The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-08-03

there is between the West aad the East, and
see if we owe the East our very blood. as
it were.
When the late rebellion began, the West
went into the war. fighting her real friends
to aid her real enemies. 1t was New Eng
land intolerance, bigotry, abolition and envy
which brought the rebellion upon US. We
were living in peace-prosperous and hap
py. The South was driven to the wall
the South rebelled-Western men who
loved the Union New England hated, fought
their best friends and proved the suprema-
cy of our flag.
banded and still New England intolerance,
vengeance and spite, war upon subdued
people, and upon the Constitution she
hates.
New, England nabobs hold United States
bonds, by New England controlled Con-
gress exempt from taxation.
New England dares not have the South
back in the Union, for the votes of that
section will justly be against her narrow
minded protective interests.
New England aboIitionists have set the
negro free, and make you and not only
support the freedmen, but the bond-holder
who sits and receives his interest, the whole
exempt from taxation.
New England wants her manufacturing
interest protected. She wants the burden
of taxation to fall upon the consumers of her
industry, and to rise to power and wealth
on the labor of the poorer classes, who in
the thirty other States of the Union pur-
chase of her.
The East is built up. It is finished
Her schools, roads, churches, jails, prisons,
poorhouses, asylums, &c, are erected
Much of this work is yet to be bone in the
West. Willie we in the West are at work,
New England bond-holders are riding in
their easy carriages. sitting in the shade,
revelHng in wine dinners, sporting in creek
and jungles. their wealth secured. aad in
United States bonds, by a New England
controlled Congress exempted from taxa
ton, we have a country yet to improve
We have roads, school-Louses. asylums,
churches, towns and cities yet to build.
We have the expense of Government to
pay. We have millions of dollars year to
| paw to the rich, lazy bond-holders who are
by the Government protected in their lazi-
ness, while we are by the same Govern
ment ground still deeper into the earoh on
account of our poverty.
Why this favoritism? Is this the reward
given the West for forsaking her BUSINESS
for fighting her best friends; for spiling
rivers of blood?
We did not restore the Union, for New
England says the Union is not restored!
We did not benefit the negro, for be is
worse off to-day under the drippings of this
New England mercy than under the care
of his former master.
We did not better ourselves by the war.
We did not soften the hearts of the
/ South.
But we did this, Western meu. We
made fools of ourselves. We fought our
true friends to help our worst enemies.
We piled up a mountain Of debt, astride
of which sit thousands of New England
bond holders, and we have got to bend our
backs to tie load, while they crack the
whip over us-the poor white trash of the
West.
May God in His goodness hasten The
day when the people will open their eyes
and look at the Crraatness Of the nniserv If
store for US as a nation, and give US mel
bold enough to lead the way to peace anC
| prosperity.