The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1867-08-15

Ter pad for his labor. Seymour, OF
the New York Times, reported fair
ly; butitlwas Raymond who gave
ths start on the agrarian interpre-
talon. A voice-Did you hear
the speechG Yes, sir; introduced
MI. Wade to his Kansas audience,
a1dindorse all he said. Wade is
ni agraran. He is a bold, plucky
humanitarian, not afraid of man or
Democrat. He believes 81 l do,
thai the laboring man should divide
hip day into eight hours labor,
eight hours for recreation and i'm
pioyement, and eight hours sleep,
ifhA requires so much, Wade ismore
Of a statesman than Q politician.
Mt, Paine asked if l proposed re.
Ephaiation, BY no meansy but the
Demagogue will tell you that repu-
diation has been the policy of the
Government from the first. "Oh!''
and dissent. You don't agree to
that. Let me prove it. The Gov
ernment commenced the war by
making contracts in gold. Then
they repudiated gold and give legal
tenders. Then they repudiated lS,
gal-tenders and gives certificates of
Indebtedness. Then they repudia-
ted certificates of indebteness and
give contractors seven-thirties. All
your ingenuity is required here to
meet the Demagogue. For he will
assure you that even now the en-
dorSement on your greenback,
agreeing to exchange for a five.
twenty, is repudiated. How so?
Take hundred dollars in green
backs to McCulloch and see if you
can get a hundred-dollar fve.twen-
ty bond. He will repudiate at once.
You must pay the seventy or eight
ty dollars premium for it; for repu-
diation is the order of the day.
Some Kisses, and "What else have
they repudiated"
Mr., Train-What else9 Why Con-
gress has repudiated the Constitu-
ton, repudiated the Executive, and
repudiated the idea first started,
that the States were in the Union.
They then repudiated the Supreme
Court, repudlated the Constitution
al Amendment, and now they in
tend repudiating the Military Re-
construction Bill, and in voting the
bounty bill commenced repudiating
the National debt. You see repu-
diation is fashionable. Hence
nothing can save us but greenbacks.
For insolvency is the strongest
point in the American character.
Professor Evans, Hamilton Col
lege, Buffalo-What do you esti-
mate the wastage Of the war, and
do you not think that tends toward
reputation?
Mr.. lrain-Most certainly. In
my Pilot Knob speech l put down
the figures in loss of life, labor,
shipping and property, estimating
$4,000 each for white men, and
$1,000 for black, at about S30,0OO,-
100000, the accumulated industry
and labor of a century. As so
much has already been thrown in
to the boiling cquldron of revolu.
tion the Demagogue will argue
that our National debt had better
go in with the rest. Once the
North held the club of Hercules.
The South rebelled. The West
Joined the North to save the Union.
Right and numbers conquered.
Now the West holds the club of
Hercules, but not many bonds. A
Western Demagogue might say:
Once upon a time the South built
up an oligai chy based upon black
slavery. The Almighty decreed
that it should not be. Four-hund-
red. thousand Shareholders owned
four millions of blacks. Presto,
Providence and Jefferson Davis
liberated them. | did not mention
Mr.. Lincoln. For the demi-god Of
the newspapers never existed. Oh!
He tried to save the Union by saw
ing slavery. His Emancipation
Proclamation was an accident. No. |
Having taken care ofthe South, h,says
the Western Demagogue, look to
the North. Four hundred thousand |
bondholders have thirty millions
of whites in bondage. Will not
Providence break their chains as
well as the black9 Suppose the
Demagogue was addressing &c. 900 |
laborers in Union Square in poetic
strains like this:
Work Work Work!
With pick and shovel and axe