The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-10-12

For the number OF these bills you have
the testimony Of the Hon William Law
renee, a careful. pains taking, industri.
Gus man. lie is moderate in his state
ments, and has carefully examined, and
from his experience. for he is more COM
petent than any other man in the House.
he said that those already fled would in
volve the payment Of from four to seven
hundred million dollars from the Ma
tional Treasury, in the event OF a major.
ity OF the House voting them.
Well, the War-claims Committee of the
House sat, and as ! said, Judge Lawrence,
of Belleiontaine, was Chairman, and they
had il as a rule that a man must first es-
tablish his loyalty before establishing his
claims. The first thing that committee
did when the Democrats got control OF IL
was to strike out that requirement. and
let any man put IN his claim for losses,
without regard to the question Of loyalty,
az all. And then another rule, which
certainly the lawyers, IL there be any do
ing me the honor to listen TO me, now
will look upon as remarkable, that any
person putting in a claim for damages,
should have his own evidence. should
sustain the claim by his own affidavit,
aud that Of some other person knowing
the facts. Here comes John Smith, OF
Alabama, who has lost $4,000 By the
Union Army, and then John Jones
swears that is so. This would bankrupt
the ROthchilds. And these are the men
that made Mr.. Tilden back out from the
doctrine Of specie payments OF 1879, and
there Is not Southern rebel with a
claim to-day. that does not know instinct
lively and absolutely that when this coun.
try comes down TO the hard pan, to the
gold and silver dollar you are never GO
ing to pay the taxes with a portion Of
the rebel claims, for you cannot keep the
currency open at both ends, the paper
money at one end and the rebel claims at
the other No, we will never pay taxes
to pay Southern claims. They can not
create n Southern revulsion, but by qui.
etly working what is known as the inila-
tion sentiment they hope TO pay for the
vast number Of mules and Southern
claims through the manipulation Of some
form Of paper money. Take one single
claim. When we were taxing every
thing during the war. from the solitary
hair that was left on the bald mans pate
to his shoe, we taxed cotton, and under
the cotton tax collected S7O.OOO.OOO
Now they come forward and ask that the
taxes be paid back, not to the men.who
paid the taxes, but that this S70.OOO.OOO
shall be paid to the cotton. producing
States in the proportion OF their bales OF
cotton. There are fifteen bills now
pending for the payment Of that one
claim.
HOW THE REBEL CLAIMS NAY HE PAID.
And now, gentlemen. more startling
than anything else, on Thursday Of last
week, there was a decision rendered in
the city OF Portland. State OF Maine. in
the United States Circuit Court, Judge
Nathan Clifford presiding. with Daniel
Clark. District Judge Of New Hampshire
sitting with him,-and / want the atten-
tion OF the lawyers again--conhrming the I
Judgment obtained against Neal Dow. OF /
the Thirteenth Mrine regiment in Loui. I
'iana, giving Judgment to the rebel /
against Dow personally for the sugar /
seized on his plantation by a foraging /
party from his regiment They were out i
Ioraging and seized some sugar. and the |
nan sued for il. and Dow said If you 4
ire loyal man we will give you a receipt, /
lad you will easily get your pay for il.
Now the sugar was used, end large 1
part of il sent to the hospitals. Dow
iays, "If you will show me your loyalty, /
will give you a receipt" and he deelin-
ID to do it, AID got judgment in a Lou
siana Court. TIE United States Circuit
Jorrt at Portla-d confirmed that iudg.
neat. and ordered execution to issue Tor
81 $50. That being so, ] say, gentlemen.
will it not enable the man that owned
he field at Appoaiattox to collect ground
ent from Grant for the occupancy Of il
md destruction Of the fences and crops7
There has never been so menacing a
.lord as this hanging over a free people
lore than that this decision was warm
y dissented from by Judge Clark, Of
lew Hampshire lie was brought up in
he true faith but the Supreme Court
,verruled him in the person Of Clifford
,lifford is an ingram, hungry Democrat.
louble dyed and twisted, dyed in the
WOOL. and coarse wool at that. Much
aughter And, in my judgment, he
las carried that case for eight years. and
lever offered that decision until he. in
lis ignorance, believed in a Democratic
riumph. If there should be Demo
ratio dreamer here, will not that gentle
nan tell me why any solitary battalion
II division Of the army in the South can
lot be sued for every article Of trespass?
Laughter
Let me read to you Of the nature Of
he case. Ex Governor Wood, OF Yer
- I
we'd writes over his name, II have
.nown Mr.. Tilden for twenty years.
ave debated this question with him per.
onally, and know that he holds the
pinion that the war was unconstitution-
L. l heard him declare, in conversa-
ion with myself since the close Of the
Tar, that every man in the United States
rmy that marched across Southern soil
'as a trespasseT. and liable to suit for
amages in an action for trespass.' /
hink that Clifford read that opinion of
'ilden the day before he made his deci-
ion in regard to Dows sugar. And the
democrats tell yon the Constitution for
ids the payment OF these claims. Never
Tas anything more menacing and alarm. .
ng than that.
FINANCIAL DEPRESSION.
Well, we are told that times are very I
ard, and more than hard by reason Of
he Republican policy, and that IL would
ure them perpetually to put the rebels
nto power. Well, IL you think, gentle /
len, that paying from four to seven
billions Of war claims-you people OF the
Western Reserve-if you think that, I
ote the Democratic ticket. IL there be I
ny man ignorant enough to think that
be Republican policy produced this f.
ancial depression, let him vote the |
ticket. Old John Adams, a ,
reat deal wiser than Charles Francis
dams TO day. wrote this: Il have per ,
onally myself seen four wars, the French
nd Indian Of l74j. the Indian Of 1855, {
nd the Revolutionary war Of lT11. and
he war with Great Britain in 1872, and
each and every one Of these
'ars there has been financial prostra-
ion, and 50 he says IL will ever be I
mong nations. Great Britain, after her
'rimean war. after her struggle with I
Russia, had a depression to which ours Is
mall. Germany. after its victorious war
nth France in 1870, carrying back
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