The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-11-07

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WASHINGTON, November 3.-The con
sideration which the subject of paying
Southern claims has received here sinct
Mr.. Tildens letter declaring that hG
would not pay them, has brought out
few additional facts pertinent to the dis
cussion.
It has been discovered that virginia
took time by the iorelock, and provided
soon after the war for preserving record
Of all losses on account Of the presence OF
actions Of Union troops. In the Treas
ury Department there have been found
laid away certain proved.up war claims
from the State OF Missouri, amounting to
100000. In the War Department, ex-
Confederate Postmaster General Reagan,
figures in the rebel archives, arguing be.
fore Jefferson Davis that the United
States should, Of right, eventually pay the
Confederate war debt.
Briefly stated. the case is about this
Mr.. Tllden, who, il he is elected, will owe
his success to the South, assures the coun-
try that, il made President, he will never
approve single Southern claim arising
out Of the war. He asks the people to
believe this in spite OF the fact that his
last public letter before this on rebel
claims contained 4 acomplete surrender to
one wing Of his party upon the vital ques.
tions Of sound National currency. Thus
in his letter OF acceptance, for the sake
Of party success, he deliberately turned
his back on those sound financial ideas
which he had been publicly declaring for
months and months to be the very corner.
stone Of his political faith; and in the
following letter he solemnly announces,
also for the sake OF party success, that he
will hold out firmly against every claim
Of a much more powerful wing Of his
party than the soft money faction, name
Iy, against the united South, that section
Of the Democratic organization which has
always controlled it., and always will.
On the other side is the Solid South,
with its claims for thousands Of millions,
and the doughtaces Of the Northern
Democracy, who, on bended knee, as OF
old, will beg Mr.. Tlden not to do any
thing to offend their Southern brethren.
Mr.: 3. N. T. Hunters plan OF evading
the amendments forbidding payment for
slaves, and for war damages in general,
will be expounded to him day and night.
He forgot 10 promise in his letter to veto
all bills for loaning public funds to the
late slave States. Virginia will give him
little peace on this subject. The Hunter
letter took a deep hold Of public senti-
ment throughout the State, and by law
her Legislature provided for preparing
a record Of the many hundreds Of millions
which her citizens claim. Virginia will
present this record with Hunters argu-
ment, and the Governor Gilbert Walker
plan for carrying out all its views. Texas,
in the person Of Mr.. Reagan, will press
the rightiulness Of the general Govern
ment assuming the Confederate debt for
the general good.
Georgia has followed the example Of
Virginia, and has already prepared a list
OF claims reaching, too, far up among the
hundreds OF millions. With Virginia
she will appear before Mr.. Tilden il he is
elected.
Missouri has outstripped all the rest,
and has specimens Of her claims for two
millions Of indemnity already on file in
in the Treasury Deparsment waiting Mr..
Tilden's order 10 have them audited.
Every Southern State will unite to turn
his heart In favor Of the sixty.eight mill
ions in the refunding Of the cotton tax.
In the face Of this, and much more Of
similar sort, backed by the triumphant
South, and the subseryient Democracy Of
the North, Mr.. Tilden, who surrendered
on demand on the question Of sound
currency, asks the North to believe that
he will stand unmoved. Could there be
greater assurance?
There Is not Democratic politician or
claim agent in Washington who believe
that these Southern claims will 60 unpaid
II Tilden ID elected. There is much for
greenback men TO think
about in this prospective increase Of the
public debt. Every vote Is worse than
thrown awaw. II Is 4 direct help toward
the payment Of all classes Of Southern
claims. While working to make money
plenty, il will be the part Of wisdom
10 so vote as not TO pile taxes and Ma.
tional debts mountain high. H. V.B.