Year: 1867

Ohio State Journal


1t should be borne in mind by every
taxpayer Of the nation that the enormous
burden of debt under which the country
is staggering, was fixed upon it by re-
bellion fostered and strengthed by the
Democratic party.


1t should be borne in mind that this
debt was enormously increased by the aid
and comfort gived to the rebellion while
In progress, by the Democratic party,
whereby the rebels were encouraged to
prolong the struggle against the Union
armies, after all other reasonable hope of
success had been extinguished.


1t should be borne in mind that the
debt of the nation was still farther in
creased by the efforts of the Democratic
party to cripple and destroy the public
national existence, and that the national
bonds were thereby forced to heavy dis
count in contracting loans with which to
carry on the war, ,and the national currcn
cy was thus largely reduced below its true
value in gold, thereby adding enormously
to the cost of all material purchased for
the use of the government.


1t should be borne In mind by every
tax payer of the nation that the Demo-
cratic party stand pledged to secure com
pensation to the slaveholding rebels for
every slave set free by the Emancipation
Proclamation, adding an immense and I'M
just burden to the already enormous tax
alton under which the country groans.


1t should be borne in mind. that all the
Democratic members in the House of the
Fortieth Congress, have placed them
selves upon the record by their votes, in
favor of the monstrous proposition that
the national government is liable under
the reconstruction laws, for every dollar
of the State debts of all the States in re-
bellion.


Il should be borne in mind by every
tax payer, that the Democratic party,
through the its orators and writers for
the press is committed to the unheard Of
proposition that the Confederate war
debt, contracted in the iniquitous strug
gle to overthrow the National Govern
ment,is justly chargeable against the gov
ernment and that Is party only waited the
success of its insidious attempts to regain
power, to fasten the debt upon the peo-
pie of the United States.


1t should be borne in mind by every
tax payer that the Democratic party per
sistently opposes every effort made to
tighten the public burden by levying du-
ties upon foreign imports, thus requiring
foreign capitalists and traders who have
the benefit of our markets to bear small
share of our burden in return, and at the
same time protect our home manufactures
from the deadly competition OF foreign
capitalists who grow fat upon the proceeds
of pauper labor.


1t should be borne in mind most espe
cially by Ohio wool growers and tax pay
ers, that the Democratic party has always
vent foreign wool growers from contribu
ting anything to tighten the burden of
taxation, aud that every Democratic menu
ber of both Houses of Congress has met
every ATTIC ot to protect the great wool
growing interest of the country with the
most deadly hostility and that they have
thus while pratiug of the enormous pro-
fits made by the manufacturers of New
England, played directly into the hands
of these manufacturers, without even the
lame excuse of saving to the consumer
in the price of the product and all they
have done while every Ohio Republican
member OF Congress gave voice and vote
to the passage of an act to protect the
wool growers, and at the same time pro-
tect the consumer by disconnecting the
wool tariff from all other tariffs, for the
benefit Of the manufacturers.


And finally it should be borne in mind
by every tax payer, and every patriot who
has the country at heart that the speak
ers of the Democratic party openly avow
that their hope for the success of that
party lies only in financial disaster to the
country, whether caused by failure of
crops, by the discrediting of the national
currency, by preventing the nation from
meeting its obligations, or however result