Year: 1868

tering and protecting government q
stream OF treasure as deep and strong as
the current of its own Mississippi. Now
il hangs like paralyzed limb, helpless
ineumbrance, poor pensioner and bur
den upon the patience and bounty Of the
rest OF the body. It's fields are smitten
with an unnatural sterility. Every pro.
duetion has wi.hered and died, as if some
vast upas tree had cast its shade over all.
A fatal and desolating blight is upon the
land, upon the mountains, and upon the
corn, and upon the new wine, and upon
the oil, and upon that which the ground
bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon
cattle, and upon the labor of the hAnds.'
In her ancient glory and strength she
could meet one-half the taxation which
now daIkens the face Of the land. She
could take from your shoulders one-half
the load that now bends you 10 the earth.
The South, in 8 natural condition of
prcsperity-the child of protection in-
Stead of oppression-an object OF love,
and not of hate, spoliatiOn aud vengeance
on the part of the government-cOuld
pay two hundred and fifty millions .
year as her share of the public revenue.


" Under the present murderous policy,
however, toward her, it costs two hundred
and fifty millions year to govern, crush
and destroy her-making a difference OF
five hundred millions, an amount almost
equal TO the entire expenses OF the gov
errment. The Radical policy has not
only set fire to and consumed ons-half
the granaries, the stacks and harvest
fields of the United States, but it like
wise taxes what is left TO keep u sanding
army over the ghastly and smouldering
ruins it has made.


"But / may be told that the destruc-
tion of slavery is the cause of the des-
truction Of so much wealth that the
figures which have produced from the
census of 1850 were based upon slave
labor. At that time the South contained
a white population Of 604 ,OOO Its
black population numbered 1885, 900
There that population, trained to labor,
remains to-day. The ravages of war and
the results OF emanicipstiOu have been
made up, or nearly so, by the law Of
natural Increase. The sIatesman5hiT,
then, OF the country, finds vast labor
ing population in possession Of tie most
fertile and productive region OF the earth,
and by its policy, turns that region iUtO
a barren desert and a bowling wilder
ness. The rich lands are ali there. The
brawny and stalwart labor is there, and
actual want is there. But the miserable
and incendiaTy politician from the
North is also there; the infamous Union
League, with which to seluce the negro
to his ruin, is there q vast and appal-
ling military despotism, created and
used by political party for purposes Of
party illumination, is there; the Freed
mems Bureau, that guarantee out OF
your pockets that the negro may live
without work, is there, with its mighty
elan of pernieiOus, poisonous emlssariesi
aud the darkness, reptiles, locusts and
plaques were not more fatal TO Egypt
than are these gigantic evils to that
ruined land. We hear the dreadful cry
Of actual starvation coming up st this
from = country richer far than
the delta of the Nile. A loan o. thirty
millions, to be paid by you, is in cOutem-
p'atiOn by the officers of the Freedmen's
Bureau at Washington, with which to
maintain q people VINO will not work or
let others work, in the garden SPOT Of
Is this the banquet to which
you were invited by the abolition OF sla-
very? i this The least OF good things to
which yoa were bidden by Abolition
emissarles?n