New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-01-24
SOMETHING TO BE PONDERED.

The Ddy-BOOk, Norfolk, Virginia, Is edlCed ny
n rather favorable specimen of Rebel recon-
structed into loyalty to Andrew johnson and
the Constitution as it pleases himself to con-
strue it. Here is its chief editorial Of the 18th
inst:
WHAT The MEN or THE NORTHWEST ASK THEMSELVES
~ IuTrR own MINDS AND WHAT THEY ANSWER.
Oesiio. WHAT IA The name OF the skeleton Eastern
clO5esi Ansrer. Reputation OF the National DeDt;
aoT Because they arc the receivers and the North
west, West aud South arc the payers OF the DeDt
O. How did Eastern manage to haYelt so arrahgedi
o. why did they bring on the late wari A. Well. they
saw that Negro slavery profitable to the South, and
they conceived the grand idea OF reducing all the people
OF the United States White and Black, to state OF
o. What is saveiyi A. Slavery is that state of soci
city which the surplus earnings OF the slave are hppueu
O. What is tho amount OF tho surplus earnlngsoI tho
people OF the Northwest, West and South, annually A.
% What became OF those surplus earnngsi A. After
dcductng small amount To support the dOVeTnuent,
the went into the pockets Of foreign ana Eastern
What proportion Of the debt Of the United states Ia
held by forcigfersl A. About one fifth
o. Who owns the balancef A. Eastern men, -
D. How did they como TO ownitl A. During the war
they did the contracting, while the West and NORTHWEST
ala the fighting The East furnished the shOddy the bad
pork and beef The wormy bread the guns that Dnrsed
drowncd the fre-proof whisky, the Yankee notions the
negro substitutes the hollow talk about loyalty, the Ito
OF the nation" and all that they gathered home all inc
silver spoons other portable property and so became
rich while the West aud Northwest furnished the food
for powder, and now gathering ther dead nom
thousand battleeds and with the South arc now called
upon to pay the National debt.
O. What IS a summary of the result OF the war; A.
WHY tho negroes 10 bo paid for at very high Yaa-
tom but instead OF their owners getting paid me plc9
goes into the pockets Of the shrewd Eastern Yankee ana
comes out OF the surplus earnings OF oil Other
O. Why tho surplus earnings OF the people on the
Tho enormous amount uf indirect taxation they are com
PEELED IN pay 10 Eastern manufacturers. A.. -.
D. Expainf A. Eastern men have 20 arranged the reg
isation In Congress that the tariff ON foreign manuiac
lures high TO exclude them from the country so
that Eastern men charge whal prom Lhey CHOOSE Oh %
own manufactures all Of which profit comes out oil the
consumers goes into the pockets oil ue Eastern hahuac
trcr and lessons the surplus earnings Oh the onoi
tons. A.. ,,,oo
fugemen, Butler, sumner stevens, &c. Keep up su'
howl about them A. By this they expect to Keep tho
uepe OF various sections Of the country by tho earS, and
Tins prevent them thinking about Reputation
q viii they succeed IN doing sot a. No. ,,
o whyi A. Because the people arc beginning 70
o. Why do the people begin 10 think very hard 4.
Why they know and feel that oyer thing they We costs
thinking where all the money goes aud what becomes Vi
O. what Is to come Of all this hard unkingl A. The
o. Howl a. why somebody out West win run for
Congress. the Rcpudnton ticket. and II elected thon
several others win for Congress on tho ano Ticket
md be- elected: then somebody VIII run for President on
the same ticket and be elected then ,hty VIII te,
srct the supreme Court ON tho Saino ueAet anu thch
o Whni-rcrudlato debt "a which tho faith Of the
United states u socmnly pledged =. Yet Ma1 q
cHncry that keeps mp The talk about the pledge. go
q 10 what other Institutions WIS the solemn ihlh OF
the United states ptdcdf A. To the great United states
Bank and to the Institution of Negro slavery.
q What became OF those In-ttutpnsi 4. The ir't
WIS rcpudiaed by Cen. Jackson and the other by Mr.
Lincoln.
Q Who f. the coming for whom the people OF the
Northern States unNou,ly look A. The man who
viii mako dollar be- dollar who VIII bring free trade
and cheap goods who will abolish the Internal RcNunue
aud paper money who viii utterly Equcch the hordes OF
tax gaihorCrs vino consume the substance OF the
people, in fine the man who si bring about Reputation
Of the National Debt.
We do not propose 10 answer the falsehoods
embodied in tho above exhibition of Rebel
maliguity, whether the more or tho less impu-
dent: we only wish Ia call to mind the fact
that nearly all the money Of the poor depos-
tied in our savings banks, ~ well rs all our
Greenbacks and National Bank notes, would be
turned to waste paper by liquidation, and to
add that, when the loyal States consent that
the ex-Rcbcls shall vote while the ex-dayes
shall not, they will be ruled by such men IA
edit The Day Book, and will have richly de-
sefrcd to be.