Year: 1862

ANAP0LIs.


The following extract from Col. Richard
sons speech at Indianapolis will be read with
interest


"My fellow citizens, you have doubtless
heard great deal of talk about the Presi-
dents proposition in regard to the emanci
patton of all the blacks in tho slavo States of
ibis Union. The practical effect of the
adoption Of that measure will be neither
more or less than to enslave the white men
in order that the negro may go free. Even
now, my hard working, honest friend, must
you toll from early morn till dcwy eve, day
after day, in order to pay the taxes which
have been imposed upon you; but if you had
to work side BY side with the free slaves of the
south, as the President would have you do
if they were permitted to come into competi-
ton with and thereby reduce your scanty
earnings. you would not be able to pay your
taxes at all.


word or two about those treasury notes
suppose you have, most of you, seen them );
perhaps you hnye one of them in your pockets
now The Government has kindly given us
these notes in order to assist lis in paying our
taxes. Laughter. Well, this is all very
well but we must not forget that sooner or
later the pay day must come. No nation has
ever maintained its Independence that rcpu-
dated its debts. Although Great Britain is
more heavily burdened than our Govern
ment, still she pays her three per cent. of in.
terest punctually year after year. We of
course must pay the principal and, in order
to do that taxation must increase-the coun
try must groan beneath a mighty load.


Now, so far as we of the Western States
are concerned, these Yankees down East
have shrewdly managed to get us pretty we'll
taxed, in advance, so to speak. They are
exceedingly sharp fellows-those Yankees.
Why, my friend, you never supposed did you,
that all their professions of solicitude in re-
gard to the welfare of the negro were sin
eere Not bit oft. They are merely ''run.
ning' the negro because they can make mon'
t'~S'~ss--1 = hiuA---Lo.AiiHss EiSc; aoouAS go"'
Laughter.l And far they have succeed
ed pretty we'll. They got forty-six millions
| of dollars from the Government last year for
making arms, and managed so as to give us
the taxes to pay by way of compensation for
not being equally favored with them in the
matter Of contracts. [Laughter.] The effect
of the war is, that we are selling all our home
productions much more chcaply than usual,
while the Yankee gets little more than u.s.
ual fer all OF his.


New, those Yankees are able to supper t
themselves just about thirty days out of three
hundred and sixty-ive--they are dependent
on the West the remainder Of the time and
they exercise a very powerful influence at
Washington City. Where the Yankees pay
three per cent. by way Of taxes, we pay five.
They have probably as many men in the field
as Indiana or lllinois-they have all the CEN
tracts They are getting rich we are not
Fellow citizens, that should be corrected
The Government should be just to all parts.
1t is disgrace to the Government that while
we of the West have more population. as
much wealth, and great deal more genuine
devotion to the cause of the Union and Con-
stitution, we should be made "hewcrs of wood
and drawers Of water to the inhabitants of
another section of our country.


Bat how do they manage to do all
this? The answer is plain. These East
tern men are Republicans. A Republican
is elected to Congress from the Wcst-from
Indiana or illinois, and when he goes and
takes his scat in the House or the Senate,
he begins to show the least disposition to
think for himself and to do what is best for
his constituents a6 home, these men who are
! leaders of that party in Congress 60 to him
and tell him, eff you do not vote for and with
your party, you will not be regarded as 10y
al to the Government 1t is thus my fellow
citizens, that you destroy your own interest
when you place a Republican in power.
Is 1T SIGNIFICANT Or Nor ?-The Albany
Journal of yesterday calls upon the Demo-
cratic State Convention to make "Union"
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