO0 in
1868, has reached $49,0OO,OOO under the loyal
rule of Yarmouth. The deficit of the last fis.
cal year is about nine millions
Governor Holden, Senator Abbott, Col. Lit.
tlefeld and other radical scalawags and car
pet-baggers have added $5O,OOO,OOO to the
debt of North Carolina. One Of them has
been impesched and deposed from Office for
his crimes, and some of the Others, with the
stolen bonds in their pockets, are fugitives
from the state, pursued by the officers of the
law
Tennessee is another state which sadly ILL
ustrates the corruption of radical rule. A debt
OF $5,325, l5s in 1861, has been swelled to s42,
100000, and with the taxable values of the
state vastly diminished, the rate of taxation
has been increased four times that which ex-
listed previous to the war. This is the state
which has developed that kind of loyalty of
which Brownlow is bright and shining ex
ample.
In Mississippi, from official statistics, it ap.
pears that from $780, to $45OOOO per an
nun were sufficient to carry on the state gov
eminent for the twelve years preceding the
war, and that from 100000 to 100000 were
ample to meet all Its requirements for the years
succeeding the war. before the
rule of the adventures commenced. Now.
according to their own showing, the plumber
ers are collecting from the pockets of the PEG. !
pie and appropriating upward of 81, l4l, 600
for the same purpose, exclusive Of the poll and J
privilege tax which the law requires shall con-
stitute the school fund, and which the auditor |
estimates at 100000. These statistics are oh. |
tanned from the report of the auditors office,
and exhibit an increase of taxes and expend-
iture, exclusive Of this fund, Of nearly 400 per
cent. and this too, upon a property valuation |
of the state which has been reduced from |
to $1SO,00O,0OO. M
Now does it not become the radical journals |
beautifully to keep up such din about the |
New York city democratic corruptionists,
whom no press Of the party apologies for or |
defends, when the whole radical party is up
holding and defending, Ieven with soldiers |
and bayonets, these enormous corruptionists |
at the south
RADICAL THIEvEs.-There is the State Treas. |
urer of South Caroline, Mr.: Parker. He refuses |
to allow his books to be examined. The Charles.
ton Neacs says of him:
"Three years ago he was little better than a |
beggar When elected state treasurer he was in |
the depth OF restitution. Now he drives fast |
horses in gold mounted harness, buys fifteen |
thousand dollar diamond pins, and has the rep. |
utation of being worth cool quarter of q mill. |
ion. All this in three years upon an annual |