Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-11-06
From the New York N,ws.l
The GAreenback CycloDs.

MIR. Guliaiu and some OF the other city
bankers are, OF last, partially cured Of their
blindness. They are now enabled to see The
Secretary Of the Treasury in his true position,
with all his designs fully revealed to them. -
The firing on Fort Sumter was the shock that
blinded them, and while they we're cropping
about, the good Mr. Chase took them quietly
by the hand, picking their pockets, with the
intention OF ultimately swallowing them ali
when the proper time arrived. The poor, blind
bankers, in the midst Of the hourishng speeches
OF this American Robert Macaire, soon found
themselves minus OF fifty millions and another
fifty, aud still other millions, until at least two
hundred millions had passed from their vaults
into the capacious pockets OF Uncle Sam; and
then, when they expected the Overwhelming 2
gratitude OF him that was ready to perish
until they came to his aid, he quietly informs
them that he has them all in his power and
they must pass from their present condition
into state of vassalage TO the General Gov
crnment, and be numbered | 2, 3, 4, accord
ing to the date Of the charters as they issue
in other words, they are to lose their identity
and, like the poor prisoners in the State pen
itentiaries, 10 be known only by their numbers
to those who hold them captive, and to the
outside world Poor unfortunate Mr. Gallatin
and the jews who with him have had their
eyes opened to the wicked designs of this
financial Macaire, only see partially still Had
they at the outset have been deaf to his ap
peals, this wretched would have had "a
stop for want of the sinews to strengthen it,
| In three months it was all to be over wher
they loaned that FIRST City millions "Thi,
would enable the Government to crush it at
once, and New York should retain the com
mercial supremacy still Vain wordsl chaotic
balderdash abysmal nonsense as CARLYLE
would have said; but the poor blind banker,
believed and showed their Giih by theil
works Such credulity and laundering folly
never looked from behind gold spectacles. OF
supported itself upon gold-headed canes be
fore. The financial world Of Europe, much
lkeener, more sagacous fraternity than their
American cousins in Wall street. tried to give
them the alarm, but they heard not, neither
did they see, aud the greenback CyclOps il
now opening its capacious jaws to swallow
them up, and poor Gallatin sends forth most
piteous wall just before he passes with hi,
companions into his Cyclopean jaws of the
Federal greenback monster. Llsten to him
aud ye, who have tears to shed, prepare tc
shed them now
"Why chill and estrauge the friends who
have come so nobly to the rescue of the Gov
ernmeut into enemies, by this endeavor to in
itnte in time of war change in the currency
of the nation, which wise men would approach
with fear and trembling in period Of pro
found peaceY p
II Mr. Gallatn had read daily the money
articles of tue Nei0s, he would have known
his sad fate earlier He may still have the
consolation of Ulysses, Of being deyoureG
last.
We have spid that his eyes we're only par
TALLY opened We find by his letter that be
still hugs the delusion, ''that the salvation un
der Providence of this nation is to be through
the continuance ef war This is a more
serious deluson than the first, and when he
hears the starving poor clammering in the
streets for bread, that is beyond The reach o.
the wretched pittance that honest labor re
ceiVes, he may trembe at his delusion and
he may have his startling ears saluted God
grant it may be ayerled with the speech oil
some modern Chaumette who may declare
like the Procureur General of the French rev
olution
eve sympathize with the evils Of the people
because we are the people themselves. We
care not though our heads fall, so posterity
will collect our skulls 1t is not the Gospel
invoke--it is Plato. lie that strikes with the
s"uTui shouIu ne elruck oy tue SWORD ne that
strikes with poison, shou Id die with poison
he that lamishes the people, should die ol
famine. If subsistence and articles of mer-
chandse are wanting, if gold is wanting to
buy bread, from whom shall the people seize
them? From the Convention No From
the constituted authorities2 No. They will
take them from the bankers, the contractors
grown rich on our ruin, from the shopkeepers
and the merchants
Rosseau has said "when the people have
nothing to eat, they will eat the rich
God grant, in his infinite mercy, that this
calamity may not happen to us, but we warn
the imbeoiles who are advocating a further
continuance of this war to save the nation, OF
the tendency Of their efforts and the goal of
all their exertions Listen to the warning
voice of history, and not 10 the insane ibber-