The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-09-11
UPPER sANDUsKY, OHIO THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1856

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I, SEPTEMBER II
slaves hired out in this City, County or
State.
The writer for the newspaper, has,
doubtless, mistaken Captain Jacobs, OF
Kentucky, for Fremont, who also married
a daughter OF Thos. H. Benton, and NOV
ed with his family and slaves to Boone
county, Missouri, and some two years
since returned to Kentucky, with bis ne
groes, He usually, as did Col. Fremont,
stop at my house. a
I My wife is the daughter Of Samuel
Benton, deceased, of Texas, and niece of
Thomas III. Benton. 4.tu
So much for the veracity Of the, writer
of the slip sent me, which is false in eve
ry part and portion. gotten up for bad
purposes-hence am induced to give it
fiat contradiction, but hereafter l shall
not replyeto such trash, Col. Fremont be-
ing fully able to defend himself against
these newspaper slanderers. I'D 5
/ Respectfully, your obedient,
e.aad d. ese34aqs. j. B. BRANT.
The original letter from Col. Brant may
! lI,otsoor of tb;o ofica t,s
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TEN CENT JIMMY---ITS ORIGIN.
On the 29d of January, 1910, Mr.. Bu-
charan accordingly addressed an argu-
ment to the Ut. S. Senate, of which he
was a member, in which, among other
things, he said:
g In Germany, where currency is purely
metallic, the cost of everything is RE-
IDUCED TO A HARD MONEY STAN
DARD a piece of broadcloth can be
manufactured for fifty dollars, the manu-
facture of which in our country, from the
expansion Of paper currency, would cost
one hundred dollars Il x i would
to heaven thatI could arouse the attention
of eu65y manufacturer IN tie nation to THIS
suyect. .faa''a
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] What is the reason that, with all those
advantages and with the protective duties
which our laws afford to the domestic
manufacture Of cotton, we cannot obtain
exclusive possession Of the home market,
and successfully contend for the markets
Of the world? It's simply because we
manufacture at the nominal prices of our
own inflated currency, and are compelled
to sell at the real prices Of other nations.
REDUCE OUR NOMINAL TO THE
REAL STANDARD OF PRICE S
THROUGHoUTTHE WORLD, AND
YOU COVER THE COUNTRY WITH
BLESSINGS AND BENEFITS.
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: The comparative LOW PRICES o.
France and Germany have offered such
stimulus to their manufactures that they
: are now rapidly extending themselves
: and would obtain possession, in no small
: degree, even Of the English home market
itit acre uot for their projecting duties"
Labor is the chief element of cost il
: manufacturing, from the making of watch
springs up to locomotives. The price o
raw materials is of small comparative con
sequence; ,4a # ..,ff{ 5+a ~
The next day, Mr.. Merrick, of Mary
land, made a searching exhibit of the ru
nous influences upon the workingmen Q
the United States of the adoption of th
policy which Mr.. Buchanan had SO strong
]ly urged. In the course of his speech
S Mr.. Merrick said aa
o b4r'' Mr.. President, as it has. been urge
W in support of this bill that one of the goo
IN. effects will be TO REDUCE THE WA
le. GES7 OF LABOR IN THIS COUNTR7
mechanical, manufacturing, agricultu
= raj, and all others, of course-I hav
ye1 considered it material and important to ir
i. quire to what extent this reduction wa
'e to take place. These wages, we are toio
le must come down to the specie standard
'ei and we have been referred to German
a. and Holland, and other European cour
Us tries, as examples Of hard money cul
rencies, and Of the cheapening effects {
at such currencies upon wages. = i
ne In France, yearly acages for an alb
le bodied man range from 48 to $50 shi
" lings, and day laborers get in that cou1
of try from A. to Is pence per day, an
lie whenever they get as much as five pene
as they have to find themselves. In Ge
n, many wages are still lower, and range b
ce the year between So and 100 shilling
and day laborers receive from 4 to
IT, pence per day, and find themselves
yn food In South Holland, farm hands g
a by the year from 200 to $50 shilling
wv and day laborers from three to four pent
IS per day, and are found. And SO on, 81
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