Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1863-04-02
This last expression refers to the hopes OF
oE hrn crincr hnnt q disSA.

This last expression refers to the hopes OF
she " copperheads," of bringing about disso-
ution of the Union by means OF the Hartford
Convention, which had adjourned to meet
again if necessary It is proper to add taat
their hopes would have been frustrated, tor
that Convention was too essentially patriotic
10 the designs of great majority of its men,
bers to have given the vile traitors any COM
fort 1t may also be proper to add, for the
qualification of the reader, and as warning
to the copperheads' of today, that many
of those OF 1914 suffered severely by the very
distresses their 7llIanes had produced, and
that they were ever detested by all honorable
men. They were consigned to everlasting
social and political obscurty.
t. Similar enemies Of the country are now,
in various ways, s,endeavorius to alarm the peo-
pie concerning the National finances Every
art which wickidness can divine will be used to
accomplish their vile purpose. They roll up
their eyes and cast up their handsin pretended
horror because of the crushing national
debt" They hint darkly of reputation by
new Administration, and thus hope to destroy
confidence in the public stocks, and they point
Indignantly to the " Continental money" now
in the cabinets of the curious, as foreshadow-
ing the fate of the Government currency,
which they declare will nerer be redsemsd."-
a few words on that point and | will close :
CONTINENTAL CURRENCY.
When The Continental paper currency was
rapidly deprecistng, aud its redemption no
longer probability, the Continental Congress
addressed the people en- the subject, and said,
in substance " suppose at the end OF the
tho fI.rp
ahall be 5000 O00,0 900, and the loans $780,
0OO.O the National debt would then be
$500, ,OOOO 900. We ere o people three nil,
lion in number, making the burden on each,
800 Fund The debt, aud make it payable
in twenty years, and it makes So year for
each person. Assess men according to their
estate, and how few would be called upon to
pay anything | Then consider that the popu
lation will double in twenty years, making the
payment proportionately easier"
Thus hopefully argGed the fstber. when
there was no National Government to levy
dollar Of taxes, and the resources of the coun
try were uudeyeloped unsuspected. How will
this reasoning apply DOW ? Suppose our ma
tional debt at the close Of this war; shall be
$30O0 100000, or ten times that OF l7S3.-
We are now people more than thirty mil.
lions in number, or ten times as many as the
fathers named The remainder of their ar
gument will apply to our case exactly, with
the EXTREMITY important fact added, that We
have National Government that bears loyal
ty of the vast majority of the people, aud
with powers for toxaton equal to any exigen-
cy that may be contemplated, with the resour,
ces of the country, developed aud known, are
incalcuabe Looking at facts as they stan d,
no intelligent, honest man will say to his
neighbor Don't trnst the Government
securities the greenbacks' will never be
redeemed" He knows better Be assured
that every man of that stamp ia Of the " cop
perhead persuasion" and loves party more
than the Republic.
4 LOYAL CITIZEN.