American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-03-09
"GoiRg TO Smash.

We recommend to our readers the arti-
Gle on 'Going to Smash" 1t is a perfect
refutation balderdash of the Copperhead
priests % doing right and promoting
freedom sends the Country to smash let it
go. But it is not so temporary, present in
convenience must finally result in unpar-
allelled prosperity.-Johet Republican.
GONG TO. SMASH AGAIN.-The
whole host of bears, copperheads, traitors,
rebels, and grandma financiers are again
trying hard to make the people believe
that "very soon weare sll going to smash"
How such an event is to come about has
not yet been made plain, and as to the date
of said catastrophe, no Daniel among these
financial prophets can yet cipher it out
Where Is the smash to begin? and who
will show us any sign thereof, tangible to
the senses AS for ourselves, we do not
look for smashing anywhere-savea and ex-
cept that which General Grant shall final
ly give to the rebels That kind of
smash we most devoutly pray for.
Are our merchants going to smash p
No, we say, most emphatically. So long
as they continue to do business for cash
and very short credit, are they not safe.
The man who can, in view of present
facts, see smash in that direction is
simpleton. But it is said, goods are GO
ing to fall, and then the smash will come
in. Don't our merchants know this, and
are they not only prepared for it, but
abundantly able to ride triumphantly thro'
such adverse changes? The loss of the
profits on a seasons business, or on even
that ola whole year, would not hurt them,
and much less smash" Whoever knows
anything aboutthe prosperity they hayee en-
joyed the past two years, will not predict
disaster in that quarter. No, no, the mer-
chants are not going to smash. They are
stronger, safer, more Independent than ev-
er. Many of them-a majority, we think
could pay every dollar they owe in 80
days, and without any special effort either.
Rest easy, therefore, ye croakers, about the
merchants.
Are the manufacturers going to smash ?
Well, the thong of that provokes smile.
As a class they arc absolutely beyond the
reach Of any financial disaster. If asquall
comes, they have only to trim their sails
and 60 to anchor They owe nothing as
class, and are now selling their goods
mostly for cash, as fast as they can be de-
livered. A more aristocratic Independent
sort Of men do not exist, here or elsewhere
than the manufacturers. Count on one
thing as sure, that this special class of our
fellow-citzens are not yet quite ready to go
to smash.
Are the farmers going to smash? We
would like 10 sec the man who VIII venture
that prediction. Such paying off notes
mortgages, and old scores, among til class,
wasneycr known before Asawhole, they
are now erich and saucy," and as sound as
a nut. Some Of them cry, it is true, be-
cause they have not more corn to sell at a
dollar and a quarter bushel more onions
at six dollars barrel, more butter at thir
ty cents a pound, and more cheese at ff-
teen more hay at thirty dollars tun :;
more horses and more oxen. more beef and
more pork, more wool and more-eyery-
thing to sell at unheard-of prices. Poor
fellows we pity them but they shall not
60 to smash, just yet, if IRE can help it..
1t is asserted, with some show of evidence,
that the farmers have ''sett'od fever
for ''greenbacks" and "fve-twentics, and
that they are now laying in a good stock
of the latter in order to be all ready when
the smash comes. Herein they are wise !;
and be it known that all who do not thus
provide themselves with these documents
for the future support of theirown house
hold are worse than-Jef Davis.
Aro ,,,, ,ilr,,J, I,,,Eg ;ne,rro non,
panics and other corporations going to
smash Who says so? Show us the
man ? Is it not fact that they are doing
snug, safe business Have they not
paid off their floating debts Are they
not earning more money than ever before,
and making larger dividends? There are
certainly no signs Of weakness in that di-
rection.
No, we have only to smash the rebellion
and all other smashes will be indefinitely
postponed All will be we'll with us if we
are wise in our war movements. five are
afraid to hurt traitors in their pockets, or
on the neck ; if we want to preserve sla-
very-the sum of all denominations /; af we
want our armies officered and controlled
} by "do-nothings :" if VIC rush headlong
over present duty and go now to Presi-
dent-making; if we are more anxious to
please Government contractors and carry
favor with the Coppcrheads, than to do
justly and love mercy; if we want to do
all these things-just at that consenting
moment-look out for a smash' 1t will
come in just here.
But we have other business. SHOULDER
ARMS.
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