The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-08-09

one of the cheapest, 1S Decomlhs Ono - -
| the dearest places to live in" once,
| further added the Tribune, 1T was Inc % .
naradise of honest labor; today 1t IS inc
,,n,ad;se of dishonest speculation. oe
And humorous Josh Billings, In one VI
b;s facetious sketches, truthfuly op.
s,as n of I1in the good old daze tnere
soa n,ore finn in thirty cents than tnere
Ma IN seven dollars and hall"
10 E Ev man working for living; eat
b;s bread in the sweat of his faeei
toiiino early and late against discour.
agements and trials to support MS lam
iiy and pay huge share OF his wages 10
TOW oatherers and internal revenue COL
iectors and assessors, knows these facts
To he true: all classes but the favored
pnd hammered bond-holders know TINS
70 he the case. but it is something new
e. Grady TO make the admission.
Workingmen hoodwinked, seduced,
caioled into supporting the Republican
party, just sit down here, and tell us 90
when was this country the paradise Oh
honest LAHORE" Don't be in a hurry W
| answer-think q few moments. 61pu
had rather not answer f" Wen, we
should think you would prefer not 10 40
SO; but we will tell you. 1t was IN the
good old Democratic, hard-money ana
| free trade days, before Abohtlonlsml,
sectienalism, niggerism, false and PERM.
cious John Brown, Tnad. Stevens and
Charles Sumner ideas had turned your
brain and the brains of tens Of thou
sands of men in your condition OF life
when YOU were content to let well
enough alone,p and believed that your
fathers knew fully as much as their
"uropressiye" sons of sound govern
mental policy and wise and Judiclous
administration of public affairs.
You received for wages IN those Gays
gold and silver-such money as Call
| fornian sent us the other day for his SUBJ
scpiption-such curiosities as you show
your children nova days, whose metallc
ring speaks to you OF other and pettel
days. You did not receive the promise
of three or four dollars for your day
labor, but you did receive two and two
and a half real dollars, which went fur.
Their and served you better than the
tlimsy stuff you now receive. ,'s.' ?
Put your hand in your pocket-let US
see some of your Republican money
Nice stuff, isn't it2 That handful OF
postal currency looks as though each
piece might have been used to cover a
foul ulcer or sinking sore! Bah! Call
that money! That greenback makes a
pretty picture, doesn't it? But does it
look, and with all it's crispness, sound as
well as the circular bits of metal bearing
the dear face of Liberty? That portrait
in one corner-you know it, of course
that is the second Washington" as
1oyar' men termed him--that is the
counterfeit presentment" of the balm
of 10000 Abolition flower" pre-
cious, glorious Mr.. Lincoln, who was too
good for earth, and was transplated to
another sphere When Liberty was
murdered, Lincoln's cadaverous face, his
hank jaws, were depicted on the money
of the Republicans the head of new
king is stamped upon the coin OF the
realm on the death Of his predecessor,
Nice man Lincoln was-but we are not
sorry he has gone to that undiscovered
| country" &c. rnno rv,.r~~@. .lsalrsnas
| chap with coat buttoned up, is the great
inventor of greenbacks-the man who
Chased gold and silver out of your peck
cts and out of the country, and taught
men the art of making money as printer!
do backing labels-with steam presses
The greenbacks make pretty pictures
and the colors are bright, but after al
you can't cheat yourself into the belief
that the trash is really and truly money
can you?
Somehow you don't get along on your
big Republican wages as you did In the
Democratic timos Did you ever figure
up what you pay in the shape of extra
taxes in "a hundred ways? just try it, anC
YOU won't wonder that it is so hard tt
live. In those passed and gone days o.
Democracy you had no taxation, nc
inflated currency, no odious protective
tariffs no class legislation, no bondhold-
ing aristOcracy, no great national debt,
no pettifogging Rump Congress.
A party of whining zealOts, tanatlcal
oxperimentalists misunderstanding busy
bodies, kept up an agitation on the slave
~ question until they forced the masses
of the people to engage i'll it-working
men, farmers, mechanics, enlisted in the
crusade and war followed-you thought
it was for the Union, aud the constitu-
tion and the flag, didn't you2 But the
"Rump" Congress tells You a different
story to-day-that the war was waged to
free the niggers of the South aud drag
you, toiling millions of white lroemen,
down to the negroes level. What are
Union, flag, constitution, or couhtry in
comparison? What if you grow poorer
and poorer, and bondholders and Office
holders richer and richerl What
do the Bumpers care fur your
hardships, struggles with poverty,
and pitiful remonstrances! They are
your masters nOw-their hands are on
the peoples throatS, ready to crush and
stiln the first rebellious whispers they
may feel inclined to utter, or the first
faint sigh fOr that Democratic country,
once the paradise of honest labor
You are paying lsboring men OF the
North and West, the penalty of your be
tTayal OF the Constitutional party of the
Republic, your great tribute to the New
England cotton lords and manufacturers
who have used you and still use you to
aggrandize themselves and further their
ambitious plans.
You, working men, have yet the power
to win back the glories of our past histo-
ry-sweep into n common ruin pettifog-
glng POLITICIANS and their rubbish of
bonds, debts, and gTeenbacks-rescue
your country from the hands of the spoil
ers, and reestablish the Constitution.
al Union of our fathers, with the euuali-
ty of all the States IOur ballots can at
test your patriotism, your desire and IN
tcution to shake of the vassallage Of New