The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-08-29
The Fnrmer,s sslilequy.

/ bought my cassinet for sosonsy n'o
cents q YARD, my sugar for elght Genus q
nonnd. INV coffee for twelve cents
bound, and paid for them in geld anu
silver. .h.,5s for
q dollar day. .bt-fy
It amt 80 now.
have to pay a good rent for my farm
| in the way of taxation.
I have to pay income tax.
have to put revenue stamps Oh ny
notes and receipts. 20 he
| worked up, I must pay tax on IL. .h..
NV cassinet. coffee, sugar anu o'ner'
,onassor;es ara taxed until they are
doubled in price. H.
I have to pay laborers two or tnrte
dollars day, because all they eat, drink
and wear is taxed.
NV rich neighbor sold his farm and
mt the proceeds in government bonds,
and he is exempt from taxation tnus
greatly increasing the, burden OF tnose
who pay r.H. ri
It is hard work for me to get along
under the burden imposed. ,.,
fear it will not, be q great while un''I
thew take all / have-all for when 1
have labored hard so many years,
The public debt is growing DO less.
The public officers are becoming no
scarcer. ,.:.: 90
curtail expenditures.
| wish times were as they useu 10 pe'
| Nv sons went into the army to save
the Union.
One was killed and the other came
home a cripple for life. ~,
The soldiers put down the rebellion
but the Union is not saved.
Those who induced my boys to hight
| for the Union are now against us resIoi'
atien. .uoo.
Thew demanded that the negroes
should be freed
They were all set free.
lam now taxed to keep up o bureau 10
feed them.
II ia now demanded that the negroes
shall vote and make laws for the white
That a negro shall 60 to the polls in
place of that slain boy of mine.
That negro shall 60 to the election
and kill my vote. ,.,,,
Idon't like to have my vote killed ny
a negro.
NV father assisted in making this a
white mans government
| would like to perpetuate 1t as our
| fathers made it.
They tell us that the negro IS a man
and brother" :,
That he should have all the rights and
| nr;yi1a0ao nthara aniOV.
consider myself better than a negro.
Nv BOYS are better than negroes.
Iwould not have negroes marry my
daughters.
| voted for Martin Welker for Con-
gress; he said he was Union man.
He denied that he was in favor OF ne
gro equality.
He declared that he was friend of
| the soldiers and would do something Tor
my poor boy, VIII, was crippled in bat.
tie.
He has voted ia Congress nearly every
| day since last December against the
Union being res tored.
Guess it's restoration might interfere
with the lease Of fat offices he and his
friends want.
He voted to give the negroes the right
to vote in the District of Columbia.
He voted for the negro bureau bill,
which would cost as much as all the eX-
penses of the administration IN jack
sons time. .,,
He voted for the Civil Rights Bill,
which was calculated to place negroes on
an equality with white men.
He voted for the Constitutional amend
ments, which arc designed to force negro
suffrage upon the country.
Thaddeus Stevens is Radical.
The President says he is traitor, and
/ believe it.
Martin Welker has voted with Stevens
tevery time
The only difference between them is
| in intellect.
Maj Welk,r controls the govern
ment Ulcers in his congressional dis
| tIict.
The appointr..nts ale all referred to
hun
My crippled ldier boy wanted to be
a revenue asse, ar in order to make
living
But these idces are reserved for
civilia's who p,'mised great things to
the soldiers.
lie then wanted the postOfnce Ill INC
village.
That, too, wa reserved for man who
said he fought copperheadsi i'll the rear"
Every conveD non passes a resolution
of graf ltude to the soldier.
But resolutions won't buy food and
clothing.
Guess they might as well hang out
their sign, inscrl bed:
No SOLDIERS NEED APPLY"
don't like the way things are carried
on l don't know how matters can get
much worse.
see no Prospect of improvement
with the present men in power.
Guess I'll risk IA change at the next
election -Holm,s County Farmer.
A BACHELOR at boarding house in
Toledo Ohio, Lard a servant girl say
she had dream'd that number 1891