Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-08-09
Republican Money.


Humorous Josh Billings, in one of his
facetious sketches, trutbfully observes that
ssin the good old daze there waz more fun
in 80 cents than there is now in ? dollars
and half"
Working men, hoodwinked, seduced, Ca
jolsd into supporting the Republican party,
Just sit down, here, and tell us-when was
thia country the ssparadise of honest labor"
It was In the good old Democratic hard
money and the free trade days-before Alb
olitionism, sectionalism, niggerism, and per-
.nicious John Brown, Thad. Stevens, and
Charles Sumner ideas had turned your
brain.
You received for wages in those days,
gold and silvar-suoh curiosities as you
show your children nowadays. You did
not receive the promise of three or four dol
lara for your days labor, but you did re-
ceive two and two-snd.a half real dollars,
which went farther and served you better
than the fimsey stuff you now receive.
Let rs see some of your Republican
money! Nice stuff, isn't it? That hand
ful of postal currency looks as though each
piece might have been used to cover foul
ulcer or sinking sore !! Bah! call that
money? That green back makes pretty
picture don't it-but does it look, and with
all its crispness sound as we'll as the circu-
lar bits of metal bearing the dear face of
Libertyf That portrait in one corner
you know it, of course-thati is the "second
Washington" as eloyaP men termed him,
that is che counterfeit presentmens' of the
10000 Abolition flowers" dear precious,
glorious Mr.. Lincoln, who was too good for
earth and was trsnsplanted to another
sphere. That pompous looking chap with
coat buttoned up, is the great inventor Of
greenbacks-the man who Chased gold and
silver out of your pockets and out of the
country, and taught men the art of making
money as printers do backing labels-with
presses. The greenbacks make pretty pic
lures, and the colors are bright, bat after
all, you can't cheat yourself into the belief
that the trash is really and truly "money,"
can you7
Somehow you don't get along on your
Republican wages as you did in the Demo-
cratic times! Did you ever figure up what
you pay in the shape of extra taxes in q
hundred ways Just try it and you won't
wonder that it is so hard to live. In those
passed-and. gone days of Democracy you had
no taxation, 10 inflated currency, no odious
protective tariffs, no class legislation, no
bondholding aristocracy, no great national
debt, no psttifogging Rump Congress.
A PARTY of whining zealots, fauatical ex
perimentalists, michief-making busy-bodies,
kept up an agitation on the slavery ques
tion until they forced the masses of the
people to engage in it-working men, farm.
ers, mechanics, enlisted in the crusade,
and war followed-you thought it was the
Union, and the Constitution and flag, didn't
you-but the "Rump Congress tells you a
different story to day-that the war was
Waged to free the niggers of the South,
and drag you, toiling millions of white
freemen, down to the negro's level. What
are Union, flag, Constitution or country in
comparison7 What if you grow poorer and
poorer-and bond holders and Office. holders
richer and richer2 What do the "Rump
ers" care for your hardships, struggles with
poverty, and pitiful remonstrances. They
are your masters, now-uow their hands
are on the peoples tbroats, ready to crush
and stiae 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"
La Crosse Democrat