The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-06-20
DANIEL w.

Our Radical exchanges have sud
denly discovered that Mr.. VoOrhee
Of Indiana is an ~incorruptible patriot
a man of giant intellect, and one o
the brightest stars in the galaxy o
American statesmen, none of which
we will now question. We give below
a short extract from his speech de
Iivered in Congress. on March %. 1872
subject, The Plunderof Eleven State:
by the Republican Party" He gives
complete history of the workings OF
the reconstruction measures in the
Southern States. We quote:
.sThev have suffered from drought
and flood and worm, but the presence
of Republican officials has been more
damaging to her than them all com
bined. But l can go no farther i'll the
discussion of these terrible details.
Time and space fail me. l submit the
following condensed table of figures
and defy their successful contradiction
on this flOer or elsewhere:
Alabama.-Debts and liabilities at
the close of the war, s.. 939.654 81;
debts and liabilities January l, 1872,
S3S,3s1. 1857 81.
Arkansas.-Dehts and liabilities at
the close of the war, S4,036.9 $50 81;
debts and Liabilities, January l, 1872,
$40, 761 .265 81.
Florida.-Debts snd liabilities at the
close of the war, 1921 600; debts and
liz bilities January l, 1872, Sl5, 1903,
AL "a.
Georgia.-Debts and liabilities at the
close of the war. nominal: debts n
liabilities June. 1871, $50, l37, 800. (See
statement of Mr.. Angler, Treasurer of
Georgia.)
Louisiana.-Debts and liabilities at
the close of the war, Sl0,099.014 "a;
debts and liabilities June l. 1871. in
Guiding the excess of expenditures
over receipts. $50. 540.20 81.
North Carolina.-Debts and liabili-
ties at the close of the war, S9.699. 800;
debts and liabilities January l, 1872,
S33. SS7, 467 IS.
South Carolina.-Debts and liabili
ties at the close of the war, S3,OOO.WU;
debts and liabilities January l, 1872,
$50, 15S .9l4 Al.
Observation-Disclosures and liabilities at
the close of the war, ROmlnal: debts
and liabilities January l, 1872, about
s 1000, 600.
Tennessee.-Debts and Liabilities at
the close OF the war. $40, 105 SOC Sc;
debts and liabilities January l, 1872,
$751; .263 46.
Texas.-Debts and liabilities at the
close of the war, nominal: debts and
liabilities January l, 1872. S2O,36l 900.
Virginia.-Debts and liabilities at the
close of the war, S31. 93S, IA 50; debts
and liabilities January 1, 1872, S45,4so,-
542 21.n
We have then at the close of the
war, in round numbers, ninety-three
millions of dollars as the aggregate
debt of the eleven States, and on the
first day of January, 1872, under Re
publican reconstruction, carpet bag
and Republican rule, a debt of over
three hundred and sixty three mil
lions of dollars. Out of this asst sun
less than ten millions have been spent
in school houses, seminarieS, and col
legeS of learning, or in the construc-
ton of railroads or other internal inn
provements. The ravages of Sicily by
Verres, and the crimes of Warren
Hastings in the East Indies, admitting
that his perfidy aud cruelty ~equalled
painted by the flaming imagina-
ton of Burke, or the imprisoned
rhetoric of Sheridan, were as blessings
from the dewS of heaven compared
with the spoliations of the Republican
party in its cruel administration of
these eleven States. The frogs and
lice, and locusts, and famine, and
pestilence, left more blessings behind
them in Egypt than the southern por-
ton of our republic has reeei we'd from
the party in power. Then to add in
suit t 0 injury, and as the elimination
of party zeal, right or wrong. and as
the climax of hatred and diabolicaI
revenge. the Philadelphia Convention
indorses Congress and the President
in their solution of the reconstruction
problem.