Maryland free press., 1866-10-25
i What are You Worth.


.Eg-We ask the question .'what are
you worth? in financial point of view
Most of you calculated your worth some
thing, but We rather guess you're some
what like ourselves-worth mary red. 2
The Radicals have n,ortgagea every foot
Of your, land every brick in your house,
to pay the immense National debt they
have been industriously piling up during
FIVE years of their administration. You
arc only its holders laboring to redeem it
by digging its price from the SOIL ere the
debt becomes due and payable. .,.
You say "the debt is large enough in
all conscience, but this is an over estimate
an cxageratiqn intended to frighten the
peoplezfor political effect" You think SO,
eh? Well, we think the people are not SO
easi y frightened. Would to mercy they
were more so. llrd they ben and listen
ed tothe warnings of wisdom instead of the
rawlings of Fanatics they would have avoid
ed the war and the debt of the past and
the perils Of the future. BIT Let us exam
inc few facts and figures let us post the
books and see how we stand. Figures
wont lie-except in the hands of such
chaps as the man of the OIL FclioD, who
has the faculty, Of natural or cultivated, of
manufacturing something not known by
the nature of truth out Of facts, figures or
letters. But, to the Finance question. -
Mr.. Sherman, loyal Chairman of the
| Finance Committee stated in the last Con-
gress that the adjusted debt Of the Govern
ment was Three Thousand Millions ot
Dol'ns, Mr.. Delano, (''loyal also"')
Chairman of the House Committee on
claims, states that there arc now pending
and will be allowed, claims of loyal ''pcr-
sons against the nation of not less than
.fpur thousand millions Of dollars. Add
that and that together, and you have as
the debt of the nation, seren thousand MI
hons Of ,Dollars. Now take the assessed
value of the Real Estate of all the States
aud Territories, according to the Cencus
Report of 1860, and you. find d. it to fall a
tNls short of the amount.of your National
Debt These being the facts; we leave
you to;d.etegmjue how lhaah,the Real Es-
tate of. the countryis worth, lover and above
the ineumbranoe the Radical party have
plz upon it,. We opine not much calcula.
lion will be necessary. ~r','rs -e -..r
p But the Radicals would shift the awful
responsibility ofthis debt from their own
shoulders.t And is tliis TO be wondered
at? The awkwardness of the attempt j,
however laughable to witness. They will
tell you that, not they, but the Democrat
ic party is responsible forit. r. Let useyi
anime this, not to exculpate the Democrat
cratic party. for the Radicals have too Of
ten preached its funeral discourse that w,
arc. bound to believe it dead and buried
or at, least out Of this contest, but for the
pprposeIof convietipg, them. yodY !'na
| n They say thew o9easiopsd the debt
and the Democratic party brought on tho
war by splitting up-ip the Charleston Con.
Neution on the slavery question and thu;
insuring the election of Lincoln. Lenp
before, on the same rock of slavery; had
gone to pieces the Methodist and BaptisI
churches. the old Wing and the Know
i Nothing parties, together with the tract
and various other religious aud benevolent
speieties,, And yet, who holds them re-
sponsible? The veriest fool in the land,
thinks Of no such thing Then why the
Democratic party? 1o No sensible reader
caps be sssigned. ST .asaeq 70 eaii: 'yu.T
! But, say they again, ,'tlie South was gen.
orally DemoeraticI9 and tire South con-.
menccd the war by firing on the flag at
Fort samptrr 9f In the FIRST place. We an
I swcf it was not the Democratic party. Who
fred On Fort Sdmpter. it was the people Of
the South acting as one man. And again /,
that it is not always the party who dra vs.