The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-08-17
From the Htiadelplia Age.
The New Yankee Cook Book.

with the mass of the people, not what they
shall eat, but whether they shall eat at all.
Those of our population who have not been
given to the grave or the hospital, in the
prosecution Of this Abolition war, are left
at home to contend with the wolf, which
hangs about the poor mans d0cr-to face
the spectacle. as horrible as carnage, Of star
we'd wives and ragged children, clamorous
for the b. ead which there is no money to
buy. OF the Thousands of millions which
| this war has cost. and for which the laborer
is taxed, not enTy finds It's way into his
rocket. New England contractors and
manufacturers daily grow inordihately rich
on the price Of blood, and the mass of the
people who work for their bread, hour by
hour grow poorer and still more poor,
mal ching steadily downward from common
| poverty to downright bcggay, and from
beggary stIaightway to starvation The
worst has not yet come, but it is fast COM
! ing.
-Four years ago every household in the
| land was flooded with Abolition tracts, de-
uonstyating that slavery in the South oper-
! atcd to DEGRADE labor and to keep down the
wages Of the free workingmen OF the North.
| Many poor man whose family sat around
a Widespread board, whose wages sutflced
not merely to support them IN comfort and
| TO dress them with neatneSs, but yielded
surplus to be laid hy for a rainy day, was Sc
duccd by these lying appeals to bis passions
and his pride to vote for Abraham Lincoln
| lie has now had nearly four years Of that
I glorious and miilenial rule which the Abo!!-
/ tionists pictured ont for him in their cam
paign documents. II he has been fortunate
enough to escape the fangs Of conScrilption,
! if lie has not bled and rotted like his broth
er or SON, on some fruitless battlefield of
the South, if his wife is not yet a helpless
widow and his children orphaned beggars,
if he has been reSpited from these horrors
until another call for troops summons hlm
to the bloody shambles of Abolition he
has been reserved for fate not much bet
| ter.
1t is a fact that even the bold mendacity
of the Abolitionists dare not deny, that the
means of living, Of purchasing the common
est neccssaries Of life, tits smallest luXulles
are lot out Of the question: are fast getting
out Of the reach of the man who earns his
bread by the sweat Of his brow Butter has
been given up by the poor man long ago
Butchers meat, with the exception OF the
pieces which in Democratic days were led to
dogs aud cats, has become luxury hope
lcssly out Of lis reach. Tea and coffee are
practically as far beyond the capacity Of his
purse as Champagne or johannesburg. The
! nine that soliced his intervals Of rest must
be put away. The time is at hand when he
must either feed like beast n the otfal OF
the markets or not at AL His wages it is
true, have nominally advanced, but he is
paid in deprecated paper, not worth forty
cents on the dollar, and the miserable rags
which are counted out to him are the only
cheap things he ever sees. Well may he
cry out in MS distress,
Oh God! that bread shonld be so dear
And flesh and blood SO cheap!
This state of things is truly alarming
The sufierings and cries OF some nations
may be stihed by the bayonet-a generation
reared from infancy on crlEtS may pa
t;ently cat crusts to old agc-but a people
like ours, habituated to the comforts Of lie,
fed in plenty on its meats and fruits, can
not be trained to starye in decent subnis
sion, or to die bcggars in loyal felicity. The
muttelings that me to be heard now i'll eve
~ workshop and on every street corner for
bode Il stolm which is ass,uedly coming
and which can not be long delayed. God
help the heads on which the iightnlngs
break
The Yankees are not unmindful of this
state Of things, nor torgetul OF the fact
that VIC arc indebted to thcm for its exist
tence. They have made good thing Of
this war The treasures of all the rest of
the land have poured into their yawning
pockets. They haye done their lighting
chiefly by proxy, and under preten>c OF ele-
waiting the black are represented III the field
to-day by hordes of miserable negroes, kid
mapped from plantations Of the border
States and marched off to be butchcred for
the Sons of the Pilgrims. " They are
bounding on the war because it pays them
in money and costs them nothing i'll blood.
They arc richer, better fed and m0le indie
pendent than at any period since the May
flower spilled its load Ci' maIignants upon
Plymouth Rock.
But this crafty people are wise enough to
see that the general distress among the poor
which is becoming more manifest every day.
bodies them 10 good. 1t ntGy eliminate in
in revolution, which n2Qht result in their
fatal and ignominous expulsion from I'm
ion which they now find 50 profitable. At
any rate, if not alleviatcd or uhdued, this
distress may. by the Gurce and determined
union Of the mas: es, St0p the 'cca, which
would be to New England ast0ppage OF the
s!ulcGS OF the River OF lAle. u,.
Recognizing these alarming facts, appre-
| hcnding this distress, and the dire di*con-
tent it is breeding, the Yankees have hit
upon cheap and most notable plan to dit-
fuYe general content among the people, and
to reconcile the poor man to his cotd bones
and mouldy cheese palings This plan we
will now proceed to unfold. Every Gay
some new scheme appears III the Yankee
newspapers tor making weeds pNlatablc and
garbage delicious, Learned philosophers
publish statistical tables showing III the
most conclusive MANNER and from actual gX-
pertinent upon factory children and their
dadies, that the chntpest thing are Mrdfta.,
bLytAe UtoSt wl,Olc$onle dHd dayesttbic,. and
that the health and happiness Of the laborer
are precisely III proportion to the meagerneSs
of his dinners. This strange discovery,
which slumtcrcd through all that long and
dark period in which the Democratic party
controlled the Government and Kept the
Union safe, is enforced every day by the
published lucubrations of some fresh phi
fosopher who has discovered the tatten-
ing properties OF some new fragment OF
ohal ...-. ..., ..., s.,
1t seems that our people, as lately as, the
, Administration Of Buchanan, lave been
gorsiug themselves with deadly poisons in
the shape of bccf-steaks, butter, eggs and
fowls. These and other fat dishes with
which the laborer used to regale himself, il
has been demonstrated by the New England
, sages. had "a tendency TO make hilh hloated
and pinply, to becloud his brain, disqualifJ
him for work and heat his blood up to 0
turbulent revolutionary point, This diet
which these good men, through their repre-.
sentatiyes in Congress, have compelled him
to resort to, although at first unpalatable
and perhaps SO at last, has q tendency t
corpulence, to thin the sccretions, TO coo
the temper and to INDUCE Submissive an(