Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-10-20
SOUTHERN oLArxs.
Something for Impartial Men TO Think
About,

American people. mo lntelllgent man
can be misled by it; and for the following
reason; there is no such thing as rebel
debt.-Boston Post.
The above is fair specimen Of the
manner in which Democratic jour-
nails meet the charge that the ex-reb.
els intend to be reimbursed from the
national treasury through the success
OF the Dem ocratic party for their
losses during the war. 1t is true that
there is no rebel debt, but there are
swarm of rebel acar claims.
Some years ago direct tax Of
$5,15S,ss6 was apportioned among
the southern states. Less than hall
of this tax is paid, and the govern.
ment has not enforced its collection,
but the balance is due. The Demo.
Gratis in Congress not only brought
forward proposition to remit this
balance, but also to refund that al
ready paid.
It is also proposed to distribute
over $6s, 100000 among the cotton
tax lobby, and Democrats insist that
their friends, the former rebels, shall
be compensated for the use and oc-
cupation of all property by the Unit
ed States during the war of the re-
bellion. A bill has already been in
troduced in Congress Oh. r. No.153)
"to adjust and settle the claims of
the United States for stores and sup
plies taken or furnished during the
rebellion. for the use of the army of
the United States and for other pur-
poses" 1t was stated when this
proposition came up, that careful
estimate of the sum which would
have to be paid out of the public
treasury on this single proposition,
would amount to the enormous sum
of 50, 4s2, 642,133, a sum far exceed
ing the national debt. There is no
rebel debt, say the Democratic pa
pers; but there are rebel claims that
threaten to put an onerous burden of
taxation upon the north, if not to
bankrupt the nation.
Among the hundreds of bills al
ready filed by late rebels now await
ing the result of the November cleo
ton, are the following, which will
indicate the general character of the
rest:
"a bill to pay Mrs. Priscilla Bur-
well, of Vicksburg, $e25o for rent
of property by the United States ar
my.
A bill to pay Walter Akin, Maury
county, Tennessee, $47Oo.5o.
A bill to pay the County of Ran
dolph, Virginia, $1,000 for damages
done the court house, Jail, clerks of.
fee, roads and bridges during the
occupancy by Federal troops.
A bill to pay John Morrison, of
Memphis, $4,000 for rent and DANA
ges of pr, perty by United States
military authorities.
A bill to pay the treasurer of Prai-
RE County, Arkansas, 100000 for use
and destruction of the court house
and Jail by the Federal army during
the late var.
A bill to pay Mary J. Josling and
Lavinia Scott $4,000 for their mill,
wooden factory and dwelling, destroy
ed by Union soldiers under military
orders.
A bill to pay certain parties NAM
ed s6o,366 for expenses in dredging
the Southwest Pass Of the Mississip-
pi River in 1859.
A bill to pay the financial agent of
Dawson county, Tennessee, the sum
of S36,416.45 in full settlement Of
claim of SAID county on account of
occupancy by the United States OF
the county court house.
A bill to pay Mr.. H. Howard, of
Tennessee, 1910 on account Of prop
erty burned by the United States ar
my.
A bill to pay Randall Brown: of
$1,000 for property taken
by rebel forces.
A bill to pay John T. Stratton, of
Memphis, $5237.67 for use of cotton
shed by the United States army.
A bill to pay Joseph Tagg, of Mem
phis, $4,000 for buildings destroyed
by the United States military author
tiles at Memphis.
A bill to pay Joseph G. Shaller, of
Little Rock, ss264 for cattle and
sheep taken by Union soldiers.
A bill to pay Nicholas White
$4,000 for the use and destruction of
his property at Newport News, Va,
by United States army.
A bill to pay James Millinger &c.,
s93.75 for the use and destruction of
his property at Nashville, Tennessee.
A bill to pay Ann S. Mckenzie
$500 for property taken by Federal
soldiers and destroyed IN Fairfax
county, Virginia.
A bill to pay Mrs. E. w. F. Chew
is $15,s95 for property taken from
her plantation by the army under
of Gen. n. p. Banks"
There is no rebel debt, say the
Democracy; but the rebels lately in
arms against the government have
taken a contract to place Tilden in
the chair of state, and the price they
demand in return is indemnity for
property sacrificed in the work of
them. We are told that
we must forget the past. None more
willing to bury in oblivion the sad
of strife than the northern
people, but we must have no such
reminder of those bloody days as de-